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1984: Centennial Edition
by George Orwell
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Puffin Classics S.)
by Jules Verne
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Absalom, Absalom! (Vintage International)
by WILLIAM FAULKNER
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Bantam Classics)
by Mark Twain
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Penguin Classics)
by Mark Twain
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
by Lewis Carroll
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Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club)
by Leo Tolstoy
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Anne of Green Gables | ||
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Animal Farm
by George Orwell
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Around the World in Eighty Days (Signet Classic)
by Jules Verne
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As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text (Modern Library)
by William Faulkner
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Atlas Shrugged
by Ayn Rand
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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
by Gertrude Stein
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The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
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Beloved
by Toni Morrison
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Black Boy (The Restored Text Established by The Library of America) (Perennial Classics)
by Richard A. Wright
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The Bonfire of the Vanities
by TOM WOLFE
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Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
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Brideshead Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh
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The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The Call of the Wild (Aladdin Classics)
by Jack London
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Candide: Or Optimism (Penguin Classics)
by Voltaire
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The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics)
by Geoffrey Chaucer
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
by Tennessee Williams
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Cat's Cradle
by Kurt Vonnegut
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Catch 22
by Joseph Heller
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The Catcher in the Rye | ||
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Charlotte's Web (Trophy Newbery)
by E. B. White
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Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady (Penguin Classics)
by Samuel Richardson
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A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
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The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
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The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)
by Alexandre Dumas père
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Crime and Punishment (Bantam Classics)
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The Crucible (Penguin Classics)
by Arthur Miller
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Cyrano De Bergerac (Bantam Classics)
by EDMOND ROSTAND
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David Copperfield (Penguin Classics)
by Charles Dickens
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Dead Souls
by Nikolai Gogol
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Death Comes for the Archbishop (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Willa Cather
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Death in Venice (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Thomas Mann
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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank
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The Divine Comedy: Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso (Everyman's Library)
by Dante Alighieri
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Doctor Zhivago
by Boris Pasternak
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Don Quixote (P.S.)
by Miguel de Cervantes
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Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Dracula (Signet Classics)
by Bram Stoker
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Dubliners (Dover Thrift Editions)
by James Joyce
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Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 1)
by Frank Herbert
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Emma
by JANE AUSTEN
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Ethan Frome (Signet Classics)
by Edith Wharton
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Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse (Oxford World's Classics)
by Alexander Pushkin
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