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Gone with the Wind

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Wuthering Heights

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Crime and Punishment

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Les Misérables

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Lord of the Flies

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Romeo and Juliet

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The Adventures of Huckleber...

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Where the Wild Things Are

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A Tale of Two Cities

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Lolita

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"Not a book for everyone. I really enjoyed the voice of the narrator as complex, sensitive, repugnant, humorous, etc."
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Anna Karenina

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Slaughterhouse-Five

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Of Mice and Men

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"Same as my comments about the Grapes of Wrath."
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The Odyssey

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Brave New World

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"A provocative look at the future, which may still come to pass."
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Catch-22

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Fahrenheit 451

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The Brothers Karamazov

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The Handmaid’s Tale (The Ha...

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"Really makes one think about the future of society."
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Don Quixote

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Siddhartha

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The Red Tent

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Moby-Dick or, The Whale

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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dov...

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The Unbearable Lightness of...

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The Color Purple

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Great Expectations

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Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

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The Adventures of Sherlock ...

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The Old Man and the Sea

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In Cold Blood

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"Marvelous explanation of the tragedy. A complex look into the mind of a murderer."
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The Metamorphosis

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"Much more here than meets the eye."
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Heart of Darkness

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The Joy Luck Club

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Atonement

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A Farewell to Arms

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Beloved

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"Classic work about the effects of suffering, specifically slavery, on the characters. A novel that deals with the true American situation."
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The Sound and the Fury

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"Excellent use of multiple narrators."
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The Crucible

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The Sun Also Rises

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Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)

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The Three Musketeers

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Invisible Man

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The Awakening

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David Copperfield

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The Prince of Tides

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The Godfather (The Godfathe...

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King Lear

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Oliver Twist

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Sophie’s Choice

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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Paradise Lost

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A Separate Peace

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Into the Wild

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Othello

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The Trial

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High Fidelity

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A Streetcar Named Desire

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Death of a Salesman

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Cry, the Beloved Country

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Speak

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Everything is Illuminated

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House of Sand and Fog

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Doctor Zhivago

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John Adams

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"McCullough made what seemed to be a really uninteresting man interesting and relevant. Helped my understanding of the founding of America."
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Brideshead Revisited

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A Room with a View

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Native Son

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The Corrections

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The Remains of the Day

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"Shows the problems with being too self-contained, too disciplined."
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Ethan Frome

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Into Thin Air: A Personal A...

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The Killer Angels (The Civi...

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Howards End

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Light in August

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No Country for Old Men

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