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Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

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Wild Horses by Jordi Cussa

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Trout, Belly Up by Rodrigo Fuentes

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The Things we Don’t Do by Andres Neuman

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Bariloche by Andres Neuman

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By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolano

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2666 by Roberto Bolano

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Roberto Bolano’s Fiction: An Expanding Universe by Chris Andrews

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The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes

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House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

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Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

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East of Eden by John Steinbeck

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The Neon Bible by John Kennedy Toole

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The Hawkline Monster by Richard Brautigan

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The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren

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The Return by Roberto Bolano

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A Little Lumpen Novelita by Roberto Bolano

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Moby Dick by Herman Melville

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The Insufferable Gaucho by Roberto Bolano

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Wild Horses by Jordi Cussa

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Between Parenthesis by Roberto Bolano

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The Collected Fictions of Jorge Luis Borges

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The Collected Non-Fiction of Jorge Luis Borges

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Pay as you Go by Eskor David Johnson

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People in the Room by Norah Lange

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Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

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The Forty Days of Musa Dagh

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Shogun by James Clavell

Stoner by John Williams

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Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

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Beloved by Toni Morrison

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Monsieur Pain by Roberto Bolano

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A Little Lumpen Novelita by Roberto Bolano

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Cowboy Graves by Roberto Bolano

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The Woes of the True Policeman by Roberto Bolano

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Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

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The Unknown University by Roberto Bolano

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The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren

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Vineland by Thomas Pynchon

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Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

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Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

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Trieste by Dasa Drndic

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Friday’s at Enrico’s by Don Carpenter

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The Pale King by David Foster Wallace

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Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

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A Month in the Country by JL Carr

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The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer

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The Castle in the Forest by Norman Mailer

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I, Grape by Brock Clarke

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The Sellout by Paul Beatty

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I am the Cheese by Robert Cormier

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False Calm by Maria Sonia Cristoff

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Sexographies by Gabriela Wiener

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I, Grape by Brock Clarke

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A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace

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On the Edge of Reason by Miroslav Krleza

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Radiant Terminus by Antoine Volodine

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The Man Who Spoke Snakish by Andrus Kivirahk

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Amulet by Roberto Bolano 

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Death in the Andes by Mario Vargas Llosa

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The Employees by Olga Ravn

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My Work by Olga Ravn

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What Kingdom by Fine Grabol

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Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez

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The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa

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My Search for Warren Harding by Robert Plunket

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The Murderbot Diaries Volume 1 by Martha Wells

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The Skating Rink by Roberto Bolano

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Bomarzo by Manuel Mujica Lainez

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The Old Gringo by Carlos Fuentes

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Scars by Juan Jose Saer

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The Sellout by Paul Beatty

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Quicksand by Nella Larsen

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The Stone Face by William Gardner Smith

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The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

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Hard Rain Falling by Don Carpenter

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Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

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Beloved by Toni Morrison

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Tom’s Crossing by Mark Z. Danielewski

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The Sellout by Paul Beatty

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Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

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Bomarzo by Manuel Mujica Lainez

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Quicksand by Nella Larsen

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One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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You Bright and Risen Angels by William T. Vollmann

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The Melancholy of Resistance by Laszlo Krasznahorkai

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Stalingrad by Vasily Grossman

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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer

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A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

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The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano

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Europe Central by William Vollmann

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