Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainLes Misérables by Victor HugoThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Life of Pi by Yann Martel
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8,081 books — 5,756 voters

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9,446 books — 8,508 voters
Candide by Voltaire
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The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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953 books — 1,419 voters

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251 books — 922 voters
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
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1,307 books — 4,545 voters

The Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Stranger by Albert CamusThe Plague by Albert Camus
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314 books — 288 voters
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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1,232 books — 3,916 voters
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1,507 books — 1,340 voters

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434 books — 315 voters
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German Classics
227 books — 151 voters

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701 books — 585 voters
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306 books — 365 voters

1984 by George OrwellBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyAnimal Farm by George OrwellV for Vendetta by Alan             Moore
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