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The Alchemist
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The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
Atlas Shrugged
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Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand
Harry Potter
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Harry Potter
J.K. Rowling
Dune
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Dune
Frank Herbert
Snow Crash
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Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
The Lord of the Rings
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The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien
1984
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1984
George Orwell
The Fountainhead
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The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand
The Great Gatsby
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The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Catcher in the Rye
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The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
Siddhartha
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Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse
Anna Karenina
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Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
The Martian
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The Martian
Andy Weir
The Three-Body Problem
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The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Liu
Brave New World
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Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
Animal Farm
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Animal Farm
George Orwell
The Hobbit
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The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien
Crime and Punishment
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Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Foundation
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Foundation
Isaac Asimov
To Kill a Mockingbird
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
Shantaram
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Shantaram
Gregory David Roberts
The Diamond Age
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The Diamond Age
Neal Stephenson
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
Ender's Game
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Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card
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