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David’s favorites shelf

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins

Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer

Positively Fifth Street by James McManus

The Annotated Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

1491 by Charles C. Mann

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling

Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall

The Children's Story by James Clavell

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What We Can Know

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What We Can Know

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Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“It seems that in the advanced stages of stupidity, a lack of ideas is compensated for by an excess of ideologies.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

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