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Book Title (49)

Notes from Underground (2)
The Birds (1)
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (1)
A Room with a View (1)
The Master and Margarita (1)
The God of Small Things (1)
Utopia (1)
Behind the Beautiful Forevers (1)
Death and the Maiden (1)
Wit (1)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1)
A Hunger Artist (1)
Go Set a Watchman (1)
The Lottery (1)
My Cousin Rachel (1)
How to Read Literature Like a Professor (1)
The White Tiger (1)
Silas Marner (1)
Robinson Crusoe (1)
Black Boy (1)
On the Road (1)
Gulliver's Travels (1)
The Spanish Tragedy (1)
The Remarkable Rocket (1)
The Cop and the Anthem (1)
The Dead (1)
Sense and Sensibility (1)
The House on Mango Street (1)
The Coquette (1)
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1)
Orlando (1)
Tracks: A Woman’s Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback (1)
The Lady With the Dog (1)
The Kite Runner (1)
Anna Karenina (1)
Equus (1)
Electra (1)
Soldier’s Home (1)
How Much Land Does a Man Need? (1)
Eveline (1)
Walden (1)
A Room of One's Own (1)
Measure for Measure (1)
A Clockwork Orange (1)
I, Robot (1)
Moneyball (1)
The Lieutenant (1)
The Raven (1)
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1)

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Virginia Woolf (2)
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2)
Ursula K. Le Guin (1)
E.M. Forster (1)
Mikhail Bulgakov (1)
Arundhati Roy (1)
Sir Thomas More (1)
Katherine Boo (1)
Ariel Dorfman (1)
Margaret Edson (1)
Hunter S. Thompson (1)
Franz Kafka (1)
Harper Lee (1)
Shirley Jackson (1)
Thomas C. Foster (1)
Aravind Adiga (1)
George Eliot (1)
Daniel Defoe (1)
Richard Wright (1)
Jack Kerouac (1)
Jonathan Swift (1)
Thomas Kyd (1)
Oscar Wilde (1)
O. Henry (1)
Jane Austen (1)
Sandra Cisneros (1)
Hannah Webster Foster (1)
Mark Twain (1)
Robyn Davidson (1)
Anton Chekhov (1)
Khaled Hosseini (1)
Peter Shaffer (1)
Sophocles (1)
Ernest Hemingway (1)
Henry David Thoreau (1)
William Shakespeare (1)
Anthony Burgess (1)
Isaac Asimov (1)
Michael Lewis (1)
Kate Grenville (1)
Edgar Allan Poe (1)
Robert Pirsig (1)

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Society, Rationality, and Irrationality in A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift

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