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The power of language in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou
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Luis Borges’ Fictions is a game of chance
Jorge Luis Borges
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A Visit From the Goon Squad is a symphony of voices
Jennifer Egan
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Gogol’s Petersburg Tales belong to the collective imagination
Nikolai Gogol
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The Hours | A novel overcoming time and space
Michael Cunningham
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Teller’s Nothing | A brutal quest for the meaning of life
Janne Teller
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The Broom of the System is like the pendulum of a clock
David Foster Wallace
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It | Stephen King’s consecration to fame
Stephen King
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My Brilliant Friend has a unifying power
Elena Ferrante
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Love in the Time of Cholera marks the peak of the author’s ascendancy
Gabriel García Márquez
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Camere Separate | The search for a balanced existence
Pier Vittorio Tondelli
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is a tonic for low spirits
Douglas Adams
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The Topeka School describes a polarized society
Ben Lerner
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Musée des Beaux Arts | When Auden met Bruegel
Wystan Hugh Auden
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Great Expectations | The path to becoming a gentleman
Charles Dickens
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Could Have | Szymborska’s philosophy of wonder
Wisława Szymborska
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1984 | Big Brother is watching you
George Orwell
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The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories
Ernest Hemingway
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One Hundred Years of Solitude | History in a family saga
Gabriel García Márquez
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Post Office is like life itself: a mean, dirty, boring spot
Charles Bukowski
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The Underground Railroad tells more than Black history
Colson Whitehead
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A Private Affair overlaps a personal and a civil dilemma
Beppe Fenoglio
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Think not I am faithful to a vow! | Love according to Edna Millay
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Cathedral tells the big and small relationship struggles
Raymond Carver
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Vita, Morte e Miracoli di Bonfiglio Liborio
Remo Rapino
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The Catcher in the Rye | Finding one’s place in the world
J.D. Salinger
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The New York Trilogy is a brilliant philosophical adventure
Paul Auster
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Between the World and Me | Opening a third way to fight
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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The Master and Margarita| Mikhail Bulgakov’s troubled novel
Mikhail Bulgakov
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Olive Kitteridge’s beauty resides in the periphery of things
Elizabeth Strout
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Dangling Man is the portrait of a whole generation
Saul Bellow
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Normal People | Relations rarely concern the two lovers only
Sally Rooney
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Rayuela | Playing with the novel
Julio Cortázar
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Invisible Cities | A love poem to the city
Italo Calvino
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Lolita | A character taking on a life of its own
Vladimir Nabokov
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Altri Libertini feels like a punch in the stomach
Pier Vittorio Tondelli
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being exposes love’s dynamics
Milan Kundera
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High Fidelity | The redemptive power of music and love
Nick Hornby
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Life of Pi | A story that makes you suspend your disbelief
Yann Martel
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Underworld | A dual conception of history
Don DeLillo
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The Road explores climate crisis and alienation
Cormac McCarthy
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Seven Brief Lessons on Physics | Beauty unfold
Carlo Rovelli
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Fahrenheit 451 transcends the boundaries of science fiction
Ray Bradbury
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Tiffany McDaniel’s The summer that melted everything
Tiffany McDaniel
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