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Reading list: Sarah's 1001 Books to Read before she Dies Part I: A-G
This is my personal list of 1001 books I would REALLY like to read before I die (I may not make it through them all in time).
This list is made up of books from the original 1001 Books to Read Before You Die that I felt I had a realistic possibility of getting my hands on (there were many books on the original list that were so old that I'd never be able to find them to borrow or buy, books that hadn't necessarily been translated into English or if they had they still weren't that easy to find), books that the character Rory Gilmore read on the show Gilmore Girls, and books that I came across to populate some of the unpopular letters of the alphabet (there are surprisingly few authors with a last name that begins with O).
I have tried not to add more than one book by the same author. It seemed like cheating to include all of Patricia Cornwell's books (the ones I haven't read) on the list because I know I can sprint through them with no problem. I see this list as a bit of a challenge, so while I want to enjoy all the books I put on the list, I also want to expand my reading horizons and I'm not going to do that if half the list is made up of my favourite authors who I KNOW I'm going to love.
I hope anyone who takes a look finds it interesting and maybe finds some new books to add to their to read list. I invite you all to make comments on what you think of my book choices. Have I missed out a vital book, is there a book on here that you've read that you would highly recommend I DON'T read?
*UPDATE*
I have now been informed that these lists can only be 500 books long (could have told me that before I added the last 50 books!, that's hours of book adding wasted). So since 1001 can't be divided into two lists of 500 or under, I'll make it into three lists of approximately 333 books each.
Books: 341
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by Chinua Achebe
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by Diane Ackerman
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by Peter Ackroyd
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by Douglas Adams
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by John Lawrence, Richard Adams
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by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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by Aravind Adiga
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by Lara Adrian
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by Cecelia Ahern
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by Mitch Albom
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by Louisa May Alcott, Laura Ciolkowski
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by Anonymous, Michael Alexander
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by Robert Alexander
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by Sherman Alexie, Ellen Forney
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by Kurt Vonnegut, Daniel Simon, Studs Terkel, Nelson Algren, William J. Savage Jr.
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by Monica Ali
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by Isabel Allende
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by Eric Ambler
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by Kingsley Amis
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by Martin Amis
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by Catherine Anderson
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by Carmen Callil, Jessica Anderson
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by Laurie Halse Anderson
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by M.T. Anderson
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by Taylor Anderson
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by Ilona Andrews
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by Maya Angelou
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by A. Manette Ansay
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by Jeffrey Archer
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by Michael Arlen
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by Jay Asher
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by Leonard Ashley
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by Mike Ashley
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by Margaret Atwood
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by Margaret Atwood
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by Edward St Aubyn
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by Louis Auchincloss
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by Jean M. Auel
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by Jane Austen, Gillian Beer
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by Paul Auster
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by Louise Austin
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by Natalie Babbitt
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by Beryl Bainbridge
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by R. Scott Bakker
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by David Baldacci
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by James Baldwin
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by J.G. Ballard
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by Mary Balogh
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by Francine Prose, Honoré de Balzac, Kathleen Raine
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by Iain Banks
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by Muriel Barbery
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by Pat Barker
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by T.S. Eliot, Jeanette Winterson, Djuna Barnes
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by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
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by Julian Barnes
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by Max Barry
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by John Barth
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by Donald Antrim, Donald Barthelme
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by Jon Jefferson, Bill Bass
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by Jefferson Bass
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by Ishmael Beah
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by Richard Beard
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by Samuel Beckett, Patrick Bowles
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by Brendan Behan, Benedict Kiely
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by Saul Bellow, Phillip Roth
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by Anne Bennett
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by Arnold Bennett
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by Robert Jackson Bennett
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by Sabrina Benulis
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by Elizabeth Berg
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by John Berger
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by Louis de Bernières
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by Ingrid Betancourt
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by Frank Bill
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by Mark Billingham
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by Maeve Binchy
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by Holly Black
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by Sarah Blake
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by Michael Bliss
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by Judy Blume
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by Judy Blundell
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by Chris Bohjalian
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by S.J. Bolton
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by Elizabeth Bowen
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by William Boyd
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by T. C. Boyle
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by Ray Bradbury
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by Ann Brashares
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by Richard Brautigan
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by Libba Bray
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by Allison Brennan
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by Patricia Briggs
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by Vera Brittain, Mark Bostridge
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by Anne Bronte
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by Charlotte Brontë
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by Lucasta Miller, Pauline Nestor, Emily Brontë
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by Anita Brookner
