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Raising Hare: A Memoir

by Chloe Dalton

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Revolutionary Road / The Easter Parade / Eleven Kinds of Loneliness

by Richard Yates

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Collected Stories

by Thomas Mann

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Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1) by Hilary Mantel

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You don't get on by being original. You don't get on by being bright. You don't get on by being strong. You get on by being a subtle crook;

The Books of Jacob

by Olga Tokarczuk

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Less

by Andrew Sean Greer

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“He has nothing personal against Christ; though raised Unitarian—with its glaring omission of Jesus and a hymnal so unorthodox that it was years before Less understood “Accentuate the Positive” was not in the Book of Common Prayer—Less is technically Christian. There is really no other word for someone who celebrates Christmas and Easter, even if only as craft projects.”
― Andrew Sean Greer, Less

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“Our identities are given but also made. We can’t choose our parents, but we can choose who we become. ‘Basically I’m Chinese,’ Franz Kafka wrote in a postcard to his fiancée. If I say ‘basically I’m a central European’ I’m not literally claiming descent from the central European Yiddish writer Asch, but declaring an elective affinity.”
― Timothy Garton Ash, Homelands: A Personal History of Europe

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“One person after another came up and said his mother was at peace. His mother’s friends: each with her own peculiar spiked or curled white hairdo, like a dahlia show.”
― Andrew Sean Greer, Less

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“He is shown to a car as small, bland, and white as a hospital dessert”
― Andrew Sean Greer, Less

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“What constitutes the freedom, the soul of an individual life, is its uniqueness. The reflection of the universe in someone’s consciousness is the foundation of his or her power, but life only becomes happiness, is only endowed with freedom and meaning when someone exists as a whole world that has never been repeated in all eternity. Only then can they experience the joy of freedom and kindness, finding in others what they have already found in themselves.”
― Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series): As heard on BBC Radio 4

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