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1984
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4.20 avg rating — 5,301,200 ratings
score: 694,
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Animal Farm
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4.01 avg rating — 4,417,220 ratings
score: 691,
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Letters to a Young Poet
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4.28 avg rating — 116,623 ratings
score: 678,
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The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision
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4.29 avg rating — 767 ratings
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The Ecological Rift
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4.06 avg rating — 329 ratings
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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
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4.16 avg rating — 27,425 ratings
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A Brief History of Time
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4.21 avg rating — 471,068 ratings
score: 495,
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Slaughterhouse-Five
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4.10 avg rating — 1,461,678 ratings
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Catch-22
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3.99 avg rating — 877,866 ratings
score: 391,
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Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters
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Gleb Tsipursky (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 255 ratings
score: 300,
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Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
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4.47 avg rating — 15,338 ratings
score: 296,
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The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)
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4.33 avg rating — 90,936 ratings
score: 294,
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Flowers for Algernon
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4.23 avg rating — 773,604 ratings
score: 294,
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War and Peace
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4.17 avg rating — 359,748 ratings
score: 293,
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The Bell Jar
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4.05 avg rating — 1,176,963 ratings
score: 291,
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Great Expectations
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3.80 avg rating — 862,690 ratings
score: 289,
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The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
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4.14 avg rating — 380,071 ratings
score: 288,
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Jesus' Son
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4.13 avg rating — 39,597 ratings
score: 200,
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Steppenwolf
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4.13 avg rating — 209,589 ratings
score: 196,
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The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
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4.16 avg rating — 120,181 ratings
score: 193,
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Jane Eyre
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4.16 avg rating — 2,279,407 ratings
score: 192,
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
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4.09 avg rating — 502,099 ratings
score: 190,
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The Canterbury Tales
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3.52 avg rating — 235,658 ratings
score: 100,
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The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Stories
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4.09 avg rating — 910 ratings
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Wuthering Heights
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3.90 avg rating — 1,981,195 ratings
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Confessions
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3.59 avg rating — 9,234 ratings
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Mason's Missing (Tuper Mystery, #1)
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Teresa Burrell (Goodreads Author)
4.40 avg rating — 1,088 ratings
score: 100,
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Faust, First Part
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3.83 avg rating — 84,721 ratings
score: 99,
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Girl, Interrupted
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3.94 avg rating — 272,046 ratings
score: 98,
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Lord of the Flies
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3.70 avg rating — 3,143,016 ratings
score: 98,
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Against the Flow
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4.08 avg rating — 72 ratings
score: 98,
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We
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3.88 avg rating — 109,461 ratings
score: 97,
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Invisible Man
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3.92 avg rating — 199,816 ratings
score: 96,
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And Then There Were None
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4.27 avg rating — 1,566,179 ratings
score: 96,
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The Man Without Qualities
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4.19 avg rating — 7,252 ratings
score: 96,
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Of Mice and Men
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3.89 avg rating — 2,776,849 ratings
score: 95,
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Gravity’s Rainbow
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4.01 avg rating — 47,324 ratings
score: 94,
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Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 66,986 ratings
score: 92,
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