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Martin Eden
Jack London
4.48 average rating, · 58k ratings
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The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson
4.29 average rating, · 107.5k ratings
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Nine Stories
J.D. Salinger
4.18 average rating, · 149.8k ratings
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Ham on Rye
Charles Bukowski
4.13 average rating, · 121.7k ratings
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Cannery Row
John Steinbeck
4.06 average rating, · 159.4k ratings
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Howl and Other Poems
Allen Ginsberg
4.13 average rating, · 120.5k ratings
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Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition
Walt Whitman
4.11 average rating, · 118.3k ratings
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The Waste Land and Other Poems
T.S. Eliot
4.21 average rating, · 74.9k ratings
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The Collected Poems
Sylvia Plath
4.25 average rating, · 51.7k ratings
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Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
David Foster Wallace
4.18 average rating, · 55.3k ratings
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Welcome to the Monkey House
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
4.13 average rating, · 65.5k ratings
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Poetry of Robert Frost, The
Robert Frost
4.24 average rating, · 49.5k ratings
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Cathedral
Raymond Carver
4.24 average rating, · 41.4k ratings
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The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
4.29 average rating, · 38.4k ratings
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The Crossing
Cormac McCarthy
4.17 average rating, · 49.5k ratings
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Edward Albee
4.06 average rating, · 74.6k ratings
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How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
Daniel Immerwahr
4.45 average rating, · 24.6k ratings
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The Road Not Taken and Other Poems
Robert Frost
4.27 average rating, · 40.4k ratings
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The Waste Land
T.S. Eliot
4.11 average rating, · 60.5k ratings
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Tennessee Williams
4.06 average rating, · 65.3k ratings
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Butcher's Crossing
John Williams
4.18 average rating, · 41.3k ratings
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Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction
J.D. Salinger
4.10 average rating, · 54.2k ratings
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The Schopenhauer Cure
Irvin D. Yalom
4.28 average rating, · 32.1k ratings
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A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
Lucia Berlin
4.19 average rating, · 37.7k ratings
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- Short Stories
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