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Pineapple StreetJenny JacksonNA quick and easy read. Showcases a rich family in Brooklyn. Lack of plot. Her own family was a restaurant booth - you could always scoot in and make space for one more. Cord's family waa a table with chairs, and those chairs were bolted to the floor. | The wrong guests could ruin even the best parties.
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The CentreAyesha Manazir SiddiquiYMaybe I’m just too disconnected. Every day my Urdu gets worse. And now it’s all mixed up with the Hindi. The other day I said shanti instead of khamoshi. | When I speak in Urdu, I change. I'm not sure how exactly. Sometimes, it feels like I become more honest. More real. Other times, I wonder if I become more childlike. This may be due to the limitations of my vocabulary. Since I speak Urdu mainly-slash-only to my elders, and the Urdu novels and films that I consume tend to be very PG, maybe my Urdu has never properly... adulted. Like once, sitting with Naima in a café, I was trying to tell her about the sex stuff with Adam in Urdu so that the white people next to us wouldn't overhear. And I realized I didn't have the words. I ended up saying things like "aana" for "come" and, by the end, resorting to pantomime. The white people next to us, who probably wouldn't have noticed otherwise, totally figured out what we were talking about. | "The narcissism of small differences." That's a term coined by Freud. "Der Narzissmus der kleinen Differenzen." It means, I think, that when two things are very similar, you end up inflating the small differences between them far more than you would the larger differences between two less similar things. I think this is the game that India and Pakistan play.
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Birnam WoodEleanor Catton
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Every Rising SunJamila Ahmed
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A Court of Thorns and RosesSarah J. Mass
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The Idea of YouRobinne Lee
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I Am PilgrimTerry Hayes
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Project Hail MaryAndy Weir
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The Great BelieversRebecca MakkaiRec: Kathryn Minshew
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The Colour of GodAyesha S. Chaudhry
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The PremonitionMichael Lewis
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Never Split the DifferenceChris VossAudiobook?
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How We MetHuma Qureshi
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Turn Right at Machu PicchuMark AdamsPeru
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Against the Loveless WorldSusan Abulhawa
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The House of SpiritsIsabel Allende
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Lee Kuan YewGraham AllisonSingapore
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Pride and PrejudiceJane AustenEngland
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The Elegance of the HedgehogMuriel BarberyParis
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The Only Woman in the RoomMarie BenedictAustria
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City of ThievesDavid Benioff
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Through Black SpruceJoseph BoydenCanada
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People of the BookGeraldine BrooksBosnia
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The Dumb HouseJohn Burnside
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The Hero With a Thousand FacesJoseph Campbell
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The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard KeynesZachary D. Carter
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ExhalationTed Chiang
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Let My People Go SurfingYvon ChouinardPatagonia
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Origin Story: A Big History of EverythingDavid Christian
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The New WildernessDiane Cook
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RecursionBlake CrouchNYC
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StraplessDeborah DavisParis
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French ExitPatrick DeWitt
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?Philip K. Dick
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The Count of Monte CristoAlexandre DumasFrance
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Crime and Punishment Fyodor DostoyevskySt. Petersburg
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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop CafeFannie FlaggAlabama
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The MagusJohn Fowles
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The BeachAlex GarlandThailand
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The E-Myth RevisitedMichael Gerber
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The Eighth LifeNino Haratischwili
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You Can't Go Home AgainSarvat HasinKarachi
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Brit(ish)Afua Hirsch
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A BestiaryLily Hoang
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden BraidDouglas Höfstadter
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Cazalet ChroniclesElizabeth Jane HowardUK
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Fault LinesEmily ItamiTokyo
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An American MarriageTayari Jones
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The Far PavilionsM.M. KayeIndia
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World OrderHenry Kissinger
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How We DisappearedJing-Jing Lee
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AI SuperpowersKai-Fu LeeChina
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Negotiating the ImpossibleDeepak Malhotra
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Station ElevenEmily St. John Mandel
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This House of Clay and WaterFaiqa MansabLahore
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The Razor's EdgeW. Somerset MaughamUSA
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Sevenwaters TrilogyJuliet MarillierIreland
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This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant’s ManifestoSuketu Mehta
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A Fine BalanceRohinton MistryIndia
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Family MattersRohinton MistryIndia
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Love in a Cold ClimateNancy MitfordUK
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The Radium GirlsKate Moore
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NexusRamez NaamAudible
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Survival in the Killing FieldsHaing NgorCambodia
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A Tale For The Time BeingRuth OzekiTokyo
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The Dutch HouseAnn PatchettPhiladelphia
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Capital in the 21st CenturyThomas Piketty
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How to Change Your MindMichael Pollan
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Dada: Art and Anti-ArtHans RichterEurope
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The Things We Cannot SayKelly Rimmer
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Name of the WindPatrick Rothfuss
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PrincessJean SassonSaudi
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The Only Street in ParisElaine SciolinoParis
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The Raj QuartetPaul ScottIndia
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If You're In My Office, It's Already Too LateJames J. Sexton
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HonorElif ShafakTurkey/London
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The Untethered SoulMichael A. Singer
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Roadside PicnicArkady & Boris StrugatskyTranslated from Russian
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How Asia WorksJoe Studwell
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The Twentieth WifeIndu Sundaresan India
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The Source: Open Your Mind, Change Your LifeTara Swart
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Gulliver's TravelsJonathan Swift
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Heads of the Colored PeopleNafissa Thompson-Spires
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The SilmarillionJ.R.R. TolkienEdited by Christopher Tolkien, this is the narrative of the time before The Hobbit (and The Lord of the Rings).
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The Collected SchizophreniasEsmé Weijun Wang
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Miss Pettigrew Lives for a DayWinifred Watson
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The Glimpses of the MoonEdith Wharton
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They Were SistersDorothy Whipple
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The Nickel BoysColson WhiteheadFlorida
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The Picture of Dorian GreyOscar Wilde
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We Are All Birds of UgandaHafsa ZayyanUganda