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Books Mentioned in this Episode:
Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon
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Europe Central by William Vollmann
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Poor People by William T. Vollmann
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Season of Migration to the North Tayeb Salih
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Imperial by William T. Vollmann
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Rising up and Rising Down by William T. Vollmann
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A Table for Fortune by William T. Vollmann
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East of Eden by John Steinbeck
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Love & Terror by William Herrick

Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780142437230

1984 by George Orwell
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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
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The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
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Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
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JR by William Gaddis
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781681374680

The Recognitions by William Gaddis
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781681374666

The Tunnel by William H. Gass

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
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Libra by Don DeLillo
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In the Spirit of Crazy Horse by Peter Matthiesson
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The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiesson
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Shadow Country by Peter Matthiesson
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The Passion According to GH by Clarice Lispector
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The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
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Too Much of Life by Clarice Lispector
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Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector
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The Forty Days of Musa Dagh
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The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780312427481

2666 by Roberto Bolano
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By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolano
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Billy Budd by Herman Melville
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780143107606

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
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Something Happened by Joseph Heller
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780684841212

The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780143129448

Shogun by James Clavell
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9798212895194

The Instructions by Adam Levin
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781952119736

Memoirs from Beyond the Grave 1815-1830 by Francois-Rene De Chateaubriand
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781681379616

Baronwenckheim’s Homecoming by Laszlo Kraznahorkai
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Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780061120152

Underworld by Don DeLillo
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780684848150

Ask the Dust by John Fante
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780060822552

The Death of Virgil by Herman Broch
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780679755487

The Eighth Life by Nino Haratischvili
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781950354146

The Public Burning by Robert Coover
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780802135278

The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
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The USA Trilogy by John Dos Passos
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The Royal Family by William T. Vollmann
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780141002002

Terra Nostra by Carlos Fuentes
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