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The Old Capital by Yasunari Kawabata Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. Feynman The Master of Go by Yasunari Kawabata A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer The Plague by Albert Camus The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Animal Farm by George Orwell
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