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An Image of Africa/ The Trouble with Nigeria (Penguin Great Ideas), by Achebe, C.

The End of Illness, by Agus, D.B.

Mythologies, by Barthes, R.

The Travels of Ibn Battuta: in the Near East, Asia and Africa, 1325-1354, by Battuta, I.

Ways of Seeing: Based on the BBC Television Series, by Berger, John

The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales, by Bettelheim, B.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, by Blight, David W.

The Life of Samuel Johnson (Penguin Classics), by Boswell, James

Among the Thugs, by Buford, B.

In Cold Blood, by Capote, T.

Silent Spring, by Carson, R.

The Origin Of The Species: Abridged, by Darwin, C

Slouching Toward Bethlehem, by Didion, J.

Suicide, a Study in Sociology, by Durkheim, E.

In Praise of Folly, by Erasmus, D.

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, by Evans, W.

A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople, by Fermor, P

The Character of Physical Law (Modern Library), by Feynman, R.

Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison, by Foucault, M.

The Diary of a Young Girl, by Frank, A.

The Feminine Mystique, by Friedan. B.

Gandhi An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth, by Gandhi, M

Just My Type, by Garfield, S.

The Story of Art, by Gombrich, E.H.

A Brief History of Time, by Hawking, S.

The Quotable Hitchens: From Alcohol to Zionism—The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens, by Hitchens, C.

Why Orwell Matters, by Hitchens, C.

Mortality, by Hitchens, C.

The Shock of the New, by Hughes, Robert

China Along the Yellow River: Reflections on Rural Society, by Jinqing, C.

Three Cups of Deceit: How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost His Way, by Krakauer, Jon

Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph, by Lawrence, T.E.

The Periodic Table, by Levi, P.

Letters to a Young Novelist, by Llosa, M.

The Revenge of Gaia: Earth’s Climate Crisis & The Fate of Humanity, by Lovelock, J.

News of a Kidnapping (Vintage International), by Márquez, G.

Danube (FSG Classics), by Magris, C.

The Journalist and the Murderer, by Malcolm, J.

The World of Venice, by Morris, J.

Speak, Memory (Everyman’s Library), by Nabokov, V.

Homage to Catalonia, by Orwell, G

Diary of Samuel Pepys - Complete 1666 N.S. [Paperback], by Pepys, Samuel

The Book of the City of Ladies, by Pizan, C.

Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings, by Raban, J.

The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications, by Ratsch, C.

The Confessions, by Rousseau, J

Joseph Anton, by Rushdie, S.

Bad Blood: A Memoir, by Sage, L.

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