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Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon Comics and Sequential Art by Will Eisner How to Think About Weird Things by Theodore Schick Jr. Buddhism Plain and Simple by Steve Hagen Hardcore Zen by Brad Warner A Poetry Handbook by Mary Oliver The Collected Poems, Vol. 1 by William Carlos Williams The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter So What by John F. Szwed The Heart of Understanding by Thich Nhat Hanh Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
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The Trial by Franz KafkaBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyAs I Lay Dying by William FaulknerMidnight’s Children by Salman RushdieInfinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
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