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Ben’s favorite books

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

Pet Sematary by Stephen King

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris

Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman

I Escaped from Auschwitz by Rudolf Vrba

Scar Tissue by Anthony Kiedis

Einstein by Walter Isaacson

The Revenant by Michael Punke

Heavier Than Heaven by Charles R. Cross

Raven by Tim Reiterman

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The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke

by Andrew Lawler (Goodreads Author)

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We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker

“Sometimes we just want to get on. People get in the way of that.”

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