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God in Search of Man by Abraham Joshua Heschel Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris The Sweet Flypaper of Life by Roy DeCarava A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami The Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
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