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The Education of Henry Adams
by Henry Adams, Ira Nadel (Editor), Ira Bruce Nadel, Ira Bruce Nadel (Editor)
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The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature : Being the Gifford Lictures on Natural Religion Delivered at Edinburgh in 1901-1902
by William James
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3
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Up from Slavery
by Booker T. Washington, William L. Andrews, William L. Andrews (Editor)
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4
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A Room of One's Own
by Virginia Woolf
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5
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Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson
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6
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Selected Essays: 1917-1932
by T. S. Eliot
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7
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The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
by James D. Watson
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8
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Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited
by Vladimir Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, Brian Boyd, Brian Boyd (Narrator)
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9
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American Language
by H. L. Mencken
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10
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General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
by John Keynes
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11
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The Lives Of A Cell: Notes Of A Biology Watcher
by Lewis Thomas
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12
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The Frontier in American History
by Frederick Jackson Turner
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13
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Black Boy
by Richard Wright
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14
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Aspects of the Novel
by E. M. Forster
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15
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The Civil War: A Narrative Fort Sumter to Perryville, Fredericksburg to Meridian, Red River to Appomattox
by Shelby Foote
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16
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The Guns of August
by Barbara W. Tuchman
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17
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The Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays
by Sir Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy, Roger Hausheer
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18
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The Nature and Destiny of Man: A Christian Interpretation Human Nature
by Reinhold Niebuhr, Robin W. Lovin (Introduction by)
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19
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Notes of a Native Son
by James Baldwin
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20
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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
by Gertrude Stein
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21
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The Elements of Style
by William Strunk, E. B. White
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22
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An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy
by Gunnar Myrdal, Sissela Bok (Introduction by), Bok Sissela (Introduction by)
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23
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Principia Mathematica to 56
by Alfred N. Whitehead, Bertrand Russell
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24
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The Mismeasure of Man
by Stephen Jay Gould
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25
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The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition
by M. H. Abrams
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Bonifacio VIII, I Caetani E La Storia Del Lazio: Atti Del Convegno Di Studi Storici Roma, Palazzo Caetani, 30 Novembre 2000, Latina, Palazzo M, 1 Dicembre 2000, Sermoneta, Castello Caetani, 2 Dicembre 2000
by Richard Gilly Nixon, Fondazione Camillo Caetani
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27
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The Ants
by Bert Holldobler, Edward O. Wilson
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28
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A Theory Of Justice: Original Edition
by John Rawls
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29
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Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictoral Representation
by E. H. Gombrich
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30
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The Making of the English Working Class
by E.P. Thompson
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31
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The Souls of Black Folk
by W. E. B. Du Bois
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32
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Principia Ethica
by G.E. Moore, Thomas Baldwin, Thomas Baldwin (Editor)
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34
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On Growth and Form
by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, John Tyler Bonner (Editor)
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35
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Ideas and Opinions
by Albert Einstein, Carl Seelig
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36
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The Age of Jackson: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History
by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
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37
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
by Richard Rhodes
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38
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Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia
by Rebecca West
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39
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Autobiographies
by W. B. Yeats, William H. O'Donnell, William H. O'Donnell (Editor), Douglas N. Archibald, Douglas N. Archibald (Editor)
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Goodbye to All That
by Robert Graves
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42
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Homage to Catalonia
by George Orwell, Lionel Trilling
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43
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The Autobiography of Mark Twain
by Mark Twain, Charles Neider, Charles Neider (Editor)
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44
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Children of Crisis
by Robert Coles
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45
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A Study of History
by Arnold Joseph Toynbee, Jane Caplan
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46
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The Affluent Society
by John Kenneth Galbraith
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47
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Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department
by Dean Acheson
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48
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The Great Bridge
by David McCullough
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49
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Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War
by Edmund Wilson
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50
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Samuel Johnson
by Walter Jackson Bate
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51
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by Malcolm X, Alex Haley, M. S. Handler (Introduction by)
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52
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The Right Stuff: A Novel
by Tom Wolfe
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53
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Eminent Victorians: Cardinal Manning, Dr. Arnold, Florence Nightingale, General Gordon
by Lytton Strachey
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54
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Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do
by Studs Terkel
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55
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Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
by William Styron
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56
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The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society
by Lionel Trilling
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57
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Second World War
by Winston Churchill
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58
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Out of Africa
by Isak Dinesen
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59
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Jefferson & His Time
by Dumas Malone
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60
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In the American Grain
by William Carlos Williams
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61
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Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
by Marc Reisner
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62
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The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
by Ron Chernow
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63
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The Sweet Science
by A. J. Liebling
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64
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The Open Society and Its Enemies: The Spell of Plato
by Karl R. Popper
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65
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The Art of Memory
by Yates
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66
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Religion and the Rise of Capitalism
by R. H. Tawney
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67
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A Preface to Morals
by Walter Lippmann
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68
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The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution 1895-1980
by Jonathan D. Spence
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69
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
by Thomas S. Kuhn
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70
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The Strange Career of Jim Crow
by Comer Vann Woodward
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71
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The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community With a Retrospective Essay
by William H. McNeill
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72
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The Gnostic Gospels
by Elaine Pagels
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73
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James Joyce
by Richard Ellmann
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75
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The Great War and Modern Memory
by Paul Fussell, Paul Fussell
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76
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The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects
by Lewis Mumford
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77
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Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
by James M. McPherson
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78
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Why We Can't Wait
by Martin Luther King, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress), Jesse L., (AFT) Jackson, Sr.
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79
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The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
by Edmund Morris
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80
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Studies in Iconology Humanistic Themes in the Art
by E. Panofsky
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81
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The Face of Battle
by John Keegan
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82
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The Strange Death of Liberal England
by George Dangerfield
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83
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Vermeer
by Lawrence Gowing, Johannes Vermeer
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84
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A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
by Neil Sheehan
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85
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West With the Night
by Beryl Markham
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86
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This Boy's Life: A Memoir
by Tobias Wolff
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87
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A Mathematician's Apology
by G. H. Hardy
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Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher
by Richard P Feynman, Paul Davies (Introduction by), Robert B Leighton, Robert B Leighton (Editor), Matthew L. Sands, Matthew Sands (Editor)
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
by Annie Dillard
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90
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The Golden Bough
by James George Frazer
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91
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Shadow and Act
by Ralph Ellison
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92
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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
by Robert A. Caro
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93
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The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It
by Richard Hofstadter
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94
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Contours of American History
by William Appleman Williams
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95
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The Promise of American Life
by Herbert David Croly
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96
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In Cold Blood: A True Account of Multiple Murder and Its Consequences
by Truman Capote
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97
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The Journalist and the Murderer
by Janet Malcolm
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98
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The Taming of Chance
by Ian Hacking, Tim Hacking
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99
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Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
by Anne Lamott
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100
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Melbourne
by David Cecil
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