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2 books

Abandoned

Alan Turing: the enigma
This Changes Everything: What Climate Change is Telling us About how our Species must Evolve

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58 books

Biographies Memoirs

River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze
The Adversary: A True Story of Monstrous Deception
The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius
The Complete Persepolis
Bossypants
How to Be a Woman

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11 books

Bl Danmei

Birds of Shangri-La, Vol. 3
Golden Terrace (Novel), Vol. 1
Golden Terrace, Vol. 2
The Heart of Thomas
Birds of Shangri-La, Vol. 1
Classmates, Vol. 3

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28 books

China

Private Revolutions: Four Women Face China's New Social Order
The Lantern and the Night Moths: Five Modern and Contemporary Chinese Poets in Translation
River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze
How China Escaped the Poverty Trap
Golden Terrace (Novel), Vol. 1
Golden Terrace, Vol. 2
The Rise and Fall of the EAST: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline

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82 books

Comics Graphic Novels

Fables, Vol. 1: Legends in Exile
Y: The Last Man, Vol. 2 Cycles
Y: The Last Man, Vol. 3: One Small Step
Y: The Last Man, Vol. 5: Ring of Truth
Monstress, Vol. 6 The Vow
Monstress, Vol. 7: Devourer
Monstress, Vol. 8: Inferno

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10 books

Economics

How China Escaped the Poverty Trap
The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order
Red Plenty
Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
A Brief History of Equality

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28 books

Essays

Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters
Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative
Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age
Moranthology
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Slouching Towards Bethlehem

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11 books

Existential Ennui

The Stranger
Invisible Man
Crime and Punishment
Notes from Underground
The Catcher in the Rye
Nausea

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24 books

Fantasy

Monstress, Vol. 2: The Blood
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Piranesi
Vita Nostra
Katabasis

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49 books

Favorites

Hunger
River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze
My Brilliant Friend
Thick
Exhalation
Human Acts
Red Plenty

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2 books

Food And Bev

How to Eat: Vintage Classics Anniversary Edition
Crying in H Mart

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89 books

In Translation

Sanshirō
Come Close
Norwegian Wood, Vol. 2
Sputnik Sweetheart
Out
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
The Count of Monte Cristo

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36 books

Japan

Heaven
The Twilight Years
Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales
The Elephant Vanishes
Norwegian Wood, Vol. 2
A Tale for the Time Being
N.P.

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11 books

Korea

Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea
Pavane for a Dead Princess
Human Acts
Crying in H Mart
I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki
The Vegetarian
Winter in Sokcho

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52 books

Manga

Monster: Perfect Edition, Vol. 1
Monster: Perfect Edition, Vol. 2
Monster: Perfect Edition, Vol. 5
Birds of Shangri-La, Vol. 3
The Summer Hikaru Died, Vol. 1
The Summer Hikaru Died, Vol. 2
The Summer Hikaru Died, Vol. 3

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109 books

Non Fiction

Private Revolutions: Four Women Face China's New Social Order
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
How China Escaped the Poverty Trap
The Rise and Fall of the EAST: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters
Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative

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6 books

On Hold

Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
Humanly Possible

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35 books

Owned

The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Stranger
Winger
Girl Meets Boy
Saga, Vol. 1
Half Bad
Mara

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9 books

Palestine

The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America
The Sea Cloak and Other Stories
Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative
On Palestine
Palestine
We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

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10 books

Plays

Peter and Alice
Uncle Vanya
Three sisters
The Cherry Orchard: A Comedy in Four Acts
King Lear
The Winter's Tale
A Midsummer Night's Dream

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14 books

Poetry

The Lantern and the Night Moths: Five Modern and Contemporary Chinese Poets in Translation
Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse by Alexander Pushkin
You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
Ariel
Crush
Faithful and Virtuous Night
Night Sky with Exit Wounds

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54 books

Queer

Big Swiss
Stag Dance
The Iliac Crest
Mrs. S
Gideon the Ninth
On a Sunbeam
Harrow the Ninth

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113 books

Read In Translation

Sanshirō
Come Close
Norwegian Wood, Vol. 2
Sputnik Sweetheart
Out
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
The Count of Monte Cristo

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9 books

Re Reads

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
The Three-Body Problem
The Master and Margarita
Frankenstein
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

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22 books

Russia

The Master and Margarita
The Brothers Karamazov
Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union
Red Plenty
Vita Nostra
Uncle Vanya
Three sisters
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