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Tom’s favorite books

Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs

Faust, First Part by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

Adolf Hitler by John Toland

Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

Molloy / Malone Dies / The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett

Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov

J.R.R. Tolkien 4-Book Boxed Set by J.R.R. Tolkien

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

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Against the Grain

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Against the Grain (À Rebours)

by Joris-Karl Huysmans

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The Coming of the King (Books of Merlin, #1)

by Nikolai Tolstoy

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