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  1. 1.
    How to Read a Book
    by Mortimer J. Adler

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    The Epic of Gilgamesh (Penguin Epics)
    by Anonymous

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    The Illustrated Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion
    by James George Frazer

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    Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
    by Mary White Rowlandson

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    Plymouth Plantation 1620 - 1647
    by William Bradford

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    The Principles of Scientific Management
    by Frederick Winslow Taylor

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

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    Colors of the Mountain
    by Da Chen

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    NRSV Standard Bible (tan/black)
    by Harper Bibles

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  10. 14.
    Robinson Crusoe (Modern Library Classics)
    by Daniel Defoe

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  11. 15.
    The Civil War: A Narrative (3 Vol. Set)
    by Shelby Foote

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  12. 16.
    The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
    by Harold Bloom

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    Uncle Tom's Cabin
    by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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    The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
    by Barbara W. Tuchman

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  15. 19.
    Herman Melville : Typee, Omoo, Mardi (Library of America)
    by Herman Melville

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  16. 20.
    The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, Part One)
    by J. R. R. Tolkien

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    Slaughterhouse-Five
    by Kurt Vonnegut

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    Cat's Cradle
    by Chieko N. Okazaki

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    God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
    by Kurt Vonnegut

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    The Greek Myths (Voumes I and II)
    by Robert Graves

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    Mythology
    by Edith Hamilton

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    Baudolino
    by Umberto Eco

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  23. 27.
    The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
    by Arthur C. Clarke

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  24. 28.
    Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin
    by Stephen Jay Gould

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    The Illiad/Homer

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    Plato's Ion & Meno
    by Plato

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    The Odyssey by Homer
    by Homer

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    Plutarch's Lives Volume 1 (Modern Library Classics)
    by Plutarch

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    Medea Hippolytus The Bacchae
    by Euripides

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  30. 39.
    The History of the Peloponnesian War
    by Thucydides

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  31. 42.
    Plato's Symposium
    by Stanley Rosen

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  32. 43.
    Machiavelli's The Prince
    by Niccolo Machiavelli

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  33. 45.
    Discourse on the Origin of Inequality (Thrift Edition)
    by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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    King Lear (Oxford School Shakespeare Series)
    by William Shakespeare

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  36. 48.
    Three Plays of Euripides: Alcestis, Medea : The Bachae
    by Paul Roche

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  37. 49.
    The Histories (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Herodotus

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  38. 50.
    Aristophanes: The Complete Plays

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    Euclid's Elements
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    Introduction to arithmetic
    by Nicomachus

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  42. 54.
    Elements of Chemistry
    by Antoine Lavoisier

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  43. 55.
    On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
    by William Harvey

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    The human body
    by William Clevenger

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    The Outline of Science, A Plain Story Simply Told
    by J. Arthur Thomson

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    The Principles of Psychology, Vol. 2
    by William James

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  48. 60.
    Robinson Crusoe (Penguin Classics)
    by Daniel Defoe

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  49. 61.
    The Jungle Book (Books of Wonder)
    by Rudyard Kipling

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  50. 62.
    Ninety-Three
    by Victor Hugo

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  51. 63.
    Selected Stories of Guy de Maupassant
    by Guy de Maupassant

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  52. 64.
    The Short Stories (Scribner Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway

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    A Passion for Excellence The Leadership Difference
    by Tom and Austin, Nancy Peters

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  55. 69.
    Edward's Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
    by Jonathan Edwards

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  56. 70.
    Way to Wealth
    by Benjamin Franklin

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    Quotations of Benjamin Franklin
    by Benjamin Franklin

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  58. 73.
    The Last of the Mohicans (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by James Fenimore Cooper

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  59. 74.
    Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics)
    by William Makepeace Thackeray

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  60. 75.
    Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
    by Michael Lewis

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  61. 76.
    Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe
    by Bill Bryson

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  62. 77.
    The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir
    by Bill Bryson

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  63. 80.
    Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics)
    by Jonathan Swift

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    Sophocles (The Complete Greek tragedies)
    by Sophocles

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    The Peloponnesian War
    by Thucydides

