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Slaughterhouse-Five
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The Godfather (The Godfather, #1)
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The Left Hand of Darkness
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The French Lieutenant's Woman
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar
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Ubik
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
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The Andromeda Strain (Andromeda, #1)
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Papillon
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Portnoy's Complaint
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Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
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The House on the Strand
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Sounder
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I Sing the Body Electric! & Other Stories
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
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The Edible Woman
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3.70 avg rating — 40,597 ratings
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Fire from Heaven
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Ada
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The Water Is Wide
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The Cay (The Cay, #1)
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The Promise (Reuven Malter, #2)
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What to Expect When You're Expecting
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Where the Lilies Bloom: The National Book Award Finalist Novel of Family, Survival, and Sacrifice in Appalachia
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The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford
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Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse
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Leo the Late Bloomer: A Heartwarming Illustrated Story About Patience for Children (Ages 4-8)
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The Mephisto Waltz
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Civilisation
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Season of Migration to the North
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Flashman
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Them (Wonderland Quartet, #3)
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Strumpet City
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In This House of Brede
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Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb (Bright & Early Board Books)
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Still Another Day
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Smith of Wootton Major
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Creatures of Light and Darkness
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Damnation Alley
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Bruno's Dream
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Rich Man, Poor Man
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The King's Pleasure
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Run Baby Run
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You'll Like My Mother
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Claudia
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Life in a Medieval City
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Nineteenth-Century Romanticism in Music
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The Shaping of England
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The Dream Songs
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The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
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The Parasaurians
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Olt
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Naked Came the Stranger
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As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
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The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 3: 1939-1944
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Dune Messiah (Dune #2)
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Thy Friend, Obadiah
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Dark Spring
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My Last Duchess
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Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down
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Conversation in the Cathedral
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The Street
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Captive Universe
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Sexual Politics
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The Golden Enemy
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Experiences
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Tent of Miracles
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The Maid of Artemis
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Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)
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Costume and Fashion: A Concise History
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Savushun
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Arrow in the Sun
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The Year of the Whale
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Deep River and the Negro Spiritual Speaks of Life and Death (Howard Thurman Book)
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Fat City
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A Pelican at Blandings (Blandings Castle, #11)
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The Iron Tonic: Or, A Winter Afternoon in Lonely Valley
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Pei Mei's Chinese Cookbook Volume I [Pei mei shi pu (1)]
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Troubled Waters
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The Florida Snow Party
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The Witch Next Door
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Goldie the Dollmaker
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The Secret Archives of the Vatican
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Runaway Horses (The Sea of Fertility, #2)
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The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin
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A Puppy Named Gih
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The Third George (Georgian Saga, #5)
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Life is Elsewhere
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With Bold Knife and Fork
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Perdita's Prince (Georgian Saga, #6)
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Secrets of Health and Beauty; How to Make Yourself Over,
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Jane-Emily
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Harvey's Hideout
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The Green Man
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The Age of Protest
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Bullet Park
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Indian Paint
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The Estate
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Katherine Howard
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Envy; or Yiddish in America
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The Marigold Field (Whitman Saga, #1)
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