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Laura’s favorite books

La Bête humaine by Émile Zola Beloved by Toni Morrison Ain't I a Woman by bell hooks Cannery Row by John Steinbeck We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson Neuromancer by William Gibson Dictionary of the Khazars by Milorad Pavić The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh Watership Down by Richard Adams Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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Tom Waits
“The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.”
― Tom Waits
tags: books, literature, writing
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Biography, Book Club, Classics, Contemporary, Ebooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, Humor and Comedy, Literary Fiction, Memoir, Music, Mystery, Non-fiction, Science fiction, Suspense, Thriller, and Travel


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