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Ulysses

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"everything is in this book
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Madame Bovary

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3.71 avg rating — 382,136 ratings
"rigorous in its exactitude, but ironically romantic shines through. Madame Bovary, c'est tout"
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Pale Fire

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4.17 avg rating — 58,825 ratings
"two books in one, and one reads the other while you read it"
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The Brothers Karamazov

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4.39 avg rating — 400,367 ratings
"it's a pillar of fiction"
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Infinite Jest

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4.25 avg rating — 103,490 ratings
"enveloping all our postmodern maladies"
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Moby-Dick or, The Whale

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3.57 avg rating — 625,149 ratings
"never to be exhausted, but always engaging"
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Gravity’s Rainbow

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4.02 avg rating — 49,258 ratings
"raw, overwhelming, dark, illuminating, hysterical"
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The Plague

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4.02 avg rating — 323,194 ratings
"the survival of civilization in the face of despair"
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The Trial

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3.94 avg rating — 408,135 ratings
"unintentionally prophetic"
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The Satanic Verses

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3.71 avg rating — 72,721 ratings
"read it because people ordered death on the author, and see what a good book it is for yourself"
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