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Pride and Prejudice
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4.29 avg rating — 4,764,621 ratings
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Letters to a Young Poet
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4.27 avg rating — 120,819 ratings
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A Tale of Two Cities
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3.88 avg rating — 1,009,269 ratings
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Animal Farm
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4.02 avg rating — 4,507,934 ratings
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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
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4.16 avg rating — 27,655 ratings
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Reveries of the Solitary Walker
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3.61 avg rating — 7,527 ratings
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The Odyssey
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3.83 avg rating — 1,184,605 ratings
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A Doll's House
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3.77 avg rating — 163,291 ratings
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Get Real and Get In
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4.04 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Slaughterhouse-Five
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4.10 avg rating — 1,477,015 ratings
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Beowulf
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3.50 avg rating — 345,014 ratings
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
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3.83 avg rating — 1,334,450 ratings
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Tess of the D’Urbervilles
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3.84 avg rating — 301,823 ratings
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Madame Bovary
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3.71 avg rating — 373,033 ratings
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The Scarlet Letter
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3.44 avg rating — 915,632 ratings
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Jane Eyre
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4.16 avg rating — 2,309,844 ratings
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Cyrano de Bergerac
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4.06 avg rating — 90,662 ratings
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Lord of the Flies
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3.70 avg rating — 3,181,144 ratings
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The Canterbury Tales
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3.53 avg rating — 237,351 ratings
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The Complete Sherlock Holmes
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4.51 avg rating — 216,403 ratings
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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
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4.30 avg rating — 53,468 ratings
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Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)
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3.68 avg rating — 175,760 ratings
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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3.94 avg rating — 576,654 ratings
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The Iliad
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3.93 avg rating — 507,001 ratings
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Frankenstein
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3.90 avg rating — 1,866,860 ratings
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Faust, First Part
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3.83 avg rating — 85,756 ratings
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Brave New World
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3.99 avg rating — 2,064,837 ratings
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The Red Badge of Courage
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3.30 avg rating — 109,858 ratings
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Babbitt
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3.69 avg rating — 24,804 ratings
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The Complete Stories and Poems
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4.40 avg rating — 295,197 ratings
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The Turn of the Screw
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3.38 avg rating — 179,136 ratings
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The Glass Menagerie
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3.74 avg rating — 142,896 ratings
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Wuthering Heights
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3.90 avg rating — 2,027,640 ratings
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Heart of Darkness
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3.43 avg rating — 556,336 ratings
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Ivanhoe
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3.76 avg rating — 98,919 ratings
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Vanity Fair
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3.81 avg rating — 132,962 ratings
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Inferno
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4.03 avg rating — 205,238 ratings
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Don Quixote
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3.91 avg rating — 303,945 ratings
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Invisible Man
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3.92 avg rating — 201,464 ratings
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Robinson Crusoe
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3.68 avg rating — 330,294 ratings
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The Catcher in the Rye
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3.80 avg rating — 3,872,700 ratings
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All Quiet on the Western Front
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4.11 avg rating — 517,583 ratings
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The Three Musketeers
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4.10 avg rating — 345,915 ratings
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The Metamorphosis
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3.90 avg rating — 1,408,861 ratings
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The Awakening
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3.69 avg rating — 226,596 ratings
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Catch-22
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3.99 avg rating — 884,293 ratings
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12 Years a Slave
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4.23 avg rating — 124,664 ratings
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The Call of the Wild
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3.91 avg rating — 470,365 ratings
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Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
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3.73 avg rating — 236,526 ratings
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A Farewell to Arms
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3.82 avg rating — 352,136 ratings
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David Copperfield
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4.04 avg rating — 257,638 ratings
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The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)
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3.70 avg rating — 102,049 ratings
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War and Peace
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4.17 avg rating — 364,252 ratings
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Macbeth
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3.89 avg rating — 1,014,705 ratings
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Candide
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3.76 avg rating — 300,300 ratings
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Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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3.57 avg rating — 613,645 ratings
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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
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4.02 avg rating — 217,430 ratings
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Gulliver's Travels
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3.59 avg rating — 298,000 ratings
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Fathers and Sons
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 100,714 ratings
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The Stranger
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4.03 avg rating — 1,384,454 ratings
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Pygmalion
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3.89 avg rating — 109,531 ratings
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Treasure Island
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3.85 avg rating — 538,318 ratings
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Long Day's Journey into Night
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4.06 avg rating — 42,902 ratings
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
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4.16 avg rating — 49,584 ratings
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The Cherry Orchard
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3.69 avg rating — 45,157 ratings
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The Picture of Dorian Grey
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4.13 avg rating — 1,859,533 ratings
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A Death in the Family
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3.88 avg rating — 17,673 ratings
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Walden & Civil Disobedience
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3.93 avg rating — 38,983 ratings
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Crime and Punishment
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4.29 avg rating — 1,069,853 ratings
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
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4.12 avg rating — 1,097,906 ratings
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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3.92 avg rating — 242,149 ratings
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The Grapes of Wrath
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4.03 avg rating — 989,830 ratings
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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3.64 avg rating — 163,632 ratings
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The Portrait of a Lady
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3.80 avg rating — 85,015 ratings
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The Magic Mountain
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4.13 avg rating — 61,116 ratings
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The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
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3.75 avg rating — 34,269 ratings
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
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3.99 avg rating — 384,926 ratings
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The Mill on the Floss
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3.83 avg rating — 58,942 ratings
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The House of Mirth
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3.98 avg rating — 105,555 ratings
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The Sound and the Fury
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3.86 avg rating — 195,452 ratings
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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3.98 avg rating — 124,688 ratings
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Call It Sleep
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3.80 avg rating — 8,956 ratings
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Leaves of Grass
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4.11 avg rating — 116,303 ratings
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The Crying of Lot 49
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3.69 avg rating — 96,861 ratings
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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4.13 avg rating — 134,494 ratings
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Selected Essays
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3.99 avg rating — 671 ratings
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Death Comes for the Archbishop
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3.97 avg rating — 43,048 ratings
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Doctor Zhivago
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4.01 avg rating — 102,651 ratings
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The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
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4.20 avg rating — 8,315 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 — 2,221 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 — 12,113 ratings
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Simulacra and Simulation
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 16,515 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 — 186,267 ratings
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The Pigman (The Pigman, #1)
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3.60 avg rating — 28,690 ratings
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The Society of the Spectacle
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4.03 avg rating — 23,316 ratings
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Game On: Why College Admission Is Rigged and How You Can Beat the System
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3.23 avg rating — 86 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?