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Improve the Breadth & Depth of Your Reading: 4 Works From Each of 167 Acclaimed Authors

This challenge consists of blocks of 4 highly-rated books per well-known author (mostly chosen according to Goodreads rankings). You might have guessed why four books. So that each author's works are clustered on the same row.
The main criterion for inclusion of a particular author was that I have read at least one book by that author. Unsurprisingly, in most cases I have continued on to read some of the author's' other books (or intend to do so).
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Winnie-The-Pooh (A.A. Milne)
Winnie-The-Pooh (A.A. Milne)
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The House at Pooh Corner (A.A. Milne)
The House at Pooh Corner (A.A. Milne)
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When We Were Very Young (A.A. Milne)
When We Were Very Young (A.A. Milne)
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Now We Are Six (A. A. Milne)
Now We Are Six (A. A. Milne)
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The Oresteia (Aeschylus)
The Oresteia (Aeschylus)
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Prometheus Bound (Aeschylus)
Prometheus Bound (Aeschylus)
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The Seven Against Thebes (Aeschylus)
The Seven Against Thebes (Aeschylus)
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Persians (Aeschylus)
Persians (Aeschylus)
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Agatha Christie)
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Agatha Christie)
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And Then There Were None (Agatha Christie)
And Then There Were None (Agatha Christie)
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Murder on the Orient Express (Agatha Christie)
Murder on the Orient Express (Agatha Christie)
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Evil Under the Sun (Agatha Christie)
Evil Under the Sun (Agatha Christie)
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The Lady in the Van (Alan Bennett)
The Lady in the Van (Alan Bennett)
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The History Boys (Alan Bennett)
The History Boys (Alan Bennett)
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The Clothes They Stood Up in (Alan Bennett)
The Clothes They Stood Up in (Alan Bennett)
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The Uncommon Reader (Alan Bennett)
The Uncommon Reader (Alan Bennett)
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The Outsider (Albert Camus)
The Outsider (Albert Camus)
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The Plague (Albert Camus)
The Plague (Albert Camus)
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The Fall (Albert Camus)
The Fall (Albert Camus)
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The Myth of Sisyphus (Albert Camus)
The Myth of Sisyphus (Albert Camus)
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Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
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Brave New World Revisited (Aldous Huxley)
Brave New World Revisited (Aldous Huxley)
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The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell (Aldous Huxley)
The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell (Aldous Huxley)
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Island (Aldous Huxley)
Island (Aldous Huxley)
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Cancer Ward (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
Cancer Ward (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
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In the First Circle (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
In the First Circle (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
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The Gulag Archipelago (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
The Gulag Archipelago (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
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The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Alexander McCall Smith)
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Alexander McCall Smith)
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Tears of the Giraffe (Alexander McCall Smith)
Tears of the Giraffe (Alexander McCall Smith)
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Morality for Beautiful Girls (Alexander McCall Smith)
Morality for Beautiful Girls (Alexander McCall Smith)
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The Kalahari Typing School for Men (Alexander McCall Smith)
The Kalahari Typing School for Men (Alexander McCall Smith)
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Eugene Onegin (Alexander Pushkin)
Eugene Onegin (Alexander Pushkin)
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The Captain's Daughter (Alexander Pushkin)
The Captain's Daughter (Alexander Pushkin)
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Ruslan and Lyudmila (Alexander Pushkin)
Ruslan and Lyudmila (Alexander Pushkin)
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The Queen of Spades (Alexander Pushkin)
The Queen of Spades (Alexander Pushkin)
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The Color Purple (Alice Walker)
The Color Purple (Alice Walker)
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Possessing the Secret of Joy (Alice Walker)
Possessing the Secret of Joy (Alice Walker)
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The Temple of My Familiar (Alice Walker)
The Temple of My Familiar (Alice Walker)
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In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens (Alice Walker)
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens (Alice Walker)
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