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Anna Karenina

by Leo Tolstoy

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Idlewild by James Frankie Thomas

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A year and a half, after all, is but a blip in time. Our friendship was a brief and strictly binary thing, never passing through any intermediate stages like casual acquaintance or theater buddy. We were strangers to each other; then, ...more

Gone Girl

by Gillian Flynn

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American Prometheus

by Kai Bird

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― Grady Hendrix, My Best Friend's Exorcism

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“An older man using a girl to feel better about himself - how easily the story becomes a cliché if you look at it without the soft focus of romance”
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“When those things happened, they learned that although those inches may add up to miles, sometimes those miles were only inches after all.”
― Grady Hendrix, My Best Friend's Exorcism

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― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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