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KING JAMES HOLY BIBLE
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Oct 18 2009 1:14
Bondroger007 says this is the first book and has all wisdom to life jesus is life! m
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Jun 8 2008 23:34
2.
1984
50
13
Oct 13 2009 5:11
by George Orwell
54
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Feb 19 2006 8:13
3.
Slaughterhouse Five
50
13
Nov 1 2009 20:38
by Kurt Vonnegut
104
1
Dec 6 2002 22:06
4.
Animal Farm
49
20
Oct 18 2009 1:19
by George Orwell
51
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Feb 19 2006 8:14
5.
To Kill a Mockingbird
49
3
Aug 3 2009 1:49
89
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Dec 18 2003 14:02
6.
Lord of the Rings by Tolkien
49
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Aug 6 2009 22:42
119
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Mar 27 2002 18:23
7.
Beelzebubs tales to his grandson
48
48
Jul 2 2009 23:45
Gurdjieff. Audio book http://thepiratebay.org/user/michaelgarland/
52
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Mar 22 2009 8:42
8.
The Hitch-Hikers-GUide to the galaxy Quintology by Douglas Noel Adams
41
3
Sep 20 2009 22:07
63
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Nov 2 2004 9:13
9.
Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
41
2
Aug 8 2009 22:31
The most influential book I ever read
59
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Feb 4 2004 0:25
10.
Crime & Punishment: Fjodor M. Dostojevskij
41
4
Nov 1 2009 20:38
49
1
Mar 27 2003 14:00
11.
The BIBLE
36
-3
Nov 1 2009 20:39
the Good Book
392
-1
Nov 3 2001 5:15
12.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
34
2
Apr 15 2009 18:50
40
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Mar 21 2004 23:01
13.
Cannery Row
33
2
Jun 29 2009 13:06
John Steinbeck
37
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Oct 9 2002 16:46
14.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
32
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Nov 10 2008 20:13
http://www.livingtodo.com
36
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Dec 22 2002 22:03
15.
The Iliad
31
1
Feb 15 2009 22:44
Homer
31
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Mar 26 2005 9:20
16.
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
30
-1
Oct 13 2009 5:13
84
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Jan 22 2003 15:58
17.
Hamlet
27
1
Jun 30 2009 19:00
31
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Oct 16 2002 13:08
18.
Lord Of The Flies
26
1
Apr 17 2009 11:40
William Golding
36
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Oct 21 2005 16:54
19.
Watership Down by Richard Adams
24
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Apr 19 2008 1:28
28
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Mar 5 2004 14:51
20.
A Tale of Two Cities - Dickens
22
1
Jun 30 2009 19:00
24
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Sep 20 2003 1:19
21.
Catch-22
21
3
Oct 12 2009 12:38
Joseph Heller
21
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May 14 2005 14:18
22.
The Count of Monte Cristo
21
3
Aug 6 2009 2:23
21
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Mar 20 2003 14:01
23.
Brave New World-Huxley
20
3
Jul 31 2009 15:02
26
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Feb 5 2004 7:05
24.
Soldier in the Mist by Gene Wolfe
16
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Dec 18 2008 0:10
16
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Jul 19 2005 20:24
25.
High Fidelity
16
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Apr 7 2008 19:09
Nick Hornby
16
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Mar 6 2005 0:01
26.
Green Eggs and Ham - Dr Seuss
16
1
Sep 20 2009 22:07
20
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Nov 10 2003 22:19
27.
The Shanarra Series by Terry Brooks
16
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Dec 22 2007 4:05
18
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Mar 27 2002 18:23
28.
Picture Of Dorian Gray
15
15
May 17 2009 12:56
Oscar Wilde
15
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May 17 2009 12:43
29.
Lonesome Dove
14
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Mar 29 2008 16:16
The best epic western ever.
14
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May 7 2005 0:06
30.
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
14
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Dec 22 2007 10:53
14
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Aug 12 2003 19:29
31.
By Reason of Insanity-Shane Stevens
13
3
Jul 7 2009 1:16
13
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Oct 21 2007 19:58
32.
East of Eden
13
1
Jun 22 2009 9:13
John Steinbeck
15
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Aug 2 2006 9:54
33.
Gone with the Wind
11
7
Sep 1 2009 2:58
13
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Dec 23 2007 13:36
34.
