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by Richard Skinner

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Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë

Middlemarch
by George Eliot

Dracula
by Bram Stoker

Beloved
by Toni Morrison

The Dispossessed
by Ursula Le Guin

Demon Copperhead
by Barbara Kingsolver