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Pick-Up

by Charles Willeford

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Our most recommended books

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Middlemarch
by George Eliot

Dracula
by Bram Stoker

Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë

Beloved
by Toni Morrison

Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens

Frankenstein (Book)
by Mary Shelley