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The Orestia by Aeschylus The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes Ecclesiastes, or The Preacher by Anonymous The Sabbath by Abraham Joshua Heschel Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language by Saul A. Kripke The Sources of Normativity by Christine M. Korsgaard A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving Philosophical Explanations by Robert Nozick The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy The Machinery of Life by David S. Goodsell
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1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War by Benny Morris
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