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Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
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4.15 avg rating — 211,409 ratings
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The Road
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Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
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Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos: The Story of the Scientific Quest for the Secret of the Universe
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4.24 avg rating — 301 ratings
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Love in the Time of Cholera
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Anna Karenina
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Leaves of Grass
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4.11 avg rating — 115,528 ratings
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A History of Western Philosophy
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4.13 avg rating — 41,175 ratings
score: 94,
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Examined Lives: From Socrates to Nietzsche
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3.80 avg rating — 661 ratings
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American Pastoral
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3.95 avg rating — 87,156 ratings
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I Married a Communist (The American Trilogy, #2)
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3.86 avg rating — 10,194 ratings
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The Sportswriter (Frank Bascombe, #1)
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3.69 avg rating — 20,078 ratings
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The Lay of the Land (Frank Bascombe, #3)
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3.92 avg rating — 4,836 ratings
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Independence Day (Frank Bascombe, #2)
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3.86 avg rating — 16,703 ratings
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
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4.16 avg rating — 49,096 ratings
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Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll
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4.04 avg rating — 3,558 ratings
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Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley
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4.17 avg rating — 10,029 ratings
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Chronicles, Volume One
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3.98 avg rating — 60,979 ratings
score: 82,
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Sonata for Jukebox: An Autobiography of My Ears
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3.64 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Soul Mining: A Musical Life
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3.93 avg rating — 380 ratings
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Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis — and Themselves
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4.16 avg rating — 42,172 ratings
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Someplace Like America: Tales from the New Great Depression
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4.34 avg rating — 160 ratings
score: 78,
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
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4.30 avg rating — 169,208 ratings
score: 77,
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The Brothers Karamazov
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4.39 avg rating — 377,224 ratings
score: 76,
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Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy
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4.33 avg rating — 2,687 ratings
score: 75,
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The Adventures of Augie March
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3.84 avg rating — 18,795 ratings
score: 74,
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 503,964 ratings
score: 73,
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