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Joe’s favorite books

Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

On Writing by Stephen King

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

The Red Pony by John Steinbeck

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

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Bright Wings: An ...

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Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds

by Billy Collins

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Joe Persons has read 13 books of their goal of 6!

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