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Hamlet
1600

On the Road
1955

The History of the Hobbit, Part One: Mr. Baggins
2007

Paradise Lost
1667

Aesop's Fables
-560

Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
1993

The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
1998

The Tao of Pooh
1982

A Room of One's Own
1929

Shakespeare's Sonnets
1592

The Prayer of Jabez: Breaking Through to the Blessed Life
2000

Possession
1990

Cat's Eye
1988

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
1798

History of Beauty
2004

The Road to the Dark Tower: Exploring Stephen King's Magnum Opus
2004

The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
1942

Creepshow
1982

Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table
1485

Hamilton: The Revolution
2016

100 Selected Poems
1954

Politics
-350

Love Is a Mix Tape
2007

Perfect You
2008

Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
1996

The Comedy of Errors
1594

The Complete Poetry and Prose
1965

UR
2009

The Te of Piglet
1992

King Arthur and His Knights: Selected Tales
1860

How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
2003

Harry, a History: The True Story of a Boy Wizard, His Fans, and Life Inside the Harry Potter Phenomenon
2008

Selected Poems
1949

The List
1997

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
1689

Selected Poems
1994

The Brothers K
1992

Dom Casmurro
1899

Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991
2001

Poetics
-335

The Anti-Christ
1888

The Girl Who Was on Fire: Your Favorite Authors on Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games Trilogy
2011

Harry Potter and Philosophy: If Aristotle Ran Hogwarts
2004

Songbook
2003

Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street: A Life of the World's First Consulting Detective
1962

Hammer of the Gods
1985

The Diary of a Young Girl
1947

Memoirs of a Geisha
1997

The Book Thief
2005

Gone with the Wind
1936

Steve Jobs
2011

The Poisonwood Bible
1998

Eleanor & Park
2013

All the Light We Cannot See
2014

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
2008

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
2010

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
2005

Sarah's Key
2007

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
2003

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
1997

The Sun Also Rises
1926

Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
2006

The Nightingale
2015

All Quiet on the Western Front
1929

The BFG
1982

The Fountainhead
1943

The Crucible
1953

Beloved
1987

The Unbearable Lightness of Being
1984

The Name of the Rose
1980

A Little Princess
1905

Little House on the Prairie (Little House, #2)
1935

The Three Musketeers
1844

For Whom the Bell Tolls
1940

Cold Mountain
1997

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
1997

War and Peace
1869

The Invention of Wings
2014

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
1994

The Art of War
-500

The Story of Art
1950

Timeline
1999

Life After Life
2013

A People's History of the United States
1980

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
2000

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
1994

The Invention of Hugo Cabret
2007

Everything Is Illuminated
2002

The Master and Margarita
1967

1776
2005

The Reader
1995

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
1831

Roots: The Saga of an American Family
1976

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
2007

The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
2013

Seabiscuit: An American Legend
1999

Sophie's World
1991

The Remains of the Day
1989

The Witch of Blackbird Pond
1958

Year of Wonders
2001
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