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I Love the Whole World!
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Can Nothing Save Us?
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The Inheritance of Loss
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Objects of Desire
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Where Are the Kings
Donal Ryan
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Seicho Matsumoto
The Silver Book
Olivia Laing
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Haruki Murakami
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Barry Crump
The Light Between Oceans
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The Odyssey
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The Echoes

I do not believe in ghosts, which, since my death, has become something of a problem.

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The Venice Hotel

She stood above him while the air left his body in a low, final exhale.

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Jade and Emerald

Angela Nu was the richest girl at my school.