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The Analects by Confucius
Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima
The Creation of the Universe by George Gamow
Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow
The Histories by Herodotus
Holy Bible by God
The Iliad by Homer — not in English Common Knowledge
Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
The Oresteia: Agamemnon / The Libation Bearers / The Eumenides by Aeschylus
Relativity: The Special and General Theory by Albert Einstein
The Republic by Plato
Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan
Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts by Samuel Beckett
The Waste Land and Other Poems by T. S. Eliot

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