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Joel’s favorite books

White Noise by Don DeLillo The Luzhin Defense by Vladimir Nabokov The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Macroeconomics by Olivier J. Blanchard The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow Bleak House by Charles Dickens The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky Hitch 22 by Christopher Hitchens The Invisible Hands by Steven Drobny
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The Corrections
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Adult Fiction, Biography, Book Club, Business, Classics, Contemporary, Crime, Ebooks, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Literary Fiction, Memoir, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Religion, Science, and Science fiction


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