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  1. 1.
    The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

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    The Age of Innocence (Modern Library Classics)
    by Edith Wharton

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    The Alexandria Quartet Boxed Set (Alexandria Quartet)
    by Lawrence Durrell

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    All the King's Men
    by Robert Penn Warren

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    The Ambassadors (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Henry James

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    An American Tragedy (Signet Classics (Paperback))
    by Theodore Dreiser

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    Angle of Repose (Modern Library)
    by Wallace Stegner

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    Animal Farm (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by George Orwell

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    Anna Karenina (Modern Library Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy

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    Another Country (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by James Baldwin

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    Appointment in Samarra
    by John O'Hara

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    As I Lay Dying
    by William Faulkner

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    Ask the Dust (P.S.)
    by John Fante

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    The Bell Jar
    by Sylvia Plath

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    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison

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    A Bend in the River
    by V.S. Naipaul

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    Brave New World (P.S.)
    by Aldous Huxley

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    Brideshead Revisited
    by Evelyn Waugh

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    The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Thornton Wilder

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    Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (Arena Books)
    by Dee Brown

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    The Call of the Wild
    by Jack London

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    Catch-22: A Novel (Simon & Schuster Classics)
    by Joseph Heller

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    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J.D. Salinger

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    The Cherry Orchard (Methuen Modern Plays)
    by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

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    A Clockwork Orange (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Anthony Burgess

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    Crime and Punishment (Penguin Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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  28. 33.
    Darkness at Noon: A Novel
    by Arthur Koestler

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    David Copperfield (Modern Library Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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    The Day of the Locust (Signet Classic)
    by Nathanael West

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  31. 36.
    Death Comes for the Archbishop (Virago Modern Classics)
    by Willa Cather

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    A Death in the Family
    by James Agee

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    The Death of the Heart
    by Elizabeth Bowen

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    Deliverance
    by James Dickey

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    Dubliners (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by James Joyce

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    East of Eden (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by John Steinbeck

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    THE ENGLISH PATIENT
    by Michael ONDAATJE

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    A Farewell to Arms (Scribner Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway

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    Finnegans Wake (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by James Joyce

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

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    From Here to Eternity
    by James Jones

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  42. 47.
    The Ginger Man
    by J.P. Donleavy

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  43. 48.
    Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by James Baldwin

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  44. 49.
    The Golden Bowl (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Henry James

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    A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
    by Flannery O'Connor

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    The Good Soldier (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Ford Madox Ford

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    The Grapes of Wrath (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by John Steinbeck

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    The Great Gatsby (Essential.penguin S.)
    by F.Scott Fitzgerald

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    Hamlet (Penguin Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

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    A Handful of Dust (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Evelyn Waugh

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  51. 56.
    Heart of Darkness (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Joseph Conrad

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  52. 57.
    The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Carson McCullers

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    The Heart of the Matter
    by Graham Greene

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    Henderson the Rain King (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

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    A High Wind in Jamaica (New York Review Books Classics)
    by Richard Hughes

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    The House of Mirth (Modern Library Classics)
    by Edith Wharton

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    A House for Mr. Biswas
    by V. S. Naipaul

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    Howard's End (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by E.M. Forster

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    Invisible Man
    by Ralph Ellison

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    Ironweed
    by William Kennedy

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    Journey to the End of the Night (New Directions Paperbook)
    by Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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  62. 68.
    The Jungle (Modern Library Classics)
    by Upton Sinclair

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    Kim (Modern Library Classics)
    by Rudyard Kipling

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    King Lear (Penguin Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

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    Light in August
    by William Faulkner

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    Lolita (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Vladimir Nabokov

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    The Long Goodbye
    by Raymond Chandler

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    Lord Jim (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Joseph Conrad

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    Lord of the Flies
    by William Golding

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    Loving
    by Henry Green

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    The Magus (Modern Library)
    by John Fowles

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    Main Street (Modern Library)
    by Sinclair Lewis

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    The Maltese Falcon
    by Dashiell Hammett

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    Metamorphosis
    by Franz Kafka

