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Michael’s favorite books

Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain

The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris

Battle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPherson

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris

Stalingrad by Antony Beevor

Enemy of God by Bernard Cornwell

The Winter King by Bernard Cornwell

It by Stephen King

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

Trinity by Leon Uris

The Great Bridge by David McCullough

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Michael’s Bookshelves

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The Blacktongue T...

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The Blacktongue Thief (Blacktongue, #1)

by Christopher Buehlman (Goodreads Author)

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Leon Uris

“Who here wants to be a writer?' I asked. Everyone in the room raised his hand. 'Why the hell aren't you home writing?' I said, and left the stage.”
― Leon Uris, Qb VII

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Biography, Classics, Fantasy, Fiction, History, Non-fiction, and Science fiction

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