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Books mentioned in this episode:

The USA Trilogy by Juan Dos Passos
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780063351530

Rock, Paper, Scissors by Naja Marie Aidt
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781940953168

Attila by Aliocha Coll
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781960385376

Attila by Javier Serena
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781960385352

North Sun by Ethan Rutherford
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781646053582

Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781590172001

Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780143039433

The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781668017401

JR by William Gaddis
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781681374680

The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781541724006

Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector by Benjamin Moser
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780199895823

Warrior Dreams by James William Gibson

Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780375760983

In the Spirit of Crazy Horse by Peter Matthiesson
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780140144567

The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780465068364

Legends of the Fall by Jim Harrison
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780802126221

Snow Lion by David McPhail
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Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781416936473

East of Eden by John Steinbeck
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780140186390

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780679734505

Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780553580532

One Hundred years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780060883287

After the First Death by Robert Cormier
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780440208358

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781439195260

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780316055444

The Secret History by Donna Tartt
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781400031702

In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781681371474

Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780385720922

Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780385722193

The Flanders Road by Claude SImon
bookshop.org/a/103053/9781681375953
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Unidentified Man Left of Photo by Jeff Bursey

War and War by Laszlo Kraznahorkai
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Fat City by Leonard Gardner
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781590178928

The Lost ScrapBook by Evan Dara
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Wayward Heroes by Halldor Laxness
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The Trees Grew Because I Bled There by Eric LaRocca
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781803363776

Broughtupsy by Christina Cook
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781646221882

Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811220248

Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780143117568

The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780060913076

Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780143039945

Shogun by James Clavell
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9798212173476

Vineland by Thomas Pynchon
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780141180632

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780140449266

King: A Life by Jonathan Eig
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781250335647

Che: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson
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Stoner by John Williams
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781590171998

Warlock by Oakley Hall
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781590171615

The Invisibility Cloak by Ge Fei
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781681370200

The Long Ships by Frans G. Bengtsson
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781590173466