The Little Prince
11
1
Jun 22 2009 9:14
11
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Mar 5 2004 14:52
35.
The Unique and hios property-Max Stirner
11
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Nov 10 2004 11:47
11
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Jan 22 2004 9:38
36.
Breakfast of Champions
10
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Dec 22 2007 18:31
Kurt Vonnegut
10
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Jan 31 2005 16:41
37.
Gravity's Rainbow
10
1
Nov 1 2009 20:39
Thomas Pynchon
10
1
Nov 20 2003 3:10
38.
Pride and Prejudice
9
6
Aug 3 2009 1:50
11
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Jul 17 2006 10:53
39.
maniac magee
9
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May 7 2008 17:35
11
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Sep 5 2003 23:23
40.
The Prophet
9
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Jan 11 2008 18:39
Frank Peretti
11
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Mar 10 2002 16:42
41.
count of monte cristo
9
1
Aug 6 2009 2:23
9
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Dec 13 2001 14:58
42.
He Came To Set The Captives Free
9
1
Jul 3 2009 15:24
Rebecca Brown
35
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Nov 3 2001 5:17
43.
His Dark Materials
8
1
Jul 31 2009 15:02
Phillip Pullman
8
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Jan 16 2008 19:26
44.
Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance
8
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Dec 30 2008 16:44
10
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Apr 11 2005 9:07
45.
Tristram Shandy
8
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Dec 21 2008 11:55
8
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Feb 16 2004 0:57
46.
middle passage-charles johnson
8
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Feb 7 2007 22:51
8
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Sep 5 2003 23:23
47.
Harry Potter an the Deathly Hallows
7
4
Jul 19 2009 23:48
9
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Jan 27 2008 17:40
48.
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
7
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Apr 28 2008 16:05
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_S
7
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Jul 27 2007 18:01
49.
The Tunnel
7
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Nov 7 2008 11:03
by Ernesto Sabato
7
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Sep 13 2005 22:56
50.
Franny and Zooey
7
1
Aug 3 2009 1:50
9
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Nov 28 2003 14:12
51.
The Master and Margarita
6
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Nov 12 2008 17:04
by Mikhail Bulgakov
6
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Feb 27 2007 2:25
52.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
6
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Apr 7 2008 21:38
by Ken Kesey
6
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Feb 27 2007 2:17
53.
The Kiterunner
6
2
Jul 3 2009 15:24
6
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Jan 7 2007 0:00
54.
The Litle Prince by Antoine Saint Exypery
6
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Nov 10 2007 4:01
6
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Jan 7 2006 11:49
55.
To the Lighthouse
6
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Mar 28 2008 20:20
Virginia Wolff
10
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Mar 26 2005 9:17
56.
Moby Dick
6
1
Sep 20 2009 22:10
12
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Aug 1 2004 15:55
57.
The Visitation
6
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Nov 13 2003 23:46
Frank Peretti
8
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Mar 10 2002 16:42
58.
A princess of Mars- Edgar Rice Burroughs
5
5
Mar 11 2009 14:37
5
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Mar 11 2009 14:36
59.
Corps Values: Everything You Need to Know I Learned in the Marines
5
5
Jan 30 2009 17:28
by Zell Miller
5
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Jan 30 2009 17:26
60.
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
5
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Feb 25 2008 1:41
5
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Dec 22 2007 19:20
61.
Memnoch The Devil
5
5
Aug 17 2009 15:10
http://www.annerice.com/bs_b_MemnochTheD
5
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Dec 22 2007 4:40
62.
''The Fountainhead'' Ayn Rand
5
2
Apr 26 2009 2:43
5
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Nov 21 2007 18:24
63.
The unbearable lightness of being
5
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Apr 7 2008 19:10
Milan Kundera
5
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Dec 2 2005 15:58
64.
A Clockwork Orange
5
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Apr 7 2008 21:33
7
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Oct 18 2005 21:59
65.
Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
5
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Sep 15 2006 5:32
5
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Sep 22 2005 5:02
66.
Middlemarch
5
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Sep 15 2005 22:58
George Eliot
5
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Sep 15 2005 22:57
67.
Le Grand Meaulnes
5
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Apr 12 2005 6:54
by Alain Fournier
5
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Apr 12 2005 6:54
68.
A Civil Action
5
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Mar 28 2008 20:20
Jonathan Harr
5
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Feb 16 2004 0:58
69.
