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Rere 456 books
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Katie 166 books
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Kaion 1592 books
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Czarny 2969 books
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message 1: by Kaion (last edited Jan 05, 2015 11:23PM) (new)

Kaion The Acid Diary removed for not being an Asian Classic (author spamming!)


message 2: by Karin (last edited Sep 16, 2022 02:31PM) (new)

Karin How old does a book have to be to count?

I see that The Three-Body Problem and The Travelling Cat Chronicles are on here; they are Asian but were were written in the 21st century.

If this is acceptable then I have at least one more I'd like to add :)


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