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The Time Traveler's Wife

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East of Eden

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War and Peace

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The Odyssey

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The Name of the Rose

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The Poisonwood Bible

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The Brothers Karamazov

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David Copperfield

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Moby-Dick or, The Whale

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The Iliad

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Middlemarch

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The Once and Future King (T...

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"This one touched the lives of many of us coming of age in the late 60s, so why not those later on? Has it dated that much?"
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Bleak House

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Tess of the D’Urbervilles

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The Canterbury Tales

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Vanity Fair

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The Divine Comedy: Inferno ...

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Great Expectations

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Ulysses

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The Prince of Tides

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The Blind Assassin

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The Amazing Adventures of K...

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The Woman in White

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The Arabian Nights

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In Search of Lost Time

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"Well, Swann's Way is long enough, and is in fact the only one I've actually read. A good friend has worked through all of them in French, and regrets no moment of those months doing so, and exploring around within and around it."
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The Complete Poems of Emily...

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"I guess you'd say it's a single ''narrative'' and speaker, why not?"
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The Magic Mountain

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"If this and other Mann novels (Josef und seine Brueder, even) led me to study Germany literature, then it must be worth it."
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The Complete Stories and Poems

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"Same narration? Still worth it."
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Doctor Zhivago

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The World According to Garp

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The Cider House Rules

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Trinity

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The Mill on the Floss

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Ivanhoe

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The History of Tom Jones, a...

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Oliver Twist

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The Complete Grimm's Fairy ...

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The Girl Who Played with Fi...

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Far From the Madding Crowd

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"A great comic book with much of the social and personal themes in Hardy included."
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Kristin Lavransdatter

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The Yale Shakespeare Comple...

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"This is not a single narrative at all. How can I not include a choice like this, though, but why the Yale one? Actually there's another collection, I remember. Still, the complete works are hardly a single narrator/speaker/narrative, so why is it here?"
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The Red and the Black

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Alias Grace

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The Idiot

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North and South

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Exodus

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The Tin Drum

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Buddenbrooks: The Decline o...

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Invisible Man

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The Girl Who Kicked the Hor...

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The Wings of the Dove

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Dombey and Son

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The Origin of Species

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"Essential to our time, and better to read the original than any one else's interpretation, especially to feel out if he was truly avoiding the issues we are still arguing over today."
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Democracy in America

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"I had to read a selection in high school and again in college (full edition, more or less read fully), and still consider it essential to understanding more than just democracy in America, whether read in this version or in all the many books that refer to its concepts."
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The Golden Notebook

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An Inquiry into the Nature ...

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Marjorie Morningstar

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An American Tragedy

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Testament of Youth

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The Complete Novels

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Doctor Faustus

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"But I add it ONLY if it includes Part II. Part I alone is not 500 pages, obviously, and is a romance, so the only ''struggle'' is in Part II, and that struggle is well worth the effort, especially if one follows the trails it crosses, too."
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The Complete Poems

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"As for all poem collections that are not a single tome...how is this on the list and how can I not vote for it?"
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The Man Without Qualities

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Faust

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The Complete Poems

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Shakespeare's Sonnets

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