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Any Human Heart
William Boyd
Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy
What Technology Wants
Kevin Kelly
Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking
Marcella Hazan
Ask the Dust
John Fante
A Visit from the Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan
The Writing Class
Jincy Willett
Bastard Out of Carolina
Dorothy Allison
An American Marriage (Oprah's Book Club)
Tayari Jones
Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders
A Million Little Pieces
James Frey
Mind
Stormy Weather
James Gavin
What Got You Here Won't Get You There
Marshall Goldsmith, Mark Reiter
Daisy Jones & The Six
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami
The Nickel Boys (Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
Colson Whitehead
Foucault's Pendulum
Umberto Eco
A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Junot Díaz
The Captive Mind
Czeslaw Milosz
Myth and Reality
Mircea Eliade
The Shadow of the Wind
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Agents of Innocence
David Ignatius
Bright Lights, Big City
Jay McInerney
Sun Under Wood
Robert Hass
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