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Wide Sargasso Sea
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The Sound and the Fury
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James Joyce's Ulysses
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3.96 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Dune (Dune #1)
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Infinite Jest
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man / Dubliners
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1984
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Middlemarch
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O Pioneers!
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Memories of a Butterfly
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A Brief History of Seven Killings
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Nibiru
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The Good Negress
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Trainspotting
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Feersum Endjinn
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The Most Wretched Thing Imaginable or, Beneath the Burnt Umbrella
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3.82 avg rating — 22 ratings
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1959
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The Shining (The Shining, #1)
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 1,676,331 ratings
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Shutter Island
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Dennis Lehane (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 221,571 ratings
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The Scarlet Letter
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Native Son
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Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
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On the Road
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On the Road: The Original Scroll
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Bad Sex on Speed
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Tropic of Cancer (Tropic, #1)
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A Room of One’s Own
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The Grapes of Wrath
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In Search of Lost Time
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Prozac Nation
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3.64 avg rating — 63,694 ratings
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The Sun Also Rises
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3.79 avg rating — 488,228 ratings
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The Other
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3.97 avg rating — 22,797 ratings
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