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Twitter Book Recs TWITTER BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS MENTIONS TITLE AUTHOR LINK TO PURCHASE 10 Station Eleven Emily St. John Mandel https://www.amazon.com/Station-Eleven-Emily-John-Mandel/dp/0804172447/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1547141577&sr=1-1&keywords=Station+Eleven 7 Stoner John Williams https://www.amazon.com/Stoner-York-Review-Books-Classics/dp/1590171993/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1547139996&sr=1-1&keywords=Stoner+john+williams 7 A Little Life Hanya Yaragihara https://www.amazon.com/Little-Life-Novel-Hanya-Yanagihara/dp/0385539258/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= 6 All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doer https://www.amazon.com/All-Light-We-Cannot-See/dp/1501173219/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1547140227&sr=1-1&keywords=All+the+Light+We+Cannot+See 6 The Name of the Wind Patrick Rothfuss https://www.amazon.com/Name-Wind-Patrick-Rothfuss/dp/0756404746/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1547157464&sr=1-1&keywords=The+Name+of+the+Wind 6 The Secret History Donna Tartt 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https://www.amazon.com/Goldfinch-Novel-Pulitzer-Prize-Fiction/dp/0316055441/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1547159004&sr=1-1&keywords=The+Goldfinch 4 The Sellout Paul Beatty https://www.amazon.com/Sellout-Novel-Paul-Beatty/dp/1522634673 4 Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides https://www.amazon.com/Middlesex-Novel-Oprahs-Book-Club/dp/0312427735 4 Pillars of the Earth Series Ken Follett https://www.amazon.com/Pillars-Earth-Novel-Kingsbridge/dp/0451166892/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1547162379&sr=1-1&keywords=Pillars+of+the+Earth+Series 4 American Gods Neil Gaiman https://www.amazon.com/American-Gods-Novel-Neil-Gaiman/dp/0062572237/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1547158936&sr=1-1&keywords=American+Gods 4 Replay Ken Grimmwood https://www.amazon.com/Replay-Ken-Grimwood/dp/068816112X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1547141766&sr=1-1&keywords=replay 4 The Art of Fielding Chad Harbach 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https://www.amazon.com/Devil-White-City-Madness-Changed/dp/0375725601 3 The Road Cormac McCarthy https://www.amazon.com/Road-Cormac-McCarthy/dp/0307387895/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1547159476&sr=1-3&keywords=The+Road 3 Circe Madeline Miller https://www.amazon.com/CIRCE-New-York-Times-bestseller/dp/0316556343/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1547141562&sr=1-1&keywords=Circe 3 There There Tommy Orange https://www.amazon.com/There-novel-Tommy-Orange/dp/0525520376/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1547141956&sr=1-1&keywords=There+There 3 Rules of Civility Amor Towles https://www.amazon.com/Rules-Civility-Novel-Amor-Towles/dp/0143121162/ref=pd_sim_14_1/143-2526212-7025815?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0143121162&pd_rd_r=111b964c-14fe-11e9-87a2-49cff289f6ac&pd_rd_w=9z2zk&pd_rd_wg=tiHcx&pf_rd_p=18bb0b78-4200-49b9-ac91-f141d61a1780&pf_rd_r=AT9NRG56HK13MGAKS5ZD&psc=1&refRID=AT9NRG56HK13MGAKS5ZD 3 A Man in Full Tom Wolfe 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