English fiction
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Life of Pi
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Watership Down
The Bronze Bow
Song of Solomon
Foreign Affairs
American Gods
The Good Terrorist
The Jungle Book
The Second Jungle Book
The Lantern Bearers
Vurt
The Shipping News
Nineteen Eighty-Four
James and the Giant Peach
The Wind in the Willows
Robinson Crusoe
Three Men in a Boat (to say nothing of the dog)
Tender is the Night
Middlemarch
The Great Gatsby
Murder on the Orient Express
Emma
Oliver Twist
The Fellowship of the Ring
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass
Jane Eyre
Dubliners
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
The Time Machine
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