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Here are the books I mentioned, in the order I talked about them:
Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals photographs by Christopher Payne with an essay by Oliver Sacks
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
The Postmistress by Sarah Blake
Searching for Ichabod: His Eighteenth-Century Diary Leads Me Home by Julie Foster Van Camp
The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova
The Doom Machine by Mark Teague
The Home Creamery by Kathy Farrell-Kingsley
