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Cloud Atlas
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House of Leaves
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If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
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The Unfortunates
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The Combinations (Golemgrad Pentalogy, #1)
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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
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The Neverending Story
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The Luminaries
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The Blind Assassin
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Dictionary of the Khazars
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Codex Seraphinianus. Ein Orbis Pictus des Universums der Phantasie.
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Hole Punch
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4.13 avg rating — 151 ratings
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Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
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Exercises in Style
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My Name Is Red
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Pale Fire
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My Dirty California
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3.93 avg rating — 323 ratings
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S. La nave di Teseo di V. M. Straka
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Crossings
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The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
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Time's Arrow
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253
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Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
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Invisible Cities
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Einstein’s Dreams
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Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish
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Griffin & Sabine (Griffin & Sabine #1)
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Elrich: Guardian of the Firestone
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Running Flat
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4.80 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Most Wretched Thing Imaginable or, Beneath the Burnt Umbrella
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Stephen Moles (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Impossible Object (British Literature Series)
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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
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4.02 avg rating — 559,774 ratings
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Life After Life (Todd Family, #1)
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The Everything
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The Princess Bride
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The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
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Eyeheart Everything
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Mykle Hansen (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 124 ratings
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Cursed Bunny
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Arcadia
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The Waves
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Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
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The Mezzanine
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
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3.69 avg rating — 183,015 ratings
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Everyword
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Till Tomorrow
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Milk Fever
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Megan Ross (Goodreads Author)
4.70 avg rating — 23 ratings
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The Book of Nothing
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Mustafa Gedik (Goodreads Author)
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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A Word to the Eyes
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Parabola
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It Came from the Sky
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3.91 avg rating — 608 ratings
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Midwinterblood
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The Yield
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Life: a Users Manual: Fictions
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How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
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3.45 avg rating — 20,001 ratings
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Blood at the Root
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3.95 avg rating — 21 ratings
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An Encyclopedia of Bending Time
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In the Night Garden (The Orphan's Tales, #1)
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Catherynne M. Valente (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 9,250 ratings
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I Thirst (The Veritas Chronicles, #1)
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Gina Marinello-Sweeney (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 84 ratings
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The Timeline Pervert
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Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters
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Use of Weapons (Culture, #3)
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Hopscotch
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How to be Both
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Changing
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Wisdom's Kiss
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In the Dream House
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4.40 avg rating — 155,443 ratings
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Monster
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Night Film
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3.78 avg rating — 94,898 ratings
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The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
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The Body: An Essay
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Chopsticks
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You are Eating an Orange. You are Naked.
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Radiance
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3.72 avg rating — 5,430 ratings
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Sphinx
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All the World's a Simulation
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3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Guitar Highway Rose
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The Field
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The Gargoyle
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Thornhill
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Anthropology
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Case Study
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Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke
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2.93 avg rating — 56,079 ratings
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The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
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Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 92,609 ratings
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The Supernatural Enhancements
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3.63 avg rating — 7,689 ratings
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Our Dumb Century: The Onion Presents 100 Years of Headlines from America's Finest News Source
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Beauty Queens
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3.62 avg rating — 55,138 ratings
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Everything Dissolves
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The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3)
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The Museum of Abandoned Secrets
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Our Dumb World: The Onion's Atlas of the Planet Earth
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Not Fade Away
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The Lover's Dictionary
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The Sharp End of the Rainbow
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3.79 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Roger's Profanisaurus: The Magna Farta.
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The Book of Prefaces: A Short History of Literate Thought in Words by Great Writers of Four Nations from the 7th to the 20th Century
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Alasdair Gray (Editor)
4.12 avg rating — 90 ratings
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A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
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