Roger Penrose's The Emperor's New Mind Brian Greene's The Fabric of the Cosmos Charles Fried's Saying What the Law Is John Banville's Shroud Tobias Wolff's Old School Heinrich Mann's Young Henry of Navarre Haruki Murakami's The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections Michael Lewis' Moneyball.
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