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1War and Peace (#7)

by Leo Tolstoy

2Middlemarch (#1)

by George Eliot

3Jane Eyre (#8)

by Charlotte Brontë

4Madame Bovary (#10)

by Gustave Flaubert

5Persuasion (#18)

by Jane Austen

6A Guest of Honour

by Nadine Gordimer

7Parade's End

by Ford Madox Ford

8The Rainbow (#79)

by DH Lawrence

9The Ambassadors

by Henry James

10The Death of the Heart

by Elizabeth Bowen

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