A Suitable Boy
Vickram Seth
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Slaughter House Five
Kurt Vonnegut
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Angela's Ashes
Frank McCourt
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Coming of Age in Ireland
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Tis
Frank McCourt
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Continues the tale of a young McCourt as he settles in America
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Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Douglas Hofstader
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Philosophical concoction of art, music and computer science in the style of Lewis Carroll
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Speaker For The Dead
Orson Scott Card
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Continues the Enders Game saga with the meeting of two well intentioned but fundamentally incompatible cultures...eh I mean species
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Children of the Mind
Orson Scott Card
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Enders Shadow
Orson Scott Card
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Xenocide
Orson Scott Card
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Continues the Enders Game saga with three non sentient species trying to survive with each other
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The Shadow of the Hegemon
Orson Scott Card
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God Bless You, Mr Rosewater
Kurt Vonnegut
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An addictive and entire satire about greed, kindness and everything
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Cat's Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut
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New religion, a new language, frivolous society, mad scientists and a great idea that freezes the world
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The World According to Garp
John Irving
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Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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The tragically comedic story of 100 years of life in a small village in Columbia
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Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka
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Enders Game
Orson Scott Card
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Children fight the war that adults are not flexible enough to adapt to strategically
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Sophie's World
Jostein Gaarder
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Tandia
Bryce Courtney
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A moving tale of a girl growing up under apartheid in South Africa
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Potato Factory
Bryce Courtney
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An epic story of life, love and money
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Idoru
Willam Gibson
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A more readable version of Gibsons ideas about artificial life encased in a story of when a singer tries to marry a AI program
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Neuromancer
Willam Gibson
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An dark, twisting, sometimes confusing but nevertheless highly entertaining book that introduced the world to cyberpunk
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Good Omens
Terry Pratchett
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Hugely funny.
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Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
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The frightening classic about a possible future in light of increased censorship
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Garden of Rama
Arthur Clark
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Rama Revealed
Arthur Clark
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Rama II
Arthur Clark
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Rendezvous with Rama
Arthur Clark
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First encounter of humankind with alien spacecraft
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Babyhood
Paul Reiser
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A warm, fuzzy, loving book about babies with Reiser's quintessential brand of humor.
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A Reporter's Life
Walter Cronkite
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A series of anecdotes of a fine reporter lamenting on how it all was 'in the good old days'.
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Gridlock
Ben Elton
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An unfortunate attempt by a good writer to spoil an interesting plot by peppering it with didactic truisms
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Celestine Prophecies
James Redfield
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