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Lifetime
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Works
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Nation
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Author
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1973-
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Twilight | Midnight Sun
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Stephenie Meyer
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1965-
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The Kite Runner | A Thousand Splendid Suns
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Khaled Hosseini
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1965-
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Harry Potter | Fantastic Beasts
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J. K. Rowling
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1964-
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Da Vinci Code | Angels and Demons
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Dan Brown
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1964-
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Three Sisters | The moon opera
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Bi Feiyu
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1963-
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Fifty Shades of Grey | Fifty Shades Darker
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E. L. James
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1963-
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Life of Pi | Self
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Yann Martel
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1962-
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The Hunger Games | Mockingjay
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Suzanne Collins
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1961-
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The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared | The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden |
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Jonas Jonasson
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1957-
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Ring | Spiral
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Koji Suzuki
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1956-
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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Arthur Golden
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1954-
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The Remains of the Day | Never Let Me Go
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Kazuo Ishiguro
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1954-2004
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | The Girl Who Played with Fire |
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Stieg Larsson
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1952-
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Snow | The Museum of Innocence
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Orhan Pamuk
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1952-
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The Joy Luck Club | Two Kinds
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Amy Tan
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1951-
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Call Me by Your Name | Find Me
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André Aciman
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1949-
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Norwegian Wood | 1Q84
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Haruki Murakami
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1948-
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A Game of Thrones | The Winds of Winter
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George R. R. Martin
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1947-
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The Satanic Verse | Midnight's Children
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Salman Rushdie
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1947-
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The Body | The Shining
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Stephen King
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1947-
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The Alchemist | Eleven Minutes
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Paulo Coelho
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1944-
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The Color Purple | Everyday Use
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Alice Walker
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1942-2008
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Jurassic Park | The Terminal Man
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Michael Crichton
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1939-
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The Handmaid's Tale | Alias Grace
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Margaret Atwood
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1932-1963
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The Bell Jar
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Sylvia Plath
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1931-2019
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Song of Solomon | Beloved
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Toni Morrison
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1927-2015
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The Tin Drum | Cat and Mouse
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Günter Grass
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1927-2014
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100 Years of Solitude | Love in the Time of Cholera
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Gabriel García Márquez
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1926-2016
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To Kill a Mockingbird | Go Set a Watchman
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Harper Lee
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1924-1984
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Breakfast at Tiffany's | In Cold Blood
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Truman Capote
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1922-2007
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Slaughterhouse-Five | Cat's Cradle
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Kurt Vonnegut
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1922-1969
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On the Road | The Dharma Bums
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Jack Kerouac
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1920-2012
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Fahrenheit 451 | The Martian Chronicles
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Ray Bradbury
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1920-1986
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Dune | The Jesus Incident
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Frank Herbert
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1919-2010
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The Catcher in the Rye | Nine Stories
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J. D. Salinger
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1917-2008
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2001: A Space Odyssey | Rendezvous with Rama
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Arthur C. Clarke
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1916-1990
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Matilda
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Roald Dahl
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1913-1960
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The Stranger | The Plague
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Albert Camus
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1911-1993
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Lord of the Flies | The Inheritors
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William Golding
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1911-1983
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A Streetcar Named Desire | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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Tennessee Williams
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1908-1986
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The Second Sex | The Mandarins
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Simone de Beauvoir
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1908-1964
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Casino Royale | Dr. No
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Ian Fleming
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1907-2002
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Pippi Longstocking | Ronia, the Robber's Daughter
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Astrid Lindgren
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1907-1989
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Rebecca | The Birds
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Daphne du Maurier
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1905-1980
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Nausea | Being and Nothingness
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Jean-Paul Sartre
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1904-1991
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The Cat in the Hat | How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
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Dr. Seuss
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1904-1973
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Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair | 100 Love Sonnets |
