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On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill

Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell

War and Peace (Book)
by Leo Tolstoy

Frankenstein (Book)
by Mary Shelley

Confessions of St Augustine
by St Augustine

Scoop
by Evelyn Waugh