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Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
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Amazing perspective on colonisation and its devastations.
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
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Funny, whimsical, but not too tame.
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Voices from Chernobyl
Svetlana Alexievich
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Haunting oral history of the Chernobyl catastrophe and its aftermath.
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Fairy Tales
Hans Christian Andersen
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Fantastical and dark.
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The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
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Dystopia, but it‘s actually already happening.
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Mansfield Park
Jane Austen
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Is Fanny too good of a person? Scandal of staging a play.
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Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen
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A gothic romance that is also a commentary on the downsides of too much media consumption.
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The Mezzanine
Nicholson Baker
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Riding an escalator. That‘s all, folks.
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Lost Illusions
Honoré de Balzac
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Ambition and its consequences.
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Père Goriot
Honoré de Balzac
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Creating a heritage, and failing.
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum
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Hard now to imagine it without the full-blast Technicolor film version.
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Waiting for Godot
Samuel Beckett
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Absurdity in a nutshell.
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The Uncommon Reader
Alan Bennett
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Charming case study on the corrupting as well as the nourishing effects of a reading habit.
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Ficciones
Jorge Luis Borges
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Open the doors of perception.
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Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
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Twisted af romance.
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Naked Lunch
William S. Burroughs
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An obscene extravaganza.
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Billiards at Half Past Nine
Heinrich Böll
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A German family through destruction and reconstruction around WW2.
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Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Living under systemic racism in the 21st century, from the inside.
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The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins
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Dystopia, game show? Both!
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Complete Poems, 1904–1962
E. E. Cummings
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Awesome
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