The Essential Rumi by Coleman BarksThe Prophet by Kahlil GibranSalt by Nayyirah WaheedBetween The Lines by Céline ZabadFour Quartets by T.S. Eliot
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198 books — 101 voters
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Good Ethnography
140 books — 101 voters

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7,807 books — 49,789 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee1984 by George OrwellThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Literature of Social Change
433 books — 314 voters

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