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Fahrenheit 451
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1984
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Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
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The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
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The End of the Affair
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Pride and Prejudice
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Peter Pan
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Cold Comfort Farm
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Brideshead Revisited
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A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)
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The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
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A Christmas Carol
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The Outsiders
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I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)
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The Call of the Wild
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The Woman in White
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The Catcher in the Rye
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The Haunting of Hill House
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3.81 avg rating — 373,235 ratings
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Animal Farm
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The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
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A Passage to India
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Big Stone Gap (Big Stone Gap, #1)
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Adriana Trigiani (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 47,870 ratings
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The Remains of the Day
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Kazuo Ishiguro (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 349,801 ratings
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The Go-Between
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A Room with a View
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The Merchant of Venice
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I Capture the Castle
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Picnic at Hanging Rock (Hanging Rock, #1)
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3.66 avg rating — 29,805 ratings
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Travels with Charley: In Search of America
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A Child's Christmas in Wales
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The Lonely Furrow (Suffolk, #3)
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4.23 avg rating — 256 ratings
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The Birds and Other Stories
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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
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4.32 avg rating — 1,091,362 ratings
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The Town House (House, #1)
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The House on the Strand
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Washington Square
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Madame Bovary
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Generals Die in Bed
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3.82 avg rating — 1,644 ratings
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Lady Audley's Secret
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A History of the World in 6 Glasses
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Tom Standage (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 33,218 ratings
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May We Borrow Your Husband? and other comedies of the sexual life
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3.73 avg rating — 1,113 ratings
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Neuromancer (Sprawl #1)
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3.89 avg rating — 357,961 ratings
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The Secret Garden
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4.17 avg rating — 1,274,817 ratings
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De Glembays
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The Illustrated Poems of John Betjeman
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4.46 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Gamiani, or Two Nights of Excess (Naughty French Novels, 1)
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The Grapes of Wrath
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A Christmas Memory
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Lyckan (Het geluk) : roman van een aardse liefde
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The Comedians
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Holy Bible: King James Version
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Wuthering Heights
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3.90 avg rating — 1,984,150 ratings
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Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh
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A Moveable Feast
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Ketterpaus & Cie.
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Anna Karenina
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Elfduizend roeden, of De liefdes van een hospodar
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
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Gloed
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A Girl of the Limberlost (Limberlost, #2)
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4.17 avg rating — 22,468 ratings
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De lotgevallen van de brave soldaat Švejk in de wereldoorlog: In het achterland (De lotgevallen van de brave soldaat Švejk, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 1,069 ratings
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The Dark Worlds of H.P. Lovecraft, Vol 1
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3.72 avg rating — 1,159 ratings
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De lotgevallen van de brave soldaat Švejk in de wereldoorlog ; Aan het front (De lotgevallen van de brave soldaat Švejk, #2)
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4.07 avg rating — 629 ratings
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A Town Like Alice
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4.16 avg rating — 61,248 ratings
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De lotgevallen van de brave soldaat Švejk in de wereldoorlog ; In krijgsgevangenschap (De lotgevallen van de brave soldaat Švejk, #3-4)
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4.06 avg rating — 446 ratings
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Northanger Abbey
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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The Eternal Husband
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Vandaag was ik mezelf liever niet tegengekomen
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On the Beach
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Pedro Páramo
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Breakfast at Tiffany's
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De doem van de maïs
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Frankenstein
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Autumnal Tints (Applewood Books)
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The Vicar of Wakefield
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Robinson Crusoe
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The Autobiography of a Flea
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A Christmas Carol
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Het landgoed Ulloa
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The Sheltering Sky
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Summer Crossing
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Bright Evening Star: Mystery of the Incarnation (Wheaton Literary Series)
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Down and Out in Paris and London
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Lady Susan
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To Build a Fire and Other Stories
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Julie of the Wolves (Julie of the Wolves, #1)
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Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Långstrump, #1)
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Love Poems and Sonnets
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Rebecca
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Millay
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True History of the Kelly Gang
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To Build a Fire
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Jassy
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Ode to the West Wind
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Hiawatha's Childhood
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King Lear
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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
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This is a good list ~☆~Autumn♥♥!
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Cara's Craftastic Creations wrote: "This is a good list ~☆~Autumn♥♥!"Thanks! Glad you like it and thanks for voting.
I guess I just haven't read many from GR :P I mostly just read recommendations and things I've already read. I guess it's time to broaden my horizons. :) lol
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How to Vote
To vote on existing books from the list, beside each book there is a link vote for this book clicking it will add that book to your votes.
To vote on books not in the list or books you couldn't find in the list, you can click on the tab add books to this list and then choose from your books, or simply search.
