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Beloved

by Toni Morrison

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The Best American Essays 2022: An Annual Literary Collection―Selected by Award-Winning Writer Alexander Chee

by Alexander Chee (Goodreads Author)

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The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age

by Stanisław Lem

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Reading for the 2nd time

read in January 1993

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