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1 Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
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2 Timaeus
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3 The Nicomachean Ethics
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4 History of the Peloponnesian War
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5 Leviathan
by Thomas Hobbes Want to Read
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6 Critique of Pure Reason
by Immanuel Kant Want to Read
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7 The Poetics of Space
by Gaston Bachelard Want to Read
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8 Biographia Literaria: Biographical

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9 Dialogues
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10 Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the
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by Thomas Malory
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11 Urne Burial
by Thomas Browne Want to Read
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12 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy,
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by Laurence Sterne
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13 The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume One:
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by Virginia Woolf
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14 Parade's End
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15 Antony and Cleopatra
by William Shakespeare Want to Read
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16 The Alchemist and Other Plays
by Ben Jonson
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17 Ulysses
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18 Finnegans Wake
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19 At Swim-Two-Birds
by Flann O'Brien Want to Read
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20 How It Is
by Samuel Beckett Want to Read
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21 Paradiso
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22 Hopscotch
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23 Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other
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24 The Magic Mountain
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25 A Country Doctor
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26 The Sleepwalkers
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27 Zeno's Conscience
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28 Selected Letters
by Gustave Flaubert Want to Read
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29 Bouvard and Pecuchet
by Gustave Flaubert Want to Read
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30 The Red and the Black
by Stendhal Want to Read
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31 Break of Day
by Colette Want to Read
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32 The Major Works: Including Songs and
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by John Donne
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33 Selected Poems and Fragments
by Friedrich Hölderlin Want to Read
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34 Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard
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35 Personæ: The Shorter Poems
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36 The Tower
by W.B. Yeats Want to Read
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37 Harmonium
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38 The Golden Bowl
by Henry James Want to Read
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39 The Complete Notebooks of Henry James
by Henry James Want to Read
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40 The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner Want to Read
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41 Pale Horse, Pale Rider
by Katherine Anne Porter Want to Read
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42 Three Lives
by Gertrude Stein Want to Read
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43 The Recognitions
by William Gaddis Want to Read
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44 The Lime Twig
by John Hawkes Want to Read
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45 The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
by Rainer Maria Rilke Want to Read
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46 Duino Elegies
by Rainer Maria Rilke Want to Read
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47 Sonnets to Orpheus
by Rainer Maria Rilke Want to Read
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48 Letters on Life
by Rainer Maria Rilke Want to Read
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49 Under the Volcano
by Malcolm Lowry Want to Read
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50 The Interpretation of Dreams
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