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Replay by Ken Grimwood
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The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
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Dune by Frank HerbertFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Middle Kingdom by David WingroveThe Man in the High Castle by Philip K. DickChildhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke
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