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  75. 82.
    Midnight's Children: A Novel
    by Salman Rushdie

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    Moviegoer, The
    by Walker Percy

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    Mrs. Dalloway (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Virginia Woolf

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    Naked and the Dead
    by Norman Mailer

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    Native Son (Perennial Classics)
    by Richard A. Wright

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    Next of Kin: My Conversations with Chimpanzees
    by Roger Fouts

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    Nightwood
    by Djuna Barnes

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    Nine Stories
    by J.D. Salinger

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    Nineteen Eighty-four (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by George Orwell

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    Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard (Penguin Classics)
    by Joseph Conrad

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  85. 92.
    The Odyssey (Penguin Classics)
    by Homer

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    Of Human Bondage (Modern Library Classics)
    by W. Somerset Maugham

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    Of Mice and Men (Penguin Red Classics)
    by John Steinbeck

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    On the Road (Penguin Classics)
    by Jack Kerouac

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  89. 96.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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    Pale Fire (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Vladimir Nabokov

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    Parade's End (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Ford Madox Ford

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    A Passage to India (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by E.M. Forster

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    Point Counter Point
    by Aldous Huxley

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  94. 102.
    The Postman Always Rings Twice
    by James M. Cain

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    Portnoy's Complaint
    by Philip Roth

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    Pride and Prejudice (Modern Library Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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    The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Muriel Spark

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    Ragtime
    by E.L. Doctorow

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    The Rainbow: Cambridge Lawrence Edition (Penguin Classics)
    by D. H. Lawrence

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    A Room with a View (Essential.penguin)
    by E. M. Forster

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    Scoop (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Evelyn Waugh

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    The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Modern Library Classics)
    by Joseph Conrad

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    The Sheltering Sky
    by Paul Bowles

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  104. 113.
    Sister Carrie (Penguin Classics)
    by Theodore Dreiser

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    Slaughterhouse 5
    by Kurt Vonnegut

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    Song of Solomon
    by Toni Morrison

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    Sons and Lovers (Penguin Classics)
    by D.H. Lawrence

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    Sophie's Choice
    by William Styron

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    The Sound and the Fury
    by William Faulkner

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    The Stranger
    by Albert Camus

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    Studs Lonigan (Penguin Classics)
    by James T. Farrell

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    Sun Also Rises (Scribner Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway

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    Tender Is the Night (Essential.penguin)
    by F.Scott Fitzgerald

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    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    by Zora Neale Hurston

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    Things Fall Apart (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Chinua Achebe

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    The Things They Carried (Contemporary American Fiction)
    by Tim O'Brien

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    To the Lighthouse (Vintage Classics)
    by Virginia Woolf

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    Tobacco Road
    by Erskine Caldwell

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    Tropic of Cancer (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
    by Henry Miller

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    The 42nd Parallel: Volume One of the U.S.A. Trilogy
    by John Dos Passos

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    1919: Volume Two of the U.S.A. Trilogy
    by John Dos Passos

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    The Big Money: Volume Three of the U.S.A. Trilogy
    by John Roderigo Dos Passos

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    Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by James Joyce

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    Under The Net
    by Iris Murdoch

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    Under the Volcano (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Malcolm Lowry

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    The Wapshot Chronicle (Vintage Classics)
    by John Cheever

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    Watermark
    by Joseph Brodsky

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    The Way of All Flesh (Penguin Classics)
    by Samuel Butler

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  129. 138.
    Ways of Seeing: Based on the BBC Television Series
    by John Berger

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    White Noise
    by Don Delillo

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    Wide Sargasso Sea (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Jean Rhys

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    Winesburg, Ohio (Penguin Classics)
    by Sherwood Anderson

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  133. 142.
    The Wings of the Dove (Modern Library Classics)
    by Henry James

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  134. 143.
    Women in Love: Cambridge Lawrence Edition
    by D.H. Lawrence

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    Wuthering Heights (Modern Library Classics)
    by Emily Bronte

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    Zuleika Dobson (Modern Library Paperbacks)
    by Max Beerbohm

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