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Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.58 — 637,782 ratings — published 1851
Gravity’s Rainbow (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 50,506 ratings — published 1973
Infinite Jest (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 106,496 ratings — published 1996
Ulysses (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.76 — 142,180 ratings — published 1922
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.72 — 23,462 ratings — published 1767
Underworld (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 35,055 ratings — published 1997
The Recognitions (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 6,705 ratings — published 1955
2666 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 52,840 ratings — published 2004
Darconville's Cat (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 634 ratings — published 1981
Gargantua and Pantagruel (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.65 — 16,581 ratings — published 1532
The Man Without Qualities (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 7,675 ratings — published 1930
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 408,766 ratings — published 1980
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 180,645 ratings — published 1304
Don Quixote (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 316,360 ratings — published 1605
Our Oriental Heritage (The Story of Civilization, #1)
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avg rating 4.30 — 3,754 ratings — published 1935
The Art of Fermentation: An in-Depth Exploration of Essential Concepts and Processes from Around the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.43 — 4,965 ratings — published 2012
The Last Samurai (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 13,502 ratings — published 2000
Europe Central (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 3,605 ratings — published 2005
White Teeth (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.79 — 181,609 ratings — published 2000
Take Five (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 158 ratings — published 1982
The Rock and Roll Film Encyclopedia (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as encyclopedic)
avg rating 3.50 — 6 ratings — published 2007
The Silmarillion (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 351,336 ratings — published 1977
El Criticón (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 272 ratings — published 1657
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as encyclopedic)
avg rating 4.53 — 32,109 ratings — published 1974
Black Metal: Evolution of the Cult - The Restored, Expanded & Definitive Edition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as encyclopedic)
avg rating 4.82 — 38 ratings — published
Cloud Atlas (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 276,446 ratings — published 2004
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as encyclopedic)
avg rating 4.09 — 215,324 ratings — published 2000
The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as encyclopedic)
avg rating 3.60 — 1,541 ratings — published 2020
Monet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as encyclopedic)
avg rating 3.95 — 220 ratings — published 1999
The Cantos (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 5,542 ratings — published 1970
Dead Souls (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 101,157 ratings — published 1842
Life and Fate (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.46 — 16,702 ratings — published 1960
Faust (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 53,953 ratings — published 1808
The Magic Mountain (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as encyclopedic)
avg rating 4.13 — 66,626 ratings — published 1924
Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as encyclopedic)
avg rating 3.86 — 189,196 ratings — published 1667
Tormont Websters Illustrated Encyclopedia Dictionary (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 3 ratings — published
The Encyclopaedia of Celtic Wisdom: A Celtic Shaman's Sourcebook (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as encyclopedic)
avg rating 4.04 — 865 ratings — published 1994
Milton Cross' Encyclopedia of the Great Composers and Their Music, Vol 1 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as encyclopedic)
avg rating 4.15 — 27 ratings — published 1953
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 89 ratings — published 1980
Milton Cross' Encyclopedia of the Great Composers and Their Music, Vol 2 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 20 ratings — published 1953
The New Lexicon Webster's Encyclopedic Dictionary of The English Language (Hardcover)
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avg rating 5.00 — 2 ratings — published 1991
The Marvel Comics Encyclopedia: A Complete Guide to the Characters of the Marvel Univers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as encyclopedic)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,154 ratings — published 2009
Harvard Dictionary of Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as encyclopedic)
avg rating 4.19 — 42 ratings — published 1944
The Perigee Visual Dictionary of Signing: Revised & Expanded Third Edition (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as encyclopedic)
avg rating 4.00 — 43 ratings — published 1984
Writer's Market 100th Edition: The Most Trusted Guide to Getting Published (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 99 ratings — published
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (Hardcover)
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avg rating 5.00 — 2 ratings — published 1975
The Journey to the West, Volume 4 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.38 — 768 ratings — published 1592
Leaves of Grass (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 120,055 ratings — published 1855
The Journey to the West, Volume 3 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 853 ratings — published 1592
Midnight’s Children (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 137,036 ratings — published 1981