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Old Man's War by John Scalzi The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson John Adams by David McCullough Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides Tai-Pan by James Clavell Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer Mort by Terry Pratchett The Winds of War by Herman Wouk Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
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Sandwich by Catherine Newman
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When someone went to bed in the book I was reading—climbed under the duvet and closed their eyes—I cried. I daydreamed about hotel beds. I daydreamed about being hospitalized. I daydreamed about running away. In a novel, I would have waved ...more
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