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The Woman in the Dunes
Kobo Abe
The Woman in the Dunes
Kobo Abe
4.0·1962·241p
The Symposium
Plato
The Symposium
Plato
4.1·0·128p
Émile, or On Education
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Émile, or On Education
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
3.6·1762·512p
American Pastoral
Philip Roth
American Pastoral
Philip Roth
4.0·1997·423p
The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt
The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt
4.0·2013·771p
Franny and Zooey
J.D. Salinger
Franny and Zooey
J.D. Salinger
4.3·1961·201p
Kokoro
Natsume Soseki
Kokoro
Natsume Soseki
4.0·1914·248p
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
3.8·1951·277p
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Anne Brontë
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Anne Brontë
4.0·1848·244p
Persepolis
Marjane Satrapi
Persepolis
Marjane Satrapi
4.4·2000·341p
The House of the Spirits
Isabel Allende
The House of the Spirits
Isabel Allende
4.1·1982·433p
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
3.7·1774·144p
Solaris
Stanislaw Lem
Solaris
Stanislaw Lem
4.0·1961·204p
The Sorrows of Satan
Marie Corelli
The Sorrows of Satan
Marie Corelli
4.0·1895·464p
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
3.8·1884·366p
McTeague
Frank Norris
McTeague
Frank Norris
3.7·1899·456p
No Country for Old Men
Cormac McCarthy
No Country for Old Men
Cormac McCarthy
4.2·2005·309p
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
3.9·2005·288p
Pinocchio
Carlo Collodi
Pinocchio
Carlo Collodi
3.8·1883·192p
Beloved
Toni Morrison
Beloved
Toni Morrison
4.0·1987·324p
Snow Country
Yasunari Kawabata
Snow Country
Yasunari Kawabata
3.5·1948·175p
Demons
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Demons
Fyodor Dostoevsky
4.3·1872·768p
Growth of the Soil
Knut Hamsun
Growth of the Soil
Knut Hamsun
4.2·1917·463p
Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy
Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy
4.2·1985·337p
Metamorphoses
Ovid
Metamorphoses
Ovid
4.1·8·248p
The Ramayana
Valmiki
The Ramayana
Valmiki
4.1·0·652p
Howards End
E.M. Forster
Howards End
E.M. Forster
4.0·1910·343p
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera
4.1·1984·314p
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Gabriel García Márquez
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Gabriel García Márquez
4.0·1981·120p
White Teeth
Zadie Smith
White Teeth
Zadie Smith
3.8·2000·448p
The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran
4.2·1923·690p
Eugénie Grandet
Honoré de Balzac
Eugénie Grandet
Honoré de Balzac
3.8·1833·256p
Evelina
Fanny Burney
Evelina
Fanny Burney
3.7·1778·530p
I Am a Cat
Natsume Soseki
I Am a Cat
Natsume Soseki
3.2·1905·480p
Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malcolm X and Alex Haley
Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malcolm X and Alex Haley
4.2·1965·460p
A Confederacy of Dunces
John Kennedy Toole
A Confederacy of Dunces
John Kennedy Toole
3.8·1980·405p
The Woman Warrior
Maxine Hong Kingston
The Woman Warrior
Maxine Hong Kingston
3.7·1976·209p
The Jungle
Upton Sinclair
The Jungle
Upton Sinclair
3.8·1906·397p
If This Is a Man
Primo Levi
If This Is a Man
Primo Levi
4.4·1947·187p
The Sheltering Sky
Paul Bowles
The Sheltering Sky
Paul Bowles
3.9·1949·335p
