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The Lovely Bones by Alice SeboldShutter Island by Dennis LehaneGorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith
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The Stand by Stephen  King
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The Road by Cormac McCarthyAmerican Gods by Neil Gaiman
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A Rose of Any Colour by Canice Brown-Porter
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