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Chuck’s favorite books

Salt by Mark Kurlansky The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald An Arrow's Flight by Mark Merlis Man About Town by Mark Merlis Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin American Studies by Mark Merlis Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman Land's End by Michael Cunningham A Magnificent Catastrophe by Edward J. Larson
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Fruit Fly
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by Josh Silver (Goodreads Author)
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The Future Was Color
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My Friends
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The Fall of Valor by Charles Jackson
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People today are often surprised that the cover of a 1949 paperback book—openly sold on newsstands, drugstore racks, and in bus depots and train stations—could be so overtly gay. But in the world of postwar literary fiction gay male ...more
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Art, Biography, Book Club, Children's, Classics, Ebooks, Fiction, Gay and Lesbian, Graphic novels, Historical fiction, History, Non-fiction, Politics, Psychology, Science, and War


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