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FICTION
Ulysses
By James Joyce
This account of one day in the lives of brilliant slacker Stephen Dedalus and ambling, middle-aged ad salesman Leopold Bloom was considered the most difficult novel in the English language until Joyce topped it with Finnegans Wake.
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RELIGION
The Book of J
By Harold Bloom
Scholars believe sections of Genesis, Exodus, and Numbers—known as the J text, for the word these passages use to refer to God—to be the oldest parts of the Bible.
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HISTORY
Our Crowd
By Stephen Birmingham
By the late 19th century, the Seligmans, Goldmans, Schiffs, and Lehmans of New York City—possessed of massive wealth and power—constituted a society unto themselves.
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PHILOSOPHY
Anarchy, State, and Utopia
By Robert Nozick
In his most influential work of political philosophy, Nozick argues that the best state is the minimal state.
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BIOGRAPHY
Diane Arbus
By Patricia Bosworth
From behind the lens of her camera Diane Arbus turned an adoring eye on the freaks and misfits of mid-century America, but she wasted little love on herself. ...
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MEMOIR
The Jewish Gauchos of the Pampas
By Alberto Gerchunoff
In 1890, at the start of a great wave of immigration, a young Alberto Gerchunoff and his family arrived in Argentina from Russia.
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POETRY
Wild Light
By Yona Wallach
Wallach, an eccentric and controversial Israeli poet who died in 1985 at the age of 41, plays tricks on the Hebrew language, toying with its rules of grammar and gender markings.
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CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
The Doll with the Yellow Star
By Yona Zeldis McDonough
For Claudine's eighth birthday, her parents give her a beautiful doll—a more luxurious present than she expected, with a war on and the Nazis occupying France.
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