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Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow Rabbit, Run by John Updike Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
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A Fall of Marigolds
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David McCullough
“All the money anyone needs is just enough to prevent one from being a burden to others.”
― David McCullough, The Wright Brothers
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Vladimir Nabokov
“No doubt, he is horrible, he is abject, he is a shining example of moral leprosy, a mixture of ferocity and jocularity that betrays supreme misery perhaps, but is not conducive to attractiveness. He”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
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Amor Towles
“giving consideration to appetizers before entrées can only lead to regrets. And”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow
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