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Brian’s favorite books

The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy

Chess Story by Stefan Zweig

The Story of Art by E.H. Gombrich

And a Bottle of Rum by Wayne Curtis

Music in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries by Richard Taruskin

Just My Type by Simon Garfield

Rules of Civility by Amor Towles

Beethoven by Jan Swafford

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

Maestros and Their Music by John Mauceri

Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch

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Krakatoa: The Day...

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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883

by Simon Winchester

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Adult Fiction, Art, Biography, Book Club, Contemporary, Crime, Ebooks, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Humor and Comedy, Literary Fiction, Music, Non-fiction, Psychology, and Science

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