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560 books — 183 voters
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Some Great Books on Nature
255 books — 146 voters

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburySlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Animal Farm by George Orwell2001 by Arthur C. ClarkeContact by Carl Sagan
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8,330 books — 24,584 voters
The Moviegoer by Walker PercyA Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee WilliamsA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
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422 books — 346 voters

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Elephants
102 books — 67 voters
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Best Southern Literature
1,342 books — 2,573 voters

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The Great American Novel
670 books — 1,089 voters
Crossers by Philip Caputo
Novels Set in Arizona
516 books — 192 voters

The Fool's Progress by Edward AbbeyThe World Made Straight by Ron Rash
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268 books — 323 voters