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Can I please have a top ten list of novels that are of good academic value?

I'm going on holiday soon and I need a list of good novels to read that are of academic value.

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1. Winston Churchill's autobiography Many novels by James Michenor, "Covenant" "Centennial" "Bridges at Toko Ri" "Space"
2. a good book to read is "My asshole is too big for my buns!" i read it when i was a lad and i loved it.
3. the house of the scorpoin
4. Empire of the Sun, J. G. Ballard Middlemarch, George Eliot Dangerous Liaisons, de la Clos Anna Karenina, Tolstoy Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka Brighton Rock, Graham Greene Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh Howards End, E.M. Forster Sons and Lovers, D.H. Lawrence The Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Orczy Have a good holiday!!!
5. Cervantes, "Don Quixote" (a very early novel). Balzac, "Cousin Betty". Stendhal, "The Red and the Black". Jane Austen,"Pride and Prejudice". Dickens, "A Tale of Two Cities". Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Scarlet Letter".Tolstoy, "War and Peace''. Dostoevski, "Crime and Punishment". Zola," Germinal". Marcel Proust, "Swann's Way".
6. MY TOP 4 English Edgar Allen Poe - The Haunted Palace Charlotte Bronte - Villette Edith Nesbit - The Railway Children Virginia Woolf - Mrs Dalloway MY TOP 4 Australian Kate Grenville - Lillian's Story Miles Franklin - My Brilliant Career Helen Garner - The Children's Bach Tim Winton - The Riders MY TOP 2 American JD Salinger - The Catcher in The Rye F Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
7. 1) To kill a mockingbird 2) 1984 3)One flew over the cookoo's nest 4)Animal Farm 5) Harry Potter (there's a lot you can learn from it, really) 6)Pride and Prejudice 7) A tale of 2 cities 8) A tree grows in Brooklyn 9)The count of Monte Crist 10) Cyrano Debgerac (no idea how to spell that)
8. my school requires us to read at least six of the following 1. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 2. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne 3. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald 4. The Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger 5. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 6. Walden - Henry David Thoreau 7. Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut 8. The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck 9. Night - Eli Weisel 10. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess 11. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith 12. Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller Along with books of selected works of Edgar Allan Poe and Emily Dickinson.