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They’re only classics in my opinion, I’m sure.

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    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Penguin Classics)
    by Mark Twain

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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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    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 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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    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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  42. 44.
    Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 1)
    by Frank Herbert

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  43. 45.
    Emma
    by JANE AUSTEN

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    Ethan Frome (Signet Classics)
    by Edith Wharton

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  45. 47.
    Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Alexander Pushkin

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  46. 48.
    Fahrenheit 451
    by Ray Bradbury

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  47. 49.
    A Farewell To Arms
    by Ernest Hemingway

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    Fathers and Sons (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Ivan Turgenev

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  49. 51.
    Goethe's Faust
    by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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    Finnegans Wake (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by James Joyce

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  51. 53.
    Flowers for Algernon (Millennium SF Masterworks S)
    by Daniel Keyes

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    For Whom the Bell Tolls (Scribner Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  53. 55.
    The Fountainhead
    by Ayn Rand

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  54. 56.
    Frankenstein (Enriched Classics)
    by Mary Shelley

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  55. 57.
    Franny and Zooey
    by J.D. Salinger

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  56. 58.
    The Glass Menagerie
    by Tennessee Williams

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  57. 59.
    Go Tell It on the Mountain
    by James Baldwin

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  58. 60.
    Gone With the Wind
    by Margaret Mitchell

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    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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    The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck

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  61. 63.
    Gulliver's Travels (Signet Classics)
    by Jonathan Swift

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    Hamlet (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

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  63. 65.
    The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel
    by Margaret Atwood

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  64. 66.
    The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Carson McCullers

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  65. 67.
    Heart of Darkness (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Joseph Conrad

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  66. 68.
    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    by Douglas Adams

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  67. 70.
    Howl and Other Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets Series)
    by Allen Ginsberg

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    The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Modern Library Classics)
    by Victor Hugo

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  69. 73.
    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    by Maya Angelou

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  70. 74.
    The Idiot
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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    Idylls of the King (Penguin Classics)
    by Alfred Tennyson

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    The Importance of Being Earnest (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Oscar Wilde

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    Invisible Man
    by Ralph Ellison

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    Ivanhoe (Tor Classics)
    by Sir Walter Scott

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    Jane Eyre (Signet Classics)
    by Charlotte Brontë

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    The Joy Luck Club
    by Amy Tan

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  78. 83.
    Julius Caesar (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

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  79. 84.
    The Jungle: The Uncensored Original Edition
    by Upton Sinclair

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    The Jungle Book (Tor Classics)
    by Rudyard Kipling

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    Lady Chatterley's Lover
    by D.H. LAWRENCE

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    Dangerous Liaisons
    by Pierre-Ambrois-Francois Choderlos de Laclos

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    Les Misérables (Signet Classics)
    by Victor Hugo

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    Little Women (Signet Classics)
    by Louisa May Alcott

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    Lolita
    by Vladimir Nabokov

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    Lord of the Flies
    by William Golding

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    The Lord of the Rings (Collector's Edition)
    by J.R.R. Tolkien

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  88. 95.
    Love in the Time of Cholera
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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    Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

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    Madame Bovary (Bantam Classics)
    by GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

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    THE MALTESE FALCON
    by Dashiell Hammett

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  92. 99.
    The Man in the Iron Mask (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Alexandre Dumas

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  93. 100.
    The Master and Margarita
    by Mikhail Bulgakov

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    The Metamorphosis (Bantam Classics)
    by Franz Kafka

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  95. 102.
    Middlemarch (Penguin Classics)
    by George Eliot

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    A Midsummer Night's Dream (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

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    Moby Dick
    by Herman Melville

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  98. 105.
    Mrs. Dalloway
    by Virginia Woolf

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  99. 106.
    No Exit and Three Other Plays
    by Jean-Paul Sartre

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  100. 107.
    Notes from Underground
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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  101. 108.
    The Odyssey
    by Homer

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    Of Human Bondage (Bantam Classics)
    by W. Somerset Maugham

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  103. 110.
    Of Mice and Men (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
    by John Steinbeck

