Derek Shanks

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Derek Shanks

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Derek’s favorite books

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

Beowulf by Unknown

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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Ghostwritten

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by David Mitchell

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The Starving Saints

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The Starving Saints

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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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