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Sam Kempel

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Sam’s favorite books

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

1491 by Charles C. Mann

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X

Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

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The Dark Elf Trilogy Collector's Edition by R.A. Salvatore

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

It by Stephen King

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fear and Loathing by Hunter S. Thompson

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

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by Marisha Pessl (Goodreads Author)

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Crime and Punishment

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Crime and Punishment

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