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Michael’s favorite books

Death of a Naturalist by Seamus Heaney

Door Into the Dark by Seamus Heaney

Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

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by Kaveh Akbar

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“I have only just found out that I want to live.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room

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