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	Progress: How One Idea Built Civilization and Now Threatens to Destroy It 3.73 avg rating — 64 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Progreso: Historia de la peor idea de la humanidad by Samuel Miller McDonald (Goodreads Author), David Leon (Translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Castle

by Franz Kafka

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The Master and Margarita

by Mikhail Bulgakov

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The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3)

by Paul Auster

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