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Pride and Prejudice
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4.30 avg rating — 4,926,511 ratings
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Letters to a Young Poet
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4.27 avg rating — 128,836 ratings
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A Tale of Two Cities
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3.88 avg rating — 1,025,529 ratings
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Animal Farm
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4.03 avg rating — 4,701,218 ratings
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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
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4.16 avg rating — 28,004 ratings
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Reveries of the Solitary Walker
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3.61 avg rating — 7,776 ratings
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The Odyssey
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3.84 avg rating — 1,226,509 ratings
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A Doll's House
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3.77 avg rating — 168,087 ratings
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Get Real and Get In
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4.04 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Slaughterhouse-Five
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4.10 avg rating — 1,508,831 ratings
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Beowulf
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3.50 avg rating — 352,487 ratings
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
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3.83 avg rating — 1,346,785 ratings
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Tess of the D’Urbervilles
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3.84 avg rating — 306,477 ratings
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Madame Bovary
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3.71 avg rating — 383,580 ratings
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The Scarlet Letter
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3.44 avg rating — 933,195 ratings
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Jane Eyre
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4.16 avg rating — 2,376,935 ratings
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Wuthering Heights
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3.89 avg rating — 2,241,751 ratings
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Cyrano de Bergerac
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4.06 avg rating — 92,186 ratings
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Lord of the Flies
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3.70 avg rating — 3,267,503 ratings
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The Canterbury Tales
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3.53 avg rating — 240,337 ratings
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The Complete Sherlock Holmes
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4.51 avg rating — 218,945 ratings
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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
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4.30 avg rating — 55,370 ratings
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Antigone (Theban Plays, #3)
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3.69 avg rating — 181,213 ratings
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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3.94 avg rating — 587,057 ratings
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The Iliad
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3.93 avg rating — 523,537 ratings
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Frankenstein
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3.92 avg rating — 1,960,176 ratings
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Faust, First Part
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3.83 avg rating — 87,493 ratings
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Brave New World
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3.98 avg rating — 2,121,595 ratings
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The Red Badge of Courage
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3.30 avg rating — 111,206 ratings
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Babbitt
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3.70 avg rating — 25,121 ratings
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The Complete Stories and Poems
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4.40 avg rating — 299,029 ratings
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The Turn of the Screw
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3.38 avg rating — 184,703 ratings
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The Glass Menagerie
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3.74 avg rating — 144,828 ratings
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Heart of Darkness
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3.43 avg rating — 568,632 ratings
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Ivanhoe
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3.77 avg rating — 100,040 ratings
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Vanity Fair
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3.81 avg rating — 134,231 ratings
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Inferno
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4.03 avg rating — 210,279 ratings
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Don Quixote
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3.91 avg rating — 311,388 ratings
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Invisible Man
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3.92 avg rating — 205,023 ratings
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Robinson Crusoe
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3.68 avg rating — 335,731 ratings
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The Catcher in the Rye
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3.80 avg rating — 3,962,572 ratings
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All Quiet on the Western Front
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4.12 avg rating — 532,180 ratings
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The Three Musketeers
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4.10 avg rating — 351,434 ratings
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The Metamorphosis
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3.91 avg rating — 1,498,271 ratings
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The Awakening
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3.69 avg rating — 231,196 ratings
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Catch-22
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3.99 avg rating — 897,374 ratings
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12 Years a Slave
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4.23 avg rating — 126,248 ratings
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The Call of the Wild
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3.92 avg rating — 481,522 ratings
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Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
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3.73 avg rating — 241,383 ratings
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A Farewell to Arms
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3.82 avg rating — 361,804 ratings
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David Copperfield
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4.05 avg rating — 263,576 ratings
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The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)
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3.70 avg rating — 103,492 ratings
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War and Peace
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4.17 avg rating — 373,036 ratings
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Macbeth
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3.89 avg rating — 1,042,480 ratings
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Candide
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3.76 avg rating — 306,806 ratings
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Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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3.57 avg rating — 627,179 ratings
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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
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4.02 avg rating — 222,299 ratings
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Gulliver's Travels
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3.59 avg rating — 302,648 ratings
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Fathers and Sons
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 104,129 ratings
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The Stranger
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4.03 avg rating — 1,471,694 ratings
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Pygmalion
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3.88 avg rating — 111,207 ratings
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Treasure Island
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3.85 avg rating — 549,368 ratings
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Long Day's Journey into Night
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4.06 avg rating — 43,533 ratings
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
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4.15 avg rating — 50,780 ratings
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The Cherry Orchard
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3.69 avg rating — 46,439 ratings
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The Picture of Dorian Grey
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4.13 avg rating — 1,949,537 ratings
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A Death in the Family
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3.88 avg rating — 18,050 ratings
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Walden & Civil Disobedience
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3.93 avg rating — 39,419 ratings
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Crime and Punishment
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4.29 avg rating — 1,124,055 ratings
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
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4.12 avg rating — 1,130,593 ratings
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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3.92 avg rating — 245,452 ratings
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The Grapes of Wrath
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4.03 avg rating — 1,012,873 ratings
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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3.65 avg rating — 166,747 ratings
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The Portrait of a Lady
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3.80 avg rating — 86,126 ratings
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The Magic Mountain
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4.13 avg rating — 64,165 ratings
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The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
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3.75 avg rating — 34,528 ratings
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
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3.99 avg rating — 395,249 ratings
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The Mill on the Floss
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3.84 avg rating — 59,950 ratings
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The House of Mirth
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3.98 avg rating — 107,928 ratings
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The Sound and the Fury
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3.86 avg rating — 199,201 ratings
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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3.98 avg rating — 127,462 ratings
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Call It Sleep
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3.80 avg rating — 9,073 ratings
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Leaves of Grass
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4.11 avg rating — 118,032 ratings
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The Crying of Lot 49
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3.69 avg rating — 100,243 ratings
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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4.13 avg rating — 137,498 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 — 44,481 ratings
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Doctor Zhivago
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4.01 avg rating — 104,549 ratings
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The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
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4.20 avg rating — 8,384 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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4.05 avg rating — 2,299 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 — 12,168 ratings
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Simulacra and Simulation
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 17,162 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 — 191,162 ratings
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The Pigman (The Pigman, #1)
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3.60 avg rating — 28,859 ratings
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The Society of the Spectacle
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4.03 avg rating — 24,062 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?