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Pride and Prejudice
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1984
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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Moby-Dick
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The Great Gatsby
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War and Peace
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Crime and Punishment
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The Catcher in the Rye
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The Odyssey
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The Iliad
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The Divine Comedy
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Don Quixote
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
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The Brothers Karamazov
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Anna Karenina
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Madame Bovary
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Jane Eyre
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Wuthering Heights
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Middlemarch
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Great Expectations
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David Copperfield
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Bleak House
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The Hobbit
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The Lord of the Rings
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The Silmarillion
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Ulysses
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Dubliners
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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The Sound and the Fury
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As I Lay Dying
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The Grapes of Wrath
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Of Mice and Men
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East of Eden
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The Old Man and the Sea
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A Farewell to Arms
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
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Lolita
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Brave New World
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Fahrenheit 451
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Slaughterhouse-Five
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Beloved
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Invisible Man
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Native Son
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Things Fall Apart
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The Stranger
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The Plague
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The Trial
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The Metamorphosis
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In Search of Lost Time
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The Sun Also Rises
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The Handmaid’s Tale
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The Bell Jar
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The Color Purple
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
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The Name of the Rose
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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Norwegian Wood
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The Kite Runner
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Life of Pi
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The Road
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Blood Meridian
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The Left Hand of Darkness
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Dune
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Neuromancer
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Snow Crash
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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The Martian
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
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The Da Vinci Code
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The Alchemist
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The Little Prince
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The Call of the Wild
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White Fang
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The Scarlet Letter
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The House of the Spirits
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Love in the Time of Cholera
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The Remains of the Day
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Never Let Me Go
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The God of Small Things
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The Tale of Genji
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Journey to the West
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The Three Musketeers
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Les Misérables
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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
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The Red and the Black
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A Tale of Two Cities
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Dracula
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Frankenstein
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The Time Machine
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Mary Shelley
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Jane Austen
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Charlotte Brontë
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George Eliot
Austen wrote this 1813 novel about Elizabeth Bennet, satirizing class, marriage, and manners in Regency England.
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Ray Bradbury
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Arthur Koestler
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George Orwell
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Aldous Huxley
Orwell authored this dystopia about Big Brother, Newspeak, and pervasive surveillance crushing individuality in totalitarian Oceania.
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Harper Lee
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Flannery O’Connor
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Carson McCullers
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Truman Capote
Lee’s Pulitzer winner follows Scout Finch as racial injustice and moral courage shape her understanding of Maycomb, Alabama.
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Joseph Conrad
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Herman Melville
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Stephen Crane
Melville penned this epic of Captain Ahab’s obsessive hunt for the white whale, mixing adventure, philosophy, and symbolism.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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William Faulkner
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Ernest Hemingway
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John Dos Passos
Fitzgerald wrote this Jazz Age tragedy about Jay Gatsby’s longing, wealth illusions, and moral decay narrated by Nick Carraway.
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Mikhail Bulgakov
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Leo Tolstoy
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Ivan Turgenev
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
Tolstoy authored this monumental saga intertwining aristocratic lives and Napoleonic invasions, exploring history, destiny, and personal morality.
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Anton Chekhov
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Nikolai Gogol
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Leo Tolstoy
Dostoevsky wrote this psychological novel about Raskolnikov’s murder, guilt, and search for redemption in nineteenth-century St. Petersburg.
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Jack Kerouac
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J.D. Salinger
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John Updike
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Norman Mailer
Salinger created Holden Caulfield’s voice, charting adolescent alienation, rebellion, and disillusionment in postwar New York City.
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Hesiod
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Virgil
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Homer
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Sophocles
Homer composed this epic poem recounting Odysseus’s perilous journey home, featuring divine interventions, monsters, and heroic cunning.
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Virgil
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Euripides
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Homer
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Aeschylus
Homer authored this epic centered on Achilles’s wrath during the Trojan War, exploring honor, fate, and human mortality.
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Dante Alighieri
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Torquato Tasso
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Giovanni Boccaccio
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Petrarch
Dante wrote this visionary poem guiding readers through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, synthesizing theology, philosophy, and poetic imagination.
