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Catch-22 (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 891,192 ratings — published 1961
Great Expectations (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 879,644 ratings — published 1861
Invisible Man (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 203,335 ratings — published 1952
The Alchemist (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 3,617,589 ratings — published 1988
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 279,885 ratings — published 2007
Another Country (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 35,099 ratings — published 1962
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
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avg rating 4.22 — 1,311,828 ratings — published 2011
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 1,116,279 ratings — published 1967
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 1,036,690 ratings — published 1844
Americanah (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 416,362 ratings — published 2013
The Call of the Wild (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 476,728 ratings — published 1903
And Then There Were None (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 1,639,732 ratings — published 1939
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.39 — 2,905,372 ratings — published 2005
Atlas Shrugged (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 408,359 ratings — published 1957
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 1,025,872 ratings — published 1876
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 886,477 ratings — published 1922
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 4,860,096 ratings — published 1813
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 1,910,422 ratings — published 1890
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.25 — 731,772 ratings — published 1938
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 2,346,760 ratings — published 1847
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 1,923,756 ratings — published 1818
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 1,099,916 ratings — published 1866
The Color Purple (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 757,996 ratings — published 1982
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 3,922,828 ratings — published 1951
Bless Me, Ultima (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 37,576 ratings — published 1972
Charlotte’s Web (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 2,061,463 ratings — published 1952
A Prayer for Owen Meany (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 339,025 ratings — published 1989
A Confederacy of Dunces (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 300,634 ratings — published 1980
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 517,289 ratings — published 1943
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 1,606,607 ratings — published 2003
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 2,175,521 ratings — published 1847
War and Peace (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 368,819 ratings — published 1869
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 390,475 ratings — published 1937
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
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avg rating 3.75 — 416,223 ratings — published 1958
The Pilgrim's Progress (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 160,816 ratings — published 1678
Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.31 — 1,260,640 ratings — published 1936
The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 711,847 ratings — published 1989
Hatchet (Brian's Saga, #1)
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avg rating 3.80 — 454,887 ratings — published 1987
The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children, #1)
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avg rating 4.11 — 284,173 ratings — published 1980
Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)
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avg rating 4.13 — 1,070,159 ratings — published 1990
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 6,946,749 ratings — published 1960
The Stand (Audiobook)
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avg rating 4.35 — 842,010 ratings — published 1978
The Martian (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.42 — 1,306,118 ratings — published 2011
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
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avg rating 4.17 — 2,483,106 ratings — published 1868
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.57 — 620,404 ratings — published 1851
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 2,469,348 ratings — published 2002
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