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The Unknown Shore by Patrick O'Brian His Excellency by Joseph J. Ellis Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt Getting Things Done by David Allen Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy by Barrington Moore Jr. Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway The French Admiral by Dewey Lambdin Engines of Creation by Eric Drexler
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Red Moon by Kim Stanley Robinson
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He had sometimes felt that Winston Churchill’s description of democracy was equally suitable as a description of the Party’s rule in China: the worst possible system, except for all the rest.
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