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Alex’s favorite books

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams

I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman

The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol by Nikolai Gogol

Chess Story by Stefan Zweig

Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez

The Minority Report by Philip K. Dick

The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

Spinoza by Roger Scruton

The Summer Book by Tove Jansson

Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov

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by Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)

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Napoleon the Great

by Andrew Roberts

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Art, Biography, Classics, Contemporary, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Memoir, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Science fiction, and Thriller

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