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Pride and Prejudice
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4.30 avg rating — 4,904,531 ratings
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Letters to a Young Poet
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4.27 avg rating — 127,643 ratings
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A Tale of Two Cities
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3.88 avg rating — 1,023,151 ratings
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Animal Farm
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4.02 avg rating — 4,672,719 ratings
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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
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4.16 avg rating — 27,950 ratings
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Reveries of the Solitary Walker
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3.61 avg rating — 7,719 ratings
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The Odyssey
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3.84 avg rating — 1,219,090 ratings
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A Doll's House
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3.77 avg rating — 167,383 ratings
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Get Real and Get In
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4.04 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Slaughterhouse-Five
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4.10 avg rating — 1,503,792 ratings
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Beowulf
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3.50 avg rating — 351,438 ratings
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
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3.83 avg rating — 1,346,451 ratings
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Tess of the D’Urbervilles
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3.84 avg rating — 305,742 ratings
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Madame Bovary
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3.71 avg rating — 381,957 ratings
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The Scarlet Letter
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3.44 avg rating — 930,748 ratings
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Jane Eyre
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4.16 avg rating — 2,367,400 ratings
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Wuthering Heights
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3.89 avg rating — 2,224,770 ratings
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Cyrano de Bergerac
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4.06 avg rating — 91,942 ratings
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Lord of the Flies
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3.70 avg rating — 3,253,296 ratings
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The Canterbury Tales
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3.53 avg rating — 239,867 ratings
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The Complete Sherlock Holmes
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4.51 avg rating — 218,557 ratings
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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
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4.30 avg rating — 55,103 ratings
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Antigone (Theban Plays, #3)
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3.69 avg rating — 180,484 ratings
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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3.94 avg rating — 585,422 ratings
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The Iliad
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3.93 avg rating — 521,062 ratings
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Frankenstein
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3.92 avg rating — 1,948,994 ratings
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Faust, First Part
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3.83 avg rating — 87,251 ratings
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Brave New World
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3.98 avg rating — 2,113,389 ratings
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The Red Badge of Courage
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3.30 avg rating — 110,999 ratings
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Babbitt
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3.70 avg rating — 25,078 ratings
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The Complete Stories and Poems
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4.40 avg rating — 298,487 ratings
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The Turn of the Screw
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3.38 avg rating — 183,807 ratings
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The Glass Menagerie
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3.74 avg rating — 144,548 ratings
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Heart of Darkness
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3.43 avg rating — 566,683 ratings
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Ivanhoe
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3.77 avg rating — 99,869 ratings
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Vanity Fair
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3.81 avg rating — 133,974 ratings
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Inferno
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4.03 avg rating — 209,560 ratings
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Don Quixote
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3.91 avg rating — 310,121 ratings
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Invisible Man
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3.92 avg rating — 204,477 ratings
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Robinson Crusoe
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3.68 avg rating — 334,947 ratings
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The Catcher in the Rye
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3.80 avg rating — 3,950,046 ratings
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All Quiet on the Western Front
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4.12 avg rating — 529,847 ratings
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The Three Musketeers
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4.10 avg rating — 350,477 ratings
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The Metamorphosis
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3.91 avg rating — 1,483,129 ratings
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The Awakening
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3.69 avg rating — 230,531 ratings
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Catch-22
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3.99 avg rating — 895,279 ratings
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12 Years a Slave
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4.23 avg rating — 125,956 ratings
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The Call of the Wild
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3.92 avg rating — 479,972 ratings
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Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
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3.73 avg rating — 240,683 ratings
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A Farewell to Arms
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3.82 avg rating — 360,288 ratings
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David Copperfield
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4.05 avg rating — 262,704 ratings
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The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)
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3.70 avg rating — 103,340 ratings
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War and Peace
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4.17 avg rating — 371,665 ratings
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Macbeth
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3.89 avg rating — 1,038,421 ratings
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Candide
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3.76 avg rating — 305,862 ratings
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Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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3.57 avg rating — 624,916 ratings
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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
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4.02 avg rating — 221,958 ratings
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Gulliver's Travels
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3.59 avg rating — 301,989 ratings
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Fathers and Sons
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 103,580 ratings
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The Stranger
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4.03 avg rating — 1,457,597 ratings
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Pygmalion
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3.88 avg rating — 110,913 ratings
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Treasure Island
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3.85 avg rating — 547,900 ratings
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Long Day's Journey into Night
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4.06 avg rating — 43,431 ratings
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
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4.16 avg rating — 50,506 ratings
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The Cherry Orchard
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3.69 avg rating — 46,258 ratings
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The Picture of Dorian Grey
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4.13 avg rating — 1,936,933 ratings
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A Death in the Family
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3.88 avg rating — 17,991 ratings
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Walden & Civil Disobedience
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3.93 avg rating — 39,341 ratings
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Crime and Punishment
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4.29 avg rating — 1,116,937 ratings
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
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4.12 avg rating — 1,125,990 ratings
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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3.92 avg rating — 244,880 ratings
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The Grapes of Wrath
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4.03 avg rating — 1,009,228 ratings
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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3.64 avg rating — 166,264 ratings
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The Portrait of a Lady
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3.80 avg rating — 85,960 ratings
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The Magic Mountain
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4.13 avg rating — 63,720 ratings
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The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
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3.75 avg rating — 34,494 ratings
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
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3.99 avg rating — 393,778 ratings
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The Mill on the Floss
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3.84 avg rating — 59,784 ratings
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The House of Mirth
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3.98 avg rating — 107,515 ratings
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The Sound and the Fury
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3.86 avg rating — 198,550 ratings
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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3.98 avg rating — 126,999 ratings
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Call It Sleep
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3.80 avg rating — 9,056 ratings
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Leaves of Grass
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4.11 avg rating — 117,741 ratings
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The Crying of Lot 49
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3.69 avg rating — 99,725 ratings
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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4.13 avg rating — 137,150 ratings
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Selected Essays
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3.99 avg rating — 675 ratings
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Death Comes for the Archbishop
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3.97 avg rating — 44,218 ratings
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Doctor Zhivago
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4.01 avg rating — 104,289 ratings
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The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
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4.20 avg rating — 8,374 ratings
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Career Forward: Do You Need An MBA To Succeed?
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4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Decline of the West
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4.06 avg rating — 2,287 ratings
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50 Yale Admission Success Stories: And the Essays That Made Them Happen
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4.06 avg rating — 18 ratings
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The High School Days in Kyoto: A Christmas tree, Catholic school and Jesus
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4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Upstairs Room
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3.84 avg rating — 12,156 ratings
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Simulacra and Simulation
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 17,070 ratings
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50 Successful Harvard Medical School Essays
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4.22 avg rating — 27 ratings
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As I Lay Dying
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3.72 avg rating — 190,327 ratings
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The Pigman (The Pigman, #1)
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3.60 avg rating — 28,829 ratings
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The Society of the Spectacle
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4.03 avg rating — 23,933 ratings
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Game On: Why College Admission Is Rigged and How You Can Beat the System
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3.22 avg rating — 87 ratings
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Also: I assume for Waiting for Godot what's actually on the list is the play itself, not the readers' guide by Peter Boxall?