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511 books — 2,276 voters

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest HemingwayThe Sun Also Rises by Ernest HemingwayBilly Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville
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The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasLes Misérables by Victor HugoThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyCutting for Stone by Abraham   Verghese
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,868 books — 7,002 voters
The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
Best Books of the Decade: 1940s
830 books — 1,143 voters