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Suggested Reading
Fiction
The Leopard Is Loose by Stephen Harrigan
Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates
The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Nonfiction
River of the Gods by Candice Millard
Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds by Joy Adamson
West with the Night by Beryl Markham
The Tree Where Man Was Born by Peter Matthiessen
The Measure of a Man: A Memoir by Sidney Poitier
Quant by Quant: The Autobiography of Mary Quant
Imagining Serengeti by Jan Bender Shetler
This Time, This Place by Jack Valenti
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
The Last Place on Earth by Harold T. P. Hayes
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