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Achebe, Chinua. Girls at War
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Alexie, Sherman. The Toughest Indian in the World
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Anderson, Sherwood. Winesburg, Ohio
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Atwood, Margaret. Wilderness Tips
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Bambara, Toni Cade. Gorilla, My Love
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Barthelme, Donald. Sixty Stories
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Bass, Rick. The Watch
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Baxter, Charles. Through the Safety Net
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Bloom, Amy. A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You
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Bolano, Roberto. Last Evenings on Earth
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Borges, Jorge Luis. Collected Fictions
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Boyle, T.C.. T.C. Boyle Stories
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Budnitz, Judy. Flying Leap
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Butler, Robert Olen. A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
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Canin, Ethan. The Palace Thief
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Carver, Raymond. Where I'm Calling From
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Cheever, John. The Stories of John Cheever
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Chekhov, Anton. The Essential Tales of Chekhov
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Cisneros, Sandra. The House on Mango Street
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Coover, Robert. A Night at the Movies
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D'Ambrosio, Charles. The Point
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Danticat, Edwidge. Krik? Krak!
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Davis, Lydia. Almost No Memory
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Diaz, Junot. Drown
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Dubus, Andre. Selected Stories
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Dybek, Stuart. The Coast of Chicago
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Eisenberg, Deborah. Twilight of the Superheroes
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Englander, Nathan. For the Relief of Unbearable Urges
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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Ford, Richard. Rock Springs
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Gaitskill, Mary. Bad Behavior
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Gass, William. In the Heart of the Heart of the Country
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Gilchrist, Ellen. Victory Over Japan
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Hannah, Barry. Airships
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Haslett, Adam. You Are Not a Stranger Here
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Hemingway, Ernest. In Our Time
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Hemingway, Ernest. The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
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Hempel, Amy. Reasons To Live
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Homes, A.M.. The Safety of Objects
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Houston, Pam. Cowboys Are My Weakness
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Iagnemma, Karl. On the Nature of Human Romantic Interaction
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Isaac, Babel. The Collected Stories
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Isherwood, Christopher. Berlin Stories
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James, Baldwin. Going to Meet the Man
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Johnson, Denis. Jesus' Son
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Jones, Thom. The Pugilist at Rest
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Joyce, James. Dubliners
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Lahiri, Jhumpa. Interpreter of Maladies
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Lawrence, D. H.. The Prussian Officer
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Marquez, Gabriel Garcia. Strange Pilgrims
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Maupassant, Guy de. The Necklace
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Moore, Lorrie. Birds of America
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Moore, Lorrie. Self-Help
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Mukherjee, Bharati. The Middleman
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Munro, Alice. Open Secrets
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Munro, Alice. Selected Stories
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Munro, Alice. The Beggar Maid
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Murakami, Haruku. The Elephant Vanishes
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Nelson, Antonya. The Expendables
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O'Brien, Tim. The Things They Carried
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O'Connor, Flannery. A Good Man is Hard to Find
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O'Connor, Flannery. The Complete Stories
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Packer, ZZ. Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
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Paley, Grace. Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
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Proulx, Annie. Close Range
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Salinger, J.D.. Franny and Zooey
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Salinger, J.D.. Nine Stories
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Saunders, George. Pastoralia
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Singer, Isaac Bashevis. Crown of Feathers
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Trevor, William. Collected Stories
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Twain, Mark. The Portable Mark Twain
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Wallace, David Foster. Girl With Curious Hair
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Welty, Eudora. A Curtain of Green and Other Stories
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Wolff, Tobias. In the Garden of the North American Martyrs
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| Short Story - Anthologies |
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| Novels & Novellas, Contemporary |
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Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart
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Amis, Martin. Money
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Atwood, Margaret. Cat's Eye
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Atwood, Margaret. The Blind Assasin
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Auster, Paul. The New York Trilogy
