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James’s favorite books

Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon

Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion

The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway by Ernest Hemingway

Werewolves in Their Youth by Michael Chabon

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante

The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

1984 by George Orwell

Pafko at the Wall by Don DeLillo

The Messiah of Stockholm by Cynthia Ozick

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

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Adventures of Huc...

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

by Mark Twain

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Society of the Spectacle

by Guy Debord

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by John Milton

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Black Lives Matter Book Club — 17 members — last activity Nov 01, 2016 03:01PM
Book club for discussing a wide range of topics including racism, oppression, and social justice in the United States

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