Bookshelf

When I finish a book, I blog about it. Also check out my dedicated book blog for an index of reviews for every book I’ve read since 2023.

Currently Reading

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  The Best American Essays 2024

  by Wesley Morris
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  On the Calculation of Volume (Book I)

  by Solvej Balle
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  A Century of Fiction in The New Yorker

  by New Yorker Magazine Inc

Books Read

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  On Tyranny

  by Timothy Snyder
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  The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

  by William L. Shirer
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  Maximum Bob

  by Elmore Leonard
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  The Great Gatsby

  by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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  Brightness Falls

  by Jay McInerney
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  Nightmares and Dreamscapes

  by Stephen King
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  London Rules

  by Mick Herron
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  A Short Stay in Hell

  by Steven L. Peck
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  Gerald's Game

  by Stephen King
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  A Farewell to Arms

  by Ernest Hemingway
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  Revenge of the Tipping Point

  by Malcolm Gladwell
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  Crossing to Safety

  by Wallace Stegner
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  Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

  by Susan Cain
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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
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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
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  Selfless

  by Brian Lowery
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  Caesar and Christ

  by Will Durant
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  A Perfect Spy: A Novel

  by John le Carré
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  Cycle of the Werewolf

  by Stephen King
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  The Silent Patient

  by Alex Michaelides
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  The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

  by Stephen King
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  I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

  by Lorrie Moore
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  The Life of Greece

  by Will Durant
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  How Do We Know Ourselves?

  by David G. Myers
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  Small Mercies

  by Dennis Lehane
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  The Deep Blue Good-by

  by John D. MacDonald
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  The Rubber Band

  by Rex Stout
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  Storycraft, Second Edition

  by Jack Hart
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  Lisey's Story

  by Stephen King
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  Night Shift

  by Stephen King
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  Colorado Kid

  by Stephen King
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  Wordcraft

  by Jack Hart
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  The Odyssey

  by Homer
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  Elevation

  by Stephen King
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  Cujo

  by Stephen King
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  The Dead Zone

  by Stephen King
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  Attention Span

  by Gloria Mark
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  The Collapsing Empire (the Interdependency)

  by John Scalzi
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  The Big Rock Candy Mountain

  by Wallace Stegner
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  Our Oriental Heritage

  by Will Durant
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  Probable Impossibilities

  by Alan Lightman
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  Basin and Range

  by John McPhee
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  I Have Some Questions for You

  by Rebecca Makkai
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  Quit

  by Annie Duke
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  Travels with Charley in Search of America

  by John Steinbeck
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  Rebecca

  by Daphne Du Maurier
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  Parnassus on Wheels

  by Christopher Morley
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  The Night Country

  by Loren C. Eiseley
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  Trust the Plan

  by Will Sommer
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  Dead Calm

  by Charles Williams
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  A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan Book 1)

  by Arkady Martine
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  The Walking Dead: Compendium 1

  by Robert Kirkman
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  A Man Without a Country

  by Kurt Vonnegut
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  These Precious Days: Essays

  by Ann Patchett
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  A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot Book 1)

  by Becky Chambers
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  Sea of Tranquility

  by Emily St. John Mandel
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  Mr. Ives' Christmas

  by Oscar Hijuelos
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  The Brief History of the Dead

  by
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  Grieving Dad

  by Mark Seidman
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  Hidden Pictures

  by Jason Rekulak
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  The Secret Life of Bees

  by Sue Monk Kidd
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  Going Back to Bisbee

  by Richard Shelton
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  Her Fearful Symmetry

  by Audrey Niffenegger
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  This Is What It Sounds Like

  by DR. SUSAN. OGAS ROGERS (OGI.)
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  The Glorious American Essay

  by Phillip Lopate
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  The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932

  by William Manchester
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  Death Without Company

  by Craig Johnson
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  The Diary of a Bookseller

  by Shaun Bythell
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  Anna Karenina

  by Leo Tolstoy
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  Ego Is the Enemy

  by Ryan Holiday
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  On Friendship; Or, Laelius

  by Marcus Tullius Cicero
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  How to Live

  by Derek Sivers
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  The Lessons of History

  by Will Durant
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  The Lincoln Highway

  by Amor Towles
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  The Obstacle is the Way

  by Ryan Holiday
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  Steal Like An Artist

  by Austin Kleon
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  Finding Meaning

  by David Kessler
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  Essayism

  by Brian Dillon
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  Fairy Tale

  by Stephen King
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  Treason's Harbour

  by Patrick O'Brian
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  Thrive in Retirement

  by Eric Thurman
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  Existentialism Is a Humanism

  by Jean-Paul Sartre
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  The Cold Dish

  by Craig Johnson
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  The Hidden Life of Trees

  by Peter Wohlleben
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  How To Retire Happy: Everything You Need to Know about the 12 Most Important Decisions You Must Make before You Retire

  by Stan Hinden
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  The Summer Book

  by Tove Jansson
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  The Talented Mr. Ripley

  by Patricia Highsmith
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  Insomnia

  by Stephen King
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  Les Misérables

  by Victor Hugo
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  We Are the Luckiest

  by Laura McKowen
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  Four Kings

  by George Kimball
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  No Country for Old Men

  by <a href=
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  The Day of the Jackal

  by Frederick Forsyth
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  Project Hail Mary: A Novel

  by Weir, Andy
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  Moby-Dick

  by Herman Melville
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  Until Proven Guilty

  by J. A. Jance
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  Fat City

  by Leonard Gardner
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  The Peripheral

  by William Gibson
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  Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine

  by Alan P. Lightman
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  A Wrinkle in Time: 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition

  by Madeleine L'Engle
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  The Book Thief

  by Markus Zusak
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  A Man Called Ove

  by Fredrik Backman
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  Will

  by Will Smith
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  The Sun Also Rises

  by Ernest Hemingway
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  Meditations

  by Marcus Aurelius
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  So Long, See You Tomorrow

  by William Maxwell
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  Dry

  by Augusten Burroughs
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  Bleak House

  by Charles Dickens
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  To Show and to Tell

  by Phillip Lopate