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Top 100 novels with characters and authors Flashcards

1
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1 - Jay Gatsby,

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The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925

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2 - Holden Caulfield,

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The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger, 1951

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3 - Humbert Humbert,

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Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov, 1955

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4 - Leopold Bloom,

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Ulysses, James Joyce, 1922

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5 - Rabbit Angstrom,

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Rabbit, Run, John Updike, 1960

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6 - Sherlock Holmes,

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The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1902

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7 - Atticus Finch,

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To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee, 1960

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8 - Molly Bloom,

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Ulysses, James Joyce, 1922

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9 - Stephen Dedalus,

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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce, 1916

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10 - Lily Bart,

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The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton, 1905

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11- Holly Golightly,

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Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Truman Capote, 1958

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12 - Gregor Samsa,

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The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka, 1915

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13 - The Invisible Man,

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Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison, 1952

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14
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14 - Lolita,

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Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov, 1955

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15
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15 - Aureliano Buendia,

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One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1967

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16
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16 - Clarissa Dalloway,

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Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf, 1925

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17
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17 - Ignatius Reilly,

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A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole, 1980

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18
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18 - George Smiley,

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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, John LeCarre, 1974

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19
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19 - Mrs. Ramsay,

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To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf, 1927

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20
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20 - Bigger Thomas,

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Native Son, Richard Wright, 1940

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21
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21 - Nick Adams,

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In Our Time, Ernest Hemingway, 1925

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22
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22 - Yossarian,

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Catch-22, Joseph Heller, 1961

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23
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23 - Scarlett O’Hara,

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Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell, 1936

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24
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24 - Scout Finch,

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To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee, 1960

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25
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25 - Philip Marlowe,

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The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler, 1939

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26
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26 - Kurtz,

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Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad, 1902

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27
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27 - Stevens,

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The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro, 1989

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28
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28 - Cosimo Piovasco di Rondo,

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The Baron in the Trees, Italo Calvino, 1957

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29
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29 -Winnie the Pooh,

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Winnie the Pooh, A.A. Milne, 1926

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30
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30 - Oskar Matzerath,

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The Tin Drum, Gunter Grass, 1959

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31
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31 - Hazel Motes,

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Wise Blood, Flannery O’Connor, 1952

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32
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32 - Alex Portnoy,

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Portnoy’s Complaint, Philip Roth, 1969

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33
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33 - Binx Bolling,

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The Moviegoer, Walker Percy, 1961

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34
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34 - Sebastian Flyte,

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Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, 1945

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35
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35 - Jeeves,

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My Man Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse, 1919

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36
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36 - Eugene Henderson,

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Henderson the Rain King, Saul Bellow, 1959

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37
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37 - Marcel,

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Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel Proust, 1913-1927

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38
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38 - Toad,

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The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame, 1908

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39
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39 - The Cat in the Hat,

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The Cat in the Hat, Dr. Seuss, 1955

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40
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40 - Peter Pan,

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The Little White Bird, J.M. Barrie, 1902

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41
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41 - Augustus McCrae,

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Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry, 1985

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42
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42 - Sam Spade,

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The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett, 1930

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43
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43 - Judge Holden,

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Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy, 1985

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44
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44 - Willie Stark,

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All the King’s Men, Robert Penn Warren, 1946

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45
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45 - Stephen Maturin,

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Master and Commander, Patrick O’Brian, 1969

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46
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46 - The Little Prince,

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The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, 1943

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47
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47 - Santiago,

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The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway, 1952

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48
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48 - Jean Brodie,

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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark, 1961

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49
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49 - The Whiskey Priest,

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The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene, 1940

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50
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50 - Neddy Merrill,

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The Swimmer, John Cheever, 1964

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51
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51 - Sula Peace,

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Sula, Toni Morrison, 1973

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52
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52 - Meursault,

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The Stranger, Albert Camus, 1942

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53
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53 - Jake Barnes,

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The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway, 1926

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54
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54 - Phoebe Caulfield,

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The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger, 1951

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55
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55 - Janie Crawford,

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Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston, 1937

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56
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56 - Antonia Shimerda,

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My Antonia, Willa Cather, 1918

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57
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57 - Grendel,

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Grendel, John Gardner, 1971

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58
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58 - Gulley Jimson,

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The Horse’s Mouth, Joyce Cary, 1944

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59
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59 - Big Brother,

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1984, George Orwell, 1949

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60
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60 - Tom Ripley,

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The Talented Mr. Ripley, Patricia Highsmith, 1955

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61
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61 - Seymour Glass,

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Nine Stories, J.D. Salinger, 1953

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62
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62 - Dean Moriarty,

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On the Road, Jack Kerouac, 1957

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63
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63 - Charlotte,

