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Derek’s favorite books

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway Beowulf by Seamus Heaney 2001 by Arthur C. Clarke Too Many to Mourn by James Mahar The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 2010 by Arthur C. Clarke A Night to Remember by Walter Lord Time's Eye by Arthur C. Clarke Knockemstiff by Donald Ray Pollock Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell Macbeth by William Shakespeare
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Adult Fiction, Book Club, Classics, Ebooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Horror, Literary Fiction, Mystery, Paranormal, Science fiction, Suspense, and Thriller


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