The top ten:
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Middlemarch by George Eliot
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Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
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Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
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The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
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In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
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Disgrace by JM Coetzee
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Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
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Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
I’ve read numbers 2, 3, 5, and 10.
Of the rest of the 100 books listed, I’ve read the following:
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The War of the Worlds by HG Wells
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1984 by George Orwell
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Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
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The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
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Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
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The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
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The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse
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One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
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Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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If On a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino
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The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
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The Trial by Franz Kafka
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Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
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The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
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The Stranger by Albert Camus
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On the Road by Jack Kerouac
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee