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George Eliot · 1871
“The novel that ruins other novels for you. Give it forty pages and it will quietly rearrange how you read everything else.”
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Homer · transl. Emily Wilson
“Three thousand years old and still the best adventure story ever told. Read it aloud if you can — it was built for the voice.”
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