literary fiction
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The Bluest Eye
Half of a Yellow Sun
Americanah
Of Mice and Men
American Pastoral
East of Eden
Bring Up the Bodies
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Midnight's Children
The Road
Pride and Prejudice
The Sign of Four
Lolita
Dubliners
Novels (Pride and Prejudice / Sense and Sensibility)
La Chute
Ensaio Sobre a Cegueira
The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Play It as It Lays
De ontdekking van de hemel
Cutting for Stone
Just After Sunset
A sense of words
A Gentleman in Moscow
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CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
The God of Small Things
The Complete Sherlock Holmes [1/2] (Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Hound of the Baskervilles / Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes / Study in Scarlet / Sign of Four)
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