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To Kill a Mockingbird
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4.26 avg rating — 6,989,342 ratings
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The Bell Jar
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4.04 avg rating — 1,262,054 ratings
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Giovanni’s Room
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4.34 avg rating — 271,074 ratings
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Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories
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3.85 avg rating — 254,056 ratings
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The Outsiders
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4.15 avg rating — 1,642,062 ratings
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In Cold Blood
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4.09 avg rating — 741,733 ratings
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Beloved
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3.98 avg rating — 500,589 ratings
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Song of Solomon
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4.16 avg rating — 131,078 ratings
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Bluets
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4.04 avg rating — 59,344 ratings
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A Visit from the Goon Squad
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3.70 avg rating — 252,429 ratings
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Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 69,708 ratings
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Mrs. Dalloway
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3.77 avg rating — 364,440 ratings
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Orlando
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3.87 avg rating — 118,564 ratings
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The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1)
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3.95 avg rating — 122,450 ratings
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The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories
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3.78 avg rating — 26,804 ratings
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A Good Man Is Hard To Find
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3.88 avg rating — 11,479 ratings
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Lunch Poems
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4.15 avg rating — 13,656 ratings
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On Photography
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3.86 avg rating — 57,975 ratings
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The Bluest Eye
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4.13 avg rating — 310,326 ratings
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In the Western Night: Collected Poems, 1965-1990
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4.22 avg rating — 350 ratings
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Housekeeping
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3.81 avg rating — 59,489 ratings
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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
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4.04 avg rating — 20,010 ratings
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The Hours
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3.96 avg rating — 149,816 ratings
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Autobiography of Red
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4.25 avg rating — 37,403 ratings
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Twilight of the Superheroes
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3.62 avg rating — 1,532 ratings
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave
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4.13 avg rating — 137,013 ratings
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Leaves of Grass
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4.11 avg rating — 117,660 ratings
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As I Lay Dying
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3.72 avg rating — 190,058 ratings
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The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made
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4.29 avg rating — 35,244 ratings
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Poems
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4.29 avg rating — 107,140 ratings
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Love & fame (Noonday)
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3.98 avg rating — 103 ratings
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What Makes Sammy Run?
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4.09 avg rating — 3,591 ratings
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House of Leaves
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4.09 avg rating — 205,969 ratings
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Jesus’ Son
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4.12 avg rating — 41,941 ratings
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White Buildings
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4.25 avg rating — 373 ratings
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Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
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4.15 avg rating — 230,895 ratings
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The Bridge
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4.09 avg rating — 1,139 ratings
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The Long Home
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4.03 avg rating — 2,825 ratings
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Our Lady of the Flowers
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4.01 avg rating — 7,148 ratings
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The Sellout
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3.74 avg rating — 75,952 ratings
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Querelle of Brest
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3.92 avg rating — 2,863 ratings
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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3.89 avg rating — 280,879 ratings
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In a Lonely Place
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4.12 avg rating — 9,441 ratings
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Paulina & Fran
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3.05 avg rating — 1,435 ratings
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Strangers on a Train
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3.72 avg rating — 39,338 ratings
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 79,798 ratings
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Donkey Gospel
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4.14 avg rating — 1,802 ratings
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Junky
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3.84 avg rating — 72,418 ratings
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The Nick Adams Stories
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4.01 avg rating — 8,532 ratings
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Howl and Other Poems
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4.13 avg rating — 120,038 ratings
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The Bear
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3.48 avg rating — 1,441 ratings
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Kaddish and Other Poems
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4.19 avg rating — 9,576 ratings
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Ham on Rye
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4.14 avg rating — 120,711 ratings
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Reality Hunger: A Manifesto
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3.64 avg rating — 2,730 ratings
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Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
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4.27 avg rating — 3,966 ratings
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This Is Not a Novel
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4.02 avg rating — 1,628 ratings
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Salinger
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3.76 avg rating — 1,758 ratings
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Sonny's Blues
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4.33 avg rating — 9,239 ratings
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Zeroville
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4.08 avg rating — 3,270 ratings
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
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4.19 avg rating — 214,583 ratings
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Revolutionary Road
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3.93 avg rating — 94,428 ratings
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Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity
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4.27 avg rating — 22,750 ratings
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The Colossus and Other Poems
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4.16 avg rating — 14,204 ratings
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The Adderall Diaries
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3.45 avg rating — 2,184 ratings
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The Executioner's Song
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4.05 avg rating — 23,861 ratings
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Ariel
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4.18 avg rating — 90,899 ratings
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Crossing the Water: Sylvia Plath's Triumphant Poetry Collection Exploring Tensions Between Desire and Duty
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4.09 avg rating — 3,097 ratings
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The Love Song of Johnny Valentine
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3.50 avg rating — 3,277 ratings
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City of Night
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3.95 avg rating — 5,147 ratings
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Ask the Dust (The Saga of Arturo Bandini, #3)
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4.10 avg rating — 40,176 ratings
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The Selected Poems of Frank O'Hara
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4.34 avg rating — 1,494 ratings
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Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
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4.08 avg rating — 14,751 ratings
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
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4.24 avg rating — 37,611 ratings
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Against Interpretation and Other Essays
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4.14 avg rating — 10,633 ratings
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Illness as Metaphor
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3.96 avg rating — 3,654 ratings
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AIDS and Its Metaphors
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 655 ratings
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Regarding the Pain of Others
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4.10 avg rating — 23,442 ratings
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Complete Poems
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4.02 avg rating — 3,184 ratings
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Golden State
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4.14 avg rating — 72 ratings
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The Book of the Body
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4.39 avg rating — 66 ratings
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The Sacrifice
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4.29 avg rating — 100 ratings
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Desire: Poems
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4.04 avg rating — 487 ratings
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Music Like Dirt
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4.12 avg rating — 102 ratings
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Star Dust
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3.80 avg rating — 590 ratings
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Watching the Spring Festival: Poems
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3.80 avg rating — 250 ratings
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Metaphysical Dog
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3.97 avg rating — 758 ratings
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The Triumph of Achilles
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3.93 avg rating — 901 ratings
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Ararat
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4.13 avg rating — 2,487 ratings
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The Wild Iris
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4.17 avg rating — 15,705 ratings
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Proofs & Theories: Essays on Poetry
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4.12 avg rating — 814 ratings
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Averno
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4.18 avg rating — 7,391 ratings
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A Village Life
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4.05 avg rating — 2,310 ratings
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Poems, 1962-2012
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4.43 avg rating — 2,078 ratings
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Geography III
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4.26 avg rating — 2,180 ratings
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The Complete Poems 1927-1979
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4.20 avg rating — 13,072 ratings
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The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies
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4.19 avg rating — 2,433 ratings
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Anywhere But Here (Mayan Stevenson, #1)
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3.56 avg rating — 3,332 ratings
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Like Life
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4.06 avg rating — 5,707 ratings
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The Letters of the Republic: Publication and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century America
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3.37 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Fear of a Queer Planet: Queer Politics and Social Theory
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