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Ben’s favorite books

I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X Fools Crow by James Welch The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker Pan by Knut Hamsun Escape from Evil by Ernest Becker Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
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Adult Fiction, Biography, Book Club, Erotica, Fiction, Horror, Literary Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry, and Thriller


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