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One ordinary day in a Siberian labour camp; the book that told the USSR about the Gulag.

A Roman patrician and a Christian girl under Nero; Sienkiewicz's Nobel.

Sethe, a runaway slave, and the ghost of the daughter she killed; Morrison's masterpiece.

Oskar stops growing at three and drums through Danzig's twentieth century; Grass's Nobel.

A woman's life in 14th-century Norway in three volumes; Undset's Nobel.

Solzhenitsyn's literary investigation of the camps from 227 witnesses; the abridged edition is enough.

Quasimodo, Esmeralda and the cathedral Hugo wrote the book to save.

Scarlett O Hara from Tara to the burning of Atlanta; a thousand pages and the most popular American novel.