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The Tennis Handsome

by Barry Hannah

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Our most recommended books

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War and Peace (book)
by Leo Tolstoy

On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill

Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell

Middlemarch
by George Eliot

The Confessions
by Augustine (translated by Maria Boulding)

Scoop
by Evelyn Waugh