The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom WolfeThe Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
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The Sweetness of Water by Nathan  Harris
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Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2017
178 books — 240 voters
The Barrowfields by Phillip Lewis
Outlandish Lit 2017 Fiction Preview
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Porgy and Bess Fantasy for Two Pianos by George Gershwin
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Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally
Disturbing Truths
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The Moor's Account by Laila LalamiThe Illuminations by Andrew O'HaganThe Year of the Runaways by Sunjeev Sahota
Man Booker 2015 Long List
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Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas HardyPerfume by Patrick Süskind
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Life of Pi by Yann MartelNotes from a Small Island by Bill BrysonThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferOut of Africa by Isak DinesenPersepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Foreign Lands
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Confessions by Augustine of Hippo
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Faulkner's Mississippi by Willie Morris
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The Virginian by Owen Wister
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Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Civil War Era Romance
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Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Best Books Set in Appalachia
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Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe Stranger by Albert CamusThe Plague by Albert CamusThe Covenant by James A. Michener
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The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather
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751 books — 615 voters



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