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infinite jest (david foster wallace)
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (James Agee)
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speak, memory (vladimir nabokov)
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Cotton Tenants: Three Families (James Agee)
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Deliverance (James Dickey)
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the gulag archipelago, vol. 1 (aleksandr solzhenitsyn)
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jimmy corrigan: the smartest kid on earth (chris ware)
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of arms and men: a history of war, weapons, and aggression
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Imperial (William T. Vollmann)
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rising up and rising down, vol. 4
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rising up and rising down, vol. 1
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rising up and rising down, vol. 2
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rising up and rising down, vol. 3
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rising up and rising down, vol. 5
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gulag (anne applebaum)
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animals in translation: using the mysteries of autism to decode animal behavior (temple grandin)
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jonathan strange & mr norrell (susanna clarke)
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shame (salman rushdie)
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Nightingale Wood (Stella Gibbons)
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germinal (emile zola)
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the fatal shore (robert hughes)
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black lamb and grey falcon (rebecca west)
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consider the lobster (david foster wallace)
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Pulphead (John Jeremiah Sullivan)
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The Dancing Bear (Peter Dickinson)
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The Meaning of Treason (Rebecca West)
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how to be alone
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slaughterhouse: bosnia and the failure of the west
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i'm just here for the food: food + heat = cooking
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the cold six thousand (james ellroy)
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the birds fall down (rebecca west)
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The Code of the Woosters (P. G. Wodehouse)
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Life at Blandings (P.G. Wodehouse)
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Psmith in the City (P. G. Wodehouse)
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cloud atlas (david mitchell)
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Arthur & George (Julian Barnes)
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S'Mores: Gourmet Treats for Every Occasion (Lisa Adams)
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l'assommoir (emil zola)
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in cold blood
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how we are hungry
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A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World (Tony Horwitz)
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the ladies of grace adieu (susanna clarke)
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assassination vacation (sarah vowell)
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the drowned and the saved
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black mischief - evelyn waugh
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kolyma tales (varlam shalamov)
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the age of innocence (edith wharton)
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wake up, sir! (jonathan ames)
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spy: the funny years
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Tree of Smoke (Denis Johnson)
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absurdistan (gary shteyngart)
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brideshead revisited (evelyn waugh)
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The Wordy Shipmates (Sarah Vowell)
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Acme Novelty Library #18 (Chris Ware)
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Celine Dion's Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste (Carl Wilson)
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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Barbara Demnick)
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The Once and Future King (T. H. White)
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11/22/63 (Stephen King) - 11/18/11
While I think he doesn't do enough unpacking why a middle-class white male might think the late 50s would be a great place to live but others not so much (and thus romanticizes, praises, or glosses over some bullshit), King delivers a tight, interesting portrait of a time. Plus he deftly sidesteps a lot of time-travel nonsense. Solid work.
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I, California: A Memoir (Stacey Grenrock Woods)
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Already Dead (Denis Johnson)
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Snowblind: A Brief Career in the Cocaine Trade (Robert Sabbag)
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the world's most dangerous places
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stiff: the curious lives of human cadavers
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Devil's Knot : The True Story of the West Memphis Three (Mara Leveritt)
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Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves (Adam Hochschild)
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A Season in Purgatory (Dominic Dunne)
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america (the book): a citizen's guide to democracy inaction
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number 9 dream (david mitchell)
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the dream life of sukhanov (olga grushin)
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the killer inside me (jim thompson)
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Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953 (Elizabeth Winder)
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Bushwhacked (Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose)
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the amazing adventures of kavalier & clay (michael chabon)
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Endgame, 1945: The Missing Final Chapter of World War II (David Stafford)
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stranger in paris (w. somerset maugham)
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the devil in the white city
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Thank You for Your Service (David Finkel)
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hell's angels (hunter s. thompson)
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The Extra Man (Jonathan Ames)
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Carter Beats the Devil (Glen David Gold)
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Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune (Paul Clark Newell Jr.)
