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Below is South Bend, Indiana, mayor and 2020 Democratic presidential candidatePete Buttigiegs list.

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The greatest work of modern English literature.

Its touching, its about innocence and exploration, and its sad but also uplifting.

A brilliant take on politics through historical fiction about Thomas Cromwell in the time of Henry VIII.

Ulysses by James Joyce

And it explores what it means to live by a code when you are at political and personal risk.

Some of the best writing ever about snow.

This is the book that every searching 20-something needs.

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

In a very jaded, British way, Greene points out the dangers of well-intentioned interventions.

Ive recently returned to this very readable history of the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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