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JR’s favorite books

American Tabloid by James Ellroy Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison All About Love by bell hooks The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald Boom Town by Sam Anderson The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante
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