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Cat's Eye
1.  Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
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  "Smart and witty in the way you expect from Atwood; heartbreaking and heartwarming; makes you glad childhood's over"
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The Handmaid's Tale (Contemporary Classics)
2.  The Handmaid's Tale (Contemporary Classics) by Margaret Atwood
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  "frighteningly realistic dystopia"
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More, Now, Again
3.  More, Now, Again by Elizabeth Wurtzel
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  "first Wurtzel book I read - the one that made me buy all the others"
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Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America - A Memoir
4.  Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America - A Memoir by Elizabeth Wurtzel
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  "Esther Greenwood if she were a chain-smoker consuming coffee in an iv drip; depressing. crushing. painful. witty. unapologetic. consuming."
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Homage to Catalonia (Penguin Modern Classics)
5.  Homage to Catalonia (Penguin Modern Classics) by George Orwell
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  "Sometimes I find myself reading Orwell for style, not content and I've never had that happen with any other author. Homage delivers the brilliance of AF, 1984 and insight on what makes the author tick"
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The Lovely Bones
6.  The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
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  "the concept sounds silly but this books is worth reading for the wonderful way Sebold deals with narration alone"
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Middlesex
7.  Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
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  "makes the bizzare read like the most normal; as powerful as the Virgin Suicides and twice as compelling"
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