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Beowulf

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3.50 avg rating — 343,442 ratings
"So hard to pick just five, but i guess these would be my bare essentials! Ideally I'd divide material into literary "eras" chronologically while shaving off a lot of contemporary degeneration"
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Hamlet

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4.03 avg rating — 1,037,877 ratings
"can't have an english class without Shakespeare tbh"
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Moby-Dick or, The Whale

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3.56 avg rating — 610,928 ratings
"Seeing my top 5, I'd pretty much be your average English teacher as these are already popularly assigned books ._. maybe a touch more depressing"
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Heart of Darkness

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3.43 avg rating — 553,733 ratings
"a personal favourite, plus it's a relatively shorter read with immaculate prose and a haunting setup.. also, colonialism"
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Ulysses

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3.76 avg rating — 136,992 ratings
"Intro to postmodernism (without throwing up from vertigo or smth)"
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