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Baker, Nicholson. The Mezzanine
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Ballard, J. G.. Super-Cannes
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Banks, Russell. The Sweet Hereafter
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Benioff, David. The 25th Hour
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Bolano, Roberto. The Savage Detectives
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Boyle, T.C.. Drop City
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Brown, Rita Mae. Rubyfruit Jungle
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Burgess, Anthony. Clockwork Orange
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Busch, Frederick. Girls
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Byatt, A.S.. Possession
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Chabon, Michael. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
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Coelho, Paul. The Alchemist
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Coetzee, J. M.. Disgrace
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Connell, Evan. Mrs. Bridge
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Conroy, Pat. Prince of Tides
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Cunningham, Michael. The Hours
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DeLillo, Don. Underworld
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DeLillo, Don. White Noise
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Dexter, Pete. Paris Trout
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Diaz, Junot. The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao
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Dickey, James. Deliverance
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Didion, Joan. Play It As It Lays
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Doctorow, E.L.. Ragtime
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Dubus III, Andre. House of Sand and Fog
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Egan, Jennifer. A Visit From the Goon Squad
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Ellis, Bret Easton. American Psycho
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Erdrich, Louise. Love Medicine
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Eugenides, Jeffrey. Middlesex
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Eugenides, Jeffrey. The Virgin Suicides
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Fielding, Helen. Bridget Jones's Diary
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Finney, Jack. Time and Again
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Fitch, Janet. White Oleander
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Fitzgerald, Penelope. Blue Flower
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Foer, Jonathan Saffran. Everything Is Illuminated
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Ford, Richard. Independence Day
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Fowles, John. The French Lieutenant's Woman
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Franzen, Jonathan. Freedom
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Franzen, Jonathan. The Corrections
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Frazier, Charles. Cold Mountain
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Glass, Julia. Three Junes
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Golden, Arthur. Memoirs of a Geisha
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Grass, Gunter. The Tin Drum
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Greer, Andrew Sean. The Confessions of Max Tivoli
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Guterson, David. Snow Falling on Cedars
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Haddon, Mark. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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Hamsun, Knut. Hunger
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Hannah, Barry. Ray
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Harrison, Jim. Legends of the Fall
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Hegi, Ursula. Floating in My Mother's Palm
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Heller, Joseph. Catch-22
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Helprin, Mark. The Winter's Tale
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Hornby, Nick. High Fidelity
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Hosseini, Khaled. The Kite Runner
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Irving, John. A Prayer For Owen Meany
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Irving, John. The World According to Garp
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Ishiguro, Kazuo. Never Let Me Go
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Ishiguro, Kazuo. The Remains of the Day
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Jin, Ha. Waiting
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Jones, Edward P.. The Known World
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Kennedy, William. Ironweed
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Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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Kincaid, Jamaica. Annie John
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King, Stephen. Carrie
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King, Stephen. Different Seasons
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King, Stephen. The Shining
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King, Stephen. The Stand
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Kingsolver, Barbara. The Poisonwood Bible
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Knowles, John. A Separate Peace
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Kosinski, Jerzy. Being There
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Kundera, Milan. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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Lamb, Wally. She's Come Undone
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Lethem, Jonathan. Motherless Brooklyn
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MacLean, Norman. A River Runs Through It
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Mantel, Hilary. Wolf Hall
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Marquez, Gabriel Garcia. Love in the Time of Cholera
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Marquez, Gabriel Garcia. One Hundred Years of Solitude
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Marshall, Paule. Brown Girl, Brownstones
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Martel, Yann. Life of Pi
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McCann, Colum. Let the Great World Spin
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McCarthy, Cormac. All the Pretty Horses
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McCarthy, Cormac. Blood Meridian
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McCarthy, Cormac. The Road
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McEwan, Ian. Atonement
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McInerney, Jay. Bright Lights, Big City
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McMurtry, Larry. Lonesome Dove
