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A Gathering of Days
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
The Blind Assassin
Fangirl
The Technique of the Mystery Story
The tough guide to fantasyland
The Hired Girl
The gum thief
Life on the Mississippi
Tintenblut
Dotter Of Her Fathers Eyes
The Tenth Circle
Love That Dog
The savage
Forged
How fiction works
Outline
An autobiography
A beginning, a muddle, and an end
Afterworlds
A Room of One's Own
The letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Survivor
Zen in the art of writing
The Elements of Style
Tom Sawyer Abroad
The Chicago manual of style.
Breakfast of Champions
Ways to live forever
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