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A list compiled by Slate after receiving recommendations from more than 30 writers each of whom submitted three favourite funny books by living writers (http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/bo...).
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
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4.01 avg rating — 718,481 ratings
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Holidays on Ice
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Wake Up, Sir!
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In a Sunburned Country
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What I'd Say to the Martians and Other Veiled Threats
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4.05 avg rating — 1,584 ratings
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The Lazlo Letters
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4.16 avg rating — 443 ratings
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The Sellout
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3.75 avg rating — 74,497 ratings
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The Stench of Honolulu: A Tropical Adventure
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3.37 avg rating — 4,511 ratings
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How I Became a Famous Novelist
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3.70 avg rating — 3,803 ratings
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The Time Machine Did It
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3.81 avg rating — 2,922 ratings
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No One Belongs Here More Than You
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Miranda July (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 44,730 ratings
score: 181,
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Lamentations of the Father: Essays
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3.52 avg rating — 235 ratings
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Cruel Shoes
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Steve Martin (Goodreads Author)
3.68 avg rating — 3,186 ratings
score: 167,
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2 people voted
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The Book of Guys
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3.39 avg rating — 1,101 ratings
score: 156,
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Side Effects
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3.90 avg rating — 8,660 ratings
score: 155,
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The Serpent of Venice
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Christopher Moore (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 16,863 ratings
score: 153,
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Emma Who Saved My Life
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Wilton Barnhardt (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 552 ratings
score: 152,
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The Road to Mars: A Post-Modem Novel
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3.52 avg rating — 1,925 ratings
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City of Thieves
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4.30 avg rating — 165,280 ratings
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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3.89 avg rating — 277,637 ratings
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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4.06 avg rating — 283,980 ratings
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Sabbath's Theater
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3.89 avg rating — 12,194 ratings
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Today Will Be Different
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3.16 avg rating — 70,990 ratings
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Demonspawn
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Christina Engela (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 18 ratings
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1 person voted
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The Sundial Salesman
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3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made
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4.28 avg rating — 34,775 ratings
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1 person voted
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Deli Meat
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Tom Halford (Goodreads Author)
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 36 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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This Is My Dad. He's Dead. (After Life #1)
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D.C. Barclay (Goodreads Author)
3.59 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Brother of the More Famous Jack
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3.88 avg rating — 6,010 ratings
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Black Sunrise
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Christina Engela (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Fludd
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3.57 avg rating — 5,583 ratings
score: 96,
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1 person voted
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The Ladybird Book of the Shed
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3.83 avg rating — 343 ratings
score: 94,
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Hits and Misses: Stories
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3.88 avg rating — 3,405 ratings
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Jenny and the Jaws of Life
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3.73 avg rating — 1,533 ratings
score: 93,
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Man Seeking Woman (originally published as The Last Girlfriend on Earth): And Other Love Stories
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3.91 avg rating — 6,289 ratings
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Our Dumb World: The Onion's Atlas of the Planet Earth
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4.12 avg rating — 6,867 ratings
score: 92,
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Metropolitan Life
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3.80 avg rating — 2,064 ratings
score: 91,
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FUDS: A Complete Encyclofoodia from Tickling Shrimp to Not Dying in a Restaurant
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3.91 avg rating — 65 ratings
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1 person voted
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Y: The Last Man, Vol. 1: Unmanned
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Brian K. Vaughan (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 118,823 ratings
score: 89,
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More Stories About Spaceships and Cancer
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Casper Kelly (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 196 ratings
score: 87,
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1 person voted
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Preacher, Volume 1: Gone to Texas
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4.16 avg rating — 79,158 ratings
score: 85,
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Samaritan
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3.72 avg rating — 2,345 ratings
score: 83,
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The Mysterious Secret of the Valuable Treasure
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3.78 avg rating — 190 ratings
score: 82,
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The Mezzanine
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Nicholson Baker (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 10,313 ratings
score: 81,
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Youth in Revolt: The Journals of Nick Twisp (Book 1)(Movie Tie-In)(Library Edition)
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4.02 avg rating — 9,718 ratings
score: 80,
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Do the Windows Open?
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3.64 avg rating — 497 ratings
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The Babysitter at Rest
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3.92 avg rating — 999 ratings
score: 78,
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Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty
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3.23 avg rating — 392 ratings
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I Love Dick
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3.47 avg rating — 20,182 ratings
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Dan
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3.72 avg rating — 158 ratings
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E! Entertainment
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Kate Durbin (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 105 ratings
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Pitch Dark
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3.79 avg rating — 1,652 ratings
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Hotel
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Joanna Walsh (Goodreads Author)
3.27 avg rating — 233 ratings
score: 72,
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True Grit
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4.17 avg rating — 71,361 ratings
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Camels Are Easy, Comedy's Hard
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3.58 avg rating — 33 ratings
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The Ghost Writer
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3.81 avg rating — 13,802 ratings
score: 66,
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Aliens of Affection
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3.85 avg rating — 188 ratings
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The Greatest of Marlys
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4.42 avg rating — 1,624 ratings
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The Blade: Shellville High School Yearbook
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4.73 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Tales Designed to Thrizzle, Volume One
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4.10 avg rating — 737 ratings
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Last Days of Summer: A Quirky and Heartwarming Story of Friendship, Baseball Lore, and Hero Worship in New York City
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Steve Kluger (Goodreads Author)
4.38 avg rating — 5,438 ratings
score: 57,
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Bad Monkeys
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Matt Ruff (Goodreads Author)
3.62 avg rating — 11,221 ratings
score: 56,
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Skipped Parts (GroVont Trilogy, #1)
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3.80 avg rating — 2,551 ratings
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Willful Creatures
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Aimee Bender (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5,402 ratings
score: 54,
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The Last Illusion
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Porochista Khakpour (Goodreads Author)
3.37 avg rating — 1,032 ratings
score: 53,
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My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist
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3.69 avg rating — 1,927 ratings
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Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
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4.09 avg rating — 27,014 ratings
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The Ask
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Sam Lipsyte (Goodreads Author)
3.30 avg rating — 6,859 ratings
score: 48,
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Creamy & Delicious
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3.33 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Mumbo Jumbo
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3.85 avg rating — 4,902 ratings
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The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
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3.71 avg rating — 6,033 ratings
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Little Failure
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Gary Shteyngart (Goodreads Author)
3.66 avg rating — 7,768 ratings
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A Semester in the Life of a Garbage Bag
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4.21 avg rating — 831 ratings
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The Water-Method Man
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John Irving (Goodreads Author)
3.39 avg rating — 13,244 ratings
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Kill the Boy Band
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Goldy Moldavsky (Goodreads Author)
3.52 avg rating — 8,489 ratings
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The Haters
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Jesse Andrews (Goodreads Author)
3.41 avg rating — 6,326 ratings
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The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never Had To
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3.43 avg rating — 2,751 ratings
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The White Boy Shuffle
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4.09 avg rating — 6,213 ratings
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American Born Chinese
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Gene Luen Yang (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 101,153 ratings
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Under the Frog
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3.96 avg rating — 2,109 ratings
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Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War
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3.52 avg rating — 414 ratings
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Negrophobia: An Urban Parable
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3.81 avg rating — 309 ratings
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The Folded Clock: A Diary
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Heidi Julavits (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 3,799 ratings
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White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World
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Geoff Dyer (Goodreads Author)
3.59 avg rating — 1,261 ratings
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The Girl on the Fridge
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Etgar Keret (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 3,786 ratings
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The Professor and Other Writings
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Money
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