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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
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The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
One of the most well known novels. Many high school students are required to read and analyze the novel.
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Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
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While Hollywood turned this into a household name, Lord of the Rings is simply unique in because of its epic feeling, background stories (as further ellaborated in Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales of Numenore and Middle Earth, and so forth) and the unprecedented impact it's made on modern day culture. While the Middle Earth cycle could easily stand up against every collection of myths in history, it becomes even more remarkable as it's mostly the product of a single man's creative spark.
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To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
This novel won the Pulitzer Prize. The novel was an instant success when published and has become a classic of modern American fiction.
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The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
About 250,000 copies of this novel are sold each year. It has total sales of more than sixty-five million.
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The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
This novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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The Color Purple - Alice Walker
The Color Purple received the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award. Later, it was turned into a movie and musical with the same name.
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For Whom The Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
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One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Marquez
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Not written in English, was it?
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Lady Chatterley's Lover, D.H. Lawrence
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
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