Gallery: You Can Buy Famous People's Dog-Eared Books—For a Good Cause
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*Lost* showrunner Damon Lindelof's copy of *The Wizard of Oz*
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The inscription for Jimmy Kimmel's copy of Steve Martin's *Cruel Shoes*
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Novelist Junot Díaz's copy of *The Earth* by Arthur Beiser
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Writer and director Lana Wachowski (*The Matrix*, *Cloud Atlas*, *Sens8*) donated this copy of *The Shock Doctrine* by Naomi Klein.
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Philip Seymour Hoffman's copy of *Death Be Not Proud* by John Gunther
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Isiah Thomas' copy of *The Autobiography of Malcolm X*
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*Transparent* actor Jay Duplass' copy of *Journey to Ixtlan* by Carlos Castaneda
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*Orange is the New Black* actor Taylor Schiling's copy of *Even Cowgirls Get the Blues* by Tom Robbins
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Artist Hank Willis Thomas' copy of Chris Rock's *Rock This!*
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