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Ben’s favorite books

The Three Theban Plays by Sophocles

Transmetropolitan, Vol. 7 by Warren Ellis

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X

Japanese Death Poems by Yoel Hoffmann

Mathematics by Timothy Gowers

A History of the Middle East by Peter Mansfield

The Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

1984 by George Orwell

Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination by Edogawa Rampo

A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. Tuchman

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Red Rising

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Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)

by Pierce Brown (Goodreads Author)

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Art, Biography, Contemporary, Crime, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Horror, Humor and Comedy, Music, Paranormal, Religion, Science fiction, Suspense, and Sports

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