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Rubyfruit Jungle

Rubyfruit Jungle

Rita Mae Brown

4.0 (3)

No one remembers her beginnings.

#440
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Jurassic Park

Jurassic Park

Michael Crichton

4.0 (8)

The late twentieth century has witnessed a scientific gold rush of astonishing proportions: the headlong and furious haste to commercialize genetic engineering.

#152
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La Modification

La Modification

Michel Butor

0.0 (0)

#620
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The Clan of the Cave Bear

The Clan of the Cave Bear

Jean M. Auel

5.0 (3)

The naked child ran out of the hide-covered lean-to toward the rocky beach at the bend in the small river.

#203
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The Colour of Magic

The Colour of Magic

Terry Pratchett

4.2 (5)

In a distant and second-hand set of dimensions, in an astral plane that was never meant to fly, the curling star-mists waver and part...

#264
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2,294
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More Than Human

More Than Human

Theodore Sturgeon

4.5 (2)

The idiot lived in a black and gray world, punctuated by the white lightning of hunger and the flickering of fear.

#509
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588
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The Origins of Totalitarianism

The Origins of Totalitarianism

Hannah Arendt

4.0 (2)

#525
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524
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Milan Kundera

3.25 (4)

In February 1948, the Communist leader Klement Gottwald stepped out on the balcony of a Baroque palace in Prague to harangue hundreds of thousands of citizens massed in Old Town Square.

#436
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The Prince of Tides

The Prince of Tides

Pat Conroy

5.0 (2)

My wound is geography.

#284
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