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Rob’s favorite books

Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain

Federico Garcia Lorca by Federico García Lorca

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Marching Powder by Rusty Young

The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter

The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Friedrich Engels

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

1984 by George Orwell

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Imperialism by Vladimir Lenin

My Life by Leon Trotsky

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Maoism: A Global ...

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Maoism: A Global History

by Julia Lovell

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The First Five Years of the Communist International Vols. 1 & 2

by Leon Trotsky

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