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Stephen’s favorite books

Bowling Alone by Robert D. Putnam 1984 by George Orwell The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald A Stitch in Time by Andrew Jordt Robinson With the Old Breed by Eugene B. Sledge The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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Yevgeny Zamyatin
“True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, A Soviet Heretic: Essays
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