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Rank
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Book
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The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. Bruccoli, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli
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Catcher in the Rye
by J. D. Salinger
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3 |
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The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck, Robert J. Demott
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4 |
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To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
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5 |
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The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
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6 |
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Ulysses
by James Joyce
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7 |
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Beloved
by Toni Morrison
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8 |
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Lord of the Flies
by William Golding, E. L. Epstein (Contributor)
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9 |
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1984
by George Orwell, Erich (AFT) Fromm
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10 |
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The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
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11 |
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Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
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12 |
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Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
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13 |
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Charlotte's Web
by E. B. White, Garth Williams, Edith Goodkind Rosenwald, Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
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14 |
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A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man
by James Joyce, Seamus Deane, Seamus Deane (Editor)
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15 |
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Catch-22
by Joseph Heller, Random House
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16 |
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Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
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17 |
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Animal Farm
by George Orwell
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18 |
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The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
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19 |
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As I Lay Dying
by William Faulkner
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20 |
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A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
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21 |
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Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
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22 |
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Winnie the Pooh/the House at Pooh Corner
by A. A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard (Illustrator), Ernest Shepard (Illustrator)
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23 |
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
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24 |
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Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
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25 |
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Song of Solomon
by Toni Morrison
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26 |
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Gone With the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
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27 |
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Native Son
by Wright
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28 |
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One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Ken Kesey
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29 |
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Slaughterhouse-five
by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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30 |
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
by Ernest Hemingway
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31 |
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On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
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32 |
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The Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemingway
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33 |
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The Call of the Wild
by Jack London
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34 |
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To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf
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35 |
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The Portrait Of A Lady
by Henry James, Geoffrey Moore
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36 |
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
by James Baldwin
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37 |
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The World According to Garp
by John Irving
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38 |
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All the King's Men
by Robert Penn Warren
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39 |
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A Room With a View
by E. M. Forster
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40 |
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Lord of the Rings
by J. R. R. Tolkien
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40 |
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Lord of the Rings
by J. R. R. Tolkien
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41 |
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Schindler's List
by Thomas Keneally
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42 |
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The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton
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43 |
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The Fountainhead
by Ayn Rand
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44 |
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Finnegans Wake
by James Joyce
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45 |
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The Jungle
by Upton Beall Sinclair, Morris Dickstein (Introduction by)
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46 |
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Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf
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47 |
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
by L. Frank Baum, W. W. Denslow (Illustrator), William Stout (Illustrator)
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48 |
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Lady Chatterly's Lover
by Anonymous
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49 |
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A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
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50 |
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The Awakening
by Kate Chopin
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51 |
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My Antonia
by Willa Cather, Kathleen Norris
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52 |
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Howards End
by E. M. Forster, David Lodge (Introduction by), David A. A. Lodge, David A. A. Lodge (Introduction by)
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53 |
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In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
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54 |
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Franny and Zooey
by J. D. Salinger
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55 |
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The Satanic Verses
by Salman Rushdie, Salman Rudhdie
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56 |
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Jazz
by Toni Morrison
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57 |
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Sophie's Choice
by William Styron
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58 |
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Absalom, Absalom!
by William Faulkner
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59 |
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A Passage to India
by E. M. Forster
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60 |
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Ethan Frome
by Edith Wharton, Anita Shreve (Foreword by)
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61 |
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find
by Flannery O'Connor, Laura M. Zaidman
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62 |
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Tender Is the Night
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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63 |
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Orlando
by Virginia Woolf
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64 |
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Sons and Lovers
by D. H. Lawrence
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65 |
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Bonfire of the Vanities
by Tom Wolfe
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66 |
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Cat's Cradle
by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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67 |
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A Separate Peace
by John Knowles
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68 |
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Light in August
by William Faulkner
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69 |
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The Wings of the Dove
by Henry James, Grey Gowrie (Introduction by)
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70 |
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Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
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71 |
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Rebecca
by Daphne Du Maurier
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72 |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
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73 |
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Naked Lunch
by William S. Burroughs
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74 |
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Brideshead Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh, Frank Kermode, Frank Kermode (Contributor)
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75 |
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Women in Love
by D. H. Lawrence
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76 |
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Look Homeward, Angel
by Thomas Wolfe
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77 |
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In Our Time
by Ernest Hemingway
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78 |
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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
by Gertrude Stein
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79 |
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The Maltese Falcon
by Dashiell Hammett
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80 |
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The Naked and the Dead
by Norman Mailer
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81 |
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Wide Sargasso Sea
by Jean Rhys, Charlotte Bronte
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82 |
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White Noise
by Don Delillo, Don DeLillo
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83 |
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O Pioneers!
by Willa Cather
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84 |
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Tropic of Cancer
by Henry Miller
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85 |
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The War of the Worlds
by H. G. Wells
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86 |
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Lord Jim
by Joseph Conrad, Linda Dryden, Linda Dryden (Introduction by)
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87 |
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The Bostonians
by Henry James
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88 |
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An American Tragedy
by Theodore Dreiser
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89 |
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Death Comes for the Archbishop
by Willa Cather
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90 |
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The Wind in the Willows
by Kenneth Grahame, Ernest H. Shepard (Illustrator)
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91 |
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This Side of Paradise
by F. Scott Fitzgerald, James L. W. West (Editor)
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92 |
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Atlas Shrugged
by Ayn Rand
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93 |
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The French Lieutenant's Woman
by John Fowles
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94 |
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Babbitt
by Sinclair Lewis
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95 |
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Kim
by Rudyard Kipling
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96 |
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The Beautiful and Damned
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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97 |
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Rabbit Run
by John Updike
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98 |
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Where Angels Fear to Tread
by E. M. Forster
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99 |
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Main Street
by Sinclair Lewis
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100 |
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Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
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