The Anarchist's Cookbook
5
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Dec 22 2007 7:41
9
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Nov 15 2001 13:57
70.
This Present Darkness
5
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Nov 13 2003 23:45
Frank Peretti
49
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Nov 3 2001 5:16
71.
On The Road Jack Kerouac
4
1
May 17 2009 12:59
4
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Sep 27 2008 12:41
72.
The Grapes of Wrath
4
2
Mar 24 2009 7:03
John Steinbeck
6
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Sep 5 2006 9:00
73.
Jane Eyre
4
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Oct 22 2008 13:35
Charlotte Bronte
4
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Apr 1 2006 10:39
74.
War and Peace
4
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Mar 13 2008 14:25
6
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Feb 13 2006 13:49
75.
IT - Stephen King
4
1
Aug 6 2009 2:24
4
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Jan 9 2006 12:29
76.
The Inferno by Dante Alighieri
4
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Nov 10 2008 20:14
4
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Jun 29 2005 17:58
77.
Piercing The Darkness
4
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May 19 2006 19:36
Frank Peretti
38
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Nov 3 2001 5:17
78.
Insider's Guide to Saving Money
3
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Nov 3 2008 8:42
3
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Nov 3 2008 8:41
79.
The Once and Future King
3
1
Mar 29 2009 21:49
TH White
3
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Mar 29 2008 16:20
80.
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
3
2
Sep 20 2009 22:11
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_
3
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Jul 27 2007 18:09
81.
The Cronicles of Narnia
3
1
Apr 15 2009 18:52
3
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Jan 16 2007 23:49
82.
Ulysses by James Joyce
3
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Aug 23 2008 5:12
3
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Dec 26 2006 7:28
83.
Flowers for Algernon
3
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Nov 14 2008 20:33
Daniel Keyes
3
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Jan 15 2006 16:03
84.
Jonathon Livingston Seagull
3
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Aug 4 2007 9:21
3
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Oct 27 2005 18:33
85.
Emma
3
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Dec 22 2007 10:18
3
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Jul 20 2005 19:15
86.
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
3
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Dec 22 2007 13:42
5
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Mar 5 2004 14:52
87.
Beloved
3
1
May 23 2009 13:30
3
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Feb 16 2004 0:56
88.
Mrs. Dalloway
3
1
May 23 2009 13:30
Virginia Woolf
5
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Jan 12 2004 17:47
89.
The Tao of Pooh
3
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May 19 2006 19:37
3
-
Jan 12 2004 17:40
90.
Midget Manifesto- Eric the Midget
2
2
Jun 4 2009 3:01
2
-
Jun 4 2009 3:01
91.
Confederacy of Dunces
2
1
Jan 30 2009 11:01
2
-
Dec 22 2007 13:33
92.
The ''John Carter On Mars'' series
2
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Dec 21 2007 13:19
Edgar Rice Burroughs
2
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Dec 21 2007 13:17
93.
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
2
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May 27 2008 14:20
www.chuckpalahniuk.net/ (life changing, THE Gen X Bible)
2
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Mar 15 2007 1:10
94.
The Sirens of Titan
2
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Dec 22 2007 10:14
Kurt Vonnegut
2
-
Jan 13 2006 13:39
95.
Odyssey
2
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Nov 21 2007 18:15
2
-
Jan 7 2006 11:45
96.
Macbeth
2
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Dec 16 2005 14:47
2
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May 7 2005 0:15
97.
Naked Lunch-William S. burroughs
2
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Apr 7 2008 19:08
2
-
Jan 31 2005 16:36
98.
The Da Vinci Code
2
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Nov 8 2008 23:46
36
-
Sep 5 2004 5:20
99.
The Razor's Edge
2
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Dec 22 2007 13:31
2
-
Apr 19 2004 20:23
100.
The Purple Clod-Philip Shiel
2
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Aug 14 2004 13:57
2
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Jan 22 2004 9:42
101.
hop on pop
2
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Dec 6 2008 10:56
its so sad how they hopped on pop
4
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Nov 26 2003 17:55
102.
the cat in the hat
2
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Apr 19 2004 21:43
by doctor seus
2
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Nov 26 2003 17:54
103.
Letters to a Young Poet
2
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Jan 6 2006 13:11
Rainer Maria Rilke
2
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Nov 5 2001 1:57
104.
