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To Kill a Mockingbird
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4.26 avg rating — 6,982,376 ratings
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Pride and Prejudice
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4.30 avg rating — 4,891,575 ratings
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The Diary of a Young Girl
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4.20 avg rating — 4,248,224 ratings
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1984
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4.20 avg rating — 5,587,824 ratings
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The Lord of the Rings (The Lord of the Rings, #1-3)
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4.54 avg rating — 738,842 ratings
"This whole series made a big impact on me. We read it as a family."
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The Great Gatsby
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3.93 avg rating — 6,008,833 ratings
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Charlotte’s Web
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4.21 avg rating — 2,071,090 ratings
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Little Women (Little Women, #1)
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4.17 avg rating — 2,495,498 ratings
"One of my favorite "growing up" books"
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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4.30 avg rating — 4,524,143 ratings
"See comment on Lord of Rings series"
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Fahrenheit 451
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3.97 avg rating — 2,900,476 ratings
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Jane Eyre
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4.16 avg rating — 2,361,154 ratings
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Gone with the Wind
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4.31 avg rating — 1,263,001 ratings
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Animal Farm
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4.02 avg rating — 4,656,510 ratings
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The Catcher in the Rye
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3.80 avg rating — 3,942,641 ratings
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
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3.83 avg rating — 1,345,204 ratings
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The Help
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4.47 avg rating — 3,050,943 ratings
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The Grapes of Wrath
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4.03 avg rating — 1,007,046 ratings
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Lord of the Flies
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3.70 avg rating — 3,245,648 ratings
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The Kite Runner
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4.36 avg rating — 3,540,252 ratings
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Night
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4.38 avg rating — 1,381,331 ratings
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Hamlet
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4.03 avg rating — 1,069,108 ratings
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A Tale of Two Cities
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3.88 avg rating — 1,021,631 ratings
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A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 1,298,078 ratings
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A Christmas Carol
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4.09 avg rating — 950,208 ratings
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The Secret Garden
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4.17 avg rating — 1,313,508 ratings
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Of Mice and Men
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3.90 avg rating — 2,881,872 ratings
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Romeo and Juliet
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3.74 avg rating — 2,851,037 ratings
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The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
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4.15 avg rating — 2,480,738 ratings
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Brave New World
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3.98 avg rating — 2,108,625 ratings
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The Little Prince
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4.33 avg rating — 2,529,952 ratings
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Where the Sidewalk Ends
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4.35 avg rating — 1,522,371 ratings
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Wuthering Heights
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3.90 avg rating — 2,213,396 ratings
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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
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4.33 avg rating — 1,131,075 ratings
"I loved this series in my adolescence."
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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3.92 avg rating — 1,029,899 ratings
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Macbeth
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3.89 avg rating — 1,036,005 ratings
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Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
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3.91 avg rating — 1,942,029 ratings
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The Holy Bible: King James Version
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4.45 avg rating — 322,652 ratings
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
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4.18 avg rating — 3,481,275 ratings
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The Count of Monte Cristo
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4.33 avg rating — 1,045,517 ratings
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The Color Purple
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4.28 avg rating — 761,253 ratings
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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4.30 avg rating — 520,428 ratings
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East of Eden
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4.44 avg rating — 664,114 ratings
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Catch-22
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3.99 avg rating — 894,024 ratings
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In Cold Blood
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4.09 avg rating — 740,939 ratings
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The Stand
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4.35 avg rating — 846,392 ratings
"One of King's best. Memorable"
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Alice in Wonderland
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4.03 avg rating — 397,325 ratings
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Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
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4.09 avg rating — 509,444 ratings
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Anna Karenina
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4.11 avg rating — 946,367 ratings
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Great Expectations
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3.80 avg rating — 882,906 ratings
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Rebecca
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4.25 avg rating — 738,861 ratings
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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4.16 avg rating — 2,124,397 ratings
"One of my very favorite books. "
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)
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4.30 avg rating — 329,679 ratings
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The Old Man and the Sea
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3.81 avg rating — 1,337,303 ratings
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Life of Pi
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3.94 avg rating — 1,767,221 ratings
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Les Misérables
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4.21 avg rating — 851,627 ratings
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The Scarlet Letter
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3.44 avg rating — 929,276 ratings
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Dracula
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4.02 avg rating — 1,504,018 ratings
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Water for Elephants
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4.11 avg rating — 1,712,300 ratings
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The Secret Life of Bees
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4.10 avg rating — 1,361,534 ratings
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The Raven
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4.29 avg rating — 172,747 ratings
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The Poisonwood Bible
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4.11 avg rating — 800,963 ratings
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The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)
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4.01 avg rating — 262,415 ratings
"Loved this book."
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The Odyssey
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3.84 avg rating — 1,215,100 ratings
"Read this in a Great Books course and loved it."
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A Prayer for Owen Meany
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4.24 avg rating — 340,132 ratings
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And Then There Were None
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4.27 avg rating — 1,654,415 ratings
"Went through an Agatha Christie period. Read most of them."
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The Thorn Birds
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4.25 avg rating — 367,104 ratings
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The Glass Castle
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4.33 avg rating — 1,382,063 ratings
"One of the best books I've read as an adult."
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The Road
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,057,993 ratings
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Cutting for Stone
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4.34 avg rating — 432,235 ratings
"Another fantastic book club pick. Really enjoyed it."
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The Brothers Karamazov
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4.39 avg rating — 398,157 ratings
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Beloved
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3.98 avg rating — 499,809 ratings
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The Phantom Tollbooth
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4.19 avg rating — 309,601 ratings
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The Story of My Life
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4.07 avg rating — 151,551 ratings
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From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
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4.16 avg rating — 220,475 ratings
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Gone Girl
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4.15 avg rating — 3,492,161 ratings
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