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Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Adolf Hitler by John Toland

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Rabbit Redux by John Updike

John Adams by David McCullough

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Essence and Alchemy: A Natural History of Perfume

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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

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