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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

by Susanna Clarke

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Oxford World's Classics: Political Writings

by Mary Wollstonecraft

bookshelves: currently-reading, 2018, anthology, history, prose

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Les Fleurs du Mal

by Charles Baudelaire

bookshelves: french-monolingual, poetry, 2016, bookclub-2016, currently-reading

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“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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