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Birthdate
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Birthplace
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Famous Titles
|
Answer
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1265
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Florence, Italy
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The Divine Comedy
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Dante Alighieri
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1547
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Alcala, Spain
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Don Quixote
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Miguel De Cervantes
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1564
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Julius Caesar
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William Shakespeare
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1667
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Dublin, Ireland
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Gulliver's Travels
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Jonathan Swift
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1749
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Hanau, Germany
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Faust
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Wolfgang Von Goethe
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1775
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Pride & Prejudice
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Jane Austen
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1797
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Frankenstein
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Mary Shelley
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1799
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Moscow, Russia
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Eugene Onegin
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Alexander Pushkin
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1802
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Les Miserables
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Victor Hugo
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1802
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Villers-Cotterets, France
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The Three Musketeers
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Alexandre Dumas
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1809
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Poltava, Ukraine
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The Overcoat
|
Nikolai Gogol
|
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1809
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Boston, Massachussetts
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The Raven
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Edgar Allan Poe
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1811
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Litchfield, Connecticut
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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1812
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Ulyanovsk, Russia
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Oblomov
|
Ivan Goncharov
|
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1812
|
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Great Expectations
|
Charles Dickens
|
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1814
|
Moscow, Russia
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A Hero of Our Time
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Mikhail Lermontov
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1816
|
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Jane Eyre
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Charlotte Bronte
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1818
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Oryol, Russia
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Fathers and Sons
|
Ivan Turgenev
|
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1818
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Thornton, England
|
Wuthering Heights
|
Emily Bronte
|
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1819
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New York, New York
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Moby Dick
|
Herman Melville
|
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1820
|
Great Yarmouth, England
|
Black Beauty
|
Anna Sewell
|
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1821
|
Paris, France
|
The Flowers of Evil
|
Charles Baudelaire
|
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1821
|
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Madame Bovary
|
Gustave Flaubert
|
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1821
|
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Crime and Punishment
|
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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1826
|
Florence, Italy
|
Pinocchio
|
Carlo Collodi
|
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1828
|
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War and Peace
|
Leo Tolstoy
|
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1828
|
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Around the World in Eighty Days
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Jules Verne
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1828
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Skien, Norway
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A Doll's House
|
Henrik Ibsen
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1832
|
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Little Women
|
Louisa May Alcott
|
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1835
|
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
Mark Twain
|
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1840
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Paris, France
|
Germinal
|
Emile Zola
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1847
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Dracula
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Bram Stoker
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1850
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Tourville, France
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The Necklace
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Guy De Maupassant
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1850
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St. Louis, Missouri
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The Awakening
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Kate Chopin
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1854
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Dublin, Ireland
|
The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Oscar Wilde
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1859
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Lom, Norway
|
Hunger
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Knut Hamsun
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1860
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Taganrog, Russia
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The Cherry Orchard
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Anton Chekhov
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1862
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|
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Edith Wharton
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1865
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Mumbai, India
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The Jungle Book
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Rudyard Kipling
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1867
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Tokyo, Japan
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I Am a Cat
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Natsume Soseki
|
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1868
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Paris, France
|
The Phantom of the Opera
|
Gaston Leroux
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1871
|
Paris, France
|
In Search of Lost Time
|
Marcel Proust
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1874
|
New London, Canada
|
Anne of Green Gables
|
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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1875
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The Magic Mountain
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Thomas Mann
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1875
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Prague, Czechia
|
Letters to a Young Poet
|
Rainer Maria Rilke
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1876
|
San Francisco, California
|
The Call of the Wild
|
Jack London
|
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1877
|
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Siddhartha
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Hermann Hesse
|
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1879
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London, England
|
A Passage to India
|
E.M. Forster
|
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1880
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Klagenfurt, Austria
|
The Man Without Qualities
|
Robert Musil
|
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1882
|
Dublin, Ireland
|
Ulysses
|
James Joyce
|
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1882
|
Kensington, England
|
To The Lighthouse
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Virginia Woolf
|
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1883
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Heraklion, Greece
|
Zorba the Greek
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Nikos Kazantzakis
|
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1883
|
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The Metamorphosis
