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Alex’s favorite books

The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia A. McKillip

The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham

Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay

Bosnia by Noel Malcolm

Hyperion by Dan Simmons

Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan

The Tudors by John Guy

The Comanche Empire by Pekka Hämäläinen

Dune by Frank Herbert

The Dervish House by Ian McDonald

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read‎ (159)
did-not-finish‎ (0)

fantasy‎ (69)
sci-fi‎ (50)
history‎ (13)
cyberpunk‎ (9)

ottoman-history‎ (6)
graphic-novel‎ (3)
post-apocalyptic‎ (2)
balkans‎ (1)

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On the Road

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by Jack Kerouac

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Palestine +100

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by Basma Ghalayini

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The Overstory

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by Richard Powers

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Fantasy, Historical fiction, History, Non-fiction, Science fiction, and anthropology

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