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Books that had an impact on my life, in no particular order
A Gentleman in Moscow ~ Amor Towles
Pachinko ~ Min Jin Lee
Red Notice ~ Bill Browder
The Death of Ivan Ilyich ~ Leo Tolstoy
Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible ~ Peter Pomerantsev
The Runaways ~ Fatima Bhutto
Norwegian Wood ~ Haruki Murakami
The Places In Between ~ Rory Stewart
The God of Small Things ~ Arundhati Roy
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle ~ Haruki Murakami
The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics ~ Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror ~ Victor Sebestyen
Kafka on the Shore ~ Haruki Murakami
The Three-Body Problem ~ Liu Cixin
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage ~ Haruki Murakami
A Brief History of Time ~ Stephen Hawking
Room ~ Emma Donoghue
The Richest Man In Babylon ~ George Clason
Bad Blood ~ John Carreyrou
The Stranger ~ Albert Camus
Things Fall Apart ~ Chinua Achebe
The Mamba Mentality ~ Kobe Bryant
No Exit ~ Jean-Paul Sartre