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  67. 84.
    Hippocrates (Medicine and Culture)
    by Jacques Jouanna

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  68. 86.
    The Works of Archimedes
    by Archimedes

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  69. 87.
    Conics (Books 1-3)
    by Of Perga Apollonius

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  70. 88.
    Selected Works (Penguin Classics)
    by Marcus Tullius Cicero

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    Virgil's Works: The Aeneid, Eclogues, Georgics. Modern Library Edition
    by Virgil (Publius Virgilius Maro). Translated By J. W. Mackail

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    Complete Works of Horace
    by Horace/kraemer

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    Ovid: Selected Works Everyman's Library Series
    by Ovid; Edited By J.C. And M.J. Thornton

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    The Principles of Psychology (Works of William James)
    by William James

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  75. 94.
    Complete Works of Tacitus
    by Tacitus

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    Discourses of Epictetus
    by Epictetus

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    Ptolemy's "Almagest"
    by Ptolemy

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  78. 98.
    Meditations (Penguin Classics)
    by Marcus Aurelius

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  79. 99.
    Galen and the Gateway to Medicine (Living History Library)
    by Jeanne Bendick

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  80. 100.
    The Enneads: Abridged Edition (Penguin Classics)
    by Plotinus

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    The Complete, Fully Illustrated Works
    by Lewis Caroll

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  82. 102.
    The Song of Roland (Penguin Classics)
    by Anonymous

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  83. 103.
    On Genesis (Works of Saint Augustine)
    by Saint Augustine

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    The Tale of Genji
    by Murasaki Shikibu

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    Summa Theologiae: A Concise Translation
    by Aquinas, Saint Thomas

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    The New Life
    by Dante

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    The Canterbury tales
    by Chaucher

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    Leonardo's Notebooks
    by Leonardo da Vinci

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    Discourses
    by Niccolo Machiavelli

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  94. 115.
    Praise of Folly (Penguin Classics)
    by Desiderius Erasmus

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  95. 116.
    On The Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres (On the Shoulders of Giants)
    by Nicolaus Copernicus

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  96. 117.
    Utopia: Thomas More
    by Thomas More

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  97. 118.
    Three Treatises
    by Martin Luther

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  98. 119.
    The Table Talk of Martin Luther
    by Martin Luther

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  99. 120.
    Gargantua and Pantagruel (Penguin Classics)
    by Francois Rabelais

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  100. 121.
    The Institutes of Christian Religion
    by John Calvin

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  101. 122.
    Montaigne: Essays
    by Michel de Montaigne

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    Don Quixote (Penguin Classics)
    by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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    Prothalamion ;: Epithalamion
    by Edmund Spenser

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  104. 126.
    Spenser: Faerie Queene
    by A. Hamilton

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  105. 127.
    Francis Bacon: The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Francis Bacon

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  106. 128.
    William Shakespeare Complete Works (Modern Library)
    by William Shakespeare

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  107. 129.
    Starry Messenger: Galileo Galilei

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    Harmonies Of The World (On the Shoulders of Giants)
    by Johannes Kepler

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    The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics)
    by John Milton

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    Pensees and Other Writings (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Blaise Pascal

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  113. 138.
    Treatise on Light
    by Christiaan Huygens

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  114. 139.
    Ethics (Penguin Classics)
    by Benedict de Spinoza

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  115. 141.
    An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
    by John, Locke

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    Racines Mid Career Tragedies
    by Jean Racine

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    Discourse on Metaphysics and Other Essays
    by Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz

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  119. 146.
    The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Jonathan Swift

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    The Way of the World and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
    by William Congreve

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    The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Alexander Pope

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  122. 150.
    The Persian Letters (Hackett Publishing Co.)
    by Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu

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  123. 152.
    The Portable Voltaire (The Viking Portable Library)
    by Voltaire

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  124. 153.
    Tom Jones (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics)
    by Henry Fielding

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  125. 154.
    Joseph Andrews (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Henry Fielding

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  126. 155.
    Samuel Johnson: The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Samuel Johnson

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  127. 156.
    Selected Essays (Penguin Classics)
    by Samuel Johnson

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  128. 157.
    A Treatise of Human Nature
    by David Hume

