John Beck

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John Beck

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John’s favorite books

The Great Dune Trilogy by Frank Herbert

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Phèdre by Jean Racine

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

2001 by Arthur C. Clarke

X-Men by Chris Claremont

V for Vendetta by Alan Moore

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book by Bill Watterson

Euthyphro by Plato

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Classics, Comics, Ebooks, Fiction, Graphic novels, Historical fiction, and Science fiction

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