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Watership Down by Richard Adams Galápagos by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera The Girls by Emma Cline The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen East of Eden by John Steinbeck A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan The Overstory by Richard Powers The Topeka School by Ben Lerner Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
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“What you make from a tree should be at least as miraculous as what you cut down.”
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“Nothing is a cliche when you’re living it.”
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“And the goal of the game will be to figure out what the new and desperate world wants from you.”
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“What conveys a right, and why should humans, alone on all the planet, have them?”
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“Love is a tree with branches in forever with roots in eternity and a trunk nowhere at all”
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