No particular order - I find that each time I answer this question my choices change.
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Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
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The Grapes of Wrath or
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
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The Man in the Iron Mask or
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
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And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
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Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
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Watership Down by Richard Adams
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The Unedited Diaries of Carolina Maria De Jesus by Robert M. Levine (translation)
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Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
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Shogun: A Novel of Japan by James Clavell
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The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende