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James’s favorite books

Lilith's Brood by Octavia E. Butler Salvation by bell hooks Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology by David Graeber Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler The Swarm by Frank Schätzing Ship Fever by Andrea Barrett Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro Buddha's Little Finger by Victor Pelevin The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches by Matsuo Bashō Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 by W.E.B. Du Bois The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro
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Thinking with Water
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Alexander von Humboldt
“Die gefährlichste Weltanschauung ist die Weltanschauung derer, die die Welt nie angeschaut haben. (The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those who have not viewed the world)”
― Alexander von Humboldt
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Adult Fiction, Book Club, Classics, Comics, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic novels, Literary Fiction, Mystery, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Politics, Science, and Science fiction


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