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Favorite Books (Two Decades of Reading & Choosing)

Here are my favorite books. I call them "favorite" because these stories and theories made me wonder, check, look, search, doubt. Or explained the world in a way textbooks and socioeconomic theories never could.
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The Good Women of China by Xinran
The Good Women of China by Xinran
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Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
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A Gentleman in Moscow (Amor Towles)
A Gentleman in Moscow (Amor Towles)
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A Tale of Love and Darkness (Amos Oz)
A Tale of Love and Darkness (Amos Oz)
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The Little Prince (Antoine De Saint-Exupéry)
The Little Prince (Antoine De Saint-Exupéry)
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Darkness at Noon (Arthur Koestler)
Darkness at Noon (Arthur Koestler)
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The Road (Cormac McCarthy)
The Road (Cormac McCarthy)
9
Columbine (Dave Cullen)
Columbine (Dave Cullen)
10
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
11
1984 (George Orwell)
1984 (George Orwell)
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The Tin Drum (Günter Grass)
The Tin Drum (Günter Grass)
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To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
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Siddhartha (Hermann Hesse)
Siddhartha (Hermann Hesse)
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Steppenwolf (Hermann Hesse)
Steppenwolf (Hermann Hesse)
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Hunter S. Thompson)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Hunter S. Thompson)
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The Bridge on the Drina (Ivo Andrić)
The Bridge on the Drina (Ivo Andrić)
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Empire of the Sun (J. G. Ballard)
Empire of the Sun (J. G. Ballard)
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Crash (J.G. Ballard)
Crash (J.G. Ballard)
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LA Confidential (James Ellroy)
LA Confidential (James Ellroy)
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Augustus (John Williams)
Augustus (John Williams)
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Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
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Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
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Radetsky March (Joseph Roth)
Radetsky March (Joseph Roth)
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Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi)
Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi)
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House of Leaves (Mark Z. Danielewski)
House of Leaves (Mark Z. Danielewski)
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Death and the Dervish (Meša Selimović)
Death and the Dervish (Meša Selimović)
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Silences (Tišine) (Meša Selimović)
Silences (Tišine) (Meša Selimović)
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The Fortress (Meša Selimović)
The Fortress (Meša Selimović)
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The Joke (Milan Kundera)
The Joke (Milan Kundera)
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Milan Kundera)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Milan Kundera)
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The Butcher Boy (Patrick McCabe)
The Butcher Boy (Patrick McCabe)
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A Scanner Darkly (Philip K. Dick)
A Scanner Darkly (Philip K. Dick)
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The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil (Philip Zimbardo)
The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil (Philip Zimbardo)
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If This Is a Man (Primo Levi)
If This Is a Man (Primo Levi)
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The Drowned and the Saved (Primo Levi)
The Drowned and the Saved (Primo Levi)
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Jonathan Livingston Seagull (Richard Bach)
Jonathan Livingston Seagull (Richard Bach)
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The Selfish Gene (Richard Dawkins)
The Selfish Gene (Richard Dawkins)
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Rashomon and Other Stories (Ryūnosuke Akutagawa)
Rashomon and Other Stories (Ryūnosuke Akutagawa)
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Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie)
Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie)
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