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Moby Dick: Or, the Whale (Penguin Popular Classics)
1.  Moby Dick: Or, the Whale (Penguin Popular Classics) by Herman Melville
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Ulysses (Oxford World's Classics)
2.  Ulysses (Oxford World's Classics) by James Joyce
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Crime and Punishment (Wordsworth Classics)
3.  Crime and Punishment (Wordsworth Classics) by F.M. Dostoevsky
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War and Peace (Wordsworth Classics)
4.  War and Peace (Wordsworth Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
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Don Quixote (Wordsworth Classics)
5.  Don Quixote (Wordsworth Classics) by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
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The Catcher in the Rye
6.  The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
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Heart of Darkness
7.  Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
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Nostromo (Wordsworth Classics)
8.  Nostromo (Wordsworth Classics) by Joseph Conrad
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Wordsworth Special Editions)
9.  The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Wordsworth Special Editions) by William Shakespeare
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Catch-22
10.  Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 (Perennial Classics)
11.  The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 (Perennial Classics) by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn
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The Grapes of Wrath
12.  The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
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The Metamorphosis (Dover Thrift)
13.  The Metamorphosis (Dover Thrift) by Franz Kafka
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The Great Gatsby (Penguin Popular Classics)
14.  The Great Gatsby (Penguin Popular Classics) by F Scott Fitzgerald
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Anna Karenina (Wordsworth Classics)
15.  Anna Karenina (Wordsworth Classics) by L.N. Tolstoy
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Popular Classics)
16.  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Popular Classics) by Mark Twain
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Dubliners
17.  Dubliners by James Joyce
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
18.  Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
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A Clockwork Orange (Penguin Modern Classics)
19.  A Clockwork Orange (Penguin Modern Classics) by Anthony Burgess
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The Count of Monte Cristo (Wordsworth Classics)
20.  The Count of Monte Cristo (Wordsworth Classics) by Alexandre Dumas
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Walden: Or, Life in the Woods (Dover Thrift)
21.  Walden: Or, Life in the Woods (Dover Thrift) by Henry David Thoreau
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The Brothers Karamazov (Everyman's Library classics)
22.  The Brothers Karamazov (Everyman's Library classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (Dover Thrift)
23.  Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (Dover Thrift) by Thomas De Quincey
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The Godfather
24.  The Godfather by Mario Puzo
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The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett
25.  The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett by Samuel Beckett
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