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Miguel de Cervantes
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Tirso de Molina
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Lope de Vega
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Benito Pérez Galdós
Cervantes created the deluded knight-errant and Sancho Panza, satirizing chivalric romances and exploring idealism versus reality.
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Gabriel García Márquez
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Mario Vargas Llosa
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Carlos Fuentes
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Julio Cortázar
García Márquez authored this magical realist masterpiece chronicling the Buendía family’s cyclical fates in the town of Macondo.
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Leo Tolstoy
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Ivan Turgenev
Dostoevsky’s final novel interrogates faith, free will, and patricide through the turbulent experiences of the Karamazov brothers.
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Mikhail Lermontov
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Nikolai Chernyshevsky
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Leo Tolstoy
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Ivan Goncharov
Tolstoy wrote this tragic tale of passion and society’s constraints, paralleling Anna’s affair with Levin’s spiritual search.
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Alphonse Daudet
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Gustave Flaubert
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Émile Zola
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Honoré de Balzac
Flaubert’s realist classic portrays Emma Bovary’s romantic illusions and financial ruin while critiquing provincial bourgeois life.
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Charlotte Brontë
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Elizabeth Gaskell
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Emily Brontë
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Anne Brontë
Charlotte Brontë penned this bildungsroman about moral independence, resilience, and complicated love for Edward Rochester at Thornfield.
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George Eliot
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Charlotte Brontë
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Anne Brontë
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Emily Brontë
Emily Brontë wrote this gothic tale of destructive passion between Heathcliff and Catherine amid the Yorkshire moors.
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George Eliot
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Elizabeth Gaskell
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Anthony Trollope
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Thomas Hardy
George Eliot’s panoramic novel examines provincial ambitions, reform, and marriage through intertwined lives in the town of Middlemarch.
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Anthony Trollope
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George Gissing
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Charles Dickens
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Wilkie Collins
Dickens authored Pip’s coming-of-age story, confronting class illusions and the mystery of his unexpected benefactor.
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George Eliot
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Thomas Hardy
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Charles Dickens
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William Makepeace Thackeray
Dickens drew on autobiography to chart David’s growth from hardship to authorship amid vivid Victorian characters and social critique.
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Charles Dickens
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Wilkie Collins
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Thomas Hardy
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Elizabeth Gaskell
Dickens wrote this satire of Chancery’s endless lawsuits, weaving mystery through Esther Summerson’s narrative and London fog.
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J.R.R. Tolkien
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Philip Pullman
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C.S. Lewis
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Ursula K. Le Guin
Tolkien created Bilbo Baggins’s adventure from the Shire to Smaug’s lair, introducing Middle-earth’s enduring mythic world.
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George R.R. Martin
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Robert Jordan
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J.R.R. Tolkien
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Terry Brooks
Tolkien authored this epic trilogy about destroying the One Ring, exploring fellowship, sacrifice, and the corrupting lure of power.
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Lloyd Alexander
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J.R.R. Tolkien
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Robert E. Howard
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Christopher Paolini
Tolkien’s posthumously edited mythic histories recount creation, Valar, and First Age tragedies underlying Middle-earth’s deep lore.
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Henry James
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Bram Stoker
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Thomas Hardy
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Oscar Wilde
Wilde wrote this decadent novel where Dorian’s portrait bears corruption while he remains outwardly youthful and charming.
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T.S. Eliot
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D.H. Lawrence
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Ezra Pound
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James Joyce
Joyce authored this modernist masterpiece paralleling Homer, using stream-of-consciousness across a single day in Dublin.
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James Joyce
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Samuel Beckett
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Seán O’Casey
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W.B. Yeats
Joyce’s story collection captures epiphanies and paralysis in early twentieth-century Dublin, culminating with the luminous finale, “The Dead.”
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Joseph Conrad
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E.M. Forster
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Thomas Mann
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James Joyce
Joyce charted Stephen Dedalus’s intellectual awakening and rebellion against family, religion, nation, and artistic convention.
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John Steinbeck
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William Faulkner
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Thomas Wolfe
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Eudora Welty
Faulkner’s innovative novel portrays the Compson family’s decline via fragmented narration and shifting, nonlinear time.
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Carson McCullers
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Katherine Anne Porter
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William Faulkner
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Flannery O’Connor
Faulkner used multiple narrators to chronicle the Bundrens’ harrowing, darkly comic journey to bury their matriarch.
