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Letters to a Young Poet
Rainer Maria Rilke
4.27 average rating, · 130.1k ratings
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
Hunter S. Thompson
4.06 average rating, · 385.9k ratings
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
4.07 average rating, · 181.4k ratings
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The Myth of Sisyphus
Albert Camus
4.16 average rating, · 104k ratings
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The World of Yesterday
Stefan Zweig
4.51 average rating, · 31.6k ratings
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A Moveable Feast
Ernest Hemingway
4.02 average rating, · 171.2k ratings
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The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
Albert Camus
4.21 average rating, · 66.5k ratings
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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
George Saunders
4.53 average rating, · 26.8k ratings
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Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
David Foster Wallace
4.18 average rating, · 55.3k ratings
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Letter to His Father
Franz Kafka
4.03 average rating, · 68k ratings
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El olvido que seremos
Héctor Abad Faciolince
4.39 average rating, · 23.9k ratings
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Momentos estelares de la humanidad: Catorce miniaturas históricas
Stefan Zweig
4.24 average rating, · 18.6k ratings
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The Rings of Saturn
W.G. Sebald
4.22 average rating, · 18.5k ratings
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The Executioner's Song
Norman Mailer
4.05 average rating, · 24.1k ratings
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Poesía completa
Alejandra Pizarnik
4.55 average rating, · 11.5k ratings
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Self-Reliance and Other Essays
Ralph Waldo Emerson
4.12 average rating, · 20.9k ratings
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Grand Hotel Europa
Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer
4.04 average rating, · 19.6k ratings
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Limonov
Emmanuel Carrère
4.11 average rating, · 17k ratings
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To Sir, With Love
E.R. Braithwaite
4.19 average rating, · 15.1k ratings
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Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems
Billy Collins
4.22 average rating, · 14.4k ratings
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Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
Henry David Thoreau
4.06 average rating, · 17.9k ratings
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J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography
Humphrey Carpenter
4.06 average rating, · 16.8k ratings
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On the Road: The Original Scroll
Jack Kerouac
4.11 average rating, · 13.9k ratings
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Wolf
Lara Taveirne
4.35 average rating, · 10.1k ratings
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