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The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro On Photography by Susan Sontag Catch-22 by Joseph Heller The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck American Prometheus by Kai Bird East of Eden by John Steinbeck Wild Swans by Jung Chang The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger The Martian by Andy Weir Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
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