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Note: I haven’t finished all of these, obviously. If you’ve ever read any of these books or are familiar with the authors, feel free to speak up in the comments.

Don DeLillo: Underworld.

Flannery O’Connor: Wise Blood (novella).

Khaled Hosseini: A Thousand Splendid Suns.

William Faulkner: The Bear (novella); Go Down, Moses; The Sound and the Fury.

David Grann: Killers of the Flower Moon (nonfiction).

John Irving: Cider House Rules.

Nikolai Gogol: Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends; Leaving the Theater (after the Staging of a New Comedy) (play); The Gambler; Marriage (play); The Government Inspector (play).

Theodore Dreiser: An American Tragedy.

Joseph Heller: We Bombed in New Haven (play).

John M. Maclean: Fire on the Mountain (nonfiction).

Zora Neale Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching God.

Neal Stephenson: Termination Shock.

Kate Chopin: The Awakening.

Maggie O’Farrell: Hamnet.

Collette: The Pure and the Impure.

Arundhati Roy: The God of Small Things.

Raymond Queneau: Zazie.

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