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The Trial by Franz Kafka The Hanging on Union Square by H.T. Tsiang Ripe by Sarah Rose Etter Letters from a Stoic by Seneca Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays by Albert Camus Heaven and Hell by Jón Kalman Stefánsson One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Letters from a Stoic
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