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The following authors and books were suggested by listeners during the radio program "This Is The Modern World" hosted by Trouble on WFMU on March 26, 2020
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The discussion started off with "Favorite books" but morphed into "Plague stories" toward the end (when Steven King's "The Stand" was mentioned)
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The original radio broadcast and discussion is archived at:
https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/92245
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You can add your own favorites and suggestions at the bottom!
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Georges PerecLife: A Users Manual
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Herman MelvilleMoby Dick
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David Foster WallaceInfinite Jest
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James JoyceUlysses
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China Miéville		Perdido Street StationThe KrakenThe City & the CityThe ScarIron Council
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George EliotMiddlemarch
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H.P. LovecraftAt the Mountans of Madness
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Jack Vance"all of Jack Vance"This Is Me, Jack VancePlanet of AdventureEmphyrio
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J.G. BallardHIGHRISE
Why I Want To Fuck Ronald Reagan
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Jeff VandermeerSouthern Reach Trilogy
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Robert WalserSelected StoriesThe Walk
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W.G. SebaldThe EmigrantsThe Rings of Saturn
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Vladimir SorokinIce Trilogy
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Jesse BallHow To Build A Fire And WhyThe Divers' Game
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James CabellJurgen
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Laurie LeeCider with Rosie
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Thomas Bernhard
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Franz KafkaCollected Stories
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Clarice Lispector
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P.K. Dick
Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb
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Stanisław LemCyberiad
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Kim Stanley RobinsonNew York 2140Mars TrilogyAuroraAntarcticaRed MoonThe Years of Rice and SaltThe Three CaliforniasIcehenge
The Minstry for the Future
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Charlie Jane Anders
The City in the Middle of the Night
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Ben LernerLeaving the Atocha Station
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Flannery O'BrienThe Third Policeman
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Thomas MannThe Magic Mountain
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Gene WolfeBook of the SunFifth Head of CerberusSeven American Nights
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K. ChessFamous Men Who Never Lived
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Amal el-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
This Is How You Lose the Time War
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William S. BurroughsCities of the Red NightThe Western Lands
The Place of Dead Roads
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Samuel BeckettWatt
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Flannery O'ConnorShort stories
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Mark DanielewskiHouse of Leaves
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Ralph EllisonInvisible Man
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T.H. WhiteThe Goshawk
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H.G. WellsWar of the WorldsThe Time MachineCollected Short StoriesTono-Bungay
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Raymond Chandler
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Steven KingThe Stand
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Anna KavanIce
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Mervyn PeakeGormenghast
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Cormac McCarthyBlood MeridianThe Road
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Patricia McKillip
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Robert Holdstock
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R.A MacAvoy
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Paul Park
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George R. StewartThe Earth Abides
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Ursula K. LeGuinWizard of EarthseaTao Te Ching (trans.)
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Emily St. John MandelStation Eleven
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Walter M. Miller Jr.A Canticle for Leibowitz
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C.S. LewisSpace Trilogy
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Seth Dickinson
The Traitor Baru Cormorant
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Cathereynne ValenteSpace Opera
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Peter AckroydHawksmoor
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Thomas McGuaneBushwhacked Piano92 in the Shade
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Cory DoctorowRadicalized
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Jo WaltonSmall Change trilogy
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Edgar Allen PoeMask of the Red Death
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Alice MunroShort stories
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Anton ChekhovShort stories
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William TrevorShort stories
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Jorge Luis BorgesShort stories
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Patrick Modiano
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Daphne du MaurierThe Birds
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Shirley Jackson
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Roberto Bolaño2666
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Margaret AtwoodOryx and Crake
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Anna SeghersTRANSIT
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Peter WohllebenThe Hidden Life of Trees
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Muriel Spark
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Doris LessingBriefing For A Descent Into Hell
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Albert CamusThe Plague
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C.J. Cherryh
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Jo Clayton
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Ann Leckie
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Nnedi Okorafor
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Octavia Butler
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Nancy Kress
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Martha Wells
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Kameron Hurley
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N K Jemisin
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Connie Willis
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Karen Fowler
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Mary Shelley
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Peng ShepherdThe Book of M
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Catherine Asaro
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Ismael KadareThe Pyramid