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Leo TolstoyWar and Peace
Fyodor DostoevskyCrime and Punishment
Jane AustenPride and Prejudice
Charles DickensGreat Expectations
Ernest HemingwayThe Old Man and the Sea
F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Great Gatsby
Mark TwainAdventures of Huckleberry Finn
Virginia WoolfMrs Dalloway
James JoyceUlysses
William FaulknerThe Sound and the Fury
Toni MorrisonBeloved
Gabriel Garcia MarquezOne Hundred Years of Solitude
Vladimir NabokovLolita
George Orwell1984
Franz KafkaThe Metamorphosis
Marcel ProustIn Search of Lost Time
Herman MelvilleMoby-Dick
Nathaniel HawthorneThe Scarlet Letter
Victor HugoLes Miserables
Gustave FlaubertMadame Bovary
Emily BronteWuthering Heights
Charlotte BronteJane Eyre
George EliotMiddlemarch
Thomas HardyTess of the d'Urbervilles
Henry JamesThe Portrait of a Lady
Joseph ConradHeart of Darkness
D. H. LawrenceSons and Lovers
Thomas MannThe Magic Mountain
John SteinbeckThe Grapes of Wrath
J. D. SalingerThe Catcher in the Rye
Harper LeeTo Kill a Mockingbird
Kurt VonnegutSlaughterhouse-Five
Joseph HellerCatch-22
Saul BellowHerzog
Philip RothAmerican Pastoral
John UpdikeRabbit, Run
Don DeLilloWhite Noise
Thomas PynchonGravity's Rainbow
Cormac McCarthyBlood Meridian
David Foster WallaceInfinite Jest
Jonathan FranzenThe Corrections
Salman RushdieMidnight's Children
Margaret AtwoodThe Handmaid's Tale
Alice MunroDear Life
Doris LessingThe Golden Notebook- Iris MurdochThe Sea, the Sea
Graham GreeneThe Power and the Glory
Evelyn WaughBrideshead Revisited
Aldous HuxleyBrave New World
E. M. ForsterA Passage to India
Albert CamusThe Stranger
Jean-Paul SartreNausea
Hermann HesseSiddhartha
Milan KunderaUnbearable Lightness of Being
Italo CalvinoInvisible Cities
Umberto EcoThe Name of the Rose
Jorge Luis BorgesFicciones
Haruki MurakamiNorwegian Wood
Yukio MishimaTemple of the Golden Pavilion
Yasunari KawabataSnow Country
Kazuo IshiguroThe Remains of the Day
Chinua AchebeThings Fall Apart
Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieAmericanah
Zadie SmithWhite Teeth
Ian McEwanAtonement
Julian BarnesThe Sense of an Ending
J. M. CoetzeeDisgrace
V. S. NaipaulA House for Mr Biswas
Mario Vargas LlosaThe Feast of the Goat
Isabel AllendeThe House of the Spirits
Roberto Bolano2666- Hilary MantelWolf Hall
Donna TarttThe Goldfinch
Marilynne RobinsonGilead
Michael ChabonKavalier & Clay
Jhumpa LahiriThe Namesake
Colson WhiteheadUnderground Railroad
Stephen KingThe Shining
Agatha ChristieMurder on the Orient Express
Sinclair LewisMain Street
Edith WhartonThe Age of Innocence
Willa CatherMy Antonia