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    The Old Man and The Sea
    by Ernest Hemingway

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    Oliver Twist (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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  106. 113.
    On the Road
    by Jack Kerouac

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  107. 114.
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    by Ken Kesey

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  108. 115.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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  109. 116.
    Our Town: A Play in Three Acts (Perennial Classics)
    by Thornton Wilder

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  110. 117.
    Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics)
    by John Milton

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  111. 118.
    A Passage to India
    by E.M. Forster

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  112. 119.
    The Pearl
    by John Steinbeck

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  113. 120.
    Persuasion (Signet Classic)
    by Jane Austen

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  114. 121.
    Peter Pan (100th Anniversary Edition)
    by J. M. Barrie

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  115. 122.
    The Picture of Dorian Gray (Modern Library Classics)
    by Oscar Wilde

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  116. 123.
    The Plague
    by Albert Camus

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  117. 124.
    The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics)
    by Henry James

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  118. 125.
    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
    by James Joyce

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  119. 126.
    A Prayer for Owen Meany
    by John Irving

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  120. 127.
    Pride and Prejudice (Bantam Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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  121. 128.
    The Prince
    by Niccolo Machiavelli

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  122. 129.
    Rabbit, Run
    by John Updike

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  123. 130.
    Rebecca
    by Daphne Du Maurier

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  124. 131.
    Robinson Crusoe (Modern Library Classics)
    by Daniel Defoe

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  125. 132.
    Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

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  126. 136.
    A Room with a View (Classic)
    by E.M. Forster

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  127. 137.
    The Scarlet Letter
    by NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

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  128. 138.
    The Secret Garden
    by Frances Hodgson Burnett

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  129. 139.
    Sense and Sensibility (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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  130. 140.
    A Separate Peace
    by John Knowles

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  131. 141.
    Siddhartha
    by Hermann Hesse

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  132. 142.
    Silas Marner (Bantam Classics)
    by GEORGE ELIOT

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  133. 143.
    Sister Carrie (Signet Classics (Paperback))
    by Theodore Dreiser

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  134. 144.
    Slaughterhouse-Five
    by KURT VONNEGUT

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  135. 145.
    The Sound and the Fury
    by William Faulkner

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  136. 146.
    The Stranger
    by Albert Camus

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  137. 147.
    Stranger in a Strange Land
    by Robert A. Heinlein

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  138. 148.
    A Streetcar Named Desire
    by Tennessee Williams

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  139. 149.
    Sun Also Rises
    by Ernest Hemingway

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    A Tale of Two Cities (Signet Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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    Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy

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  142. 152.
    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    by Zora Neale Hurston

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  143. 153.
    This Side of Paradise
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  144. 154.
    The Three Musketeers (Modern Library)
    by ALEXANDRE DUMAS

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  145. 155.
    Thus Spake Zarathustra (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Friedrich Nietzsche

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    The Time Machine (Tor Classics)
    by H. G. Wells

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    To Kill a Mockingbird
    by Harper Lee

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    To the Lighthouse
    by Virginia Woolf

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    Treasure Island (Signet Classic)
    by Robert Louis Stevenson

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    The Trial
    by Franz Kafka

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  151. 161.
    Tropic of Cancer
    by Henry Miller

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  152. 162.
    The Turn of the Screw (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Henry James

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  153. 163.
    Ulysses (Vintage International)
    by James Joyce

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    Uncle Tom's Cabin (Bantam Classics)
    by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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  156. 166.
    Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics)
    by William Makepeace Thackeray

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  157. 167.
    Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
    by Samuel Beckett

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  158. 168.
    Walden; Or, Life in the Woods (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Henry David Thoreau

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  159. 169.
    War and Peace
    by Leo Tolstoy

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  160. 170.
    Watership Down
    by Richard Adams

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  161. 171.
    Winnie-the-Pooh (Pooh Original Edition)
    by A. A. Milne

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  162. 172.
    The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Books of Wonder)
    by L. Frank Baum

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    Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics)
    by Emily Bronte

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