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Ryan’s favorite books

Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth Isaac's Storm by Erik Larson The Names by Don DeLillo The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow The Town by William Faulkner The Collected Poems by Theodore Roethke Collected Poems, Prose, and Plays by Robert Frost The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris The Cold Six Thousand by James Ellroy
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The Odyssey of Homer
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by Homer
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Naked Lunch
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The Last Kings of...
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Samuel R. Delany
“Statistically, you've got a better chance of going to Hollywood and becoming a superstar in the movies than you do of becoming a successful writer.”
― Samuel R. Delany
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Franz Kafka
“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka
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