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4.42

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by Ernest Hemingway 1940 471 pages

3.98

308.5K ratings

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by Rainer Maria Rilke 1929 80 pages

4.29

110.1K ratings

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by W. Somerset Maugham 1944 314 pages

4.19

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3.78

88.2K ratings

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3.79

172.6K ratings

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3.84

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3.92

487.5K ratings

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Leaves of Grass

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4.12

113.7K ratings

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The Age of Innocence

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3.97

187.5K ratings

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3.74

187.0K ratings

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The Good Earth

by Pearl S. Buck 1931 418 pages

4.01

256.5K ratings

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The Canterbury Tales

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3.52

233.3K ratings

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3.90

195.0K ratings

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The Conspiracy Against the Human Race

by Thomas Ligotti 2011 240 pages

4.03

8.7K ratings

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Survivor

by Chuck Palahniuk 1999 289 pages

3.93

122.0K ratings

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Alamut

by Vladimir Bartol 1938 510 pages

4.31

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Life and Fate

by Vasily Grossman 1960 864 pages

4.45

14.5K ratings

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Anatomy of Genres

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4.20

484 ratings

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3.69

31.6K ratings

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by Carlos Fuentes 1962 307 pages

3.86

11.3K ratings

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Oil on Water

by Helon Habila 2010 239 pages

3.55

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The Scarlet Letter

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3.44

896.8K ratings

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Notes from Underground

by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1864 136 pages

4.17

201.5K ratings

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson 1886 139 pages

3.83

633.6K ratings

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A Clockwork Orange

by Anthony Burgess 1962 192 pages

4.00

748.0K ratings

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3.43

540.5K ratings

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3.83

622 ratings

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Saturday

by Ian McEwan 2005 289 pages

3.64

72.2K ratings

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Flatland

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by Edwin A. Abbott 1884 96 pages

3.81

74.9K ratings

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Mathematics

The Vendor of Sweets

by R.K. Narayan 1967 144 pages

3.75

2.8K ratings

India

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The Invention of the Human

by Harold Bloom 1998 745 pages

4.03

3.6K ratings

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by Franz Kafka 1915 352 pages

4.09

20.4K ratings

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Love in the Time of Cholera

by Gabriel García Márquez 1985 348 pages

3.94

530.9K ratings

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Immersive

Persuasion

by Jane Austen 1817 249 pages

4.15

744.6K ratings

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by Lope de Vega 1618 181 pages

3.54

11.1K ratings

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Immortality

by Milan Kundera 1990 400 pages

4.14

41.5K ratings

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David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens 1850 882 pages

4.04

251.2K ratings

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19th Century

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding 1954 182 pages

3.70

3.1M ratings

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Young Adult

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Hopscotch

by Julio Cortázar 1963 564 pages

4.20

46.6K ratings

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Imaginary Homelands

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by Salman Rushdie 1991 448 pages

3.98

1.5K ratings

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India

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White Fang

by Jack London 1906 252 pages

4.03

199.9K ratings

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Adventure

Animals

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by Joseph Conrad 1900 455 pages

3.61

32.2K ratings

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Adventure

Jitterbug Perfume

by Tom Robbins 1984 342 pages

4.23

79.2K ratings

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Magical Realism

Inferno

by Dante Alighieri 1320 490 pages

4.03

198.0K ratings

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Poetry

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Madame Bovary

by Gustave Flaubert 1856 329 pages

3.71

358.4K ratings

Classics

France

Literature

The Museum of Innocence

by Orhan Pamuk 2008 536 pages

3.78

35.9K ratings

Turkish Literature

Turkish

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City of Glass

by Paul Auster 1985 203 pages

3.76

22.7K ratings

Mystery

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Literature

Lazarillo de Tormes and The Swindler

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by Francisco de Quevedo 1969 240 pages

3.62

1.2K ratings

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Spanish Literature

Spain

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by Don DeLillo 1982 339 pages

3.64

4.8K ratings

Novels

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