Phenomenology of Spirit by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelBeing and Time by Martin Heidegger
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104 books — 35 voters
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Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby
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47 books — 17 voters
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Black Boy by Richard Wright
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178 books — 3,877 voters
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
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374 books — 1,189 voters

The Sleepwalkers by Hermann Broch
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975 books — 958 voters
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87 books — 71 voters


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