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    The Brothers Karamazov

    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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    The Second Sex

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    Atlas Shrugged (Centennial Ed. HC)

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    Gravity’s Rainbow (Classics Deluxe Edition)

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    The Golden Bowl

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    The Metamorphosis

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    Cloud Atlas (20th Anniversary Edition)

    by David Mitchell

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    War and Peace

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    Paradise Lost

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    The Tale of Genji

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    To the Lighthouse

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    Wuthering Heights

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    House of Leaves

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    The Sound and the Fury

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    The House of Mirth

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    The Magic Mountain

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    The Silmarillion

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    Blood Meridian

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    White Noise

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    Finnegans Wake

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