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Evelyn Waugh

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Brideshead Revisited (1945)

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Charles Ryder goes to Oxford in the 1930’s and falls in love with the wealthy Marchmain family in a house called ___

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Brideshead Revisited (1945)

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Brideshead Revisited (1945)

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Evelyn Waugh

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Thorton Wilder

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The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927)

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The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927)

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Thorton Wilder

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In 1714, an Inca rope bridge “the finest bridge in all Peru” collapses and five people plunge to their deaths, Brother Juniper investigates each story to prove that the accident was God’s plan

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The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927)

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20th American wrtier of “The Adventures of Augie March”, “Henderson the Rain King”, “Herzog”, “Mr. Sammler’s Planet”, “Humboldt’s Gift”

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Saul Bellow

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Virginia Woolf novel that inspired Michael Cunningham’s novel “The Hours” (her novel was originally titled this)

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Mrs. Dalloway

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William S. Burroughs, grandon of William Burroughs (inventor of the adding machine)

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Naked Lunch (1959)

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narrator takes on various aliases from US to Mexico to Tangier and the dreamlike “interzone” featuring random drug-induced experiences

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Naked Lunch (1959)

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Naked Lunch (1959)

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William S. Burroughs

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Jack Kerouac

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On the Road (1957)

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On the Road (1957)

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Jack Kerouac

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narrator Sal Paradise and his carefree new friend Dean Moriarty travel around the country participating in jazz, poetry, and drug use, characters represent many key figures in the beat movement

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On the Road (1957)

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E.M. Forster

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A Passage to India (1924)

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A Passage to India (1924)

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E.M. Forster

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a poem by Walt Whitman, a novel by E.M. Forster, a movie directed by David Lean

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A Passage to India

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4 characters during a trip to the Marabar Caves, Adela finds herself alone with Dr. Aziz in a cave, panicks, and flees (it’s assumed that he assaulted her), Aziz’s trial brings out racial tensions during British Raj

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A Passage to India (1924)

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Philip Roth

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Portnoy’s Complaint (1969)

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Portnoy’s Complaint (1969)

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Philip Roth

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features a humorous monologue to his therapist containing lots of explicity sexuality (including with a model named “The Monkey”) including masturbation using various props including a piece of liver, feels guilty

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Portnoy’s Complaint (1969)

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Muriel Spark

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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961)

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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961)

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Muriel Spark

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An Edinburgh teacher dedicates her prime years to teacehing at a girls’ school

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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961)

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John Updike

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Rabbit, Run (1960)

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Rabbit, Run (1960)

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John Updike

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depicts 5 months in the life of a 26 year old former high school basketball player named Harry ‘___’ Angstrom and his attempts to escape the constraints of his life, 3 other sequels followed

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Rabbit, Run (1960)

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E.L. Doctorow

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Ragtime (1975)

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Ragtime (1975)

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E.L. (Edgar Laurence) Doctorow

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30
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historical fiction during the time between 1900 and WW1 in 1917 featuring Houdini, Emma Goldman, Henry Ford, and Freud and other fictional characters, later a Broadway musical

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Ragtime (1975)

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Henry Miller

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Tropic of Cancer (1934), Tropic of Capricorn (1939)

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Tropic of Cancer (1934)

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Henry Miller

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33
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Tender is the Night (1934)

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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34
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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Tender is the Night (1934)

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E.M. Forster

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Howards End (1910)

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Howards End (1910)

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E.M. Forster

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title country house and its influence on the lives of the Schlegels & the Wilcoxes

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Howards End (1910)

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Norman Mailer

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The Naked and the Dead (1948)

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39
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The Naked and the Dead (1948)

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Norman Mailer

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40
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about a platoon who invades the Japanese-held island of Anopopei during WW2 to observe enemy troops

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The Naked and the Dead (1948)

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W. Somerset Maugham

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Of Human Bondage (1915)

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42
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Of Human Bondage (1915)

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W. Somerset Maugham

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43
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Philip Carey, a medical student with a club foot, is obsessed with the vulgar waitress Mildred, based on the author’s own experiences in medical school, later a movie starring Leslie Howard and Bette Davis

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Of Human Bondage (1915)

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44
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A Room with a View (1908)

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E.M. Forster

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E.M. Forster

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A Room with a View (1908)

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Lucy Honeychurch and her older cousin/chaperone get the wrong room on vacation in Florence, Lucy falls for George, gets engaged to Cecil, weds George

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A Room with a View (1908)

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Frank Herbert

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Dune (1965)

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Dune (1965)

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Frank Herbert

49
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desert planet of Arrakis is known by its natives as this title name, spawned 5 sequels, world’s top selling sci fi novel in history

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Dune (1965)

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Stranger in a Strange Land (1961)

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Robert A. Heinlein

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Robert A. Heinlein

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Stranger in a Strange Land (1961)

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a human, Valentine Michael Smith, comes to Earth in early adulthood after being born on Mars and raised by Martians, title is an allusion to a phrase in Exodus

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Stranger in a Strange Land (1961)

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Robert A. Heinlein

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Starship Troopers (1959)

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Starship Troopers (1959)

