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Derek Jenkins’s favorite books

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway 1984 by George Orwell The Pearl by John Steinbeck The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell North of Nowhere by Steve Hamilton Prey by Michael Crichton The Langoliers by Stephen King The Stand by Stephen King The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
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Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
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success = talent + luck great success = a little more talent + a lot of luck
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