Gifts From The Sea
2
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Jan 6 2006 13:11
Anne Morrow Lindberg
2
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Nov 5 2001 1:56
105.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
1
1
Nov 1 2009 20:41
Thomas Hardy
1
1
Nov 1 2009 20:40
106.
Daughter of Fortune
1
1
Apr 15 2009 18:57
1
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Apr 15 2009 18:56
107.
The Shipping News
1
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Mar 29 2008 16:23
Annie Proulx
1
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Mar 29 2008 16:22
108.
Beyond Good an Evil: Friedrich Nietzsche
1
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May 7 2008 17:36
1
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Mar 13 2008 11:42
109.
Siddhartha
1
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Mar 13 2008 11:39
1
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Jan 30 2008 22:38
110.
Little Women
1
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Dec 23 2007 10:04
1
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Dec 23 2007 9:58
111.
Tanglewood Tales
1
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Dec 21 2007 13:19
Nathaniel Hawthorne
1
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Dec 21 2007 13:19
112.
The ''Conan'' series
1
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Dec 22 2007 12:52
Robert E. Howard
1
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Dec 21 2007 13:18
113.
''How to Win Friends and Influence People'' Dale Carnegie
1
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Dec 23 2007 13:28
1
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Nov 21 2007 18:20
114.
''Night'' Elie Wiesel
1
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Dec 22 2007 12:52
1
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Nov 21 2007 18:19
115.
''The Good Earth'' Pearl S. Buck
1
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Dec 23 2007 9:56
1
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Nov 21 2007 18:17
116.
beatles
1
1
Sep 22 2009 21:41
1
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Nov 9 2007 18:42
117.
The Sword of Truth
1
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Nov 11 2007 19:30
1
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Nov 6 2007 23:59
118.
The God Delusion
1
-1
May 23 2009 13:30
5
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Nov 3 2007 17:58
119.
The Hunt for the Red October
1
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Dec 22 2007 4:13
1
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Dec 22 2007 4:12
120.
Misery ~ Stephen King
1
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Mar 18 2008 14:01
3
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Jun 12 2007 1:42
121.
The Sandman Series
1
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Jun 2 2007 1:34
by Neil Gaiman
1
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Jun 2 2007 1:33
122.
American Gods
1
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Jun 2 2007 1:32
by Neil Gaiman
1
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Jun 2 2007 1:30
123.
Romeo and Juliet
1
1
May 12 2009 22:42
Shakespeare is a literary God!
1
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Jan 16 2007 23:50
124.
The Wasp Factory by Ian Banks
1
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Jun 4 2006 18:19
1
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Jun 4 2006 18:16
125.
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
1
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Jun 4 2006 18:15
1
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Jun 4 2006 18:11
126.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
1
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Jul 10 2007 21:36
Stephen Chbosky
1
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May 30 2006 1:24
127.
The Way of Love - by Nigel Watts
1
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Jun 25 2006 0:11
Achingly beautiful bio-fiction of Sufi poet Rumi
1
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May 19 2006 19:40
128.
The World According To Garp
1
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Aug 26 2008 19:11
John Irving
1
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Mar 1 2006 2:32
129.
The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo
1
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Apr 28 2008 16:06
7
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Jan 7 2006 11:41
130.
Micklesson's Ghosts
1
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Mar 26 2005 9:15
1
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Mar 26 2005 9:11
131.
The Phantom of the Opera
1
1
Aug 9 2009 17:08
1
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Jan 3 2005 0:48
132.
Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
1
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Aug 14 2004 18:30
1
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Aug 14 2004 18:30
133.
''The Moloch'' by Alexander Kuprin
1
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Mar 15 2004 18:29
1
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Mar 15 2004 18:29
134.
Oblomov by Ivan Gontscharov
1
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Mar 15 2004 18:29
1
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Mar 15 2004 18:28
135.
Jude The Obscure
0
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Thomas Hardy
0
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Nov 1 2009 20:42
136.
Proof That Jann Wenner is the Antichrist - Roger the Shrubber
0
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-
0
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Jun 27 2009 21:49
137.
Popping Cherries For Dummies - Buster Hymen
0
-
-
0
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Jun 27 2009 21:45
138.
The World According to Buster Hymen
0
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-
0
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Jun 12 2009 19:55
139.
The Joy of Sex - Alex Comfort
0
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-
0
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Apr 4 2009 12:26
140.
