Michael Paxton

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Michael Paxton

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She Comes First by Ian Kerner

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Tokyo Express by Seichō Matsumoto

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Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke

Robbing the Bees by Holley Bishop

The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy

We Die Alone by David Howarth

FDR by Jean Edward Smith

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The Anarchy: The ...

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The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire

by William Dalrymple

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by Arthur C. Clarke

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The King in Yellow

by Robert W. Chambers

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Michael Paxton has read 17 of 40 books.

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