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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
by
Italo Calvino
4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 25,842 ratings
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House of Leaves
by
Mark Z. Danielewski (Goodreads Author)
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 39,343 ratings
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Cloud Atlas
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David Mitchell
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 71,817 ratings
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Pale Fire
by
Vladimir Nabokov
4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 16,166 ratings
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Ficciones
by
Jorge Luis Borges
4.49 of 5 stars 4.49 avg rating — 14,786 ratings
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Slaughterhouse-Five
by
Kurt Vonnegut
3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 482,818 ratings
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Labyrinths
by
Jorge Luis Borges
4.47 of 5 stars 4.47 avg rating — 12,530 ratings
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Invisible Cities
by
Italo Calvino
4.22 of 5 stars 4.22 avg rating — 16,758 ratings
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Cosmicomics
by
Italo Calvino
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 6,165 ratings
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Life A User's Manual
by
Georges Perec
4.26 of 5 stars 4.26 avg rating — 2,392 ratings
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Infinite Jest
by
David Foster Wallace
4.35 of 5 stars 4.35 avg rating — 23,957 ratings
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Hamlet
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William Shakespeare
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 282,031 ratings
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Exercises in Style
by
Raymond Queneau
4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 2,372 ratings
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Naked Lunch
by
William S. Burroughs
3.47 of 5 stars 3.47 avg rating — 33,808 ratings
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The Metamorphosis
by
Franz Kafka
3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 167,259 ratings
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Hopscotch
by
Julio Cortázar
4.27 of 5 stars 4.27 avg rating — 8,104 ratings
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Codex Seraphinianus
by
Luigi Serafini
4.63 of 5 stars 4.63 avg rating — 475 ratings
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
by
Jonathan Safran Foer
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 163,852 ratings
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Ella Minnow Pea
by
Mark Dunn
3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 11,480 ratings
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A Void
by
Georges Perec
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 958 ratings
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Moby-Dick
by
Herman Melville
3.36 of 5 stars 3.36 avg rating — 260,442 ratings
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Lanark
by
Alasdair Gray
4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 1,816 ratings
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The Mezzanine
by
Nicholson Baker
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 2,913 ratings
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As I Lay Dying
by
William Faulkner
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 54,712 ratings
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Dracula
by
Bram Stoker
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 289,556 ratings
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The New York Trilogy
by
Paul Auster
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 21,037 ratings
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84, Charing Cross Road
by
Helene Hanff
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 13,222 ratings
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Time's Arrow
by
Martin Amis
3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 5,473 ratings
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Wittgenstein’s Mistress
by
David Markson
4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 1,741 ratings
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Dictionary of the Khazars
by
Milorad Pavić
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 2,019 ratings
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Ibid: A Novel
by
Mark Dunn
3.18 of 5 stars 3.18 avg rating — 249 ratings
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The Age of Wire and String
by
Ben Marcus (Goodreads Author)
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 796 ratings
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Demonology: Stories
by
Rick Moody
3.46 of 5 stars 3.46 avg rating — 1,078 ratings
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Dangerous Liaisons
by
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 14,843 ratings
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At Swim-Two-Birds
by
Flann O'Brien
3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 4,464 ratings
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Imaginary Magnitude
by
Stanisław Lem
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 262 ratings
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
by
Milan Kundera
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 17,528 ratings
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
by
Laurence Sterne
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 7,320 ratings
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Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry
by
Leanne Shapton
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 687 ratings
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Jacques the Fatalist
by
Denis Diderot
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 1,910 ratings
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A Perfect Vacuum
by
Stanisław Lem
4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 404 ratings
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Absalom, Absalom!
