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The Devil’s Chessboard by David Talbot https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780062... Or https://amzn.to/3PnAiVn At Night He Lifts Weights by Kang Young-sook https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781945... Or https://amzn.to/4a5DFtI Waiting for the Fear by Oguz Atay https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781681... Or https://amzn.to/4gC5wDX The Taker and Other Stories by Rubern Fonseca https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781934... Or https://amzn.to/40i3ALq In the Heart of the Heart of the Country by William H. Gass https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781590... Or https://amzn.to/41RRs4W The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll by Alvaro Mutis https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780940... Or https://amzn.to/4a0dh4k Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780316... Or https://amzn.to/3ZZreee The Mystery.Doc Matthew Macintosh https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780802... Or https://amzn.to/4gGSdm2 Yellowface by RF Kuang https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780063... Or https://amzn.to/4gWsGow Insurrecto by Gina Apostal https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781641... Or https://amzn.to/3DRj2Fe How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781250... or https://amzn.to/3VXFUsT Laszlo Krasnahorkai https://amzn.to/3Plph6X The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781416... Or https://amzn.to/3PoZGK8 Samskara by Anantha Murthy https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781590... Or https://amzn.to/4gYQ4Sb Funeral Nights by Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781913... Or https://amzn.to/40gJhhb A Bended Circuity by Robert S. Stickley A Naked Singularity by Sergio De La Pava https://amzn.to/407mkfo Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780312... Or https://amzn.to/4gY2FoW Human Acts by Han Kang

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