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Ben’s favorite books

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Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis

Prince of Ayodhya by Ashok K. Banker

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Rhythm of War

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Rhythm of War (The Stormlight Archive, #4)

by Brandon Sanderson (Goodreads Author)

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Oxford History of Western Music: 5-vol. set (The Oxford History of Western Music)

by Richard Taruskin

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The Dollmakers by Lynn Buchanan

“Tradition is wisdom clouded by habit,”

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