William

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William’s favorite books

World War Z by Max Brooks

Gorgias by Plato

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A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe by Fernando Pessoa

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Zhuangzi: The Com...

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Zhuangzi: The Complete Writings (English Edition)

by Zhuangzi

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The Inner Chapter...

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The Inner Chapters of the 'zhuangzi': With Copious Annotations from the Chinese Commentaries (Lun Wen - Studien Zur Geistesgeschichte Und Literatur in China, 27)

by Christoph Harbsmeier

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The Last Man

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The Last Man (Dover Thrift Editions: SciFi/Fantasy)

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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