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The Anatomy Of Melancholy (NYRB Classics)
1.  The Anatomy Of Melancholy (NYRB Classics) by Robert Burton
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman: Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Penguin Classics)
2.  The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman: Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Penguin Classics) by Laurence Sterne
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The Total Library: Non-Fiction 1922-1986 (Penguin Modern Classics)
3.  The Total Library: Non-Fiction 1922-1986 (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jorge Luis Borges
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Nothing Like the Sun
4.  Nothing Like the Sun by Anthony Burgess
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Pale Fire (Penguin Modern Classics)
5.  Pale Fire (Penguin Modern Classics) by Vladimir Nabokov
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Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics)
6.  Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics) by James Joyce
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Testaments Betrayed
7.  Testaments Betrayed by Milan Kundera
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The Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel (Classics)
8.  The Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel (Classics) by Francois Rabelais
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Into the Looking Glass Wood: Essays on Words and the World
9.  Into the Looking Glass Wood: Essays on Words and the World by Alberto Manguel
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Arcadia
10.  Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
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Lempriere's Dictionary
11.  Lempriere's Dictionary by Lawrence Norfolk
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Nightmare Abbey & Crotchet Castle (Penguin Classics)
12.  Nightmare Abbey & Crotchet Castle (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Love Peacock
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