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Charlotte’s Web, E.B. White, 1952

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64
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64 - T.S. Garp,

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The World According to Garp, John Irving, 1978

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65
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65 - Nick and Nora Charles,

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The Thin Man, Dashiell Hammett, 1934

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66
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66 - James Bond,

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Casino Royale, Ian Fleming, 1953

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67
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67 - Mr. Bridge,

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Mrs. Bridge, Evan S. Connell, 1959

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68
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68 - Geoffrey Firmin,

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Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry, 1947

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69
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69 - Benjy,

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The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner, 1929

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70
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70 - Charles Kinbote,

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Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov, 1962

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71
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71 - Mary Katherine Blackwood,

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We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson, 1962

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72
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72 - Charles Ryder,

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Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, 1945

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73
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73 - Claudine,

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Claudine at School, Colette, 1900

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74
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74 - Florentino Ariza,

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Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1985

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75
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75 - George Follansbee Babbitt,

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Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis, 1922

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76
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76 - Christopher Tietjens,

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Parade’s End, Ford Madox Ford, 1924-28

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77
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77 - Frankie Addams,

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The Member of the Wedding, Carson McCullers, 1946

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78
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78 - The Dog of Tears,

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Blindness, Jose Saramago, 1995

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79
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79 - Tarzan,

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Tarzan of the Apes, Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1914

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80
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80 - Nathan Zuckerman,

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My Life As a Man, Philip Roth, 1979

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81
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81 - Arthur “Boo” Radley,

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To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee, 1960

82
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82 - Henry Chinaski,

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Post Office, Charles Bukowski, 1971

83
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83 - Joseph K.

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The Trial, Franz Kafka, 1925

84
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84 - Yuri Zhivago,

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Dr. Zhivago, Boris Pasternak, 1957

85
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85 - Harry Potter,

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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, J.K. Rowling, 1998

86
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86 - Hana,

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The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje, 1992

87
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87 - Margaret Schlegel,

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Howards End, E.M. Forster, 1910

88
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88 - Jim Dixon,

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Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis, 1954

89
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89 - Maurice Bendrix,

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The End of the Affair, Graham Greene, 1951

90
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90 - Lennie Small,

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Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck, 1937

91
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91 - Mr. Biswas,

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A House for Mr. Biswas, V.S. Naipaul, 1961

92
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92 - Alden Pyle,

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The Quiet American, Graham Greene, 1955

93
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93 - Kimball “Kim” O’Hara,

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Kim, Rudyard Kipling, 1901

94
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94 - Newland Archer,

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The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton, 1920

95
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95 - Clyde Griffiths,

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An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser, 1925

96
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96 - Eeyore,

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Winnie the Pooh, A.A. Milne, 1926

97
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97 - Quentin Compson,

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The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner, 1929

98
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98 - Charlie Marlow,

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Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad, 1902

99
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99 - Celie,

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The Color Purple, Alice Walker, 1982

100
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100 - Augie March,

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The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow

101
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The Great Gatsby,

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F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925

102
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The Catcher in the Rye,

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J.D. Salinger, 1951

103
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Lolita,

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Vladimir Nabokov, 1955

104
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Ulysses,

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James Joyce, 1922

105
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Rabbit, Run,

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John Updike, 1960

106
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The Hound of the Baskervilles,

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1902

107
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To Kill A Mockingbird,

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Harper Lee, 1960

108
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Ulysses,

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James Joyce, 1922

109
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,

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James Joyce, 1916

110
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The House of Mirth,

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Edith Wharton, 1905

111
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Breakfast at Tiffany’s,

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Truman Capote, 1958

112
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The Metamorphosis,

A

Franz Kafka, 1915

113
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Invisible Man,

A

Ralph Ellison, 1952

114
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Lolita,

A

Vladimir Nabokov, 1955

115
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One Hundred Years of Solitude,

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1967

116
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Mrs. Dalloway,

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Virginia Woolf, 1925

117
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A Confederacy of Dunces,

A

John Kennedy Toole, 1980

118
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy,

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John LeCarre, 1974

119
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To the Lighthouse,

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Virginia Woolf, 1927

120
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Native Son,

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Richard Wright, 1940

121
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In Our Time,

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Ernest Hemingway, 1925

122
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Catch-22,

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Joseph Heller, 1961

123
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Gone With the Wind,

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Margaret Mitchell, 1936

124
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To Kill A Mockingbird,

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Harper Lee, 1960

125
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The Big Sleep,

A

Raymond Chandler, 1939

126
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Heart of Darkness,

A

Joseph Conrad, 1902

127
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The Remains of the Day,

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Kazuo Ishiguro, 1989

128
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The Baron in the Trees,

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Italo Calvino, 1957

129
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Winnie the Pooh,

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A.A. Milne, 1926

130
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The Tin Drum,

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Gunter Grass, 1959

131
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Wise Blood,

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Flannery O’Connor, 1952

132
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Portnoy’s Complaint,

A

Philip Roth, 1969

133
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The Moviegoer,

A

Walker Percy, 1961

134
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Brideshead Revisited,

A

Evelyn Waugh, 1945

135
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My Man Jeeves,

A

P.G. Wodehouse, 1919

136
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Henderson the Rain King,

