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Housekeeping
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3.81 avg rating — 57,895 ratings
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Out of the Vinyl Deeps: On Rock Music
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3.97 avg rating — 874 ratings
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The White Album
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4.03 avg rating — 48,659 ratings
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Pale Fire
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
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4.05 avg rating — 79,741 ratings
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Critical Mass: Four Decades of Essays, Reviews, Hand Grenades, and Hurrahs
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4.05 avg rating — 97 ratings
score: 100,
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The Chairs Are Where the People Go: How to Live, Work, and Play in the City
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Misha Glouberman (Goodreads Author)
3.55 avg rating — 1,128 ratings
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Kill All Your Darlings: Pieces 1990-2005
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4.13 avg rating — 380 ratings
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Austerlitz
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3.98 avg rating — 26,163 ratings
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Blood and Guts in High School
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3.46 avg rating — 6,960 ratings
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Collected Poems, 1948-1984
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The Dead Father
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3.76 avg rating — 2,344 ratings
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Varieties of Disturbance
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Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
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4.04 avg rating — 44,730 ratings
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The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
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4.10 avg rating — 15,786 ratings
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Miami and the Siege of Chicago
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3.77 avg rating — 1,099 ratings
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How Fiction Works
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3.99 avg rating — 8,045 ratings
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A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays
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3.74 avg rating — 540 ratings
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Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do
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4.24 avg rating — 5,777 ratings
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The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons and an Unlikely Road to Manhood
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4.08 avg rating — 11,050 ratings
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Portrait Inside My Head: Essays
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4.02 avg rating — 248 ratings
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The Collected Stories
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4.13 avg rating — 3,381 ratings
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The Journalist and the Murderer
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3.80 avg rating — 5,677 ratings
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