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novel #1
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Portmanteau
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novel #2
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a story about the childhood experiences of fraternal twins whose lives are destroyed by the "Love Laws" prevalent in 1960s Kerala, India
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The God of Small Things Fall Apart
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the debut novel of Nigerian author Chinua Achebe,depicting life in pre-colonial Igobland, part of modern Nigeria
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an originally serialized novel about a spirited young American heiress who falls victim to a suitor's schemes after rejecting two others
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The Portrait of a Lady Chatterley's Lover
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D.H. Lawrence's last novel, the target of bans for depicting a relationship between a working-class man and an upper-class woman
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Margaret Mitchell's only novel published in her lifetime, following Scarlett O'Hara before, during, and after the Civil War
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Gone with the Wind in the Willows
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a classic children's novel about animals trying to help their motorcar-obsessed friend out of trouble
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a dystopian satirical novel written in Nadsat, a fictional slang spoken by teenagers in the future
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A Clockwork Oranges are not the Only Fruit
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a coming-of-age story about a lesbian who grows up in an English Pentecostal community
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a 2005 science fiction novel by Kazuo Ishiguro that takes place in an alternate reality in which mass human cloning is authorised and performed
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Never Let Me Go Tell it on the Mountain
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a 1953 semi-autobiographical novel by James Baldwin about a teenager in Harlem
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Hemingway's story of Santiago, an aging fisherman, and his long struggle to catch a giant marlin
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The Old Man and the Sea of Monsters
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the second novel in the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series
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a novel set in the near-future theonomic state of Gilead, which has overthrown the United States government
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The Handmaid's Tale of Two Cities
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Charles Dickens's historical fiction novel set in in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution
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the story of a voyage along the Congo River that also serves as the basis for the film Apocalypse Now
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Heart of Darkness at Noon
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Arthur Koestler's novel following an Old Bolshevik who is arrested, imprisoned, and tried for treason
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Dickens's 1853 novel centered on a long-running legal case in the Court of Chancery
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Bleak House of Mirth
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the story of Lily Bart, a well-born but impoverished woman belonging to New York City's high society in the 1890s
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Tom Wolfe's drama about ambition, racism, social class, politics, and greed in 1980s New York City
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The Bonfire of the Vanity Fair
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Thackeray novel set during the Napoleonic wars and sharing a name with a magazine
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the coming-of-age story of the four March sisters in 19th century New England
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Little Women in Love
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a novel following the loves and lives of the Brangwen sisters in the 1910s
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the debut novel of Irish writer James Joyce about religious and intellectual awakening of Joyce's fictional alter ego
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Mansfield Park
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the story of Fanny Price, who is sent to live with wealthy relatives at an estate for which the novel is named
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a novel about the relationships of an American man living in Paris, including one with Giovanni, whom he meets at a gay bar
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Giovanni's Room with a View
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E. M. Forster novel about wealthy Miss Lucy Honeychurch who falls for a supposed socialist on a trip to Italy
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an 1860 mystery novel involving a young woman who is falsely incarcerated in an asylum by her husband
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The Woman in White Teeth
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Zadie Smith's debut novel, focusing on the lives of two wartime friends in London
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a dystopian novel about a world in which people are constantly consuming soma, a happiness-producing drug
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Brave New World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
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a zombie horror novel adapted into a 2013 film starring Brad Pitt
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