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1984 by George Orwell The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence David Copperfield by Charles Dickens Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver Time's Echo by Jeremy Eichler Two Roads Home by Daniel Finkelstein
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