A Book That is Considered to be in the "Classic" Literary Canon

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Updated January 28, 2025
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Their eyes were watching God
Hurston, Zora Neale
Paper Book
"A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don't know how to live properly."--Zadie Smith One of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth century,...
The alchemist
Coelho, Paulo
Paper Book
The extraordinary international bestseller. "It's a brilliant, magical, life-changing book that continues to blow my mind with its lessons."--Neil Patrick Harris, actor "Translated into 80 languages, the allegory teaches us about dreams, destiny, and the reason we are...
One flew over the cuckoo's nest
Kesey, Ken
Paper Book
An international bestseller and the basis for the hugely successful film, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is one of the defining works of the 1960s. In this classic novel, Ken Kesey's hero is Randle Patrick McMurphy, a boisterous, brawling, fun-loving rebel who...

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