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Jacob Benson’s favorite books

The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

The Aeneid by Virgil

Areopagitica by John Milton

The Dream of the Rood by Unknown

Tales from the Perilous Realm by J.R.R. Tolkien

Confessions by Augustine of Hippo

Marx's Das Kapital by Francis Wheen

Manifesto of the Communist Party by Karl Marx

Animal Farm by George Orwell

The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien

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poetry‎ (8)
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books-henrik-can-read‎ (4)
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children-s-lit-kids-shouldn-t-read‎ (0)

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Edmund Spenser's ...

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Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, a Prose Rendering: A Text-Faithful Translation of the 1590s Epic Poem

by Rebecca K. Reynolds

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Liturgies of the Wild: Myths That Make Us

by Martin Shaw

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by Michael Flynn

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Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Humor and Comedy, Literary Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry, Science fiction, magical-realism, speculative-fiction, science-fiction-fantasy, and fairy-tales

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