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Casey’s favorite books

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace Very Good, Jeeves! by P.G. Wodehouse The Uses of Literature by Italo Calvino The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Inside the Victorian Home by Judith Flanders Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk No Name in the Street by James Baldwin The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector
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Casey’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others
At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others by Sarah Bakewell
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I am always one step ahead of myself, making myself up as I go along.
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Listopia Votes

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryLord of the Flies by William GoldingThe Giving Tree by Shel SilversteinThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
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A Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeLord of the Flies by William GoldingAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton EllisFight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
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Classics, Crime, Fiction, Gay and Lesbian, Historical fiction, Horror, Humor and Comedy, Mystery, Philosophy, Psychology, Romance, Suspense, and Thriller


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