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James’s favorite books

Pet Sematary by Stephen King

It by Stephen King

On Writing by Stephen King

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

The Melancholy of Resistance by László Krasznahorkai

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist

A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin

Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy

The White Boy Shuffle by Paul Beatty

A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin

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Perdido Street St...

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Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1)

by China Miéville (Goodreads Author)

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Complete Tales and Poems

by Edgar Allan Poe

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James Ball has read 23 of 40 books.

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Classics, Comics, Crime, Fantasy, Graphic novels, Historical fiction, Horror, Mystery, Paranormal, and Suspense

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