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Jeff’s favorite books

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

The Power of the Dog by Don Winslow

Hell at the Breech by Tom Franklin

Berlin Noir by Philip Kerr

Erasure by Percival Everett

A Small Death in Lisbon by Robert Wilson

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Mary Queen of Scotland and The Isles by Margaret George

Hotel Honolulu by Paul Theroux

A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin

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Backgammon for Losers

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“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

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