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Matt’s favorite books

At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom by Amy Hempel

The Lost Weekend by Charles Jackson

The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway by Ernest Hemingway

The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker

Essays and Aphorisms by Arthur Schopenhauer

A Childhood by Harry Crews

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Chess Story by Stefan Zweig

Quantum Psychology by Robert Anton Wilson

Wittgenstein’s Nephew by Thomas Bernhard

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Matt’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (87)
currently-reading‎ (1)

read‎ (303)
did-not-finish‎ (2)

my-favs‎ (44)
abandoned‎ (1)

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Matt is Currently Reading

The Gene: An Inti...

Matt is currently reading

The Gene: An Intimate History

by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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Matt’s Quotes

Seneca

“If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.”
― Seneca the Younger

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Book Club, Classics, Contemporary, Fiction, Humor and Comedy, Philosophy, and Politics

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