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Top 100 fiction books
These are the top 100 most recommended fiction books from the world's most successful and interesting people.
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The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
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Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand
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Dune
Frank Herbert
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1984
George Orwell
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Harry Potter
J.K. Rowling
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Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
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The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien
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Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse
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The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand
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The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
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The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Liu
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Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
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Animal Farm
George Orwell
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Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
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Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card
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The Martian
Andy Weir
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Ready Player One
Ernest Cline
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
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Foundation
Isaac Asimov
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The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
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Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
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Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
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The Road
Cormac McCarthy
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Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
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Lord of the Flies
William Golding
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
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The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway
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Conversations with Friends
Sally Rooney
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The Overstory
Richard Powers
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A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
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Cloud Atlas
David Mitchell
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Normal People
Sally Rooney
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His Dark Materials
Philip Pullman
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A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara
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The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov
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East of Eden
John Steinbeck
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The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Shantaram
Gregory David Roberts
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Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Richard Bach
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The Diamond Age
Neal Stephenson
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Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
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Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison
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Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
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Seveneves
Neal Stephenson
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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A Confederacy of Dunces
John Kennedy Toole
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Little Fires Everywhere
Celeste Ng
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Exhalation
Ted Chiang
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Tenth of December
George Saunders
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini
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Stories of Your Life and Others
Ted Chiang
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The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera
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All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr
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War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy
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The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka
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Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut
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Pachinko
Min Jin Lee
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The Color Purple
Alice Walker
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The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead
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The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran
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The Player of Games
Iain M. Banks
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An American Marriage
Tayari Jones
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Such a Fun Age
Kiley ReidI
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The Stand
Stephen King
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The Girl on the Train
Paula Hawkins
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Exit West
Mohsin Hamid
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Stranger in a Strange Land
Robert A. Heinlein
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The Last Days of Night
Graham Moore
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How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
Mohsin Hamid
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Einstein's Dreams
Alan Lightman
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Cat's Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut
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Sula
Toni Morrison
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Dark Matter
Blake Crouch
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The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro
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Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn
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A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin
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The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt
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Fight Club
Chuck Palahniuk
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Consider Phlebas
Iain M. Banks
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The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
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The Power
Naomi Alderman
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The Art of Fielding
Chad Harbach
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Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown
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The Circle
Dave Eggers
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The Stranger
Albert Camus
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The Prince
Niccolo Machiavelli
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The Godfather
Mario Puzo
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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid
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On the Road
Jack Kerouac
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A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles
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The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini
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A Fine Balance
Rohinton Mistry
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway
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The Trial
Franz Kafka
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The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Blood Meridian
Cormac Mccarthy
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