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The Amber Spyglass

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Never Let Me Go

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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

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The Year of Magical Thinking

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The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos

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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

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Bad Blood

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Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets

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Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth

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Gone Girl

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The Noonday Demon

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Coraline

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Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions

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Nickel and Dimed: Undercover in Low-Wage America

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Notes on a Scandal

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Darkmans (Thames Gateway, #3)

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

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Experience

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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

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Levels of Life

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Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

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Night Watch

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Broken Glass

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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

Jeanette Winterson

Noughts & Crosses (Noughts & Crosses, #1)

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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)

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The Siege (The Siege, #1)

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White Teeth

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