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The Count of Monte Cristo
The Count of Monte Cristo is an adventure novel by the French writer Alexandre Dumas. It was serialised from 1844 to 1846, then published in book form in 1846. It is one of his most popular works, along with The Three Musketeers (1844) and Man in the Iron Mask (1850). Like many of his novels, it was expanded from plot outlines suggested by his collaborating ghostwriter, Auguste Maquet. It is regarded as a classic of French and world literature.

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
1962 novel by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

The Green Mile
1996 novel by Stephen King
The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later
book by Alexandre Dumas, second sequel to The Three Musketeers

Another
novel by Yukito Ayatsuji
Little Dorrit
novel by Charles Dickens

The Black Tulip
novel by Alexandre Dumas

Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
novella by Stephen King
Our Lady of the Flowers
novel by Jean Genet

Scarlet
science fiction novel by Marissa Meyer

The Quantum Thief
2010 novel by Hannu Rajaniemi