1. The Gormenghast Novels

2. Gravity’s Rainbow

3. The Macintosh Bible

4. The Oxford English Dictionary

5. The World of Pooh

6. Webster’s New World Encyclopedia

7. Finnegans Wake

8. The Internet

9. Flossing

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