The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodMidnight’s Children by Salman RushdieThe Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaBeloved by Toni Morrison
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Watership Down by Richard  Adams
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One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezCatch-22 by Joseph HellerTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeCat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
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Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
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One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
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