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5 Books I Didn’t Like That Everybody Else Did; Should I Be Worried?

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    Love in the Time of Cholera (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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    The Goldfinch: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
    by Donna Tartt

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    Elizabeth Costello: Fiction
    by J. M. Coetzee

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    The Handmaid's Tale
    by Margaret Atwood

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    J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye: A Cultural History
    by Josef Benson

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