Alex

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Alex’s favorite books

Birds of America by Lorrie Moore

Pastoralia by George Saunders

Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion

White Teeth by Zadie Smith

The True Believer by Eric Hoffer

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

On Writing by Stephen King

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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The Bone Clocks

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The Bone Clocks

by David Mitchell

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Heads I Win, Tails I Win: Why Smart Investors Fail and How to Tilt the Odds in Your Favor

by Spencer Jakab (Goodreads Author)

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The Essence of Kabbalah

by Brian L. Lancaster

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African American, Fiction, Gay and Lesbian, Graphic novels, Non-fiction, Politics, Science, Science fiction, Travel, and lgbt

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