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by Geraldine Brooks
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by Dan Brown
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by George Mackay Brown
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by John Buchan
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by Pearl S. Buck
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by Mikhail Bulgakov, Diana Burgin, Katherine Tiernan O'Connor
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by Anthony Burgess
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by James Lee Burke
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by Frances Hodgson Burnett
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by Fanny Burney
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by William S. Burroughs, James Grauerholz, Barry Miles
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by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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by Jim Butcher
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by Judith Butler
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by Samuel Butler
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by A.S. Byatt
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by James M. Cain
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by Erskine Caldwell
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by Italo Calvino
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by Stuart Gilbert, Albert Camus
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by Truman Capote
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by Orson Scott Card
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by Peter Carey
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by Janet Lee Carey
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by Thad Carhart
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by Isobelle Carmody
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by John le Carré
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by Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel, Hugh Haughton
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by Jim Carroll
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by Angela Carter
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by Ally Carter
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by Kristin Cashore
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by Kristin Cast, P.C. Cast
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by Willa Cather
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by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Ralph Manheim, William T. Vollmann
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by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, John Rutherford
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by Sandra Cisneros
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by Michael Chabon
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by Raymond Chandler
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by Bruce Chatwin
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by Nevill Coghill, Geoffrey Chaucer
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by Tracy Chevalier
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by Lincoln Child
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by Erskine Childers, Milton Bearden
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by Kate Chopin
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by Wayson Choy
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by Agatha Christie
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by Tom Clancy
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by Breena Clarke
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by Arthur C. Clarke
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by Pearl Cleage
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by Harlan Coben
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by Jonathan Coe
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by Paulo Coelho
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by Eleanor Coerr, Ronald Himler
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by J.M. Coetzee
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by Judith Ortiz Cofer
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by Martina Cole
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by Kresley Cole
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by Suzanne Collins
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by Wilkie Collins, Matthew Sweet
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by Jennet Conant
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by Joseph Conrad
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by Blanche Wiesen Cook
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by J. California Cooper
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by James Fenimore Cooper, Robert Tilton
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by Robert Coover
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by Justin Corfield, Robin Corfield
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by Robert Cormier
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by Kelly Corrigan
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by Bernard Cornwell
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by Patricia Cornwell
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by Jerry A. Coyne
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by Jim Crace
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by Amanda Craig
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by Stephen Crane
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by Greg Critser
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by Chris Crutcher
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by Melissa de la Cruz
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by Michael Cunningham
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by Christopher Paul Curtis
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by Roald Dahl
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by Eugenio Montale, Sandro Botticelli, Peter Armour, Dante Alighieri, Allen Mandelbaum
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by Edwidge Danticat
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by Andrew Davidson
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by Robertson Davies
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by Lydia Davis
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by Daniel Defoe, John Richetti
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by Don DeLillo
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by Kiran Desai
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by Sarah Dessen
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by Carl Deuker
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by Junot Diaz
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by Kate DiCamillo
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by Philip K. Dick, Robert Zelazny
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by Charles Dickens, Michael Slater
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by Amy Dickinson
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by Joan Didion
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by Annie Dillard
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by Eilís Dillon
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by Cory Doctorow
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by E.L. Doctorow
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by Michael Dobbs
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by Michael Dobbs
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by Michael Dobbs
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by Michael Dobbs
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by Jim Dodge
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by Ivan Doig
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by Jesse Coulson, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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by Apostolos Doxiadis
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by Arthur Conan Doyle
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by Margaret Drabble
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by Theodore Dreiser
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by Andre Dubus III
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by Alan Duff
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by Peter Duffy
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by Alexandre Dumas, Robin Buss
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by Susan Duncan
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by Katherine Dunn
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by Mark Dunn
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by J. Dunne
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by Jeanne DuPrau
