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A Little Life
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The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 2,553,021 ratings
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Siddhartha
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Lord of the Flies
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It
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Little Women (Little Women, #1)
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The Great Gatsby
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The Shining (The Shining, #1)
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Ethan Frome
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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
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A Thousand Acres
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Nutshell
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Tropic of Cancer
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3.65 avg rating — 79,960 ratings
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Provinces of Night
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Of Mice and Men
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Crime and Punishment
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The Secret History
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The Stranger
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Eileen
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3.55 avg rating — 136,619 ratings
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The Dinner
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Lolita
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Portnoy’s Complaint
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Delta of Venus
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Fear of Flying
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Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
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Strangers on a Train
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Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
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The Golden Notebook
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3.77 avg rating — 25,341 ratings
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The Hours
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3.96 avg rating — 151,587 ratings
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Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
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The Sundial
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The End of the Affair
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3.90 avg rating — 74,617 ratings
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Couples
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Rebecca
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4.25 avg rating — 762,342 ratings
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The Age of Innocence
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3.97 avg rating — 203,769 ratings
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Disgrace
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3.86 avg rating — 121,461 ratings
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I'm just seeing your comment now, Julie. I love when writers play their favorite music, books or movies for us in their work, and dismissing the first title on this list which Robin makes sport of, I think her taste really sets her apart. I love seeing Wharton and Updike mentioned more than once.