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Ernest Hemingway - A Farewell to Arms
Flannery O’Connor - A Good Man Is Hard To Find (short stories)

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Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre
James Joyce - Dubliners
Herman Melville - Moby Dick
(33, 34) James Joyce - Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
(33) Haldor Laxness - Independent People

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Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451
William Faulkner - As I Lay Dying
(34) William Shakespeare - Henry IV parts 1 & 2 (estimated)

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Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest

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Lewis Sinclair - Main Street
Jack Kerouac - On the Road
William Shakespeare - Henry V (estimated)
(36) William Shakespeare - Hamlet (estimated)

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Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary
Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility
Margaret Mitchell - Gone with the Wind
Frantz Fanon - The Wretched of the Earth
Thomas Pynchon - Gravity’s Rainbow

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(38) Charles Dickens - David Copperfield
John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath

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Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man
Joseph Heller - Catch 22
F. Sionil José - The Pretenders

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Sigrid Undset - Kristin Lavransdatter
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude
(44, 48, 49)Edward Gibbons - The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
(40) James Joyce - Ulysses
William Shakespeare - Othello
(40, 41, 42) William Shakespeare - King Lear, Macbeth (estimated)

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J.M. Coetzee - Waiting for the Barbarians

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Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace
Simone de Beauvoir - The Second Sex

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Jane Austen - Persuasion

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Virginia Woolf - Mrs. Dalloway

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Tennessee Williams - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

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Haruki Murakami - The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
Jorge Luis Borges - Ficciones

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Zora Neale Hurston - Their Eyes Were Watching God
(47) Naguib Mahfouz - The Cairo Trilogy
Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid’s Tale

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Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse 5
Miche de Montaigne - Essais
William Shakespeare - The Tempest (estimated)

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Umberto Eco - Name of the Rose
Chopin - The Awakening

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Julia Child - Mastering the Art of French Cooking

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Mark Train - Huckleberry Finn
(52) Robert Musil - The Man Without Qualities
Herman Hesse - Steppenwolf
Jorge Luis Borges - The Aleph

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Marquis de Sade - Justine

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Yasunari Kawabata - Snow Country

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Rachel Carson - Silent Spring

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Italo Calvino - If on a winter’s night a traveller…
Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita

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Gabriel García Márquez - Love in the Time of Cholera

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Miguel de Cervantes - Don Quixote

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Anthony Trollope - The Way We Live Now

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Richard Wagner - The Ring Cycle

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J.R.R. Tolkein - The Lord of the Rings