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by Joseph Eastwood
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by Jan Scarbrough, Maddie James, Janet Eaves, Magdalena Scott
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by Umberto Eco
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by David Eddings
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by Jordan Summers, Vivi Anna, Michele Hauf, Cynthia Eden, Patrice Michelle, Erica Stevens
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by Bret Witter, Robert M. Edsel
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by Kim Edwards
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by Louisa Edwards
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by Greg Egan
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by Joyce Egginton
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by Barry Eisler
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by George Eliot
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by T.S. Eliot, Michael North
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by Rebecca Elise
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by Bret Easton Ellis
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by Estelle Ellis, Caroline Seebohm, Christopher Simon Sykes
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by John Ellis
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by J.T. Ellison
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by Ralph Ellison
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by James Ellroy
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by P.N. Elrod
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by Kathy Passero, Rod Englert, Ann Rule
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by Elizabeth Engstrom
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by Suzanne Enoch
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by Louise Erdrich
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by Lynn Erickson
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by Barbara Erskine
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by Thomas Christensen, Carol Christensen, Laura Esquivel
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by Jeffrey Eugenides
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by Euripides, Rex Warner
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by Janet Evanovich
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by Colin Evans, Jarrett Hallcox, Amy Welch
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by Richard J. Evans
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by Michel Faber
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by A.B. Facey
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by Danny Fahey
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by Linda Fairstein
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by Susan Faludi
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by J.G. Farrell, John Banville
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by William Faulkner
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by Sebastian Faulks
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by Jane Feather
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by Christine Feehan
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by Ellen Feldman
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by Alane Ferguson
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by Jasper Fforde
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by Helen Fielding
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by Henry Fielding
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by Timothy Findley
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by Jack Finney
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by Janet Fitch
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by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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by Penelope Fitzgerald
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by Becca Fitzpatrick
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by Sophie Flack
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by John Flanagan
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by Michèle Roberts, Geoffrey Wall, Gustave Flaubert
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by Ian Fleming
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by Vince Flynn
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by Jonathan Safran Foer
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by Ken Follett
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by Ford Madox Ford
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by E.M. Forster, Pankaj Mishra, Oliver Stallybrass
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by E.M. Forster
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by David Foster Wallace
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by John Fowles
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by James Cameron, William Wisher, Randall Frakes
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by Janet Frame
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by Anne Frank, Otto Frank, Mirjam Pressler, Susan Massotty
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by Ariana Franklin
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by Jonathan Franzen
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by Dana Fredsti
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by Esther Freud
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by James Frey
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by Jeaniene Frost
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by Anna Funder
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by Cornelia Funke
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by Diana Gabaldon
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by William Gaddis, William H. Gass
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by Neil Gaiman
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by Ernest J. Gaines
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by Janice Galloway
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by John Galsworthy
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by Lisa Gardner
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by Alan Garner
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by Julie Garwood
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by Elizabeth Gaskell, Patricia Ingham
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by Maurice Gee
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by David Gemmell
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by Chris Genoa
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by Lisa Genova
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by Jean Craighead George
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by Kaye Gibbons
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by Stella Gibbons, Lynne Truss
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by Kahlil Gibran
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by William Gibson
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by Gail Giles
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by Drew Gilpin Faust
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by Jeffrey Meyers, Nikolai Gogol
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by Myla Goldberg
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by William Golding
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by Arthur Golden
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by Carol Goodman
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by Sue Grafton
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by Kenneth Grahame, Gillian Avery
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by Lucy Grealy
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by Günter Grass
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by Alasdair Gray, Janice Galloway
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by Henry Green
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by John Green
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by Joanne Greenberg
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by Graham Greene
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by Philippa Gregory
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by W.E.B. Griffin
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by John Grisham
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by John Grogan
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by George Grossmith, Weedon Grossmith
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by Sara Gruen
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by Tim Guest
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by Rosemary Ellen Guiley
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by Ursula K. Le Guin
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by David Guterson
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