Fear of Flying
0
-
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Erica Jong
0
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Mar 28 2009 0:50
141.
Blindness
0
-
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Jose Saramago
0
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Dec 26 2008 3:32
142.
The Day of the Locust
0
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Nathanael West
0
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Dec 26 2008 3:31
143.
The Exorcist
0
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William Peter Blatty
0
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Dec 26 2008 3:31
144.
the brothers karamazov
0
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0
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Aug 26 2008 19:13
145.
wuthering heights
0
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Emily Bronte
0
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Aug 6 2008 15:52
146.
Harry Potter Series by: J. K. Rowling
0
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Aug 6 2009 22:41
2
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Jun 17 2008 20:33
147.
You Don't Know Me by: David Klass
0
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0
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Jun 17 2008 20:30
148.
The Dark Tower Series
0
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0
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May 9 2008 17:12
149.
Paradise Lost
0
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0
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Feb 26 2008 7:13
150.
The Portrait od Dorian Gray
0
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0
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Jan 30 2008 22:42
151.
Divine Comedy
0
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0
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Jan 30 2008 22:41
152.
Candide
0
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0
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Jan 30 2008 22:39
153.
The Sorrows of Young Werther
0
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0
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Jan 30 2008 22:38
154.
Magic Mountain
0
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0
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Jan 30 2008 22:36
155.
Buddenbrooks
0
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0
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Jan 30 2008 22:35
156.
Through the Lighthouse
0
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0
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Jan 30 2008 22:34
157.
God is not great: how religion poisons everything
0
1
Jun 27 2009 21:48
4
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Jan 30 2008 22:33
158.
Frankenstein
0
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0
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Jan 30 2008 22:32
159.
Heart of Darkness
0
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0
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Jan 30 2008 22:32
160.
The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
0
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0
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Dec 23 2007 7:30
161.
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy by Greg Palast
0
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0
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Dec 23 2007 7:29
162.
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
0
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0
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Dec 23 2007 7:28
163.
Everything You Know About God is Wrong by Russ Kick
0
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0
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Dec 23 2007 7:27
164.
You Are Being Lied to by Russ Kick
0
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0
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Dec 23 2007 7:26
165.
A Mencken Chrestomathy
0
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by H. L. Mencken
0
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Dec 23 2007 2:00
166.
The Death of Ivan Ilitch
0
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Leo Tolstoy
0
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Dec 23 2007 1:43
167.
Huckleberry Finn
0
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Mark Twain
0
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Dec 23 2007 1:40
168.
The Remains of the Day
0
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0
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Dec 22 2007 15:45
169.
Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea
0
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0
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Dec 22 2007 12:41
170.
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet
0
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0
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Dec 22 2007 3:48
171.
Ancient Evenings by Norman Mailer
0
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0
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Dec 22 2007 3:27
172.
Be My Guest - Conrad Hilton
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http://www.hiltonfranchise.com/SF/Overvi
0
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Jul 27 2007 18:06
173.
Sobre Heroes y tumbas
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Sábato
0
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Jul 2 2007 9:07
174.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
0
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
0
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Jun 24 2007 17:25
175.
Salem's Lot ~ Stephen King
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0
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Jun 12 2007 1:43
176.
The Life of Pi
0
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0
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May 30 2007 19:07
177.
Bridge to Terabithia
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0
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Jan 16 2007 23:49
178.
The Last Book In The Univerese
0
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0
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Jan 7 2007 0:00
179.
My Sister's Keeper- Jodi Picoult
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0
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Oct 31 2006 1:46
180.
The Bell Jar- Sylvia Plath
0
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0
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Oct 31 2006 1:46
181.
Lies, and the Lying Liars who tell them
0
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Oct 5 2008 9:16
Al Frankin
4
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Dec 18 2005 1:17
182.
Excuse Me While I Wag
0
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by Scott Adams
0
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May 7 2005 0:19
183.
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
0
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0
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Apr 25 2005 23:37
184.
I Claudius
0
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0
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Apr 25 2005 23:37
185.
Rush Limbaugh is a big FAT idiot; by Al Franken
0
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Nov 8 2008 23:54
160
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Oct 6 2003 17:16
186.
Little, Big by John Crowley
0
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0
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Mar 25 2002 6:05
187.
Twilight Series by Stephanie Meyer
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Aug 9 2009 17:07
I fell in love
25
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Jul 4 2008 18:18
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