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Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Bel Canto by Ann Patchett A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles Dubliners by James Joyce The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai Empire Falls by Richard Russo Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell What We Can Know by Ian McEwan
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A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
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But experience is less likely to teach us how to bid our dearest possessions adieu. And if it were to? We wouldn’t welcome the education. For eventually, we come to hold our dearest possessions more closely than we hold our friends. We ...more
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