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Saul Bellow, 1959

137
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Remembrance of Things Past,

A

Marcel Proust, 1913-1927

138
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The Wind in the Willows,

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Kenneth Grahame, 1908

139
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The Cat in the Hat,

A

Dr. Seuss, 1955

140
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The Little White Bird,

A

J.M. Barrie, 1902

141
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Lonesome Dove,

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Larry McMurtry, 1985

142
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The Maltese Falcon,

A

Dashiell Hammett, 1930

143
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Blood Meridian,

A

Cormac McCarthy, 1985

144
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All the King’s Men,

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Robert Penn Warren, 1946

145
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Master and Commander,

A

Patrick O’Brian, 1969

146
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The Little Prince,

A

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, 1943

147
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The Old Man and the Sea,

A

Ernest Hemingway, 1952

148
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie,

A

Muriel Spark, 1961

149
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The Power and the Glory,

A

Graham Greene, 1940

150
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The Swimmer,

A

John Cheever, 1964

151
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Sula,

A

Toni Morrison, 1973

152
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The Stranger,

A

Albert Camus, 1942

153
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The Sun Also Rises,

A

Ernest Hemingway, 1926

154
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The Catcher in the Rye,

A

J.D. Salinger, 1951

155
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Their Eyes Were Watching God,

A

Zora Neale Hurston, 1937

156
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My Antonia,

A

Willa Cather, 1918

157
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Grendel,

A

John Gardner, 1971

158
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The Horse’s Mouth,

A

Joyce Cary, 1944

159
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1984,

A

George Orwell, 1949

160
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The Talented Mr. Ripley,

A

Patricia Highsmith, 1955

161
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Nine Stories,

A

J.D. Salinger, 1953

162
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On the Road,

A

Jack Kerouac, 1957

163
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Charlotte’s Web,

A

E.B. White, 1952

164
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The World According to Garp,

A

John Irving, 1978

165
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The Thin Man,

A

Dashiell Hammett, 1934

166
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Casino Royale,

A

Ian Fleming, 1953

167
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Mrs. Bridge,

A

Evan S. Connell, 1959

168
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Under the Volcano,

A

Malcolm Lowry, 1947

169
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The Sound and the Fury,

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William Faulkner, 1929

170
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Pale Fire,

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Vladimir Nabokov, 1962

171
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle,

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Shirley Jackson, 1962

172
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Brideshead Revisited,

A

Evelyn Waugh, 1945

173
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Claudine at School,

A

Colette, 1900

174
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Love in the Time of Cholera,

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1985

175
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Babbitt,

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Sinclair Lewis, 1922

176
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Parade’s End,

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Ford Madox Ford, 1924-28

177
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The Member of the Wedding,

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Carson McCullers, 1946

178
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Blindness,

A

Jose Saramago, 1995

179
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Tarzan of the Apes,

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Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1914

180
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My Life As a Man,

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Philip Roth, 1979

181
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To Kill A Mockingbird,

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Harper Lee, 1960

182
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Post Office,

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Charles Bukowski, 1971

183
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The Trial,

A

Franz Kafka, 1925

184
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Dr. Zhivago,

A

Boris Pasternak, 1957

185
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,

A

J.K. Rowling, 1998

186
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The English Patient,

A

Michael Ondaatje, 1992

187
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Howards End,

A

E.M. Forster, 1910

188
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Lucky Jim,

A

Kingsley Amis, 1954

189
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The End of the Affair,

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Graham Greene, 1951

190
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Of Mice and Men,

A

John Steinbeck, 1937

191
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A House for Mr. Biswas,

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V.S. Naipaul, 1961

192
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The Quiet American,

A

Graham Greene, 1955

193
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Kim,

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Rudyard Kipling, 1901

194
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The Age of Innocence,

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Edith Wharton, 1920

195
Q

An American Tragedy,

A

Theodore Dreiser, 1925

196
Q

Winnie the Pooh,

A

A.A. Milne, 1926

197
Q

The Sound and the Fury,

A

William Faulkner, 1929

198
Q

Heart of Darkness,

A

Joseph Conrad, 1902

199
Q

The Color Purple,

A

Alice Walker, 1982

200
Q

The Adventures of Augie March,

A

Saul Bellow

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