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  129. 158.
    An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
    by David Hume

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  130. 159.
    Selected Essays (Oxford World's Classics)
    by David Hume

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  131. 160.
    Basic Political Writings
    by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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  132. 161.
    A Sentimental Journey
    by Laurence Sterne

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  133. 163.
    The Wealth of Nations
    by Adam Smith

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  134. 165.
    Basic Writings of Kant (Modern Library Classics)
    by Immanuel Kant

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    Life of Johnson
    by James Boswell

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    The Book of Great American Documents
    by Vincent, Jr. (Ed.) Wilson

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    Selected Works (Everyman's Library)
    by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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  139. 173.
    Faust I & II (Goethe : The Collected Works, Vol 2)
    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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  140. 174.
    The Analytical Theory of Heat (Unabridged)
    by Joseph Fourier

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  141. 175.
    Phenomenology of Spirit (Galaxy Books)
    by G. W. F. Hegel

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    The Philosophy of History (New Edition)
    by Hegel

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    The Major Works: Including The Prelude (Oxford World's Classics)
    by William Wordsworth

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    The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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    Emma
    by Jane Austen

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    On War (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Carl von Clausewitz

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    Love (Penguin Classics)
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    The Charterhouse of Parma (Modern Library Classics)
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    The Red and the Black (Penguin Classics)
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  151. 186.
    Don Juan
    by Lord George Gordon Byron

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  152. 188.
    Experimental Researches in Electricity
    by Michael Faraday

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  153. 190.
    Principles of Geology (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Lyell

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  154. 191.
    Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte, Part 1
    by Auguste Comte

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    The Best of Blazac
    by Alexander Jessup

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  156. 193.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson : Essays and Lectures (Library of America)
    by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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    Nathaniel Hawthorne : Tales and Sketches (Library of America)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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    Tocqueville: Democracy in America (Library of America)
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    The Art of The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings)
    by Gary Russell

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    Animal Farm and 1984
    by George Orwell

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    A Christmas Carol
    by Charles Dickens

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    Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
    by Charlotte Brontë

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    Pride and Prejudice (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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  165. 204.
    All Quiet on the Western Front
    by Erich Maria Remarque

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    The Grapes of Wrath (Penguin Classics)
    by John Steinbeck

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    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
    by Mark Haddon

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

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    The Wind in the Willows
    by Kenneth Grahame

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  170. 211.
    Gone With the Wind
    by Herb Bridges

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  171. 212.
    Great Expectations (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Charles Dickens

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    Charles Dickens' Complete Works
    by Charles Dickens

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    An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine
    by Claude Bernard

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    The Communist Manifesto (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Karl Marx

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    Middlemarch (Signet Classics)
    by George Eliot

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    The Mill on the Floss (Penguin Classics)
    by George Eliot

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    Adam Bede (Signet Classics (Paperback))
    by George Eliot

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    The Brothers Karamazov
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    Crime and Punishment (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by F.M. Dostoevsky

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  182. 228.
    The Idiot
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    Three Tales (Penguin Classics)
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    Madame Bovary
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    Anna Karenina (Signet Classics)
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    Walk in the Light & Twenty-Three Tales
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    War and Peace
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  188. 235.
    What Is Art?
    by Leo Tolstoy

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  189. 239.
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    by Mark Twain

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    Henry James : Complete Stories 1874-1884
    by Henry James

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    Beyond Good and Evil (Penguin Classics)
    by Friedrich Nietzsche

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    The Will to Power
    by Friedrich Nietzsche

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  193. 246.
    Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
    by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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    Science and Hypothesis
    by Henri Poincare

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    Science and Method
    by Henri Poincare

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    The Interpretation of Dreams
    by Sigmund, Freud

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    Civilisation & Its Discontents
    by Sigmund Freud

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    An Outline of Psycho-Analysis
    by Sigmund Freud

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  199. 253.
    George Bernard Shaw's Plays (Norton Critical Editions)
    by George Bernard Shaw

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    Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers.
    by Max K. Planck

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    Where Is Science Going?
    by Max Planck

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    Wide Sargasso Sea
    by Jean Rhys

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