by
William Faulkner
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 17,926 ratings
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The Scarlet Letter
by
Nathaniel Hawthorne
3.3 of 5 stars 3.30 avg rating — 282,499 ratings
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If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
by
Italo Calvino
4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 25,842 ratings
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The Complete Stories
by
Franz Kafka
4.34 of 5 stars 4.34 avg rating — 11,825 ratings
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The Sorrows of Young Werther
by
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
3.57 of 5 stars 3.57 avg rating — 23,152 ratings
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The Trial
by
Franz Kafka
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 66,846 ratings
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The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
by
Jan Potocki
4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 832 ratings
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The Blind Assassin
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 61,871 ratings
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The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
by
Umberto Eco
3.29 of 5 stars 3.29 avg rating — 5,533 ratings
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Crash
by
J.G. Ballard
3.61 of 5 stars 3.61 avg rating — 6,925 ratings
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The Female Man
by
Joanna Russ
3.55 of 5 stars 3.55 avg rating — 1,802 ratings
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The Day We Delay
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Michael J. Seidlinger (Goodreads Author)
4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Scar
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Ryan Frawley (Goodreads Author)
3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Mulligan Stew
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Gilbert Sorrentino
3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 161 ratings
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Species of Spaces and Other Pieces
by
Georges Perec
4.29 of 5 stars 4.29 avg rating — 683 ratings
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Griffin and Sabine (Griffin & Sabine Trilogy #1)
by
Nick Bantock
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 18,501 ratings
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Gold Fools
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Gilbert Sorrentino
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Reader’s Block
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David Markson
4.13 of 5 stars 4.13 avg rating — 540 ratings
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Vanishing Point
by
David Markson
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 598 ratings
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Severance: Stories
by
Robert Olen Butler
3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 389 ratings
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Angle of Repose
by
Wallace Stegner
4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 22,057 ratings
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The Spectator Bird
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Wallace Stegner
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 1,985 ratings
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Dump This Book While You Still Can!
by
Marcel Benabou
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Why I Have Not Written Any of My Books
by
Marcel Benabou
3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 63 ratings
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The Unfortunates
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B.S. Johnson
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 271 ratings
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Possession
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A.S. Byatt
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 34,901 ratings
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The End of the Story
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Lydia Davis
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 585 ratings
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Timbuktu
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Paul Auster
3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 5,311 ratings
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The Plato Papers
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Peter Ackroyd
3.43 of 5 stars 3.43 avg rating — 290 ratings
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Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
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Douglas Coupland
3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 14,052 ratings
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Snow White
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Donald Barthelme
3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 1,451 ratings
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The Master of Go
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Yasunari Kawabata
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 1,253 ratings
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The Erasers
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Alain Robbe-Grillet
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 547 ratings
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The Atrocity Exhibition
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J.G. Ballard
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 2,141 ratings
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Life After God
by
Douglas Coupland
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 6,753 ratings
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The Baron in the Trees
by
Italo Calvino
4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 8,959 ratings
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The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
by
Angela Carter
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 9,448 ratings
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Last Dragon
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J.M. McDermott
3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 110 ratings
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The Water Cure
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Percival Everett
3.46 of 5 stars 3.46 avg rating — 79 ratings
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Simon Silber: Works for Solo Piano
by
Christopher Miller
3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Sherry and Narcotics
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Nina-Marie Gardner (Goodreads Author)
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 103 ratings
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The Virgin Suicides
by
Jeffrey Eugenides
3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 90,461 ratings
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Ashes to Angels
by
Natalie McCollum
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Alphabetical Africa
by
Walter Abish
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 128 ratings
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To Love, or Not to Love, That is Art
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Ali Murtaza (Goodreads Author)
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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John's Wife
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Robert Coover
3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 70 ratings
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Reperfusion
by
Andrew Robert Hodgson
4.67 of 5 stars 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Raw Shark Texts
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Steven Hall (Goodreads Author)
3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 7,681 ratings
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334
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Thomas M. Disch
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 391 ratings
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A Factory of Cunning
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Philippa Stockley
2.87 of 5 stars 2.87 avg rating — 138 ratings
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Uncle Ovid's Exercise Book
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Don Webb
4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The People of Paper
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Salvador Plascencia
4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 2,456 ratings
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The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet
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Reif Larsen
3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 4,131 ratings
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Les Liaisons Dangereuses
by
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 14,843 ratings
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A Spell for the Fulfillment of Desire
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Don Webb
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Sky Conducting
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Michael J. Seidlinger (Goodreads Author)
4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 32 ratings
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The Journalist
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Harry Mathews
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 96 ratings
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Celestial Harmonies
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Péter Esterházy
3.68 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 179 ratings
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Life.exe
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Stephen Moles (Goodreads Author)
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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