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Postcards from No Man's Land
Powers
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Shadow of a bull
The Bluest Eye
Middlesex
Little Women
To Kill a Mockingbird
Middlemarch
Emma
Oliver Twist
Jane Eyre
Bleak House
Candide
David Copperfield
Wringer
The last song
Half Moon Investigations
The Catcher in the Rye
Demian
The Fortress of Solitude
Across Five Aprils
El Buen Nombre (Lingua Franca)
Sons and Lovers
The Summer I Turned Pretty
Of Human Bondage
The House on Mango Street
Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life
The fever
A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
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