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October

Nazi Literature in the Americas — Roberto Bolaño, 1996
fiction ˖ short stories ˖ translation - spanish ˖ satire
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How to Spot a Fascist — Umberto Eco, 2020
nonfiction ˖ essays ˖ translation - italian ˖ politics ˖ history
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Pan - Knut Hamsun, 1894
fiction ˖ classics ˖ translation - norwegian ˖ miscommunication ˖ cultural divide
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The Search for the Manchurian Candidate - John D. Marks, 1979
nonfiction ˖ politics ˖ history ˖ psychology ˖ drugs
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Nobody's Girl - Virginia Roberts Giuffre, 2025
nonfiction ˖ memoir

Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties - Tom O'Neill, 2019
nonfiction ˖ history ˖ true crime ˖ politics
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Point Zero - Seichō Matsumoto, 1959
fiction ˖ crime ˖ mystery ˖ postwar ˖ gender
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September

The Man Who Saw Everything — Deborah Levy, 2019
fiction ˖ history ˖ GDR ˖ memory ˖ recursion
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Not A Novel - Jenny Erpenbeck, 2018
nonfiction ˖ essays ˖ memoir ˖ GDR ˖ grief ˖ memory
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August

Perfection — Vincenzo Latronico, 2022
fiction ˖ translation - italian ˖ satire ˖ consumerism ˖ identity
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The Tunnel — Ernesto Sabato, 1948
fiction ˖ classics ˖ translation - spanish ˖ obsession
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Are Prisons Obsolete? - Angela Davis, 2003
nonfiction ˖ history ˖ politics ˖ abolition

Lucy - Jamaica Kincaid, 1990
fiction ˖ coming of age ˖ mother/daughter ˖ colonialism
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Up at the Villa - W. Somerset Maugham, 1941
fiction ˖ classics ˖ class ˖ love + marriage
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