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Creative Quest
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The Art of Game Design
Jesse Schell
Political Fictions
Joan Didion
In Vogue
Alberto Oliva, Norberto Angeletti
Stories of Your Life and Others
Ted Chiang
The Quest for El Cid
Richard A. Fletcher
I Am Legend
Richard Matheson
One Day in December
Josie Silver
Dao de Jing
Lao zi
Columbine
Dave Cullen
The Planetary Omnibus
Warren Ellis
The Nickel Boys (Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
Colson Whitehead
Justice as Fairness
John Rawls, Professor John Rawls
Dunbar
Ghettoside
Jill Leovy
A Tomb for Boris Davidovich
Danilo Kiš
Richistan
Robert Frank
The Law of Divine Compensation
Marianne Williamson
Oneness
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
99% True
Paul McGowan
Too Big to Know
David Weinberger
A Head Full of Ghosts
Paul Tremblay
The Descent of Man
Grayson Perry
Crudo
Olivia Laing
Auschwitz
Miklos Nyiszli
Gun, with Occasional Music
Jonathan Lethem
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