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The Return of the Native, by Thomas Hardy
Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer
War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy
Middlemarch, by George Eliot
Jamaica Inn, by Daphne du Maurier
Love in a Cold Climate, by Nancy Mitford
Flaubert’s Parrot, by Julian Barnes
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