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Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert, Lydia Davis
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse, Hilda Rosner
Civil Disobedience and Other Essays (Collected Essays)
Henry David Thoreau
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Joan Slonczewski
Manstealing for Fat Girls
Michelle Embree
Undersong: Chosen Poems Old and New
Audre Lorde
Radio Crackling, Radio Gone
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Mythmakers and Lawbreakers: Anarchist Writers on Fiction
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Never Let Me Go

Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro It's not like SF writers haven't been thinking about cloning and identity for, oh I don't know, fifty years? This is a beautifully written book, sure, but Ishiguro's total disregard for the literary conversation he's entered makes his writing seem naive.