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A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. Dubliners by James Joyce The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner Hyperion by Dan Simmons Light in August by William Faulkner Ulysses by James Joyce Les Misérables by Victor Hugo The World as Will and Representation, Volume I by Arthur Schopenhauer Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
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Classics, Contemporary, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Science fiction, Suspense, Thriller, and War


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