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Books I Found Unforgettable

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8.3

War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

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The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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The Sleepwalkers: a Trilogy (Vintage International)

The Sleepwalkers: a Trilogy (Vintage International)... - Hermann Broch

Beware of Pity - Stefan Zweig

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The Book of Disquiet - Fernando Pessoa

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The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula Le Guin

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The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements... - Eric Hoffer

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Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse

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The Stranger - Albert Camus

Spoilt Rotten: The Toxic Cult of Sentimentality

Spoilt Rotten: The Toxic Cult of Sentimentality... - Theodore Dalrymple

The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History

The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History... - Isaiah Berlin

You Can't Read This Book: Censorship in an Age of Freedom

You Can't Read This Book: Censorship in an Age of Freedom... (2013)

Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning

Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning... - Jonah Goldberg

Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 30th Anniversary Edition

Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 30th Anniversary Edition... - Paulo Freire

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Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell

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Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils - Louis Cha

The Smiling, Proud Wanderer - Jin Yong

About Looking (1992)

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What About Me?

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Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals

Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals... - John Gray

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Besieged City - Zhong-Shu Qian

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The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

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Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë

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The Fixer: A Novel - Bernard Malamud

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The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me - Marlon Brando

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Darkness at Noon - Arthur Koestler

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Ask the Dust - John Fante

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Neuromancer - William Gibson_II

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The Sound of the Mountain - Yasunari Kawabata

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A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller Jr.

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera

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Macbeth - William Shakespeare

Why Rape Culture Is A Dangerous Myth - Luke Gittos

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A Hero of Our Time - Mikhail Lermontov

A Quiet Word: Lobbying, Crony Capitalism and Broken Politics in Britain

A Quiet Word: Lobbying, Crony Capitalism and Broken Politics in Britain...

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The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)

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The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)... - G. K. Chesterton

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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa

King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa... - Adam Hochschild

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The French Lieutenant's Woman : - John Fowles

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The New Erotic Photography Vol. 1

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The Barefoot Lawyer: The Remarkable Memoir of China's Bravest Political Activist

The Barefoot Lawyer: The Remarkable Memoir of China's Bravest Political Activist... - Guangcheng Chen

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Eugenics and Other Evils : An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State

Eugenics and Other Evils : An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State... - Michael W. Perry,G. K. Chesterton

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Heterophobia: Sexual Harassment and the Future of Feminism

Heterophobia: Sexual Harassment and the Future of Feminism...

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Phaedra - Jean Racine

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The Emergence of the Interior: Architecture, Modernity, Domesticity

The Emergence of the Interior: Architecture, Modernity, Domesticity... - Charles Rice

If I weren't so bent on taking notes or annotating the passages of books, particularly the non-fiction titles, I could fancy calling myself 'well read'. I don't just blast through a book like I would with my workload, I like to truly know the book as well as I can. The list is overwhelmingly Western-centric, but I'd like to learn about the predominant culture I'm more accustomed to before I venture to other territories first. Keeping myself abreast of current world affairs is what drives me to pick up more non-fiction nowadays too. I've also been chipping away at Montaigne for a time, and first impressions tell me he may just be the genuine article, but like War and Peace, it's gonna be one helluva dragon to slay.