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10 Books That Will Absolutely Blow Your Mind

1. The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry  2. Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut  3. Flowers for Algernon – Daniel Keyes  4. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez  5. The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are – Alan Watts  6. The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoyevsky  7. Fight Club – Chuck Palahniuk  8. The Name of the Wind – Patrick Rothfuss  9. The Stranger – Albert Camus  10. Siddhartha – Hermann Hesse

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rare book room

The "Rare Book Room" site has been constructed as an educational site intended to allow the visitor to examine and read some of the great books of the world. Over the last decade, a company called "Octavo" digitally photographed some of the world ’s great books from some of the greatest libraries. These books were photographed at very high resolution (in some cases at over 200 megabytes per page). This site contains all of the books (about 400) that have been digitized to date. These range over a wide variety of topics and rarity. The books are presented so that the viewer can examine all the pages in medium to medium-high resolution. Some highlights of the site are:                                                                                 Shakespeare This section contains most of the Shakespeare Quartos from the British Library, the Bodleian Library, the University of Edinburgh Library, and the National Library of Scotland. It also contains