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• Catch-22

  Heller, Joseph,

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  Satirical and fragmentary, Heller's masterpiece brilliantly depicts the horrors of WWII.

• A Confederacy of Dunces

  Toole, John Kennedy, 1937-1969

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  Former graduate student Ignatius J. Reilly becomes a self-proclaimed hero... but his mother urges him to work.

• Passing

  Larsen, Nella

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  In Larsen's masterpiece, Clare Kendry passes as white in order to maintain a relationship with a racist white man, which threatens to break her sense of reality.

• All the Pretty Horses

  McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-

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  A character-driven coming-of-age story following John Grady Cole's move to Mexico from Texas.

• Lost in the Cosmos

  the Last Self-help Book

  Percy, Walker, 1916-1990

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  This surreal self-help book will not make you wealthier, healthier, or happier. However, it may help you become less confused, more confused, or capable of coping with the end of the world. Regardless, you will have some laughs along the way.

• High-rise

  Ballard, J. G., 1930-2009

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  This story chronicles the chaotic, violent reactions to a breakdown of the infrastructure at a high-rise apartment building.

• High-rise

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  This title translates the violent surrealism and gritty realism of Ballard's classic novel to the screen.

• Fear and Trembling

  Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855

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  Kierkegaard uses the story of the sacrifice of Isaac to examine the tension between the subjective life and ethics.

• Kierkegaard

  An Introduction

  Evans, C. Stephen

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  An accessible introduction to the philosophy of Kierkegaard.

• A Very Easy Death

  Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986

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  Simone de Beauvoir's short, groundbreaking, and challenging meditation on her mother's death is as readable and norm-breaking as when it was first released.

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