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Robert A. Heinlein

55
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Juan Rico joins the mobile infantry to fight in the war against the invading alien bugs, made into a 1997 movie

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Starship Troopers (1959)

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The World According to Garp (1978)

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John Irving

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John Irving

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The World According to Garp (1978)

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T.S. ___is the illegitimate son of mother Jenny Fields (she tricked a WW2 brain damaged man known as “Technical Sergeant” ___ into impregnating her), made into a movie with Robin Williams, Glenn Close, and John Lithgow (transexual)

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The World According to Garp (1978)

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Arrowsmith (1925)

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Sinclair Lewis

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Sinclair Lewis

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Arrowsmith (1925)

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Dr. Martin ___ being his practice in North Dakota, but goes to the island of St. Hubert to fight an epidemic, his wife Leora dies of bubonic plague on the island

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Arrowsmith (1925)

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Watership Down (1972)

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Richard Adams

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Richard Adams

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Watership Down (1972)

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story about a small group of rabbits, led by Hazel, who escape the destruction of their home and seek a new place

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Watership Down (1972)

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Winnie-the-Pooth (1926), his real-life only son was named Christopher Robin

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A.A. Milne

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A.A. Milne

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Winnie-the-Pooth (1926)

67
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Truman Capote

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In Cold Blood (1966)

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In Cold Blood (1966)

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Truman Capote

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non-fiction book about a murder in Holcomb, Kansas of a framer, his wife, and 2 of their 4 children

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In Cold Blood (1966)

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Holly Golightly is a small town girl in the big city (NYC) making a living by socializing with wealthy men (kind of like an American geisha)

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Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1958)

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J.D. Salinger

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Franny and Zooey (1961)

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Franny and Zooey (1961), first published in the New Yorker

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J.D. Salinger

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Ethan Frome (1911)

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Edith Wharton

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Edith Wharton

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Ethan Frome (1911)

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___ is a New England farmer who falls in love with his wife Zeena’s cousin Mattie, they try to commit suicide by running into a tree with a sled, but instead become paralyzed and the wife has to take care of both of them

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Ethan Frome (1911)

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Orlando (1928), Orlando is a sex-changing hero-heroine

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Virginia Woolf

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Virginia Woolf

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Orlando (1928)

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The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987)

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Tom Wolfe

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The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987)

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bond salesman Sherman McCoy (Tom Hanks in movie, also starred Melanie Griffith (love interest) and Bruce Willis (reporter)), Hanks and Griffith accidentally hit-and-run

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The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987)

81
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A Separate Peace (1959)

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John Knowles

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John Knowles

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A Separate Peace (1959)

83
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During WW2 Gene and Finny become friends at prep school in New Hampshire

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A Separate Peace (1959)

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Rebecca (1938), Hitchcock made a movie

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Daphne du Maurier

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Daphne du Maurier

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Rebecca (1938)

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Look Homeward, Angel (1929), highly autobiographical through the eyes of Eugene Gant

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Thomas Wolfe

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Thomas Wolfe

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Look Homeward, Angel (1929)

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Thomas Wolfe

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You Can’t Go Home Again (1940)

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You Can’t Go Home Again (1940), published posthumously

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Thomas Wolfe

90
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John Updike

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The Witches of Eastwick (1984)

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The Witches of Eastwick (1984)

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John Updike

92
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3 divorced witches in Rhode Island, made into a movie in 1987 with Susan Sarandon, Michelle Pfeiffer, & Cher (and Jack Nicholson as the guy)

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The Witches of Eastwick (1984)

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O Pioneers! (1913)

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Willa Cather

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Willa Cather

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O Pioneers! (1913)

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young adult novel that told struggles of prairie life, a group of immigrants from Sweden settle in Nebraska

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O Pioneers! (1913)

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Henry James

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The Bostonians (1886)

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The Bostonians (1886)

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Henry James

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Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927)

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Willa Cather

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Willa Cather

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Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927)

100
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The Tin Drum (1959)

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Gunter Grass

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Gunter Grass

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The Tin Drum (1959)

102
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Nikos Kazantzakis

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Zorba the Greek (1946)

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a young Greek intellectual ventures to escape his bookish life with the aid of the boisterous and mysterious elderly Alexis ___

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Zorba the Greek (1946)

104
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Dead Souls (1842), he burned the second part shortly before he died, convinced it was evil

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Nikolai Gogol

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Nikolai Gogol

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Dead Souls (1842)

106
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Book that became a movie about Alan Shepard, Chuck Yeager, and John Glenn about experiment rocket-powered aircraft after WW2, including Chuck Yeager breaking the sound bariier

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The Right Stuff (1979)

107
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19/20th American journalist and essayist for the Baltimore Sun

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H.L. Mencken

108
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The Elements of Style (1918)

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William Strunk, Jr. & E.B. White

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William Strunk, Jr. & E.B. White

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The Elements of Style (1918)

110
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Rachel Carson

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Silent Spring (1962)

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Silent Spring (1962)

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Rachel Carson

112
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launched the environmental protection movement by warning of the dangers of pesticides and herbicides

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Silent Spring (1962)

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