 | Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All by Allan Gurganus
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 | Where I'm Calling from: Selected Stories by Raymond Carver
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 | The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Kingston Maxine Hong
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 | Our Ancestors (Vintage Classics) by Italo Calvino
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 | Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited (Penguin Modern Classics) by Vladimir Nabokov
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 | Hope Against Hope by Nadezhda Mandel'shtam
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 | The Assault by Harry Mulisch
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 | The Tin Drum (Vintage Classics) by Gunter Grass
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 | Chekyll & Ide by Robert Wood
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 | Troubles: (New York Review Books Classics) by J. G. Farrell
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 | A Handful of Dust (Penguin Modern Classics) by Evelyn Waugh
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| The quest for Corvo: An experiment in biography by A. J. A Symons
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 | Lark Rise to Candleford: "Lark Rise"; "Over to Candleford"; "Candleford Green": A Trilogy by Flora Thompson
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 | Thomas Hardy: the Guarded Life by Ralph Pite
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 | The House of Doctor Dee by Peter Ackroyd
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 | In Siberia by Colin Thubron
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 | Naples '44: An Intelligence Officer in the Italian Labyrinth by Norman Lewis
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 | How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton
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 | The Identity of France: History and Environment v. 1 by Fernand Braudel
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 | Ten a Penny by Robert Wood
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 | Death's Men: Soldiers of the Great War (Penguin History) by Denis Winter
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 | Foe (King Penguin) by J M Coetzee
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 | The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan
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 | Grey Area by Will Self
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 | The Joy of Laziness: How to Slow Down and Live Longer by Michaela Axt-Gadermann
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