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tokenadult · 2011-06-10 · Original thread
Best novel about growing up is The Chosen by Chaim Potok.

http://www.amazon.com/Chosen-Chaim-Penguin-Modern-Classics/d...

I got a LOT out of that when I reread it at least thirty years after reading it the first time.

Best nonfiction book full of amazing facts and insights into the human condition I didn't know before I read the book is The Nature of Paleolithic Art by R. Dale Guthrie.

http://www.amazon.com/Nature-Paleolithic-Art-Dale-Guthrie/dp...

There are bunch of others I could remember, but these two in particular took me by surprise by being much better than I would have guessed they would be when I first picked them up.

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