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Vineland (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
Thomas Pynchon
Tristes Tropiques
John Weightman, Doreen Weightman, Patrick Wilcken, Claude Lévi-Strauss
Richard III
William Shakespeare
The Dwarf
Alexandra Dick, Pär Lagerkvist
The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen
Wilfred Owen, Cecil Day-Lewis
Labyrinths
Richard Wolin
Giotto to Dürer: Early Renaissance Painting in the National Gallery
Jill Dunkerton, Susan Foister, Dillian Gordon, Nicholas Penny
Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics
Hubert L. Dreyfus, Paul Rabinow
Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon
A Gravity's Rainbow Companion: Sources and Contexts for Pynchon's Novel
Steven Weisenburger
Mussolini's Italy: Life Under the Fascist Dictatorship, 1915-1945 - R.J.B. Bosworth This book is so poorly written, that one needs a shovel to read it. If B. can take a page to say what should be handled in a sentence, he'll do it. Worse, the writing is so poorly organized on a paragraph by paragraph basis that you can tell that he plunked this out lounging at a computer. I keep wanting to scream (as I do at my students): "Outline! Outline! Outline!!!"

Plus the material, fascist society, is already incredibly boring - even on its own. Better to stick with Tannenbaum. He's also dry as an autumn leaf -- but at least he's concise.