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Madonna in a Fur Coat

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A Man Called Ove

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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

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So Long a Letter

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Girls of Riyadh

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Crime and Punishment

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Blindness

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Flights

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Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

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Sophie’s World

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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)

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Like Water for Chocolate

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The Prophet

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Human Acts

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Unbowed: A Memoir

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Norwegian Wood

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Normal People

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Frankenstein in Baghdad

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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

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Beauty Is a Wound

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The God of Small Things

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The Door

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Homegoing

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Siddhartha

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The Stranger

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