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The Inner Lives of Markets: How People Shape Them—And They Shape Us

by Ray Fisman and Tim Sullivan

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War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy

On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill

Middlemarch
by George Eliot

Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell

Frankenstein (Book)
by Mary Shelley

The Odyssey
by Homer and translated by Emily Wilson