A caller from Canada seeks cerebral mysteries to help him get through the brutal winter, Vox's book critic Constance Grady recommends:<ul>
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Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann</li>
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Piranesi by Susanna Clarke</li>
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If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino</li>
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Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson</li>
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