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The Iliad
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The Odyssey
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The Holy Bible: King James Version
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Oedipus the King
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Lysistrata
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Electra
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The Oresteia
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Annals
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3.99 avg rating — 9,353 ratings
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The Histories
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4.01 avg rating — 55,990 ratings
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The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War
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The Aeneid of Virgil
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3.87 avg rating — 144,668 ratings
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The Metamorphoses
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4.10 avg rating — 78,896 ratings
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Nicomachean Ethics
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Al-Qur'an: A Contemporary Translation.
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The Republic
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3.97 avg rating — 227,743 ratings
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Plutarch's Lives: Volume I
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4.10 avg rating — 6,113 ratings
"And Vol. II. Try Robin Waterfield for a modern translation."
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Mahabharata: A Modern Retelling
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4.43 avg rating — 421 ratings
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The Ramayana
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Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings
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4.52 avg rating — 5,720 ratings
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The Selected Poems of Li Po
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4.27 avg rating — 1,085 ratings
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The Odes of Horace
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The Arabian Nights
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4.03 avg rating — 82,211 ratings
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Njal's Saga
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3.92 avg rating — 5,538 ratings
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Confessions: A New Translation
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The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
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4.09 avg rating — 174,088 ratings
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The Canterbury Tales
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3.53 avg rating — 238,915 ratings
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The Riverside Shakespeare Complete Works
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4.48 avg rating — 57,760 ratings
"Steve would plump for the first edition now."
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Milton: Paradise Lost (Longman Annotated English Poets)
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3.86 avg rating — 183,892 ratings
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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4.02 avg rating — 15,544 ratings
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On the Origin of Species
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4.01 avg rating — 122,590 ratings
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The New Organon
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3.68 avg rating — 1,791 ratings
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The Complete Essays
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4.23 avg rating — 22,267 ratings
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The Praise of Folly
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3.83 avg rating — 20,562 ratings
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Wealth of Nations (New Cover edition)
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3.89 avg rating — 35,130 ratings
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On Liberty
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3.96 avg rating — 43,549 ratings
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Faust: A Tragedy
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3.89 avg rating — 51,293 ratings
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Vanity Fair
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3.81 avg rating — 133,553 ratings
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Middlemarch
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4.04 avg rating — 180,676 ratings
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Moby-Dick; or, the Whale
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
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4.23 avg rating — 149,293 ratings
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The Odes of John Keats
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4.27 avg rating — 215 ratings
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The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
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3.75 avg rating — 34,409 ratings
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Life of Johnson
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3.80 avg rating — 5,360 ratings
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The Roman Revolution
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4.23 avg rating — 1,020 ratings
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Pride and Prejudice
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4.30 avg rating — 4,856,445 ratings
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The Tale of Genji
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3.72 avg rating — 14,907 ratings
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Notre-Dame de Paris
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4.02 avg rating — 220,530 ratings
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A Room of One’s Own
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4.22 avg rating — 265,725 ratings
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Orlando Furioso: Part One (Orlando Furioso, #1)
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4.19 avg rating — 420 ratings
"And Part Two, of course."
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Candide, or, Optimism
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Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
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Heimskringla: Volume 1: The Beginnings to Óláfr Tryggvason
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4.10 avg rating — 88 ratings
"And Vols 2 and 3."
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Leviathan
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3.70 avg rating — 53,491 ratings
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Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
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Democracy in America
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Volume I – 1660
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4.12 avg rating — 208 ratings
"11 vols in total."
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The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
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3.98 avg rating — 3,567 ratings
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Rights of Man
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The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
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War and Peace
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4.17 avg rating — 368,609 ratings
"No Crime and Punishment on this list!"
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The French Revolution
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Catullus in English
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4.18 avg rating — 156 ratings
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Religio Medici and Other Works
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Leaves of Grass: The Complete 1855 and 1891-92 Editions
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4.11 avg rating — 117,164 ratings
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Walden: A Library of America Paperback Classic
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Don Quixote
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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The Faerie Queene
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The Anatomy of Melancholy
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding/Second Treatise of Goverment
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3.87 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1
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4.30 avg rating — 14,410 ratings
"Presumably the posthumous two vols as well."
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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3.76 avg rating — 1,066 ratings
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A Christmas Carol
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4.09 avg rating — 946,139 ratings
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The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Library of America Paperback Classic (The Library of America Paperback Classics Series)
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3.99 avg rating — 13,173 ratings
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The Education of Henry Adams
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3.63 avg rating — 4,970 ratings
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The Magic Mountain
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4.13 avg rating — 62,640 ratings
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The Once and Future King
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4.07 avg rating — 119,458 ratings
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The Ring and the Book
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Gulliver's Travels (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift, Series Number 16)
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3.59 avg rating — 300,460 ratings
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The House of Mirth
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3.98 avg rating — 106,656 ratings
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The Portrait of a Lady
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3.80 avg rating — 85,552 ratings
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The Songs and Sonets of John Donne
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4.14 avg rating — 370 ratings
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The New Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250–1950
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4.20 avg rating — 149 ratings
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Biographia Literaria
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3.94 avg rating — 567 ratings
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4.12 avg rating — 5,014 ratings
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Kristin Lavransdatter
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4.31 avg rating — 14,729 ratings
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Look Homeward, Angel
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3.91 avg rating — 15,851 ratings
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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
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3.94 avg rating — 22,542 ratings
"Bertrand Russell famously preferred the Treatise (the earlier version of this)."
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Shakespeare's Lives
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The Poems
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The Decameron
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Seven Pillars of Wisdom
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Summa Theologica
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Wuthering Heights
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3.90 avg rating — 2,169,046 ratings
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The Poetic Edda
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4.26 avg rating — 12,620 ratings
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Africa A Biography Of The Continent
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Animal Liberation
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The Táin: From the Irish Epic Táin Bó Cúailnge
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3.95 avg rating — 5,093 ratings
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The Penguin History of the World
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The Lord of the Rings
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