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Franz Kafka
|
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1883
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Prague, Czechia
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The Good Soldier
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Jaroslav Hasek
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1888
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Lisbon, Portugal
|
The Book of Disquiet
|
Fernando Pessoa
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1890
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Moscow, Russia
|
Doctor Zhivago
|
Boris Pasternak
|
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1890
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Torquay, England
|
And Then There Were None
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Agatha Christie
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1891
|
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The Master and Margarita
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Mikhail Bulgakov
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1892
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Hillsboro, West Virginia
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The Good Earth
|
Pearl S. Buck
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1892
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Bloemfontein, South Africa
|
The Lord of the Rings
|
J.R.R. Tolkien
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1894
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Godalming, England
|
Brave New World
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Aldous Huxley
|
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1896
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Brooklyn, New York
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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Betty Smith
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1897
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New Albany, Mississippi
|
The Sound and the Fury
|
William Faulkner
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1898
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Osnabruck, Germany
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All Quiet on the Western Front
|
Erich Maria Remarque
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1899
|
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A Moveable Feast
|
Ernest Hemingway
|
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1899
|
St. Petersburg, Russia
|
Lolita
|
Vladimir Nabokov
|
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1899
|
Buenos Aires, Argentina
|
Universal History of Infamy
|
Jorge Luis Borges
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1900
|
Atlanta, Georgia
|
Gone With the Wind
|
Margaret Mitchell
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1902
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John Steinbeck
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1903
|
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Animal Farm
|
George Orwell
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1903
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Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
|
Cry, the Beloved Country
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Alan Paton
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1905
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Paris, France
|
Nausea
|
Jean-Paul Sartre
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1907
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Vimmerby, Sweden
|
Pippi Longstocking
|
Astrid Lindgren
|
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1907
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London, England
|
Rebecca
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Daphne Du Maurier
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1911
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Columbus, Mississippi
|
The Glass Menagerie
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Tennessee Williams
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1911
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Cairo, Egypt
|
Palace of Desire
|
Naguib Mahfouz
|
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1911
|
Newquay, England
|
Lord of the Flies
|
William Golding
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1913
|
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The Stranger
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Albert Camus
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1914
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Gia Dinh, Vietnam
|
The Lover
|
Marguerite Duras
|
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1917
|
Manchester, England
|
A Clockwork Orange
|
Anthony Burgess
|
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1918
|
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The Gulag Archipelago
|
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
|
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1919
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Manhattan, New York
|
The Catcher in the Rye
|
J.D. Salinger
|
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1920
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Waukegan, Illinois
|
Fahrenheit 451
|
Ray Bradbury
|
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1920
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Seattle, Washington
|
Dune
|
Frank Herbert
|
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1922
|
Azinhaga, Portugal
|
Blindness
|
Jose Saramago
|
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1922
|
Indianapolis, Indiana
|
Slaughterhouse Five
|
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
|
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1923
|
Havana, Cuba
|
Invisible Cities
|
Italo Calvino
|
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1924
|
New Orleans, Louisiana
|
Breakfast at Tiffany's
|
Truman Capote
|
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1926
|
Monroeville, Alabama
|
To Kill A Mockingbird
|
Harper Lee
|
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1927
|
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
|
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
|
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1927
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Danzig, Germany
|
The Tin Drum
|
Gunter Grass
|
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1928
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Sighetu Marmatiei, Romania
|
Night
|
Elie Wiesel
|
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1928
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St. Louis, Missouri
|
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
|
Maya Angelou
|
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1929
|
Frankfurt, Germany
|
The Diary of a Young Girl
|
Anne Frank
|
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1929
|
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
|
Milan Kundera
|
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1930
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Ogidi, Nigeria
|
Things Fall Apart
|
Chinua Achebe
|
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1931
|
Lorain, Ohio
|
Beloved
|
Toni Morrison
|
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1932
|
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The Name of the Rose
|
Umberto Eco
|
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1932
|
Boston, Massachusetts
|
The Bell Jar
|
Sylvia Plath
|
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1932
|
Chaguanas, Trinidad & Tobago
|
A Bend in the River
|
V.S. Naipaul
|
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1933
|
Providence, Rhode Island
|
The Crossing
|
Cormac McCarthy
|
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1934
|
Sacramento, California
|
The Year of Magical Thinking
|
Joan Didion
|
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1937
|
Honolulu, Hawaii
|
The Giver
|
Lois Lowry
|
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1939
|
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The Handmaid's Tale
|
Margaret Atwood
|
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1942
|
Lima, Peru
|
The House of the Spirits
|
Isabel Allende
|
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1944
|
Eatonton, Georgia
|
The Color Purple
|
Alice Walker
|
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1947
|
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Midnight's Children
|
Salman Rushdie
|
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1947
|
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The Alchemist
|
Paulo Coehlo
|
|
1947
|
Portland, Maine
|
The Shining
|
Stephen King
|
|
1949
|
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Kafka on the Shore
|
Haruki Murakami
|
|
1950
|
Mexico City, Mexico
|
Like Water for Chocolate
|
Laura Esquivel
|
|
1951
|
Richland, Washington
|
Ender's Game
|
Orson Scott Card
|
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1952
|
Oakland, California
|
The Joy Luck Club
|
Amy Tan
|
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1954
|
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The Remains of the Day
|
Kazuo Ishiguro
|
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1960
|
Portchester, England
|
Coraline
|
Neil Gaiman
|
|
1961
|
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The God of Small Things
|
Arundhati Roy
|
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1964
|
Los Angeles, California
|
American Psycho
|
Bret Easton Ellis
|
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1965
|
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The Kite Runner
|
Khaled Hosseini
|
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1964
|
Monterrey, Mexico
|
The Murmer of Bees
|
Sofia Segovia
|
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1967
|
London, England
|
Interpreter of Maladies
|
Jhumpa Lahiri
|
|
1970
|
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
|
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
|
Stephen Chbosky
|
|
1974
|
Los Angeles, California
|
A Little Life
|
Hanya Yanagihara
|
|
1997
|
Mingora, Pakistan
|
I Am Malala
|
Malala Yousafzai
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