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Task #20. A Book written in prison #ReadHarder 2019
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The Graybar Hotel: Stories
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Cherry
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Letter from Birmingham Jail
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Conversations With Myself
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Our Lady of the Flowers
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De Profundis
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The House of the Dead
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Soul on Ice
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3.97 avg rating — 14,680 ratings
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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The Enormous Room
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Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table
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Antonio Gramsci: Selections from the Prison Notebooks
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Writings from Prison
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4.29 avg rating — 524 ratings
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Astragal
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3.66 avg rating — 2,646 ratings
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Live from Death Row
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4.24 avg rating — 2,563 ratings
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No Wall Too High: One Man's Daring Escape from Mao's Darkest Prison
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4.29 avg rating — 632 ratings
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The Struggle is My Life
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4.33 avg rating — 116 ratings
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Inside Santa Rita: The Prison Memoir of a War Protester
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4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Historie of the World. In five bookes by Sir Walter Ralegh, Knight
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3.20 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Letters and Papers from Prison
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4.30 avg rating — 3,864 ratings
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My Life in Prison: Memoirs of a Chinese Political Dissident
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3.40 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Are Prisons Obsolete?
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4.52 avg rating — 29,181 ratings
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Inside This Place, Not of It: Narratives from Women's Prisons
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Robin Levi (Editor)
4.36 avg rating — 778 ratings
score: 147,
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Memoirs from the Women's Prison
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Nawal El Saadawi (Primary Contributor)
3.95 avg rating — 2,300 ratings
score: 144,
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Letters From Prison
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3.69 avg rating — 218 ratings
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Voices in the Night
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4.16 avg rating — 77 ratings
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
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4.33 avg rating — 33,903 ratings
score: 131,
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Comradely Greetings: The Prison Letters of Nadya and Slavoj
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3.95 avg rating — 499 ratings
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In Russian and French Prisons
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3.87 avg rating — 78 ratings
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Justine, or The Misfortunes of Virtue
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3.42 avg rating — 16,586 ratings
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The Travels
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3.58 avg rating — 7,986 ratings
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Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?
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4.36 avg rating — 711 ratings
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American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
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Shane Bauer (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 12,585 ratings
score: 117,
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2 people voted
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The Pilgrim's Progress
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4.07 avg rating — 155,593 ratings
score: 114,
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The Thief's Journal
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3.93 avg rating — 5,165 ratings
score: 114,
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The Consolation of Philosophy
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4.05 avg rating — 17,344 ratings
score: 109,
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Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
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3.27 avg rating — 13,170 ratings
score: 108,
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2 people voted
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Don Quixote
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3.91 avg rating — 299,671 ratings
score: 107,
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2 people voted
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Prison Poems
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4.26 avg rating — 58 ratings
score: 107,
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No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison
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3.90 avg rating — 8,925 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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This is Where I Am
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3.54 avg rating — 85 ratings
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Don Quixote
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3.91 avg rating — 299,671 ratings
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Guantánamo Diary: Restored Edition
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4.10 avg rating — 5,954 ratings
score: 99,
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Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson
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4.27 avg rating — 3,869 ratings
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The Annotated Prison Writings of Oscar Wilde
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4.72 avg rating — 67 ratings
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The Best Short Stories of O. Henry
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4.25 avg rating — 4,360 ratings
score: 97,
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Wrestling with the Devil: A Prison Memoir
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4.10 avg rating — 321 ratings
score: 95,
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1 person voted
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Prison Noir
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Joyce Carol Oates (Editor)
3.59 avg rating — 330 ratings
score: 93,
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1 person voted
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On the Yard
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4.08 avg rating — 638 ratings
score: 92,
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1 person voted
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A Story of My Experiments with Truth
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4.10 avg rating — 74,194 ratings
