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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerEast of Eden by John SteinbeckMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
The Great American Novel
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