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Charlotte's Web (E.B. White)
Charlotte's Web
41
E.B. White
Children of Gebelawi
Children of Gebelawi
42
Cities of Salt
Cities of Salt
43
Clarissa (Samuel Richardson)
Clarissa
44
Samuel Richardson
A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)
A Clockwork Orange
45
Anthony Burgess
The Color Purple (Alice Walker)
The Color Purple
46
Alice Walker
The Complete Essays of Montaigne
The Complete Essays of Montaigne
47
The Complete Fairy Tales (Hans Christian Andersen)
The Complete Fairy Tales
48
Hans Christian Andersen
The Complete Poems of Emily Bronte (Hatfield)
The Complete Poems of Emily Bronte
49
Hatfield
The Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe (Edgar Allen Poe)
The Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe
50
Edgar Allen Poe
The Complete Stories Kafka
The Complete Stories Kafka
51
The Counterfeiters (André Gide)
The Counterfeiters
52
André Gide
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment
53
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Crucible (Arthur Miller)
The Crucible
54
Arthur Miller
Darkness at Noon (Arthur Koestler)
Darkness at Noon
55
Arthur Koestler
Dead Souls (Nikolai Gogol)
Dead Souls
56
Nikolai Gogol
Death Comes for the Archbishop (Willa Cather)
Death Comes for the Archbishop
57
Willa Cather
The Death of Artemio Cruz (Carlos Fuentes)
The Death of Artemio Cruz
58
Carlos Fuentes
The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Leo Tolstoy)
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
59
Leo Tolstoy
Death of a Salesman (Arthur Miller)
Death of a Salesman
60
Arthur Miller
The Decameron (Giovanni Boccaccio)
The Decameron
61
Giovanni Boccaccio
Demons (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Demons
62
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands (João Guimarães Rosa)
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
63
João Guimarães Rosa
Diary of a Madman (Lu Xun)
Diary of a Madman
64
Lu Xun
The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)
The Divine Comedy
65
Dante Alighieri
A Doll's House (Henrik Ibsen)
A Doll's House
66
Henrik Ibsen
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote
67
Miguel De Cervantes
Dracula (Bram Stoker)
Dracula
68
Bram Stoker
Dream of the Red Chamber (Cao Xueqin)
Dream of the Red Chamber
69
Cao Xueqin
Emma (Jane Austen)
Emma
70
Jane Austen
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Anonymous)
The Epic of Gilgamesh
71
Anonymous
The Essential Rumi (Rumi)
The Essential Rumi
72
Rumi
Ethan Frome (Edith Wharton)
Ethan Frome
73
Edith Wharton
Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway)
Farewell to Arms
74
Ernest Hemingway
Fathers and Sons (Ivan Turgenev)
Fathers and Sons
75
Ivan Turgenev
Faust (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
Faust
76
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Ficciones (Jorge Luis Borges)
Ficciones
77
Jorge Luis Borges
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
78
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Not Enuf (Ntozake Shange)
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Not Enuf
79
Ntozake Shange
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway)
For Whom the Bell Tolls
80
Ernest Hemingway
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