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The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast (Douglas Brinkley)
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collapse: how societies choose to fail or succeed (jared diamond)
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to ruhleben - and back (geoffrey pyke)
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College Girls: Bluestockings, Sex Kittens, and Co-Eds, Then and Now (Lynn Peril)
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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (Mary Roach)
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the end of the line: how overfishing is changing the world and w
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Poor People (William T. Vollmann)
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Then We Came to the End (Joshua Ferris)
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harvest of sorrow: soviet collectivization and the terror-famine (robert conquest)
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Icelander (Dustin Long)
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shake hands with the devil: the failure of humanity in rwanda
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gravity's rainbow (thomas pynchon)
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shock value
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The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
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Crazy From the Heat (David Lee Roth)
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Unknown Pleasures (Chris Ott)
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To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care (Cris Beam)
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The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women (James Ellroy)
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on writing (stephen king)
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the sex lives of cannibals: adrift in the equatorial pacific
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howard's end/a room with a view (e. m. forester)
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Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief (Lawrence Wright)
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crime wave (james ellroy)
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The Year of Living Biblically (A. J. Jacobs)
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Thunderstruck (Erik Larson)
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the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime
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Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army 1939-1940 (Catherine Merridale)
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pol pot: anatomy of a nightmare (philip short)
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Unbound: A True Story of War, Love, and Betrayal (Dean King)
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God Is Not Great: How Religion Ruins Everything (Christopher Hitchens)
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The Best American Essays 2007 (ed. David Foster Wallace)
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something from the oven: reinventing dinner in 1950s america
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The Men Who Stare at Goats (Jon Ronson)
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World War Z (Max Brooks)
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Sweet Jesus, I Hate Bill O'Reilly (Joseph Minton Amann and Tom B
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I Love You More Than You Know (Jonathan Ames)
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shot in the heart (mikal gilmore)
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Lush Life (Richard Price)
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black swan green (david mitchell)
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c. s. lewis: a biography (a. n. wilson)
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The Great Funk: Falling Apart and Coming Together (on a Shag Rug) in the Seventies (Thomas Hine)
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How to Be a Woman (Caitlin Moran)
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When You Are Engulfed in Flames (David Sedaris)
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porno (irvine welsh)
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snobbery
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Where Angels Fear to Tread (E.M. Forster)
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interior desecrations: hideous homes from the horrible 70s
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What Maisie Knew (Henry James)
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House of Meetings (Martin Amis)
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Experience (Martin Amis)
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If You Liked School You'll Love Work (Irvine Welsh)
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The Judge (Rebecca West)
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newjack (ted conover)
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stalag luft III
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rick steves' europe through the back door
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spanking the donkey: dispatches from the dumb season (matt taibbi)
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black dahlia avenger (steve hodel)
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the wind-up bird chronicle (haruki murakami)
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stalin: a biography (robert service)
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the fortress of solitude (jonathan lethem)
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james and the giant peach
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Conservatives Without Conscience (John W. Dean)
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a short history of nearly everything (bill bryson)
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The New Kings of Nonfiction (ed. Ira Glass)
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Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America (Matt Taibbi)
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carnage and culture: landmark battles in the rise of western power
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the commitment: love, sex, marriage, and my family (dan savage)
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the algeria hotel: france, memory, and the second world war
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hard line: life and death on the u.s. - mexico border
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elmer gantry
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Dreams from My Father (Barack Obama)
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the dark tower VII: the dark tower
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Ethan Frome (Edith Wharton)
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The Diana Chronicles (Tina Brown)
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the eyes of another race
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Born Standing Up (Steve Martin)
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A House in the Sky: A Memoir (Amanda Lindhout and Sara Corbett)
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Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace (D. T. Max)
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Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge (Mark Yarm)
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reading lolita in tehran
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the master and margarita
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colors insulting to nature
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Riding Toward Everywhere (William T. Vollmann)
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The Goldfinch (Donna Tartt)
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Belle and Sebastian's If You're Feeling Sinister (Scott Plagenhoef)
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The Stone Roses (Alex Green)
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your call is important to us: the truth about bullshit (laura penny)
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king leopold's ghost
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pledged: the secret life of sororities (alexandra robbins)
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promises betrayed: waking up from the american dream (bob herbert)
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Dear Diary (Lesley Arfin)
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sTORI Telling (Tori Spelling)
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The Dirt (Mötley Crüe)
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the bone woman: a forensic anthropologist's search for truth in the mass graves of rwanda, bosnia, croatia, and kosovo
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Quant by Quant (Mary Quant)
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the coming anarchy (robert d. kaplan)
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maurice
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another bullshit night in suck city (nick flynn)
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cell (stephen king)
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lucky jim
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nana
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saint morrissey: a portrait of this charming man by an alarming fan (mark simpson)
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where the right went wrong (patrick j. buchanan)
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pavillion of women - pearl s. buck
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spirit and flesh: life in a fundamentalist baptist church
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Rich Man, Poor Man (Irwin Shaw)
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The Thorn Birds (Collen McCullough)
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Revenge (Stephen Fry)
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the loo sanction (trevanian)
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lisey's song (stephen king)
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Kristin Lavransdatter (Sigrid Undset)
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The Bling Ring: How a Gang of Fame-Obsessed Teens Ripped Off Hollywood and Shocked the World (Nancy Jo Sales)
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NOS4A2 (Joe Hill)
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the line of beauty (alan hollinghurst)
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killing yourself to live (chuck klosterman)
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The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie (Wendy McClure)
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the copy of the time out guide to budapest at the piedmont libra
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the black veil: a memoir with digressions (rick moody)
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Let's Spend the Night Together: Backstage Secrets of Rock Muses and Supergroupies (Pamela Des Barres)
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In Search of Lost Time [aborted] (Marcel Proust)
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Heaven (V. C. Andrews)
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The Secret History (Donna Tartt)
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Doctor Sleep (Stephen King)
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american psycho
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five james bond books (ian fleming)
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Things I Didn't Know: A Memoir (Robert Hughes)
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the godfather (mario puzo)
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Finders, Keepers (Stephen King)
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A Game of Thrones (George R. R. Martin)
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A Clash of Kings (George R. R. Martin) [aborted]
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How to Run an Thriving Business (Ralph Warner)
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You Don't Know Me but You Don't Like Me (Nathan Rabin)
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Drugs Are Nice: A Post Punk Memoir (Lisa Crystal Carver)
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Jpod (Douglas Coupland)
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i really should have stayed home: worst journeys from harare to eternity
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the man who mistook his wife for a hat
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without a net: the female experience of growing up working class (ed. michelle tea)
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kings of infinite space
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The Omen (David Seltzer)
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lucky (jackie collins)
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World Without End (Ken Follett)
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I Don't Care About Your Band: What I Learned from Indie Rockers, Trust Funders, [rest redacted for length] (Julie Klausner)
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shadow of the dolls
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Gone with the Wind (Margaret Mitchell) (aborted)
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