Robert Breen

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Currently Reading:

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  Laozi's Dao De Jing

  by Laozi
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  Creative Nonfiction

  by Lee Gutkind
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  The Age of Napoleon

  by Will Durant

Recently Finished (newest on top):

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  Babel

  by R. F. Kuang
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  The Old Man And The Sea

  by Ernest Hemingway
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  Storyworthy

  by Matthew Dicks
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  Fallen Leaves

  by Will Durant
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  Just After Sunset

  by Stephen King
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  The Godfather

  by Mario Puzo
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  The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper

  by Roland Allen
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  Rousseau and Revolution

  by Will Durant
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  The Work of Art

  by Adam Moss
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  The Comfort of Crows

  by Margaret Renkl
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  The Wood at Midwinter

  by Susanna Clarke
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  Thinking on Paper

  by V
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  James

  by Percival Everett
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  A Rage in Harlem (Special Edition)

  by Chester Himes
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  Needful Things

  by Stephen King
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  The Age of Voltaire

  by Will Durant
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  This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage

  by Ann Patchett
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  The Spectator Bird

  by Wallace Stegner
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  The Elephant Whisperer

  by ANTHONY. LAWRENCE
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  Rose Madder

  by Stephen King
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  A System for Writing

  by Bob Noto
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  Spook Street

  by Mick Herron
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  The Age of Louis XIV

  by Will Durant
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  How to Read a Book

  by Monica Wood
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  Show Your Work!

  by Austin Kleon
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  Table for Two

  by Amor Towles
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  Somehow

  by Anne Lamott
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  The Public Library

  by Robert Dawson
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  The Queen's Gambit

  by Walter Tevis
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  City of Glass

  by Paul Auster
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  The Age of Reason Begins

  by Will Durant
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  Here is New York

  by E. B. White
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  Demon Copperhead

  by Barbara Kingsolver
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  Move on Down to Mexico

  by
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  Real Tigers

  by Mick Herron
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  You Like It Darker

  by Stephen King
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  Dead Lions

  by Mick Herron
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  Remarkably Bright Creatures

  by Shelby Van Pelt
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  Consolations

  by David Whyte
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  The Regulators

  by Richard Bachman
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  Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus

  by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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  David Copperfield

  by Charles Dickens
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  84, Charing Cross Road

  by Helene Hanff
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  Stories of Books and Libraries

  by Jane Holloway (ed.)
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  An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

  by Ed Yong
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  The Death of Grass

  by John Christopher
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  The Reformation

  by Will Durant
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  To the Lighthouse

  by Virginia Woolf
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  Sibley's Birding Basics

  by David Allen Sibley
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  The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry

  by Gabrielle Zevin
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  Desperation

  by Stephen King
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  Small Things Like These

  by Claire Keegan
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  Slow Horses

  by Mick Herron
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  The Peace of Wild Things

  by Wendell Berry
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  Dune

  by Frank Herbert
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  I Let You Go

  by Clare Mackintosh
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  Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

  by Gabrielle Zevin
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  The Master & Margarita

  by Mikhail Bulgakov
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  The Renaissance

  by Will Durant
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  Legends & Lattes

  by Travis Baldree
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  Wednesday's Child

  by Yiyun Li
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  Holly

  by Stephen King
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  The Private Library

  by Reid Byers
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  Writing Tools

  by Roy Peter Clark
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  The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

  by Alan W. Watts
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  The Vagabond's Way

  by Rolf Potts
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  Christine

  by Stephen King
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  Blaze

  by Stephen King
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  The Age of Faith

  by Will Durant
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  Your Brain on Art

  by Susan Magsamen
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  Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

  by J.K. Rowling
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  The Art of Living: Peace and Freedom in the Here and Now

  by Thich Nhat Hanh
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  The Eyes of the Dragon

  by Stephen King
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  The Silentiary

  by Antonio Di Benedetto
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  Skeleton Crew

  by Stephen King
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  The Walking Dead: Compendium 2

  by Robert Kirkman
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  The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

  by James McBride
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  Small Mercies

  by Dennis Lehane
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  Dolores Claiborne

  by Stephen King