real-life top ten (for those with, ahem, lives)

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1) Dispatches, Michael Herr
2) People's History of The United States, Howard Zinn
3) Ariel, Sylvia Plath
4) Phenomenology of Spirit, GWF Hegel
5) Seize the Day, Saul Bellow
6) Crowds and Power, Elias Canneti
7) Hall of Mirrors, Robert Stone
8) City of Quartz, Mike Davis
9) Play It As It Lays, Joan Didion
10) My Boring Nomadic Existence, Zimwat Oogaboowaga