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All Said And Done
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Don Quixote
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All Said And Done by Simone de Beauvoir
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Contemporary Iraqi Fiction by Shakir Mustafa
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A collection of short stories that shows strength and depth and variety in Iraqi writing. Stories are from 1980s-2000s with some experimental and playful, some mixing up different traditions (e.g. by Iraqi writers living in Europe). All translated by...more
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The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
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I enjoyed this novel for its sheer scope and the fact that it's endlessly entertaining. I also liked the fact that it doesn't feel too polished - it's a bit raw and even flabby, as though Bulgakov was primarily concerned with giving free rein to his ...more
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The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
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This was the first serious literature I read in graphic novel form and it’s very powerful. It opens in 1970s New York with Art Spiegelman, the author, interviewing his dad, Vladek, a Polish holocaust survivor. Between interview scenes, we flashback t...more
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Bliss and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield
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Beautifully written, innovative short stories.
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Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan
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Death of a Naturalist by Seamus Heaney
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These are poems I'm dipping into again and again.
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We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our f... by Philip Gourevitch
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Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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Hunger by Knut Hamsun
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