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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien Raise the Titanic! by Clive Cussler The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy Watership Down by Richard Adams I, Claudius by Robert Graves 2010 by Arthur C. Clarke The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks HMS Ulysses by Alistair MacLean Look to Windward by Iain M. Banks The Gathering Storm by Robert Jordan The Broken Eye by Brent Weeks
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“Living either never has any point, or is always its own point; being a naturally cheery soul, I lean towards the latter.”
― Iain M. Banks, The Hydrogen Sonata
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I, Claudius by Robert GravesThe Gates of Rome by Conn Iggulden
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Crime, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, Humor and Comedy, Mystery, Science fiction, Thriller, and Young-adult


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