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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

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The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)

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Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russia's City of Steel

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John Adams

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Doubt

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1984

George Orwell

Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

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Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

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Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)

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The Giver (The Giver, #1)

Lois Lowry

Sophie’s Choice

William Styron

The Gulag Archipelago

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck

Slouching Towards Bethlehem

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Animal Farm

George Orwell

A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens