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Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist by Roger Lowenstein |
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John Adams by David McCullough |
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The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down by Colin Woodard |
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The Harvard Medical School Guide to Men’s Health: Lessons from the Harvard Men’s Health Studies by Harvey B. Simon |
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Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson |
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Real Leadership: Helping People and Organizations Face Their Toughest Challenges by Dean Williams |
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Augustine’s Laws, 6th Edition by Norman R. Augustine |
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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley |
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The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights (Modern Library MM) by Anonymous |
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A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess |
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Rhythms of the Brain by Gyorgy Buzsaki |
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The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick) by Seth Godin |
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Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb |
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Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand |
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The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It by Michael E. Gerber |
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Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra |
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Lolita (Penguin Modern Classics) by Vladimir Nabokov |
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Walden: (Writings of Henry D. Thoreau) by Henry David Thoreau |
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The House of the Seven Gables (Norton Critical Edition) by Nathaniel Hawthorne |
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The Deadline: A Novel About Project Management by Tom Demarco |
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Neuromancer by William Gibson |
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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley |
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The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights (Modern Library MM) by Anonymous |
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A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess |
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Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb |
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values by Robert M. Pirsig |
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Sophie’s World (Paperback) by Jostein Gaarder |
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The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas |
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The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells |
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A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens |
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Moby Dick by Herman Melville |
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The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini |
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The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien |
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A Random Walk Down Wall Street: Completely Revised and Updated Edition by Burton G. Malkiel |
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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb |
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Ender’s Game (Ender’s Saga, Book 1) by Orson Scott Card |
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The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss |
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Founders at Work: Stories of Startups Early Days by Jessica Livingston |
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The Scarlet Letter (Penguin Classics) by Nathaniel Hawthorne |
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Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (2nd Edition) by Stuart J. Russell |
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The Giver by Lois Lowry |
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1984 by George Orwell |
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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Dover Thrift Editions) by Edwin A. Abbott |
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Beating the Street by Peter Lynch |
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The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, 20th Anniversary Edition by Frederick Phillips Brooks |
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The Best Software Writing I: Selected and Introduced by Joel Spolsky by Joel Spolsky |
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Agile Web Development with Rails: A Pragmatic Guide (Pragmatic Programmers) by Dave Thomas |
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Smart and Gets Things Done: Joel Spolsky’s Concise Guide to Finding the Best Technical Talent by Joel Spolsky |
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The Art of Learning: A Journey in the Pursuit of Excellence by Josh Waitzkin |
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Liar’s Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street by Michael Lewis |
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The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down by Colin Woodard |
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Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson |
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How to Read a Book (A Touchstone Book) by Mortimer J. Adler |
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Law 101: Everything You Need to Know about the American Legal System by Jay M. Feinman |
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In Cold Blood by Truman Capote |
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The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
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My Secret: A PostSecret Book (Postsecret) by Frank Warren |
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What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman |
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell |
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Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age by Paul Graham |
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Beyond the Chocolate War by Robert Cormier |
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One Up On Wall Street : How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In The Market by Peter Lynch |
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The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley |
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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb |
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Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character) by Richard P. Feynman |
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A Brief History of Time by Stephen W. Hawking |
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Five Dialogues by Plato |
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Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine |
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The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier |
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Sphere by Michael Crichton |
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Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton |
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The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams |
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The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton |
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Children of the Mind (Ender’s Saga, Book 4) by Orson Scott Card |
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Xenocide (Ender’s Saga, Book 3) by Orson Scott Card |
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Speaker for the Dead (Ender’s Saga, Book 2) by Orson Scott Card |
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams |
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Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond |
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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury |
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A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle |
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Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser |
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When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management by Roger Lowenstein |
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey |
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How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie |
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Freakonomics Rev Ed: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt |
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Catch-22 by Joseph Heller |
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I, Robot by Isaac Asimov |
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The Grapes of Wrath (Penguin Classics) by John Steinbeck |
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Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse |
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Oxford World’s Classics) by Arthur Conan Doyle |
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Around the World in 80 Days (Aladdin Classics) by Jules Verne |
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Purloined Letter and Murders in Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe |
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Candide and Other Stories (Oxford World’s Classics) by Voltaire |
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The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master by Andrew Hunt |
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Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter |
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The Alchemist (Plus) by Paulo Coelho |
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Angels And Demons by Dan Brown |
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Of Mice and Men (Centennial Edition) by John Steinbeck |
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6) by J.K. Rowling |
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The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown |
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Book 2) by J.K. Rowling |
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The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein |
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Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut |
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Animal Farm by George Orwell |
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Lord of the Flies by William Golding |
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5) by J.K. Rowling |
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4) by J.K. Rowling |
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3) by J.K. Rowling |
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) by J.K. Rowling |
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Book 1) by J.K. Rowling |
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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee |
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Getting Past No: Negotiating Your Way from Confrontation to Cooperation by William Ury |
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Star Wars: Legacy of the Force 1 – Betrayal by Aaron Allston |
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Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein |
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The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane |
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Leaves of Grass (Enriched Classics) by Walt Whitman |
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The Monk and the Riddle: The Art of Creating a Life While Making a Living by Randy Komisar |
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Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age by Paul Graham |
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The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything by Guy Kawasaki |
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The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas L. Friedman |
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The Republic (Penguin Classics) by Plato |
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Hatchet by Gary Paulsen |
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Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt |
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Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson |
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The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster |
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Congo by Michael Crichton |
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Shadow of the Giant (Shadow Series, Book 4) by Orson Scott Card |
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The Martian Chronicles (The Grand Master Editions) by Ray Bradbury |
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Shadow Puppets (Shadow Series, Book 3) by Orson Scott Card |
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So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams |
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Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams |
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The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams |
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Dune by Frank Herbert |
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Shadow of the Hegemon (Shadow Series, Book 2) by Orson Scott Card |
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The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America (The Book) by Jon Stewart |
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King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild |
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Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky |
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Hamlet by William Shakespeare |
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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank |
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Penguin Classics) by Mark Twain |
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The Odyssey by Homer |
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare |
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The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization by Thomas L. Friedman |
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Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by Jim Collins |
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Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In by Roger Fisher |
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Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen |
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell |
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Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki |
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Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe |
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The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger |
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The Hamlet by William Faulkner |
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Native Son (Perennial Classics) by Richard Wright |
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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein |
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A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway |
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All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque |
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Heart of Darkness (Dover Thrift Editions) by Joseph Conrad |
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The Invisible Man (Paperback) by H. G. Wells |
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Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy |
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Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson |
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The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy |
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Treasure Island (Kingfisher Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson |
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (Graphic Classics) by Jules Verne |
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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë |
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Aesop’s Fables (Oxford World’s Classics) by Aesop |
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 2) by C.S. Lewis |
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain |
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Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare |
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon |
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Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein |
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The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, Part 1) by J.R.R. Tolkien |
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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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The Magic of Thinking Big by David Schwartz |
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Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel by Rolf Potts |
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Go Green, Live Rich: 50 Simple Ways to Save the Earth and Get Rich Trying by David Bach |
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Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t by Jim Collins |
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