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Marcus’s favorite books

White Teeth by Zadie Smith

Full Catastrophe Living by Jon Kabat-Zinn

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

On Becoming a Person by Carl R. Rogers

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy

White Noise by Don DeLillo

Cathedral by Raymond Carver

Trauma and Recovery by Judith Lewis Herman

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