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Lyle’s favorite books

Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

1984 by George Orwell

The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

White Noise by Don DeLillo

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

American Pastoral by Philip Roth

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth

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The Trial

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by Franz Kafka

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Lyle’s Quotes

Sigmund Freud

“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”
― Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

tags: fear, freedom, responsibility

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2026 Reading Challenge

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Lyle has read 25 books of their goal of 25!

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Biography, Christian, Classics, Comics, Fiction, Historical fiction, Memoir, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Politics, Science, Science fiction, Spirituality, and Travel

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