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won't be the same after you read...
The Essential Tales of ChekhovThe Essential Tales of Chekhov by A.P. Chekhov
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feels 'necessary'... can capture everything within 20 pages
Friend of My YouthFriend of My Youth by Alice Munro
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like the cinema but better
The Sound and the Fury (Vintage Classics)The Sound and the Fury (Vintage Classics) by William Faulkner
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so seductive and powerful
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Essential Penguin)One Hundred Years of Solitude (Essential Penguin) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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the poetry of family life
The Book of Laughter and ForgettingThe Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
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the opposite of kitsch
The Thin Man (Classic Crime)The Thin Man (Classic Crime) by Dashiell Hammett
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prose, poetry...
DublinersDubliners by James Joyce
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The Dead
Wired: Short Life and Fast Times of John BelushiWired: Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi by Bob Woodward
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inside Hollywood by a great journalist
Missing the Execution of Charles HormanMissing the Execution of Charles Horman by Thomas Hauser
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works as non-fiction or fiction (non-fiction is scarier though)
ElvisElvis by Albert Goldman
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the literary equivalent of rock and roll, if you can take it