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Upton Sinclair
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Sherwood Anderson
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Sinclair Lewis
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John Steinbeck
Steinbeck wrote this Dust Bowl epic following the Joads westward, exposing economic injustice and migrant resilience.
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John Steinbeck
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Erskine Caldwell
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William Saroyan
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James Agee
Steinbeck’s poignant novella depicts George and Lennie’s fragile dream of landownership and heartbreaking, morally complex ending.
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Thomas Hardy
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William Faulkner
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John Steinbeck
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Willa Cather
Steinbeck reimagined Cain and Abel themes in California’s Salinas Valley, probing free will, inheritance, and moral choice.
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John Steinbeck
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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J.D. Salinger
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Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway wrote this novella about Santiago’s epic struggle with a marlin, exemplifying stoic endurance and spare prose.
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Erich Maria Remarque
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Ernest Hemingway
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Joseph Heller
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Ford Madox Ford
Hemingway authored this tragic World War I romance between an American ambulance driver and a British nurse in Italy.
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Kurt Vonnegut
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Graham Greene
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Ernest Hemingway
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George Orwell
Hemingway wrote this Spanish Civil War novel about duty, sacrifice, and love during a dangerous mission behind enemy lines.
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Thomas Pynchon
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Saul Bellow
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John Barth
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Vladimir Nabokov
Nabokov penned this controversial novel with dazzling prose and unreliable narration, interrogating obsession and moral transgression.
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Aldous Huxley
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Yevgeny Zamyatin
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George Orwell
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Margaret Atwood
Huxley imagined a hedonistic, engineered society where conditioning, conformity, and consumerism stifle individuality and authentic emotion.
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Philip K. Dick
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Ray Bradbury
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Isaac Asimov
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Arthur C. Clarke
Bradbury wrote this dystopia about firemen burning books, with Montag’s awakening to literature’s subversive, liberating power.
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Thomas Pynchon
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Kurt Vonnegut
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Joseph Heller
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Don DeLillo
Vonnegut blended satire, trauma, and time travel to depict Billy Pilgrim and the Dresden firebombing’s absurd horrors.
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Alice Walker
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Zora Neale Hurston
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Toni Morrison
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Nella Larsen
Morrison authored this haunting novel about memory, motherhood, and slavery’s lingering scars confronting a ghostly, traumatic past.
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Ralph Ellison
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Richard Wright
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James Baldwin
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Langston Hughes
Ellison wrote this landmark novel about identity, race, and social invisibility, combining surreal episodes with incisive critique.
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Richard Wright
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Chester Himes
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James Baldwin
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Ralph Ellison
Wright’s explosive novel follows Bigger Thomas, exposing systemic racism, poverty, and constrained choices with stark naturalism.
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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
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Ben Okri
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Chinua Achebe
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Wole Soyinka
Achebe portrayed Igbo society’s disruption by colonialism through Okonkwo’s tragic resistance and cultural conflict in Umuofia.
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André Gide
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Marcel Camus
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Jean-Paul Sartre
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Albert Camus
Camus authored this existential classic featuring Meursault’s detached perspective and confrontation with absurdity after a senseless killing.
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Marguerite Duras
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Romain Gary
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Albert Camus
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André Malraux
Camus allegorized fascism and resilience as Oran battles epidemic terror, testing solidarity, meaning, and moral responsibility.
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Franz Kafka
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Thomas Mann
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Hermann Broch
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Robert Musil
Kafka wrote this nightmarish tale of Josef K. entangled in inscrutable bureaucracy and oppressive, surreal authority.
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Stefan Zweig
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Rainer Maria Rilke
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Franz Kafka
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Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Kafka’s novella begins with Gregor Samsa transformed into an insect, exploring alienation, family burden, and dehumanization.
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Marcel Proust
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Paul Valéry
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André Gide
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Anatole France
Proust authored this monumental cycle meditating on memory, time, desire, and involuntary recollection triggered by a madeleine.
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Ernest Hemingway
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John Dos Passos
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Ezra Pound
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
Hemingway depicted Lost Generation disillusionment through expatriates in Paris and Spain, emphasizing spare dialogue and ritual.
