Phil Costa

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Phil’s favorite books

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

The Ministry of Special Cases by Nathan Englander

Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino

The World to Come by Dara Horn

The Gatekeepers by Jacques Steinberg

There Is No Me Without You by Melissa Fay Greene

Endurance by Frank A. Worsley

The Big House by George Howe Colt

1984 by George Orwell

The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett

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Breakneck: China'...

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Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future

by Dan Wang (Goodreads Author)

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Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #1)

by Matt Dinniman (Goodreads Author)

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Biography, Book Club, Classics, Contemporary, Crime, Ebooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Literary Fiction, Memoir, Mystery, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Science fiction, Suspense, and Thriller

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