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Couples

by John Updike

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Other books by John Updike

Rabbit, Run by John Updike

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Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

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Rabbit, Run
by John Updike

Rabbit at Rest
by John Updike

Rabbit Redux
by John Updike

Middlemarch
by George Eliot

War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy

Frankenstein (Book)
by Mary Shelley

On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill

Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell

Dracula
by Bram Stoker