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Rika Outcast

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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

John le Carre

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The Catcher in the Rye

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The Football Factory

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Music from Big Pink

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Schismatrix Plus

Bruce Sterling

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Life Lessons with Uramichi Oniisan 1

Gaku Kuze

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Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

Jesse Andrews

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Annals of the Black Company

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Absolute Power

David Baldacci

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The New Me

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Napalm & Silly Putty

George Carlin

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All Systems Red

Martha Wells

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Catch-22

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My dark Vanessa

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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

J. K. Rowling

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Great Expectations

Charles Dickens

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Human Acts

Han Kang

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This is the Night They Come for You

Robert Goddard

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The Remains of the Day

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I Am Pilgrim

Terry Hayes

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This is Going to Hurt

Adam Kay

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The Will of the Many

James Islington

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Nineteen Eighty-Four (Annotated)

George George Orwell

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The Wolf of Wall Street

Jordan Belfort

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Amelia's Notebook

Marissa Moss

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The Book of Silence

Lawrence Watt-Evans

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Flash Point

Richard Aellen

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Robert Ludlum

Robert Ludlum

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White Nights

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Norwegian Wood

Haruki Murakami

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The Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath

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Arsène Lupin: Ladrão de casaca

Maurice Leblanc

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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Muriel Spark

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My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Ottessa Moshfegh

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Wat het hart verwoest

John Boyne

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Careless People

Sarah Wynn-Williams

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Célèbre

Maud Ventura

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Too Good to Be True

Carola Lovering

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Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens

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El consejo de hierro (Bas-Lag 3)

China Miéville

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The Devil Gets His Due

Elizabeth O'Roark

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Almost Invisible

Maureen Garvie

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Ice Station Zebra

Alistair MacLean

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The Devil's Chessboard

David Talbot

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D'Shai

Joel Rosenberg

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No fundo é amor

Ali Hazelwood

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Your Face Tomorrow

Javier Marías

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The Vorkosigan Companion

Lois McMaster Bujold

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No Country for Old Men

Lynnea Chapman King

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El enemigo conoce el sistema

Marta Peirano

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Stoner

John Williams

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Mistborn

Brandon Sanderson

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Bringing Down the House

Ben Mezrich

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The Viral Video Manifesto: Why Everything You Know is Wrong and How to Do What Really Works (ENHANCED EBOOK)

Stephen Voltz

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Histories, Adaptations, and Legacies of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Randal Rogers

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A Cold Wind From Moscow

Rory Clements

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The Long Walk

Stephen King

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Les Nains, T1 : Le Passage de Pierre

Markus Heitz

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Notes from the Gallows

Julius Fucik

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Effi Briest

Theodor Fontane

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Scharnow

Bela B Felsenheimer

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Memories of Ice

Steven Erikson

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Resisting Eviction

Andrew Crosby

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Of Mice and Men

John Steinbeck

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The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle

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The Stars My Destination

Alfred Bester

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Secondhand Time

Svetlana Alexievich

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The Idiot

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Capitalist Realism

Mark Fisher

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A Shameful Life: Ningen Shikkaku or No Longer Human

Dazai Osamu

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The Shadow of the Gods

John Gwynne

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Amor líquido

Bauman, Zygmunt

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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Ocean Vuong

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A Deadly Education

Naomi Novik

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A Long Night in Paris

Dov Alfon

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Evenings and Weekends

Oisín McKenna

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Stories of Your Life and Others

Ted Chiang

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The Name of the Wind

Patrick Rothfuss

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Theft Of Swords

Michael J Sullivan

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Only and Forever

Chloe Liese

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The Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka

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A Clouded Leopard in the Middle of the Road

Darryl Jones

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Gulliver's Travels

Jonathan Swift

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Pretend I'm Dead

Jen Beagin

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Brandon Sanderson Sampler

Brandon Sanderson

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Coming of Age

Valerie Bodden

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The Overcoat

Nikolai Gogol

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Less Than Zero

Bret Easton Ellis

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The Racketeer

John Grisham

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Empire of Pain

Patrick Radden Keefe

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The Contemporary Irish Detective Novel

Elizabeth Mannion

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The Co-op

Tarah DeWitt

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Rumpole Rests His Case

John Mortimer

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The Thrashers

Julie Soto

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Survivor on the River Kwai

Reg Twigg

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Nausea

Jean-Paul Sartre

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The Outsider

Albert Camus

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Les Jardins de la Lune

Steven Erikson

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Stuck With You

Ali Hazelwood

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The Every

Dave Eggers

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Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen

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You Like It Darker

Stephen King

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George Orwell

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A Game of Thrones

George R. R. Martin

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The Complete Witcher

Andrzej Sapkowski

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Lord of the Flies

William Golding

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The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Belfast Noir

