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Middlesex

by Jeffrey Eugenides

Recommendations from our site

Other books by Jeffrey Eugenides

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides

Our most recommended books

Middlemarch by George Eliot

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

Frankenstein (Book) by Mary Shelley

Republic by Plato

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The Virgin Suicides
by Jeffrey Eugenides

The Marriage Plot
by Jeffrey Eugenides

Middlemarch
by George Eliot

War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy

On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill

Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell

Frankenstein (Book)
by Mary Shelley

Republic
by Plato