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4.27

452 ratings

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Heart of Darkness

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3.43

540.5K ratings

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3.80

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by Louis-Ferdinand Céline 1932 453 pages

4.19

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4.05

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3.77

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4.21

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Blindness

by José Saramago 1995 326 pages

4.18

319.2K ratings

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4.31

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4.45

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3.74

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Atlas Shrugged

by Ayn Rand 1957 1168 pages

3.69

401.0K ratings

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by John Kennedy Toole 1980 394 pages

3.89

289.3K ratings

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Dead Souls

by Nikolai Gogol 1842 464 pages

3.98

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by John Steinbeck 1939 496 pages

4.02

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Samarkand

by Amin Maalouf 1988 304 pages

4.24

30.3K ratings

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The Iliad

by Homer 614 pages

3.92

487.5K ratings

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by Chinua Achebe 1958 215 pages

3.74

398.3K ratings

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Thank You for Smoking

by Christopher Buckley 1994 272 pages

3.94

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Crossing to Safety

by Wallace Stegner 1987 335 pages

4.16

49.0K ratings

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by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1869 667 pages

4.21

203.8K ratings

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Steppenwolf

by Hermann Hesse 1927 256 pages

4.13

203.5K ratings

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Underworld

by Don DeLillo 1997 827 pages

3.95

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A Farewell to Arms

by Ernest Hemingway 1929 293 pages

3.82

340.7K ratings

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Greek Lessons

by Han Kang 2011 192 pages

3.61

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Doctor Faustus

by Thomas Mann 1947 535 pages

4.08

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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

by James Joyce 1916 329 pages

3.64

159.6K ratings

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If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler

by Italo Calvino 1979 260 pages

4.02

106.7K ratings

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Shōgun

by James Clavell 1975 1152 pages

4.41

203.2K ratings

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Macbeth

by William Shakespeare 1623 249 pages

3.89

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by Alain de Botton 1998 208 pages

3.76

18.2K ratings

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The Sorrows of Young Werther

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1774 149 pages

3.69

146.4K ratings

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Love Is a Dog from Hell

by Charles Bukowski 1977 312 pages

3.96

37.6K ratings

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The Sun Also Rises

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3.79

474.6K ratings

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Heart of Darkness

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3.43

540.5K ratings

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1985

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3.47

1.5K ratings

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Água Viva

by Clarice Lispector 1973 88 pages

4.27

17.4K ratings

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The Black Book

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3.92

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4.02

211.3K ratings

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4.15

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by Aristotle 336 pages

4.00

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4.10

338.2K ratings

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3.83

622 ratings

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Mrs. Dalloway

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3.78

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The Remains of the Day

by Kazuo Ishiguro 1989 258 pages

4.14

337.3K ratings

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4.30

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White Fang

by Jack London 1906 252 pages

4.03

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by William Shakespeare 1605 339 pages

3.91

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by Albert Camus 1994 359 pages

3.97

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