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I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman Shadow & Claw by Gene Wolfe Sword & Citadel by Gene Wolfe 1984 by George Orwell A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood Hyperion by Dan Simmons The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger Perelandra by C.S. Lewis Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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