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My First Wife

by Jakob Wassermann & Translated by Michael Hofmann

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Our most recommended books

What Sticks by Rex Briggs and Gregg Stuart

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What Sticks
by Rex Briggs and Gregg Stuart

Birdsong
by Sebastian Faulks

Up The Organization
by Robert Townsend

All Quiet on the Western Front
by Erich Maria Remarque

Amusing Ourselves to Death
by Neil Postman

At Night All Blood Is Black
by David Diop, translated by Anna Moschovakis