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Authors Reveal: “The Book That Totally Surprised Me”

We asked our favorite writers: What book thrilled you, surprised you or scared the living daylights out of you? See what Junot Díaz, Jenny Lawson and more had to say.
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"In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. I read it one summer while staying in a dorm in college after almost everyone else had gone, and I was in a state of terror. "
—Meg Wolitzer

Published on October 19, 2012
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