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Matt’s favorite books

Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion Christopher and His Kind by Christopher Isherwood The Secret History by Donna Tartt The Artificial Silk Girl by Irmgard Keun Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? by Raymond Carver The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Flights by Olga Tokarczuk
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by Anne Lamott (Goodreads Author)
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May We Feed the King
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