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Mishima, Yukio. Spring Snow
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Mitchell, David. Cloud Atlas
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Moody, Rick. The Ice Storm
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Moore, Lorrie. Gate at the Stairs
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Morrison, Toni. Beloved
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Morrison, Toni. The Bluest Eye
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Morrison, Toni. The Song of Solomon
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Murakami, Haruku. Kafka on the Shore
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Murakami, Haruku. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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Naipaul, V.S.. A Bend in the River
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Naylor, Gloria. The Women of Brewster Place
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Niffenegger, Audrey. The Time Traveler's Wife
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O'Brien, Patrick. Aubrey-Maturin series
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O'Brien, Tim. Going After Cacciato
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O'Brien, Edna. The Country Girls
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O'Neill, Joseph. Netherland
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O'Toole, John Kennedy. A Confederacy of Dunces
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Oates, Joyce Carol. We Were the Mulvaneys
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Ondaatje, Michael. The English Patient
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Palahniuk, Chuck. Fight Club
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Pamuk, Orhan. My Name is Red
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Pamuk, Orhan. Snow
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Patchett, Ann. Bel Canto
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Perotta, Tom. Little Children
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Pessl, Marisha. Special Topics in Calamity Physics
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Picoult, Jodi. My Sister's Keeper
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Potok, Chaim. The Chosen
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Price, Richard. Clockers
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Proulx, Annie. The Shipping News
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Pynchon, Thomas. Gravity's Rainbow
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Pynchon, Thomas. The Crying of Lot 49
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Rhys, Jean. The Wide Sargasso Sea
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Robbins, Tom. Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
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Robinson, Marilynne. Gilead
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Robinson, Marilynne. Housekeeping
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Roth, Philip. American Pastoral
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Roth, Philip. Goodbye Columbus
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Roth, Philip. Portnoy's Complaint
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Roy, Arundhati. The God of Small Things
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Rushdie, Salmon. Midnight's Children
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Russo, Richard. Empire Falls
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Salter, James. Light Years
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Sebald, W.G.. Austerlitz
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Sebold, Alice. The Lovely Bones
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Selby, Jr., Hubert. Last Exit to Brooklyn
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Smiley, Jane. A Thousand Acres
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Smith, Zadie. White Teeth
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Sontag, Susan. The Volcano Lover
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Spark, Muriel. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
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Straight, Susan. Highwire Moon
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Strout, Elizabeth. Olive Kitteridge
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Styron, William. Sophie's Choice
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Suskind, Patrick. Perfume
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Tan, Amy. The Joy Luck Club
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Theroux, Paul. The Mosquito Coast
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Tyler, Anne. The Accidental Tourist
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Updike, John. Rabbit novels
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Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse-Five
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Walker, Alice. The Color Purple
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Wallace, David Foster. Infinite Jest
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Whitehead, Colson. Sag Harbor
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Winterson, Jeannette. The Passion
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Wolfe, Tom. The Bonfire of the Vanities
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Yates, Richard. Revolutionary Road
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| Novels & Novellas, Early/Mid 20th Century |
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Algren, Nelson. The Man With the Golden Arm
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Amis, Kingsley. Lucky Jim
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Bellow, Saul. Henderson, the Rain King
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Bellow, Saul. Herzog
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Bellow, Saul. The Adventures of Augie March
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Bowles, Paul. The Sheltering Sky
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Buck, Pearl. The Good Earth
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Burroughs, Williams S. Naked Lunch
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Cain, James. The Postman Always Rings Twice
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Camus, Albert. The Stranger
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Capote, Truman. Breakfast at Tiffany's
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Cather, Willa. My Antonia
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Chandler, Raymond. The Big Sleep
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Dos Passos, John. The 42nd Parallel
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Dreiser, Theodore. An American Tragedy
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Dreiser, Theodore. Sister Carrie
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Duras, Marguerite. The Lover
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Ellison, Ralph. The Invisible Man
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Faulkner, William. Absalom! Absalom!
