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Rob’s favorite books

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson The Lost Weekend by Charles R. Jackson Meditations by Marcus Aurelius Paris Noir by Jacques Yonnet Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino The Viceroy of Ouidah by Bruce Chatwin Augustus by John Williams Rubicon by Tom Holland Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All by Allan Gurganus M by Peter Robb The Sundial by Shirley Jackson
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“Resist much, obey little.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
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African American, Art, Biography, Book Club, Classics, Contemporary, Crime, Fiction, Gay and Lesbian, Graphic novels, Historical fiction, History, Horror, Humor and Comedy, Literary Fiction, Memoir, Mystery, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Politics, Suspense, Travel, and War


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