Joni Mitchell, Ani DiFranco, James Taylor, Kathy Griffin, Eddie Izzard, Oscar Wilde, J.K. Rowling, Milan Kundera, Kurt Vonnegut, Hillary Clinton, Sandra Day O'Connor, Sarah Silverman, Audrey Hepburn, Stevie Wonder, Gael Garcia Bernal, Tom Hanks, Jody Foster, Uma Thurman, Susan Sarandon, Toni Morrison, Nikki Giovanni, Sylvia Plath, Maya Angelou, Howard Dean, Bettye Lavette, Andy Roddick, W. Sommerset Maugham, my mother in her 20's, and my father in ten years.
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Great Expectations, Perks of Being a Wallflower, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Party Monster, Wicked, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel, Kiss of the Spider Woman, all the Harry Potter books (except #2), Ethan Frome, Anthem, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Lord of the Rings, The Stinky Cheese Man, The Bell Jar, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, Slaughterhouse Five, Galapagos, Another Roadside Attraction, Less Than Zero, Utopia, Middlesex, Running with Scissors, Catch-22, Passing, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Invisible Man, Native Son, Beloved, the works of Nikki Giovanni, Hamlet, Beowulf, White Trash Debutante, The Hobbit, Dracula, Atlas Shrugged, The Jungle, Catcher in the Rye, In Cold Blood, Brave New World, Of Human Bondage, Hairstyles of the Damned, Stargirl, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, A Lesson Before Dying, Lives of the Circus Animals, To Kill a Mockingbird
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