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Year	Title	Author
2016		Chris Wickham
A history of Europe from 500 to 1500, told through how power was held, shared, and lost.
1913		Marcel Proust
The first volume of In Search of Lost Time. A childhood in Combray, and Swann's long, jealous love for Odette.
1942		Stefan Zweig
On a liner to Buenos Aires, the world chess champion meets a passenger who learned the game alone in a Gestapo cell.
1989		Kazuo Ishiguro
An English butler drives across the country and looks back on decades of service to a lord whose politics he never questioned.
1897		H. G. Wells
A scientist arrives in a Sussex village wrapped in bandages. He has made himself invisible and cannot undo it.
1960		John Williams
A young Harvard dropout joins a buffalo hunting expedition into the Colorado wilderness.
1968		Halldor Laxness
A young emissary is sent to investigate a pastor who has stopped performing his duties in a remote Icelandic village.
2020		qntm
A division that fights things you can't remember.
1972		John Williams
The life of Rome's first emperor told through letters, memoirs, and documents.
1931		Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Night mail flights over the Andes.
2003		Laurence Bergreen
Magellan's attempt to circumnavigate the globe. Mutiny, starvation, uncharted seas. Only eighteen of the original 260 men made it back.
2007		Stephan Talty
Captain Henry Morgan and his pirate army's reign over the Caribbean.
1899		Joseph Conrad
A steamboat captain travels up the Congo River to retrieve a man named Kurtz.
1966		Yukio Mishima
Ten stories of aesthetics, violence, and the rituals of beauty and death.
1948		Graham Greene
A police officer in colonial West Africa caught between duty, faith, and an impossible situation.
1925		Franz Kafka
A man is arrested one morning. The charge is never revealed.
1954		William Golding
Schoolboys stranded on a deserted island attempt to govern themselves.
1952		Ernest Hemingway
An aging Cuban fisherman hooks a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream.
1947		John Steinbeck
A poor diver discovers an enormous pearl and dreams of a better life.
1912		Arthur Conan Doyle
An expedition to a South American plateau discovers a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.
1932		Aldous Huxley
A future where humans are engineered for contentment, conditioned from birth to accept their place.
1995		Jose Saramago
A city is struck by an epidemic of white blindness. As the afflicted are quarantined, society unravels. One woman, inexplicably, can still see.
1979		Roald Dahl
Short stories with twist endings. Dahl's adult fiction.
1987		Paul Auster
Three interlocking detective stories where the investigations turn inward.
1994		Kobie Kruger
A game ranger's wife recounts two decades living in Kruger National Park. Lions at the door, orphaned animals raised by hand.

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