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Naked Lunch

The Restored Text

by William S. Burroughs 1959 289 pages

3.46

96.2K ratings

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J.R.R. Tolkien

A Biography

by Humphrey Carpenter 1977 288 pages

4.05

16.1K ratings

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Biography Memoir

From Here to Eternity

by James Jones 1951 816 pages

4.08

17.9K ratings

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War

Islands in the Stream

by Ernest Hemingway 1970 448 pages

3.88

16.5K ratings

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Life Lessons from Russian Literature

by Viv Groskop 2019 224 pages

3.96

1.6K ratings

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Memoir

The Man Who Counted

A Collection of Mathematical Adventures

by Malba Tahan 1938 256 pages

4.11

6.5K ratings

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Other Plays

by Tennessee Williams 1955 329 pages

4.06

1.5K ratings

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Tropic of Cancer

by Henry Miller 1934 318 pages

3.66

76.0K ratings

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Why Read Moby-Dick?

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3.76

4.3K ratings

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The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

by Albert Camus 1942 212 pages

4.22

62.6K ratings

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The Words You Should Know to Sound Smart

1200 Essential Words Every Sophisticated Person Should Be Able to Use

by Robert W. Bly 2009 256 pages

3.85

155 ratings

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Communication

Kidnapped

by Robert Louis Stevenson 1886 288 pages

3.79

66.7K ratings

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All the Pretty Horses

by Cormac McCarthy 1992 302 pages

4.05

137.7K ratings

Westerns

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To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf 1927 209 pages

3.81

203.7K ratings

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In the First Circle

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1968 742 pages

4.36

1.7K ratings

Russia

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Atlas Shrugged & The Fountainhead

by Ayn Rand 1995

4.10

5.0K ratings

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Philosophy

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The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

by Ernest Hemingway 1987 650 pages

4.29

37.4K ratings

Short Stories

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The Written World

The Power of Stories to Shape People, History, Civilization

by Martin Puchner 2014 537 pages

3.92

1.8K ratings

History

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Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston 1937 238 pages

3.99

372.8K ratings

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School

Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited

by Aldous Huxley 1958 340 pages

4.16

170.1K ratings

Science Fiction

Dystopia

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Long Day’s Journey into Night

by Eugene O'Neill 1956 179 pages

4.05

42.2K ratings

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Angle of Repose

by Wallace Stegner 1971 569 pages

4.24

61.0K ratings

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Book Club

We the Living

by Ayn Rand 1936 464 pages

3.96

30.3K ratings

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Philosophy

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The New York Trilogy

by Paul Auster 1987 308 pages

3.87

83.2K ratings

Mystery

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Frankenstein

The 1818 Text

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 1818 260 pages

3.89

1.7M ratings

Horror

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Gothic

Cathedral

by Raymond Carver 1983 230 pages

4.24

39.0K ratings

Short Stories

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History of English literature

by Edward Albert 1923 544 pages

3.91

255 ratings

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The Mysterious Island

by Jules Verne 1874 723 pages

4.13

57.2K ratings

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Adventure

Franny and Zooey

by J.D. Salinger 1957 201 pages

3.96

233.0K ratings

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You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

by Charles Bukowski 1986 320 pages

4.17

18.8K ratings

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Poetry

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On Writing

by Ernest Hemingway 1984 160 pages

4.03

4.6K ratings

Writing

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Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained

by John Milton 1667 400 pages

4.07

7.8K ratings

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Poetry

Literature

Invitation to a Beheading

by Vladimir Nabokov 1935 223 pages

3.92

19.2K ratings

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Russia

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

by Mark Twain 1876 244 pages

3.92

987.0K ratings

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Adventure

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Christ in Concrete

by Pietro Di Donato 1937 236 pages

3.76

1.1K ratings

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Life

A User's Manual

by Georges Perec 1978 581 pages

4.18

9.7K ratings

France

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Song of Solomon

by Toni Morrison 1977 338 pages

4.15

122.1K ratings

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Magical Realism

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

by Mark Twain 1889 480 pages

3.77

106.3K ratings

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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories

by Robert Louis Stevenson 1886 254 pages

4.00

35.8K ratings

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Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451

by Harold Bloom 2000 147 pages

4.17

1.2K ratings

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

by Mark Twain 1884 327 pages

3.83

1.3M ratings

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The Golden Notebook

by Doris Lessing 1962 640 pages

3.77

24.0K ratings

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Feminism

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Preface to Shakespeare

by Samuel Johnson 1778 68 pages

3.61

356 ratings

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Essays

Too Loud a Solitude

by Bohumil Hrabal 1976 112 pages

3.98

24.9K ratings

Czech Literature

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The Red and the Black

by Stendhal 1830 577 pages

3.86

81.5K ratings

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France

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Give War and Peace a Chance

Tolstoyan Wisdom for Troubled Times

by Andrew D. Kaufman 2014 288 pages

3.88

347 ratings

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Lady Chatterley’s Lover

by D.H. Lawrence 1928 376 pages

3.50

133.3K ratings

Romance

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Bulfinch's Mythology

by Thomas Bulfinch 1855 862 pages

4.14

12.1K ratings

Mythology

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Fantasy

Sometimes a Great Notion

by Ken Kesey 1964 628 pages

4.26

23.4K ratings

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Cancer Ward

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1967 576 pages

4.26

17.4K ratings

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