The Writing Life by Annie Dillard
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A Voyage Long and Strange by Tony Horwitz
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Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
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100 books — 45 voters
Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt
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A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
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484 books — 1,150 voters

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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