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Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontëAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyThe Red and the Black by Stendhal
Hemingway's List
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The Secret History by Donna Tartt
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The Road by Cormac McCarthyA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton EllisBattle Royale by Koushun Takami
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Brave New World by Aldous HuxleyThe Road by Cormac McCarthyAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Adult Dystopian Books
144 books — 246 voters

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2021: What the Over-35s Are Reading
2,537 books — 163 voters
Meneer Beerta by J.J. VoskuilVuile handen by J.J. VoskuilDe morgenster by Karl Ove Knausgård
2022: What the Over-35s Are Reading
2,331 books — 128 voters

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Best of FNL 2021
334 books — 66 voters
1984 by George OrwellJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
One Million Ratings!
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The Road by Cormac McCarthy
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My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
What We've Read So Far in 2018
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The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
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Ulysses by James Joyce
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The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodWatchmen by Alan             Moore
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The Secret History by Donna Tartt
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
Bad / overrated Hipster Literature
31 books — 12 voters
Cloud Atlas by David  MitchellDucks, Newburyport by Lucy EllmannDune by Frank Herbert
Overrated Award-winning Books
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