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Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
Back from the Dead
A Visit from the Goon Squad
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
Portnoy’s Complaint
The Last Lecture
White Noise
The Merchant of Venice
The Bluest Eye
The Iliad
Imago (Xenogenesis, #3)
Was
Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)
Adulthood Rites (Xenogenesis, #2)
The Secret History by Donna TarttThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathBrideshead Revisited by Evelyn WaughStoner by John  WilliamsFranny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
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I tried to teach them [his sons] that about the importance of self-discipline, and that the culture of yes is built on a foundation of no.
Bill Walton

Heather Mac Donald
A 2002 Wall Street Journal article provided eye-opening details about how comprehensive review worked in practice. UCLA had accepted a Hispanic girl with SATs of 940, while rejecting a Korean student with 1500s. The Korean student hardly lived in the lap of luxury. He tutored children to pay rent for his divorced mother, who developed breast cancer.
Heather Mac Donald, The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture

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