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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
1964 children's novel by Roald Dahl
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Love in the Time of Cholera
novel by Colombian Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez
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Eragon
Eragon is the first book in The Inheritance Cycle by American fantasy writer Christopher Paolini. Paolini, born in 1983, began writing the novel after graduating from home school at the age of fifteen. After writing the first draft for a year, Paolini spent a second year rewriting and fleshing out the story and characters. His parents saw the final manuscript and in 2001 decided to self-publish Eragon; Paolini spent a year traveling around the United States promoting the novel. The book was discovered by novelist Carl Hiaasen, who brought it to the attention of Alfred A. Knopf. The re-publishe
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The Castle
novel by Franz Kafka
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Jurassic Park
1990 novel by Michael Crichton
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My Name Is Red
1998 novel by Orhan Pamuk
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The Road
2006 novel by Cormac McCarthy
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The Antichrist
1889 non-fiction work by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Eldest
Eldest is the second novel in The Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini and the sequel to Eragon. It was first published in hardcover on August 23, 2005, and was released in paperback in September 2006. Eldest has been released in an audiobook format, and as an ebook. Like Eragon, Eldest became a New York Times bestseller. A deluxe edition of Eldest was released on September 26, 2006, including new information and art by both the illustrator and the author. Other editions of Eldest are translated into different languages.
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The Prophet
1923 book with 26 prose poetry fables by Kahlil Gibran
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The Big Sleep
novel by Raymond Chandler
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Interview with the Vampire
1976 novel by Anne Rice
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Memoirs of a Geisha
1997 novel by Arthur Golden
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
novella by Gabriel García Márquez
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The Maltese Falcon
novel by Dashiell Hammett
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Memories of My Melancholy Whores
2004 novel by Gabriel García Márquez
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Fantastic Mr Fox
1970 children's book written by Roald Dahl.
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Beloved
novel by Toni Morrison
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Inheritance
2011 novel by Christopher Paolini
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The Secret History
1992 novel by Donna Tartt
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
1972 children's novel written by Roald Dahl
Alfred A. Knopf
American publishing house
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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
memoir by Haruki Murakami
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
novel by James M. Cain
The General in His Labyrinth
novel by Gabriel García Márquez
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James and the Giant Peach
children's book written by Roald Dahl
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The Mists of Avalon
1983 novel by Marion Zimmer Bradley
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Half of a Yellow Sun
2006 novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Life Is Elsewhere
novel by Milan Kundera
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Of Love and Other Demons
novel by Gabriel García Márquez
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The Andromeda Strain
1969 novel by Michael Crichton
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Wonder
2012 children's novel by Raquel J. Palacio
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
1979 novel by Milan Kundera
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Men Without Women
2014 short story collection by Haruki Murakami
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Klara and the Sun
2021 novel by Kazuo Ishiguro
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The Queen of the Damned
1988 novel by Anne Rice
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Americanah
Americanah is a 2013 novel by the Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. It is Adichie's third novel and fourth book, and was published on 14 May 2013 by Alfred A. Knopf. The novel recounts the story of a young Nigerian woman, Ifemelu, who emigrates to the United States to attend a university. Ifemelu's male schoolmate did not learn about the trans-Atlantic slave trade in school, and does not understand racism in the United States or social class in the United Kingdom. Americanah won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction in 2013 and was a commercial success upon publication. Ac
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American Prometheus
biography
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The American Language
book by H. L. Mencken
The Farewell Waltz
1972 novel by Milan Kundera
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The Master of Go
novel by Yasunari Kawabata
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The Tale of the Body Thief
1992 novel by Anne Rice
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The Road to Reality
non-fiction work by Roger Penrose
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Congo
1980 novel by Michael Crichton
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Eaters of the Dead
1976 novel by Michael Crichton
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Hiroshima
non-fiction work by John Hersey
Farewell, My Lovely
novel by Raymond Chandler
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The Vampire Lestat
1985 novel by Anne Rice
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Sphere
1987 novel by Michael Crichton
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The Elephant Vanishes
short story collection by Haruki Murakami
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Rabbit, Run
1960 novel by John Updike
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All the Pretty Horses
1992 novel by Cormac McCarthy
Laughable Loves
1970 short story collection by Milan Kundera
The Sound of the Mountain
novel by Yasunari Kawabata
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Memnoch the Devil
1995 novel by Anne Rice
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Lunar Park
2005 novel by Bret Easton Ellis
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My Life
autobiography of Bill Clinton
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
2006 short story collection by Haruki Murakami
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
novel by James Baldwin
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The Lady in the Lake
novel by Raymond Chandler