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Below isJuliet, Nakeddirector Jesse Peretzs list.

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Back then, it hit me hard.

I go back to Dubliners, every few years to re-experience Joyces gorgeous use of the English language.

I cried so many times reading this.

“American Pastoral,” by Philip Roth

His uncompromising clarity should be required reading, especially for white people.

A totally joyful history of punk rock told in an unflinching, self-incriminating, and ultimately punk-rock way.

It embraced all that punk is even the stupid stuff.

“Notes of a Native Son,” by James Baldwin

It filled me with a lot of exciting nostalgia for things I didnt even experience.

I read this 28 years ago, when I first moved to New York City.

I laughed out loud reading this more than almost anything else I can remember.

“Dubliners,” by James Joyce

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“The Child in Time,” by Ian McEwan

“Written on the Body,” by Jeanette Winterson

“The Fifth Child,” by Doris Lessing

“The Year of Magical Thinking,” by Joan Didion

“Between the World and Me,” by Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Please Kill Me,” by Gillian McCain and Legs McNeil

“Metropolitan Life,” by Fran Lebowitz