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As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner Un certain sourire by Françoise Sagan The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin East of Eden by John Steinbeck Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce The Country Girls by Edna O'Brien The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The Golden Notebook
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