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Best Books of the Decade: 1930s
909 books — 1,258 voters
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7,888 books — 49,805 voters

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85 books — 64 voters
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1,748 books — 6,901 voters

The Táin by Anonymous
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21 books — 54 voters
Candide by VoltaireThe Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo TolstoyBartleby the Scrivener by Herman MelvilleThe Awakening by Kate ChopinDaisy Miller by Henry James
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727 books — 1,458 voters

The Iliad by HomerThe Odyssey by HomerThe Conquest of Gaul by Gaius Julius CaesarThe Aeneid by VirgilThe Epic of Gilgamesh by Anonymous
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122 books — 30 voters
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Steve Donoghue Top 100
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26 books — 50 voters

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140 books — 25 voters
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Manon Lescaut by Antoine François Prévost d'...Vathek by William BeckfordThe History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia by Samuel JohnsonThe Monk by Matthew Gregory LewisZadig et autres contes by Voltaire
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376 books — 1,010 voters
The Aeneid by VirgilMetamorphoses by OvidThe Conquest of Gaul by Gaius Julius CaesarThe Campaigns of Alexander by ArrianHistory of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
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277 books — 294 voters

The Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriCanzoniere by Francesco PetrarcaPiers Plowman by William LanglandThe Decameron by Giovanni BoccaccioThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
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63 books — 354 voters
The Nibelungenlied by UnknownThe Romance of the Rose by Guillaume de LorrisVita Nuova by Dante AlighieriThe Death of King Arthur by UnknownThe Golden Legend by Jacobus de Voragine
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72 books — 186 voters

The History of the Kings of Britain by Geoffrey of MonmouthThe Conference of the Birds by Attar of NishapurPoema de Mío Cid by AnonymousArthurian Romances by Chrétien de TroyesSic Et Non by Pierre Abélard
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62 books — 151 voters
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Best Books of the 11th Century
24 books — 112 voters