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A reference list for the Contemporary Classics set by Everyman's Library.
Publisher's Description - From Chinua Achebe to Toni Morrison and Raymond Chandler to Joan Didion, the Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics set is a collection of the finest literature of our time by award-winning and bestselling writers with new introductions and author chronologies.
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Publisher's Description - From Chinua Achebe to Toni Morrison and Raymond Chandler to Joan Didion, the Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics set is a collection of the finest literature of our time by award-winning and bestselling writers with new introductions and author chronologies.
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Mrs. Dalloway
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3.78 avg rating — 352,575 ratings
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My Ántonia
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3.84 avg rating — 146,808 ratings
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The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain
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4.45 avg rating — 7,010 ratings
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They Were Found Wanting / They Were Divided (The Transylvanian Trilogy, #2-3)
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Animal Farm
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Beloved
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Catch-22
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Death Comes for the Archbishop
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Ficciones
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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
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4.02 avg rating — 110,654 ratings
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Midnight's Children
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
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Sons and Lovers
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Rabbit Angstrom: The Four Novels
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We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction
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4.43 avg rating — 2,138 ratings
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A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man
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A House for Mr Biswas
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3.80 avg rating — 22,213 ratings
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Palace Walk / Palace of Desire / Sugar Street
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The Best of Wodehouse: An Anthology
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4.42 avg rating — 541 ratings
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Naguib Mahfouz: Three Novels of Ancient Egypt
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4.03 avg rating — 477 ratings
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Black Mischief, Scoop, The Loved One, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
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4.26 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Bloody Chamber Wise Children Fireworks
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Brideshead Revisited
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Carried Away: A Personal Selection of Stories
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4.14 avg rating — 2,009 ratings
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Collected Stories
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4.38 avg rating — 708 ratings
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Collected Stories
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Collected Stories
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Collected Stories
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Kahlil Gibran, The Collected Works
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4.36 avg rating — 4,359 ratings
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The Dain Curse, The Glass Key, and Selected Stories
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4.23 avg rating — 172 ratings
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Doctor Zhivago
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4.01 avg rating — 102,381 ratings
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Dubliners (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series)
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3.84 avg rating — 174,154 ratings
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Essays
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Joseph and His Brothers
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Lolita
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Love in the Time of Cholera: Introduction by Nicholas Shakespeare (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series)
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3.94 avg rating — 543,396 ratings
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The Master and Margarita
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Molloy / Malone Dies / The Unnamable
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Mr. Sampath - The Printer of Malgudi, The Financial Expert, Waiting for the Mahatma
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3.81 avg rating — 1,169 ratings
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Offshore, Human Voices, The Beginning of Spring
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4.24 avg rating — 87 ratings
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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Pale Fire
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A Passage to India
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Pnin
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Song of Solomon
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Speak, Memory
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4.08 avg rating — 17,635 ratings
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Swami and Friends, The Bachelor of Arts, The Dark Room, The English Teacher: Introduction by Alexander McCall Smith (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series)
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4.27 avg rating — 548 ratings
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The Big Sleep / Farewell, My Lovely / The High Window (Philip Marlowe, #1-3)
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4.48 avg rating — 1,458 ratings
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The Bookshop, The Gate of Angels, The Blue Flower
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4.06 avg rating — 155 ratings
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The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street (The Cairo Trilogy #1-3)
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4.47 avg rating — 5,034 ratings
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The Castle
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The Complete Henry Bech
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3.91 avg rating — 250 ratings
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The Complete Short Stories
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The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
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The General in His Labyrinth
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The Handmaid's Tale
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4.15 avg rating — 2,387,923 ratings
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The House of the Spirits
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The Human Factor
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3.91 avg rating — 10,284 ratings
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The Lady in the Lake / The Little Sister / The Long Goodbye / Playback (Philip Marlowe, #4-7)
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4.45 avg rating — 321 ratings
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The Magic Mountain
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4.13 avg rating — 60,669 ratings
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The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, Red Harvest
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4.30 avg rating — 2,003 ratings
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The Name of the Rose
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The Periodic Table
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The Plague, The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom, and Selected Essays
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4.33 avg rating — 1,137 ratings
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The Postman Always Rings Twice / Double Indemnity / Mildred Pierce / Selected Stories
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4.20 avg rating — 1,315 ratings
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie / The Girls of Slender Means / The Driver's Seat / The Only Problem
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3.80 avg rating — 1,696 ratings
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The Radetzky March (Von Trotta Family, #1)
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4.10 avg rating — 14,179 ratings
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The Stranger
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4.03 avg rating — 1,371,352 ratings
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The Sword of Honour Trilogy
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4.21 avg rating — 2,108 ratings
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The Talented Mr. Ripley / Ripley Under Ground / Ripley's Game
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4.10 avg rating — 1,782 ratings
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The Trial
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3.94 avg rating — 389,304 ratings
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The Woman Warrior / China Men
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3.92 avg rating — 139 ratings
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Things Fall Apart
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This Side of Paradise
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3.63 avg rating — 79,669 ratings
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Three Novels of Ancient Egypt: Khufu's Wisdom / Rhadopis of Nubia / Thebes at War
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4.03 avg rating — 477 ratings
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To the Lighthouse
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Ulysses
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Waugh Abroad: Collected Travel Writing
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Zeno's Conscience
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