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The Gunslinger by Stephen King Mindless Eating by Brian Wansink The Places That Scare You by Pema Chödrön The Ascent of Humanity by Charles Eisenstein The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver Empire Falls by Richard Russo Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth The World According to Garp by John Irving The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee
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