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Pablo Neruda
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|
1903-1950
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1984 | Animal Farm
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George Orwell
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1903-1951
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The Blind Owl | Dash Akol
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Sadegh Hedayat
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|
1902-1968
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Of Mice and Men | East of Eden
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John Steinbeck
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1900-1949
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Gone with the Wind | Lost Laysen
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Margaret Mitchell
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1900-1944
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The Little Prince | Wind, Sand and Stars
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|
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1899-1977
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Lolita | Laughter in the Dark
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Vladimir Nabokov
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1899-1961
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The Old Man and the Sea | A Farewell to Arms
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|
Ernest Hemingway
|
|
1898-1963
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The Chronicles of Narnia
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|
C. S. Lewis
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|
1896-1940
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The Great Gatsby | Tender Is the Night
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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|
1894-1963
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Brave New World | The Doors of Perception
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|
Aldous Huxley
|
|
1892-1973
|
Lord of the Rings | The Hobbit
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|
J.R.R. Tolkien
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|
1890-1976
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Murder on the Orient Express | Death on the Nile
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|
Agatha Christie
|
|
1889-1945
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Mein Kampf
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Adolf Hitler
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|
1888-1953
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Long Day's Journey Into Night | The Iceman Cometh
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Eugene O'Neill
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|
1883-1924
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The Metamorphosis | The Castle
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Franz Kafka
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1882-1941
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Mrs Dalloway | To the Lighthouse
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Virginia Woolf
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1882-1941
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Ulysses | Dubliners
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James Joyce
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|
1879-1970
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A Passage to India | A Room with a View
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|
E. M. Forster
|
|
1877-1962
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Siddhartha | Demian
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Hermann Hesse
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1876-1916
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The Call of the Wind | White Fang
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Jack London
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1875-1955
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The Magic Mountain | Death in Venice
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Thomas Mann
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1873-1954
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Gigi | Claudine at School
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Colette
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1871-1922
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In Search of Lost Time | Swann's Way
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Marcel Proust
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1866-1946
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The War of the Worlds | The Time Machine
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H. G. Wells
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|
1865-1936
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The Jungle Book | If -
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Rudyard Kipling
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1860-1904
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Uncle Vanya | The Cherry Orchard
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Anton Chekhov
|
|
1859-1930
|
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | The Parasite
|
|
Arthur Conan Doyle
|
|
1857-1924
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Heart of Darkness | Jim Lord
|
|
Joseph Conrad
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|
1856-1939
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The Interpretation of Dreams | The Ego and the Id
|
|
Sigmund Freud
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|
1854-1900
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The Importance of Being Earnest | Salome
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|
Oscar Wilde
|
|
1847-1912
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Dracula | The Jewel of Seven Stars
|
|
Bram Stoker
|
|
1844-1900
|
God is dead | Thus Spoke Zarathustra
|
|
Friedrich Nietzsche
|
|
1840-1928
|
Tess of the D'Urbervilles | Far from the Madding Crowd
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Thomas Hardy
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|
1840-1902
|
L'Assommoir | Germinal
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|
Émile Zola
|
|
1835-1910
|
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Life on the Mississippi
|
|
Mark Twain
|
|
1832-1898
|
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Jabberwocky
|
|
Lewis Carroll
|
|
1832-1888
|
Little Women | Little Men
|
|
Louisa May Alcott
|
|
1828-1910
|
War and Peace | Anna Karenina
|
|
Leo Tolstoy
|
|
1828-1906
|
A Doll's House | Ghosts
|
|
Henrik Ibsen
|
|
1828-1905
|
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | Around the World in 80 Days |
|
Jules Verne
|
|
1821-1881
|
Crime and Punishment | The Brothers Karamazov
|
|
Fyodor Dostoevsky
|
|
1821-1880
|
Madame Bovary | Salammbô
|
|
Gustave Flaubert
|
|
1820-1895
|
The Communist Manifesto | The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State |
|
Friedrich Engels
|
|
1819-1891
|
Moby Dick or the Whale | Billy Budd
|
|
Herman Melville
|
|
1818-1883
|
Das Kapital | The Communist Manifesto
|
|
Karl Marx
|
|
1816-1855
|
Jane Eyre | Villette
|
|
Charlotte Brontë
|
|
1812-1870
|
Oliver Twist | David Copperfield
|
|
Charles Dickens
|
|
1811-1896
|
Uncle Tom's Cabin | The Minister's Wooing
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|
Harriet Beecher Stowe
|
|
1811-1863
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Vanity Fair | Pendennis
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William Makepeace Thackeray |
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1809-1852
|
Dead Souls | The Overcoat
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|
Nikolai Gogol
|
|
1809-1849
|
The Raven | The tell-tale heart
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Edgar Allan Poe
|
|
1805-1875
|
The Little Mermaid | The Ugly Duckling
|
|
|
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1804-1864
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The Scarlet Letter | Young Goodman Brown
|
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
|
|
1802-1885
|
Les Misérables | The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
|
|
Victor Hugo
|
|
1802-1870
|
The Three Musketeers | The Count of Monte Cristo
|
|
Alexandre Dumas
|
|
1799-1837
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The Captain's Daughter | Dubrovsky
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|
Alexander Pushkin
|
|
1797-1851
|
Frankenstein | The Last Man
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|
Mary Shelley
|
|
1775-1817
|
Pride and Prejudice | Emma
|
|
Jane Austen
|
|
1749-1832
|
Faust | Egmont
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|
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
|
1723-1790
|
The Wealth of Nations | The Invisible Hand
|
|
Adam Smith
|
|
1712-1778
|
The Social Contract | Discourse on Inequality
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|
|
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1694-1778
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Candide | Zadig
|
|
Voltaire
|
|
1660-1731
|
Robinson Crusoe | Moll Flanders
|
|
Daniel Defoe
|
|
1628-1688
|
The Pilgrim's Progress | The Holy War
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|
John Bunyan
|
|
1564-1616
|
Romeo and Juliet | Hamlet
|
|
William Shakespeare
|
|
1547-1616
|
Don Quixote | Novelas Ejemplares
|
|
Miguel de Cervantes
|
|
1469-1527
|
The Prince | The Art of War
|
|
Niccolo Machiavelli
|
|
1340-1400
|
The Canterbury Tales | General Prologue
|
|
Geoffrey Chaucer
|
|
1265-1321
|
Divine Comedy | Inferno
|
|
Dante Alighieri
|
|
973-1031
|
The Tale of Genji
|
|
Murasaki Shikibu
|
|
70 BC-19 BC
|
Aeneid | Eclogues
|
|
Virgil
|
|
496 BC-405 BC
|
Antigone | Oedipus Rex
|
|
Sophocles
|
|
544 BC-496 BC
|
The Art of War
|
|
Sun Tzu
|
|
928 BC-?
|
Iliad | Odysses
|
|
Homer
|
My mind is a terrible thing to waste!
The author of ‘Mein Kampf’ was Austrian though.