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Authors Reveal the Scariest Book They've Ever Read
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.
Original Content  |  October 19, 2012
the children


"David Halberstam's The Children. It's so terrifying and thrilling to watch those young, young kids—elegant and determined, defying their parents and risking their college educations and their lives—going by the busload to counties in the south whose sheriffs openly promised their deaths should they enter to set up voting registrations. I mean, Jesus Christ."
—Gabrielle Hamilton

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