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Some heavy reads before the journey to dreamland.

• “Things I’ve Learned from Women Who’ve Dumped Me” by Chogyam Trungpa

• “Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World” by Haruki Murakami

• “The Great Work of Time” by John Crowley

• “Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present” by Harriet A. Washington

• “Veronika Decides to Die” by Paulo Coelho

• “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings” by Homer A. Jack

• “Rules for Radicals” by Saul D. Alinsky

• “Hiding from Humanity: Disgust, Shame, and the Law” by Martha Nussbaum