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Hyperventilating through the next four years won't do you, or me, any good. What should you do instead? Read books by dead authors.

I've been hyping this of late because it's brought me so much solace in the last couple years.

If you don't know where to start, some suggestions:

East of Eden, by John Steinbeck

The Unbearable Lightness of Being, by Milan Kundera

Gravity and Grace, by Simone Weil

The Odyssey, by Homer, especially Claire Danes' narration

The Immense Journey, by Loren Eisley

The Lessons of History, by Will and Ariel Durant

Beloved, by Toni Morrison

The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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