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Derek’s favorite books

Wit by Margaret Edson The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway by Ernest Hemingway The Trial and Death of Socrates by Plato Five Dialogues by Plato The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy by Robert Audi The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. Incompleteness by Rebecca Goldstein A Poetry Handbook by Mary Oliver The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway What the Best College Teachers Do by Ken Bain The Second Treatise on Civil Government by John Locke
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Biography, Classics, Contemporary, Fantasy, Fiction, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Religion, and Science fiction


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