Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential (2000; 2007)

Anthony Bourdain.
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, Updated Edition.
New York: Ecco (HarperCollins Publishers), 2007.
First published: New York: Bloomsbury USA, 2000.

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Wikipedia Articles :

• Anthony Bourdain (1956 – 2018).
• Kitchen Confidential (2000).

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Krakauer, Into the Wild (1996; 2015)

Jon Krakauer.
Into the Wild.
New York: Vintage Books (Penguin Random House), 2015.
First published: New York: Villard Books (Random House), 1996.

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Wikipedia Articles :

• Jon Krakauer (b. 1954).
• Into the Wild (1996).
• Chris McCandless (1968 – 1992).
• Chris McCandless Reading List:
  • Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862).
  • Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910), War and Peace (1869).
  • Jack London (1876–1916).
  • Boris Pasternak (1890–1960), Doctor Zhivago (1957).
• Everett Ruess (1914–c.1934), another young man who enjoyed solo wilderness expeditions.
• Human condition.

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O'Brien, The Things They Carried (1990)

Tim O'Brien.
The Things They Carried.
New York: Mariner Books (HarperCollins Publishers), 2009.
First published: New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1990.

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Wikipedia Articles :

• Tim O'Brien (b. 1946).
• The Things They Carried (1990).
• American literature: Post-World War II fiction.
• American literature: Contemporary fiction.
• Vietnam War, 1955 – 1975.
• Quảng Ngãi province.

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Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (2020)

Olga Tokarczuk.
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead.
Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones.
New York: Riverhead Books (Penguin Random House), 2019, 2020.
Originally published as: Prowadź swój pług przez kości umarłych, Krakow: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 2009.
First English language edition: London: Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2018.

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Wikipedia Articles :

• Olga Tokarczuk (b. 1962).
• Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, 2009, English translation first published 2018.
• Antonia Lloyd-Jones (b. 1962), translator.
• International Booker Prize: 2019; Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead was on the Shortlist.
• 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded to Olga Tokarczuk.
• Polish literature.
• William Blake (1757–1827).
  • Proverbs of Hell.
  • Auguries of Innocence.
  • The Mental Traveller.

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Miscellaneous Book Reviews :

• Sarah Perry, "Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk – the entire cosmic catastrophe," The Guardian, 21 Sept 2018.
• Stephanie Sy-Quia, "Meat Is Murder: On Olga Tokarczuk's Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead," Los Angeles Review of Books, 15 November 2019.

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Other Articles by and about Olga Tokarczuk :

• Olga Tokarczuk, "[Musings] How Translators Are Saving the World," Korean Literature Now, 29 June 2019.
• Ruth Franklin, "Olga Tokarczuk’s Novels Against Nationalism," The New Yorker, 29 July 2019.
• Olga Tokarczuk, "The Tender Narrator," Nobel Prize lecture, 7 December 2019.
• Jennifer Croft, "Fulfilling the Mission: A Conversation with Olga Tokarczuk’s Translators," Los Angeles Review of Books, 7 December 2020.
• Marek Makowski, "Reading “The Books of Jacob” with — and Against — the Riverhead Reader’s Guide: A Reader’s Guide," Los Angeles Review of Books, 1 March 2022.

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King, The Long Walk (2025)

Stephen King.
The Long Walk.
New York: Scribner (Simon & Schuster), 2025.
(Originally published in 1979 under the pseudonym Richard Bachman.)

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Wikipedia Articles :

• Stephen King (b. 1947).
• The Long Walk (1979), originally published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman.
• Richard Bachman, pseudonym of Stephen King.
• Death drive, suggested by a character as a motivating factor for participation in the Long Walk.
• Young adult literature.

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