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Patrick’s favorite books

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace

The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuściński

Dispatches by Michael Herr

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess by Bobby Fischer

Shah of Shahs by Ryszard Kapuściński

My Traitor's Heart by Rian Malan

Righteous Victims by Benny Morris

1984 by George Orwell

Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey

Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

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Wild Dark Shore

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Wild Dark Shore

by Charlotte McConaghy

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