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Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
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Great encouragement and support for getting it together
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Beowulf
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Wonderfully accessible version of this great story, Heaney breathes fire and excitement into the saga
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Flatland
Edwin A. Abbott
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Important for encouraging different angles of observation
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The Book of Job
As translated by Stephen Mitchell
James Mustich
Job’s tale is the Bible’s profound and unsettling meditation on suffering, justice, and the inscrutability of life. It begins in prose (as it will close), introducing the legend of the pious man from the land of Uz and revealing what Job himself never knows: that the miseries visited upon him result...show more
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The World According to Garp
John Irving
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A great story
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The Bible
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For obvious reasons.
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
John Berendt
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Excellent
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The Stars My Destination
Alfred Bester
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Truly one of the best
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Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
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Because censorship sucks
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
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Illuminates the best and worst a aspects of Southern society
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The Name of the Rose
Umberto Eco
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Solid and absorbing
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The Bourne Identity
Robert Ludlum
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Good spy stuff
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