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Brian’s favorite books

Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion

Meditations in an Emergency by Frank O'Hara

Notebook of a Return to the Native Land by Aimé Césaire

A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Blood and Thunder by Hampton Sides

Low Life by Lucy Sante

The Bottom of the Harbor by Joseph Mitchell

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz

The Lost Art of Walking by Geoff Nicholson

Fishing in Utopia by Andrew Brown

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Yesteryear

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by Caro Claire Burke

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The Traveler: One...

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The Traveler: One Man's Quest for Humanity from the South Seas to Revolutionary Paris

by Andrea Wulf (Goodreads Author)

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Underland: A Deep...

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Underland: A Deep Time Journey

by Robert Macfarlane (Goodreads Author)

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