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The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
Best Science Fiction of the 21st Century
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Lord of the Flies by William GoldingThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeAnimal Farm by George OrwellWhere the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
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The Stranger by Albert CamusSiddhartha by Hermann Hesse
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