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Naomi Alderman
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Ursula K. Le Guin
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Octavia E. Butler
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Margaret Atwood
Atwood wrote this dystopia about patriarchal theocracy and reproductive control, narrated by Offred’s harrowing, reflective voice.
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Sylvia Plath
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Virginia Woolf
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Elizabeth Bishop
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Anne Sexton
Plath authored this semi-autobiographical novel portraying Esther Greenwood’s psychological crisis and scrutiny of societal expectations.
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Ntozake Shange
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Alice Walker
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Maya Angelou
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Toni Morrison
Walker wrote this epistolary novel tracing Celie’s journey from oppression to empowerment through sisterhood and spiritual awakening.
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Alice Walker
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Ann Petry
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Nella Larsen
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Zora Neale Hurston
Hurston’s lyrical tale follows Janie Crawford’s quest for autonomy and love across marriages and a devastating hurricane.
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Italo Calvino
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Primo Levi
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Alessandro Manzoni
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Umberto Eco
Eco authored this medieval mystery blending semiotics, heresy, and detection as murders plague a Benedictine abbey’s library.
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Kenzaburō Ōe
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Yasunari Kawabata
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Natsume Sōseki
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Haruki Murakami
Murakami wrote this surreal, hypnotic novel mixing mystery, historical trauma, and suburban ennui during Toru Okada’s search.
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Haruki Murakami
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Yoko Ogawa
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Banana Yoshimoto
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Hiromi Kawakami
Murakami authored this melancholic coming-of-age story exploring love, loss, memory, and student unrest in 1960s Tokyo.
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Hisham Matar
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Khaled Hosseini
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Mohsin Hamid
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Orhan Pamuk
Hosseini’s debut portrays friendship, betrayal, and redemption from Kabul to California against Afghanistan’s turbulent history.
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Yann Martel
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Michael Ondaatje
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Salman Rushdie
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Rohinton Mistry
Martel wrote this philosophical survival tale of Pi and a Bengal tiger adrift, exploring faith and storytelling.
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Cormac McCarthy
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Richard Powers
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David Foster Wallace
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Don DeLillo
McCarthy authored this post-apocalyptic odyssey of a father and son, emphasizing love, morality, and carrying the fire.
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Thomas McGuane
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Larry McMurtry
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Cormac McCarthy
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Jim Harrison
McCarthy wrote this brutal western about the Kid and Judge Holden, interrogating violence, manifest destiny, and nihilism.
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Joanna Russ
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Ursula K. Le Guin
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Anne McCaffrey
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Octavia E. Butler
Le Guin authored this Hainish novel examining gender, politics, and loyalty on the ambisexual world of Gethen.
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Robert A. Heinlein
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Frank Herbert
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Arthur C. Clarke
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Isaac Asimov
Herbert wrote this epic of ecology, prophecy, and politics as Paul Atreides rises on desert planet Arrakis.
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Bruce Sterling
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William Gibson
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Neal Stephenson
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Philip K. Dick
Gibson authored this cyberpunk landmark introducing cyberspace, console cowboys, and AI intrigue in a networked future.
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William Gibson
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Neal Stephenson
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Rudy Rucker
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Cory Doctorow
Stephenson wrote this satirical thriller featuring hackers, the Metaverse, and a memetic virus mixing linguistics and mythology.
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Terry Pratchett
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Tom Holt
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Douglas Adams
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Jasper Fforde
Adams created this comedic space odyssey beginning with Earth’s demolition and introducing improbable adventures with a very useful towel.
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Andy Weir
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Alastair Reynolds
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Kim Stanley Robinson
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Neal Stephenson
Weir authored this survival story of astronaut Mark Watney engineering solutions on Mars with humor and realistic science.
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Henning Mankell
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Jo Nesbø
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Camilla Läckberg
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Stieg Larsson
Larsson wrote this thriller pairing journalist Mikael Blomkvist with hacker Lisbeth Salander to unravel dark family secrets.
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Clive Cussler
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Dan Brown
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James Rollins
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Steve Berry
Brown authored this conspiracy thriller where symbologist Robert Langdon deciphers art clues and secret societies across Europe.
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Gabriel García Márquez
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Isabel Allende
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Jorge Amado
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Paulo Coelho
Coelho wrote this allegorical fable about shepherd Santiago pursuing his Personal Legend through destiny, omens, and self-discovery.
