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The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

Animal Farm by George Orwell

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Sula by Toni Morrison

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There's Only One Sin in Hollywood

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In the Absence of Men

by Philippe Besson

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Slouching Towards Bethlehem

by Joan Didion

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