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Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
49,197 members
777 reviews
4.1
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All Quiet on the Western Front
by Erich Maria Remarque
22,075 members
442 reviews
4.1
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3
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
by Betty Smith
18,570 members
482 reviews
½ 4.3
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Blood Meridian
by Cormac McCarthy
14,087 members
327 reviews
4.2
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5
The 48 Laws of Power
by Robert Greene
7,076 members
84 reviews
3.9
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Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
by Michel Foucault
3,712 members
28 reviews
3.8
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The Unvanquished
by William Faulkner
2,212 members
17 reviews
½ 3.7
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Hawksmoor
by Peter Ackroyd
1,988 members
42 reviews
½ 3.5
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The Kreutzer Sonata
by Leo Tolstoy
1,885 members
45 reviews
½ 3.7
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10
Poor Things
by Alasdair Gray
1,633 members
42 reviews
3.9
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The Book of Five Rings
by Musashi Miyamoto
1,387 members
15 reviews
3.8
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Calling All Heroes: A Manual for Taking Power: A Novel
by Paco Ignacio Taibo II
53 members
1 review
3.2
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