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The Rottweiler

by Ruth Rendell

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Our most recommended books

Middlemarch by George Eliot

On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

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Middlemarch
by George Eliot

On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill

War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy

Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell

Frankenstein (Book)
by Mary Shelley

The Odyssey
by Homer and translated by Emily Wilson