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Top 10 Most Influential Non-Fiction Books in History

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On the Origin of Species — Darwin (1859)

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The Wealth of Nations — Adam Smith (1776)

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The Communist Manifesto — Marx & Engels (1848)

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Top 10 Best Literary Novels of the Modern Era

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The Road — Cormac McCarthy (2006)

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Lincoln in the Bardo — George Saunders (2017)

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Normal People — Sally Rooney (2018)

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Fantasy Worlds You Won't Want to Leave

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The Lord of the Rings — J.R.R. Tolkien (1954-55)

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A Wizard of Earthsea — Ursula K. Le Guin (1968)

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The Name of the Wind — Patrick Rothfuss (2007)

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Top 10 Greatest Books by Female Authors

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The Handmaid's Tale — Margaret Atwood (1985)

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Middlemarch — George Eliot (1871)

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Beloved — Toni Morrison (1987)

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Top 10 Greatest Literary Characters Ever Created

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Hamlet — William Shakespeare

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Elizabeth Bennet — Pride and Prejudice

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Don Quixote — Cervantes

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Internet Archive — Gadsby (1939)

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Novels That Outlived Their Copyright: the Most-Read Fiction on Archive.org

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Nancy Drew Complete Set

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Gadsby by Ernest Vincent Wright (1939)

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Story and Discourse by Seymour Chatman

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Top 10 Greatest Short Story Collections Ever Written

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The Complete Stories — Franz Kafka

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Dubliners — James Joyce (1914)

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The Stories of Anton Chekhov

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Top 10 Most Banned and Challenged Books in History

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1984 — George Orwell

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The Catcher in the Rye — J.D. Salinger

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn — Mark Twain

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Top 10 Greatest Novels of All Time

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Don Quixote

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War and Peace

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In Search of Lost Time

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Top 10 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time

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Dune

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1984

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Foundation

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Top 10 Most Iconic Book Series of All Time

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Harry Potter — J.K. Rowling

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The Lord of the Rings — J.R.R. Tolkien

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A Song of Ice and Fire — George R.R. Martin

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Top 10 Best Science Fiction Novels of All Time

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Dune — Frank Herbert (1965)

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1984 — George Orwell (1949)

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Foundation — Isaac Asimov (1951)

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10 Science Fiction Novels That Rewrote the Rules of the Genre

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Dune — Frank Herbert (1965)

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Neuromancer — William Gibson (1984)

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The Left Hand of Darkness — Ursula K. Le Guin (1969)

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Top 10 Argentine Writers & Literary Works

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Jorge Luis Borges

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Julio Cortazar

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Ernesto Sabato

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