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Marcel Pagnol
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Colette
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Jean de Brunhoff
Saint-Exupéry authored this poetic tale exploring love, loneliness, and imagination through a pilot’s encounter with a wise child.
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Upton Sinclair
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Frank Norris
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Bret Harte
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Jack London
London wrote this adventure of Buck’s primal awakening amid Yukon hardships, exploring nature, survival, and ancestral memory.
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Rudyard Kipling
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Zane Grey
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Jack London
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Edgar Rice Burroughs
London authored this companion novel tracing a wolfdog’s brutal upbringing and eventual redemption through compassion and trust.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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James Fenimore Cooper
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Washington Irving
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Herman Melville
Hawthorne wrote this Puritan drama examining sin, hypocrisy, and resilience as Hester Prynne bears an embroidered A.
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Laura Esquivel
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Elena Ferrante
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Isabel Allende
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Clarice Lispector
Allende authored this multigenerational saga blending magical realism and Chilean politics through the tumultuous Trueba family.
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Carlos Ruiz Zafón
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Gabriel García Márquez
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Roberto Bolaño
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Mario Vargas Llosa
García Márquez wrote this novel depicting enduring, obsessive love over decades with irony, humor, and Caribbean atmosphere.
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Kazuo Ishiguro
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Martin Amis
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Julian Barnes
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Ian McEwan
Ishiguro authored this restrained narrative of a butler reflecting on dignity, missed opportunities, and complicity before war.
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Zadie Smith
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David Mitchell
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Kazuo Ishiguro
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Ali Smith
Ishiguro wrote this elegiac dystopia about Hailsham students uncovering unsettling truths, exploring memory, identity, and resignation.
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Jhumpa Lahiri
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Salman Rushdie
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Kiran Desai
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Arundhati Roy
Roy authored this Booker-winning novel of forbidden love and caste constraints in Kerala, told with lyrical, nonlinear narration.
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Murasaki Shikibu
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Sei Shōnagon
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Chikamatsu Monzaemon
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Bashō
Murasaki wrote this Heian-era masterpiece exploring courtly romance, aesthetics, and impermanence through Prince Genji’s relationships.
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Luo Guanzhong
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Cao Xueqin
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Shi Nai’an
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Wu Cheng’en
Wu composed this mythic adventure following Monk Xuanzang and the Monkey King’s quest for scriptures across perilous lands.
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Prosper Mérimée
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Victor Hugo
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Jules Verne
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Alexandre Dumas
Dumas authored this swashbuckling tale of camaraderie and intrigue as d’Artagnan joins Athos, Porthos, and Aramis.
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Stendhal
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Victor Hugo
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Honoré de Balzac
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Alphonse de Lamartine
Hugo wrote this sweeping novel confronting justice, grace, and inequality through Jean Valjean and his relentless pursuer, Javert.
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Guy de Maupassant
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Victor Hugo
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Émile Zola
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Gustave Flaubert
Hugo authored this gothic tragedy centered on Quasimodo and Esmeralda, emphasizing fate, prejudice, and medieval Paris’s grandeur.
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Stendhal
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Prosper Mérimée
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Honoré de Balzac
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Gustave Flaubert
Stendhal wrote this psychological novel about Julien Sorel’s ambition and hypocrisy within Restoration-era society’s rigid hierarchies.
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Alexandre Dumas
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Victor Hugo
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Wilkie Collins
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Charles Dickens
Dickens authored this historical drama contrasting London and Paris during the French Revolution, highlighting sacrifice and resurrection.
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Bram Stoker
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Mary Shelley
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M.R. James
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Sheridan Le Fanu
Stoker wrote this epistolary horror introducing Count Dracula and shaping modern vampire mythology and Gothic conventions.
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Mary Shelley
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Ann Radcliffe
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Bram Stoker
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H.P. Lovecraft
Shelley authored this novel examining creation, responsibility, and alienation as Victor Frankenstein confronts his monstrous consequences.
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Jules Verne
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H.G. Wells
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Arthur Conan Doyle
Wells wrote this pioneering science fiction sending a traveler into distant futures with Eloi and Morlocks’ stark contrast.
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