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- Man’s Search for Meaning By Viktor Frankl
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- All My Puny Sorrows By Miriam Toews
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- A House in the Sky: A Memoir By Amanda Lindhout
- Purge By Sofi Oksanen
- I Shall Not Hate By Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish
- Under Ground By Anatas Sileika
- Children in Reindeer Woods By Kristin Omarsdottir
- The Ash Garden By Dennis Bock
- Irma Voth By Miriam Toews
- The Flying Troutmans By Miriam Toews
- A Complicated Kindness By Miriam Toews
- Swing Low By Miriam Toews
- Siege 13 By Tamas Dobozy
- Iron Curtain By Anne Applebaum
- Half Blood Blues By Esi Edugyan
- The Cellist of Sarajevo By Steven Galloway
- The Matter of Sylvie By Lee Kvern
- Gratitude By Jo Kertes
- Not Yet By Wayson Choy
- Monoceros By Suzette Mayr
- Just Kids By Patti Smith
- We Need To Talk About Kevin By Lionel Shriver
- Fugitive Pieces By Anne Michaels
- The Lovely Bones By Alice Sebold
- Lucky By Alice Sebold
- Balkan Express By Slavenka Drakulic
- The Taste of A Man By Slavenka Drakulic
- Cafe Europa By Slavenka Drakulic
- How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed By Slavenka Drakulic
- A Guided Tour Through the Museum of Communism By Slavenka Drakulic
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being By Milan Kundera
- Slowness By Milan Kundera
- Lolita By Vladimir Nabokov
- Wind-Up Bird Chronicle By Haruki Murakami
- Norwegian Wood By Haruki Murakami
- Dance, Dance, Dance By Haruki Murakami
- Natural Order By Brian Francis
- Memory Keeper ‘s Daughter By Kim Edwards
- The Palace Walk By Naguib Mahfouz
- Palace of Desire By Naguib Mahfouz
- Sheltering Sky By Paul Bowles
- A Chorus of Stones By Susan Griffin
- The Unwanted By Kien Nguyen
- The Cult of Quick Repair By Dede Crane
- Greedy Little Eyes By Billie Livingston
- Journal of a Solitude By May Sarton
- The Year of Magical Thinking By Joan Didion