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Suicide
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Fatherland by Robert   Harris
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374 books — 699 voters

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodNever Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro1984 by George OrwellWe by Yevgeny ZamyatinFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
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Lord of the Flies by William GoldingThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathAs I Lay Dying by William FaulknerMisery by Stephen  King
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1,315 books — 1,734 voters

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Legs!
437 books — 134 voters

And the Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave
Henry Rollins' 2.13.61
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The Road by Cormac McCarthyCat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Oryx and Crake by Margaret AtwoodI Am Legend and Other Stories by Richard Matheson
This Is the End...
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500 Essential Graphic Novels
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The Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovGrendel by John Gardner
Rooting for the Bad Guy
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The Great American Novel
670 books — 1,097 voters

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Retro Reads
164 books — 136 voters
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1,708 books — 4,366 voters


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