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Jay’s favorite books

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama

Awareness by Anthony de Mello

One Man's Wilderness by Sam Keith

The Way to Love by Anthony de Mello

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

The Terror by Dan Simmons

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Empires of the Indus by Alice Albinia

Red Rising by Pierce Brown

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Purity

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by Jonathan Franzen

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Aug 14, 2026 01:23PM

Dune

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Dune (Dune, #1)

by Frank Herbert

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