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Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Dubliners by James Joyce The Rise & Fall of the Great Powers by Paul Kennedy The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst Amsterdam by Ian McEwan The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor Middlemarch by George Eliot Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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