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Topic: in preparation for Classics Challenge 2014

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Date Posted: 11/4/2013 4:37 PM ET
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Some classics I'd be ashamed to read in public:  Fanny Hill, 120 Days of Sodom (or Justine, or anything else by the Marquis de Sade), Sexual Behavior in the Human Female and Sexual Behavior in the Human Male by Alfred Kinsey.

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Date Posted: 11/6/2013 3:10 PM ET
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Here's my vote for the preferred challenge books

1.    African-American/black
2.    biography/memoirs
3.    book on your TBR
4.    book you consider long
5.    book you consider short
6.    classic mystery
7.    Dickens novel
8.    less famous work by a famous author
9.    lost in translation
10.    noir
11.    Russian lit
12.    travel

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