David Beck

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David’s favorite books

Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion

The Road Not Taken and Other Poems by Robert Frost

The True Believer by Eric Hoffer

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie

Battle Cry by Leon Uris

The Effective Executive by Peter F. Drucker

The Mystery of Capital by Hernando de Soto

U.S. Constitution (Saddlewire) by Founding Fathers

Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith

The Unlikely Spy by Daniel Silva

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TONY & ANNE HILLE...

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TONY & ANNE HILLERMAN: SERIES READING ORDER & BOOK CHECKLIST: LEAPHORN & CHEE, & All Their Standalone Novels: Part of The Greatest Authors Reading Orders & Series Checklists

by S.J. Clarke

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William Kent Krueger Books in Order: Cork O’Connor series, all short stories, standalone novels and nonfiction, plus a William Kent Krueger biography. (Series Order Book 80)

by Book List Guru

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King: A Life

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by Jonathan Eig (Goodreads Author)

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