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Books mentioned in the episode (purchasing through the links helps support the show)

The Chandelier by Clarice Lispector
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Gesell Dome by Guillermo Saccomanno
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781940953380

Seiobo There Below Paperback by László Krasznahorkai
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The Lost Scrapbook by Evan Dara
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The Overstory by Richard Powers
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A Naked Singularity by Sergio De La Pava
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The Writing of America by Geoff Ward
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Moby Dick by Herman Melville
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780142437247

Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780802145314

God Went Like That by Yxta Maya Murray
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780810146020

Paranoia by Viktor Martinovich
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780810128767

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

Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780679734529

All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780679744399

My Struggle Volume 1 by Karl Ove Knausgaard
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780374534141

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780743273565

The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780316769488

Blinding by Mircea Carterescu
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781935744856

Solenoid Mircea Carterescu
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781646052028

Carpentaria by Alexis Wright
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811238038

Not Even the Dead by Juan Gomez Barcena
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781948830676

The Message by Ta-nehisi Coates
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780593230381

Marshland by Otohiko Kaga
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781628974041

Every Arc Bends it Radian by Sergio De La Pava
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781668056707

The Savage Detectives Reread
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780231194112

Vineland Reread by Peter Coviello
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780231185219