Adrian McKinty

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Savages

Don Winslow

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The Lies of Locke Lamora

Scott Lynch

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The Silent Patient

Alex Michaelides

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Gardens of the Moon

Steven Erikson

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Midnight Tides

Steven Erikson

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Girl In Room 105

Chetan Bhagat

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The Way of Kings

Brandon Sanderson

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Superman and Philosophy

Mark D. White

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Summer in the City

Joseph P. Viteritti

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The Black Company

Glen Cook

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Inherent Vice

Thomas Pynchon

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The Blade Itself

Joe Abercrombie

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Caledonian Road

Andrew O'Hagan

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Secrets and Lies

Nicky Hager

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American Tabloid

James Ellroy

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Amusing Ourselves to Death

Neil Postman

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The Catcher in the Rye

J. D. Salinger

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Post office

Charles Bukowski

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Victim

Andrew Boryga

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Factotum

Charles Bukowski

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The Elementary Particles

Michel Houellebecq

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Journey to the End of the Night

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

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Enshittification

Cory Doctorow

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Trainspotting

Irvine Welsh

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Prosper's Demon

K. J. Parker

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Leah on the Offbeat

Becky Albertalli

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Sellevision

Augusten Burroughs

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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Hunter S. Thompson

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A Little Hatred

Joe Abercrombie

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Best Served Cold

Joe Abercrombie

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Kitchen Confidential

Anthony Bourdain

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Tropic of Cancer

Henry Miller

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Notes from the Underground

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Exciting Times

Naoise Dolan

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Survivor

Chuck Palahniuk

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Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs

Chuck Klosterman

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Nightlord

Garon Whited

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Grendel

John Gardner

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The Attention Merchants

Tim Wu

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the spy who came in from the cold

john le carre

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Ten arguments for deleting your social media accounts right now

Jaron Lanier

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Notes From Underground

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Voyage au bout de la nuit

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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Red Harvest

Dashiell Hammett

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Discipline and Punish

Michel Foucault

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Retromania

Simon Reynolds

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Girl Juice

Benji Nate

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Worst Rock and Roll Records of All Time

Jimmy Guterman

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Galapagos

Kurt Vonnegut

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Zone One

Colson Whitehead

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Whither the Postmodern Library?

William H. Wisner

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The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect

Roger Williams

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Adults in the Room

Yanis Varoufakis

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A Coney Island of the Mind

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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The Prince

Niccolo Machiavelli

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Slow Horses

Mick Herron

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Withnail and I

Bruce Robinson

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Suburbicon

George Clooney

E

Matt Beaumont

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Man alone

John Mulgan

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Three felonies a day

Harvey A. Silverglate

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The Long and the Short of It

John Kay

Choke

Chuck Palahniuk

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Sloppy Firsts

Megan McCafferty

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Er ist wieder da

Timur Vermes

Cain

José Saramago

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Kingdom of Fear

Hunter S. Thompson

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Car Wars

Jonathan Mantle

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Sam the Cat

Linda Stewart

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Luxury, Lies and Marketing

M. Sicard

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The real Frank Zappa book

Frank Zappa

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White line fever

Lemmy.

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Trading Game

Gary Stevenson

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The company

K. J. Parker

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The Heroes

Joe Abercrombie

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Banal Nightmare

Halle Butler

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Hollywood Babylon

Kenneth Anger

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A Bend in the River

V. S. Naipaul

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Hammer's Slammers

David Drake

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Sérotonine

Michel Houellebecq

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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

Omar El Akkad

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Notes from Underground

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Letters to Wendy's

Joe Wenderoth

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McNally's Secret

Lawrence Sanders

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McNally's Caper (Archy McNally Novels)

Lawrence Sanders

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Apathy and Other Small Victories

Paul Neilan

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The Sirens of Titan

Kurt Vonnegut

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The Magicians

Grossman, Lev

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The Sympathizer

Nguyen, Viet Thanh

Cover of Apathy and Other Small Victories

Apathy and Other Small Victories

Neilan, Paul

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American Psycho

Ellis, Bret Easton

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Less Than Zero

Ellis, Bret Easton

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Too Old for This

Downing, Samantha

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Enshittification

Doctorow, Cory

Ubik

Dick, Philip K.

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My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Moshfegh, Ottessa

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Gone Girl

Flynn, Gillian

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The Picture of Dorian Gray

Wilde, Oscar

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The Blade Itself

Abercrombie, Joe

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Crap Kingdom

D. C. Pierson

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Lucky Fools

Voorhees, Coert

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Breakfast of Champions

Vonnegut, Kurt

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Slow Horses (Deluxe Edition)

Herron, Mick

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Luckiest Girl Alive

Knoll, Jessica

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My Prizes

Thomas Bernhard

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Indecision

Kunkel, Benjamin

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The Ask

Lipsyte, Sam

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The Sopranos

Warner, Alan

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The Big Short

Lewis, Michael

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Bonjour Tristesse

Sagan, Francoise

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Fatale

Manchette, Jean-Patrick

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