Works to consider
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Titles in Chronological Order
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Date of Publication
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Gulliver's Travels
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The Art of War by SunTzu
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c. 500BC
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Walden
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The Republic by Plato
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c. 380 BC
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The Pickwick Papers
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The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
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c. 1021
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Heart of Darkness
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Masnavi by Rumi
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c. 1260
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Divine Comedy
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Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
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c. 1320
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The Age of Innocence
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Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
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c. 1390
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Madame Bovary
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The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
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1532
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The Wizard of Oz
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Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
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1599
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The Time Machine
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Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
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1605
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The Art of War
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Paradise Lost by John Milton
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1667
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Ulysses
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Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
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1725
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A Farewell to Arms
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Candide by Voltaire
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1759
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Crime and Punishment
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The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
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1776
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The Sea, the Sea
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The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake
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1793
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Communist Manifesto
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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1813
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Les Miserables
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The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
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1836
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
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1844
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The Republic
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Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
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1848
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The Color Purple
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Moby Dick by Herman Melville
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1851
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The Great Gatsby
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Walden by Henry David Thoreau
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1854
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Much Ado about Nothing
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Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
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1856
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The Golden Bowl
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The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
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1859
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Absalom, Absalom!
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Silas Marner by George Eliot
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1861
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The Prince
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Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
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1862
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I, Robot
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
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1865
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Pride and Prejudice
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Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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1866
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Catch-22
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Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
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1874
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The Origin of Species
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Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
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1877
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Moby Dick
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The Secret Doctrine by Helena Blavatsky
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1888
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The Three Musketeers
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The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
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1895
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Little House on the Prarie
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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
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1899
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The Lord of the Rings
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The Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum
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1900
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Far from the Madding Crowd
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The Golden Bowl by Henry James
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1904
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The Tale of Genji
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O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
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1913
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The Secret Doctrine
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The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
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1920
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Catcher in the Rye
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Ulysses by James Joyce
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1922
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The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1925
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Paradise Lost
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A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
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1929
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Lolita
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Little House on the Prarie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
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1935
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Don Quixote
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Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
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1936
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The Wealth of Nations
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I, Robot by Isaac Azimov
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1950
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Canterbury Tales
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Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
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1951
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Silas Marner
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The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
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1954
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O Pioneers!
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Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
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1955
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Anna Karenina
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Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
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1961
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Masnavi
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The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch
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1978
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Candide
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The Color Purple by Alice Walker
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1982
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