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Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Courage to Be Disliked
Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga
The 80/20 Principle and 92 Other Powerful Laws of Nature
Richard Koch
Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn
Girl Gone Viral
Arvin Ahmadi
Unveiled: How Western Liberals Empower Radical Islam
Yasmine Mohammed
The Four-chambered Heart
Anaïs Nin
American Tabloid
James Ellroy
18 Platoon
Sydney Jary
Men Against Fire
S. L. A. Marshall
Beyond Band of Brothers
Cole C. Kingseed, Dick Winters
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
Philip Gourevitch
A Million Little Pieces
James Frey
2001: a Space Odyssey
Arthur C. Clarke
Friday Black
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee
David Treuer
The Nickel Boys (Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
Colson Whitehead
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Daniel Defoe
The Gilded Rage
Alexander Zaitchik
61 Hours
Lee Child
The Opposing Shore
Julien Gracq
How to Be a Woman
Caitlin Moran
Duty
Robert Michael Gates
The Blazing World
Siri Hustvedt
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Junot Díaz
The Man Who Lost the War
W. T. Tyler
Good Girl, Bad Girl
Michael Robotham
The Historian
Elizabeth Kostova
Verity
Colleen Hoover
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