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Famous Novels and Their Authors

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Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
The Wasteland
T.S. Eliot
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
On the Road
Jack Kerouac
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Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez
Lord of the Flies
William Golding
Divine Comedy
Dante
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou
Walden
Henry David Thoreau
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
Ulysses
James Joyce
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
Paradise Lost
John Milton
Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
The Remembrances of Things Past
Marcel Proust
The Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes
The Color Purple
Alice Walker

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