Ben Lashley

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Ben Lashley

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The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

Eisenhower in War and Peace by Jean Edward Smith

Children of Ash and Elm by Neil Price

John Adams by David McCullough

Butcher's Crossing by John Williams

No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai

Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Dune by Frank Herbert

Women in the Chinese Enlightenment by Zheng Wang

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Agents of Disorde...

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Agents of Disorder: Inside China’s Cultural Revolution

by Andrew G. Walder

bookshelves: currently-reading, 2026, china, history, political, recs-fernsebner

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— Feb 02, 2026 01:15PM

Feb 02, 2026 01:15PM

Women and China's...

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Women and China's Revolutions (Critical Issues in World and International History)

by Gail Hershatter

bookshelves: 2026, currently-reading, history, political, china

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— Feb 24, 2026 01:35PM

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The Wind-Up Bird ...

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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

by Haruki Murakami

bookshelves: currently-reading, 2025, owned, japan

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Ben Lashley has read 9 of 25 books.

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