Brian Finifter

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Brian Finifter

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Brian’s favorite books

Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson

The Four Pillars of Investing by William J. Bernstein

Articles of the Federation by Keith R.A. DeCandido

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Dragonfly by Bryan Burrough

The Strategy of Conflict by Thomas C. Schelling

The First Idea by Stanley I. Greenspan

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

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A Brief History o...

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A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains

by Max Solomon Bennett

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Monkey: The Journ...

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Monkey: The Journey to the West

by Wu Cheng'en

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The Complete 100-...

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The Complete 100-Book Apocrypha: Expanded 2024 Edition With the Deuterocanon, 1–3 Enoch, Giants, Jasher, Jubilees, Pseudepigrapha, the Apostolic Fathers, Sibylline Oracles, & Key Early Church Writings

by Covenant Press

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Brian Finifter has read 44 of 77 books.

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