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The Lord of the Rings

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"An epic adventure with characters of great depth."
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Les Misérables

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"You begin to read, an eternity passes, and you find your self at the end."
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The Great Gatsby

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"The Great American Novel."
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To Kill a Mockingbird

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"Pulitzer prize winner. The one and only from Haper Leee."
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The Grapes of Wrath

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"True American heroism."
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Holy Bible: English Standar...

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"Best Seller."
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Great Expectations

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"One of Chas Dickens great books."
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A Tale of Two Cities

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"The other great book from Dickens"
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The Iliad

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"Prototype epic tale that takes place over the wine dark sea."
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Of Mice and Men

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"Who can forget Lenny and George."
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The Adventures of Huckleber...

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"The first great American Novel."
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The Old Man and the Sea

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"My favorite Hemingway Novella."
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1984

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"Prototype dystopian lit."
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The Big Sleep (Philip Marlo...

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"Great Hard Boiled detective fiction."
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For Whom the Bell Tolls

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"More great Hemingway."
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Silas Marner

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3.69 avg rating — 94,247 ratings
" I know many don't like this book because they were forced to read it in High School. But I find this story of true self-sacrificing love an inspirational tale."
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The Count of Monte Cristo

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"Truly a great story of the best revenge of all."
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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dov...

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4.58 avg rating — 248,291 ratings
"The characters of Gus and Call, Deats and Laurie, Newt, and the rest lived for me. They came off the page and into my heart and mind and truly lived. "
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Walden or, Life in the Woods

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"The contemplative person's handbook."
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A River Runs Through It and...

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"One of the great poetic stories of all time."
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The Earth Is Enough: Growin...

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"Great stories from a great writer."
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Rivers of Memory

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"More poetic prose from a truly great writer taken from us much too soon."
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The Haunting of Hill House

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"Truly one of the most frightening stories of all time. "
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The Skull Beneath The Skin ...

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"One of a series of very cereberal mysteries by the Baroness James staring her ace detective Commander Adam Dalglish."
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Murder on the Orient Expres...

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"Quintessential Christie"
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A Christmas Carol

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"The perennial Christmas tale. It loses notheing in the telling year after year."
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The Name of the Rose

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"A great dark ages mystery."
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Lord Jim

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"A study of cowards and heroes and the difference between them. A thought provoking story of ordinary men reacting in extraordinary circumstances."
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The Odyssey

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"Another great adventure of epic proportions."
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The Longest Silence: A Life...

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"Great work from the pen of another grreat writer."
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