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Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow

by Peter Hoeg

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On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill

Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell

War and Peace (Book)
by Leo Tolstoy

Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley

Scoop
by Evelyn Waugh

The Looming Tower
by Lawrence Wright