Lord of the Flies by William Golding

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The Pearl

John Steinbeck

Similarity Score: 0.914

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The Poisonwood Bible

Barbara Kingsolver

Similarity Score: 0.894

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Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad

Similarity Score: 0.89

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The Naked and the Dead

Norman Mailer

Similarity Score: 0.886

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Moby-Dick

Herman Melville

Similarity Score: 0.886

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The Moor's Account

Laila Lalami

Similarity Score: 0.886

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Disgrace

J.M. Coetzee

Similarity Score: 0.879

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All the Pretty Horses

Cormac McCarthy

Similarity Score: 0.877

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The Call of the Wild

Jack London

Similarity Score: 0.876

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Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe

Similarity Score: 0.876

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No Country for Old Men

Cormac McCarthy

Similarity Score: 0.872

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Absalom, Absalom!

William Faulkner

Similarity Score: 0.872

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The Road

Cormac McCarthy

Similarity Score: 0.87

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Sing, Unburied, Sing

Jesmyn Ward

Similarity Score: 0.87

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As I Lay Dying

William Faulkner

Similarity Score: 0.869

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Fire Exit

Morgan Talty

Similarity Score: 0.869

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Sister Snake

Amanda Lee Koe

Similarity Score: 0.869

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The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Similarity Score: 0.869

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Beloved

Toni Morrison

Similarity Score: 0.863

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Julius Caesar

William Shakespeare

Similarity Score: 0.861

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King Lear

William Shakespeare

Similarity Score: 0.861

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The Far Field

Madhuri Vijay

Similarity Score: 0.861

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Bear

Julia Phillips

Similarity Score: 0.86

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American Pastoral

Philip Roth

Similarity Score: 0.851

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