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The Autobiography of Gucci Mane
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4.09 avg rating — 11,514 ratings
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1 person voted
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The Maximum Security Book Club: Reading Literature in a Men's Prison
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3.15 avg rating — 1,135 ratings
score: 88,
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1 person voted
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Shantaram
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Gregory David Roberts (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 235,211 ratings
score: 87,
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1 person voted
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I'll Fly Away: Further Testimonies from the Women of York Prison
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Wally Lamb (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 2,861 ratings
score: 87,
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2 people voted
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Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist
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3.98 avg rating — 605 ratings
score: 84,
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Walls and Bars: Prisons and Prison Life in the Land of the Free
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4.19 avg rating — 67 ratings
score: 82,
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Inside the Third Reich
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4.10 avg rating — 14,208 ratings
score: 81,
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Prison Writings
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4.25 avg rating — 2,228 ratings
score: 80,
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Prison Island: A Graphic Memoir
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Colleen Frakes (Goodreads Author)
3.14 avg rating — 844 ratings
score: 79,
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My Prison Journal - Volume 1
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3.03 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number
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3.92 avg rating — 630 ratings
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Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing
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3.99 avg rating — 4,411 ratings
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The Contractor: How I Landed in a Pakistani Prison and Ignited a Diplomatic Crisis
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3.03 avg rating — 385 ratings
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My Prisons: Memoirs of Silvio Pellico
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3.47 avg rating — 499 ratings
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Other Lands Have Dreams: Letters From Pekin Prison
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4.31 avg rating — 62 ratings
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The Story of my Escape: The story of my escape from the prisons of the Republic of Venice otherwise known as the Leads
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4.01 avg rating — 395 ratings
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Bomber grounded, runway closed: Prison letters and court notes of a Gulf War resister
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Alcatraz Screw: My Years as a Guard in America's Most Notorious Prison (Volume 1)
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3.79 avg rating — 76 ratings
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In meinem fremden Land: Gefängnistagebuch 1944
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The Accidental Warden: My unexpected year as Warden of the California Women's Prison
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Strangeways: A Prison Officer's Story
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4.05 avg rating — 4,282 ratings
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The Door: My Twenty-Six Years Working Inside Canada's Prisons
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3.63 avg rating — 94 ratings
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Inside the Monkey House: My Time as an Irish Prison Officer
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3.76 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian
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Avi Steinberg (Goodreads Author)
3.51 avg rating — 4,314 ratings
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When Europe Was a Prison Camp
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Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
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Heather Ann Thompson (Goodreads Author)
4.45 avg rating — 4,846 ratings
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Incarceration Nations: A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World
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3.85 avg rating — 561 ratings
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The Man Died: The Prison Notes of Wole Soyinka
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Acres of Skin: Human Experiments at Holmesburg Prison
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3.89 avg rating — 324 ratings
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The Prison Diary of Ho Chi Minh
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Men in Prison
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Kissing the Sword: A Prison Memoir
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3.96 avg rating — 159 ratings
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The Roots of Civilisation (Prison Writings #1)
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Abdullah Öcalan (Goodreads Author)
4.46 avg rating — 91 ratings
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You Got Nothing Coming: Notes From a Prison Fish
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3.92 avg rating — 793 ratings
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The Day Will Pass Away: The Diary of a Gulag Prison Guard: 1935-1936
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3.44 avg rating — 170 ratings
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We Are Arrested: A Journalist's Notes from a Turkish Prison
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4.34 avg rating — 474 ratings
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Set Me Free: The Story of How Shakespeare Saved A Life
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3.76 avg rating — 144 ratings
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Couldn't Keep it to Myself: Wally Lamb and the Women of York Correctional Institution
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Wally Lamb (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 7,785 ratings
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The Lost Chapters: Finding Recovery and Renewal One Book at a Time
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3.80 avg rating — 182 ratings
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A Rage in Harlem (Harlem Cycle, #1)
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This Earth of Mankind (Buru #1)
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Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail
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In the Sanctuary of Outcasts
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The Pisan Cantos
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The Epistle Of St. Paul To The Galatians
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The Epistles of St. Paul to the Corinthians
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Epistle of Saint Paul to the Philippians
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The Epistle of St. Paul to the Galatians
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Jerusalem Delivered
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To Althea, from Prison
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