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If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
House of Leaves
Slaughterhouse-Five
Pale Fire
The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
The Princess Bride
The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3)
Breakfast of Champions
Cloud Atlas
Redshirts
The Name of the Rose
Sophie’s World
The French Lieutenant’s Woman
The Neverending Story
The Blind Assassin
The Blind Assassin by Margaret AtwoodThe Valley of Unknowing by Philip SingtonIf on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoThe Eyre Affair by Jasper FfordeThe Neverending Story by Michael Ende
Books within Books
78 books — 70 voters
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna ClarkeHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiGood Omens by Terry PratchettInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Footnotes!
102 books — 75 voters

Laurie Frankel
But there was a catalyst, an event, a moment which changed everything and not just for us. This is good for storytelling but bad for decision making, and it is frightening to look back and realize, were it not for that moment, all of our lives would have been so different. maybe that's revisionist history. Maybe it's me making origin myths. But I can't shake the conviction that Jason's boyfriend's friend's ex-boyfriend's girlfriend changed the world. ...more
Laurie Frankel, The Atlas of Love

Vladimir Hlocky
A memory is just an imagining inclined towards the past, after all. You are bound to relive the same mistakes because you keep imagining your own memories. But consider this: The former things shall not be remembered; the old that’ve passed. If your future, which is in desire, can become your past, a memory like any other, then by some mysterious miracle it will become your present too
Vladimir Hlocky, Journeys Beyond Earth

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