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Faulkner, William. As I Lay Dying
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Faulkner, William. The Sound and the Fury
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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Tender is the Night
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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby
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Ford, Ford Maddox. The Good Soldier
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Forster, E.M.. A Passage to India
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Golding, William. Lord of the Flies
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Graves, Robert. I Claudius
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Greene, Graham. Brighton Rock
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Greene, Graham. The End of the Affair
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Greene, Graham. The Heart of the Matter
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Hammett, Dashiell. The Maltese Falcon
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Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls
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Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea
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Hemingway, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises
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Hilton, James. Lost Horizon
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Hughes, Richard. A High Wind in Jamaica
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Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World
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Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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Joyce, James. Ulysses
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Kafka, Franz. The Metamorphosis
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Kafka, Franz. The Trial
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Kazantzakis,, Nikos. Zorba the Greek
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Kerouac, Jack. On the Road
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Lawrence, D.H.. Sons and Lovers
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Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird
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Lessing, Doris. The Golden Notebook
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Lewis, Sinclair. Main Street
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London, Jack. The Call of the Wild
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Lowry, Malcolm. Under the Volcano
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Mailer, Norman. The Naked and the Dead
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Maughm, Somerset. Of Human Bondage
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Maxwell, William. So Long, See You Tomorrow
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McCullers, Carson. The Ballad of the Sad Café
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McCullers, Carson. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
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Miller, Henry. Tropic of Cancer
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Mitchell, Margaret. Gone With the Wind
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Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita
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Nabokov, Vladimir. Pale Fire
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O'Hara, John. Appointment in Samarra
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Orwell, George. 1984
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Orwell, George. Animal Farm
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Percy, Walker. The Moviegoer
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Rand, Ayn. Atlas Shrugged
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Rand, Ayn. The Fountainhead
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Robert, Graves. I, Claudius
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Salinger, J.D.. The Catcher in the Rye
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Schulberg, Bud. What Makes Sammy Run?
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Shute, Neville. On the Beach
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Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle
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Smith, Betty. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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Stein, Gertrude. Three Lives
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Steinbeck, John. East of Eden
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Steinbeck, John. Of Mice and Men
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Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath
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Tolkien, J.R.R.. The Lord of the Rings
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Warren, Robert Penn. All the King's Men
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Waugh, Evelyn. Brideshead Revisited
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West, Nathanael. Miss Lonelyhearts
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Wharton, Edith. Ethan Frome
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Wharton, Edith. House of Mirth
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Wilder, Thorton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey
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Wolfe, Thomas. Look Homeward Angel
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Woolf, Virginia. Mrs. Dalloway
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Woolf, Virginia. To the Lighthouse
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Wouk, Herman. Marjorie Morningstar
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| Novels & Novellas, 17th-19th Century |
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Alcott, Louisa May. Little Women
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Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice
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Austen, Jane. Sense and Sensibility
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Balzac, Honore de. Old Goriot
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Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre
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Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights
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Cervantes, Miguel de. Don Quixote
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Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness
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Crane, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage
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Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe
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Dickens, Charles. A Christmas Carol
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Dickens, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities
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Dickens, Charles. Bleak House
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Dickens, Charles. David Copperfield
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Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations
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Dostoyevsky, Feodor. Crime and Punishment
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Dostoyevsky, Feodor. The Brothers Karamazov
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Dumas, Alexandre. The Count of Monte Christo
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Dumas, Alexandre. The Three Musketeers
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Eliot, George. Middlemarch
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Fielding, Henry. The History of Tom Jones
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Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary
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Gogol, Nikolai. The Overcoat
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Hardy, Thomas. Tess of the D'Ubervilles
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The House of Seven Gables
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter
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Hugo, Victor. Les Miserables
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Hugo, Victor. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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James, Henry. Portrait of a Lady
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James, Henry. The Golden Bowl
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James, Henry. The Turn of the Screw
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Mann, Thomas. The Magic Mountain
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Melville, Herman. Billy Budd
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Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick
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Proust, Marcel. In Search of Lost Time
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Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft. Frankenstein
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Sterne, Laurence. Tristram Shandy
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Stevenson, Robert Louis. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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Stoker, Bram. Dracula
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Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver's Travels
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Thackeray, William Makepeace. Vanity Fair
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Tolstoy, Leo. Anna Karenina
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Tolstoy, Leo. War and Peace
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Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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Wells, H. G.. The Time Machine
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Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray
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