Sam Olsen

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Sam’s favorite books

A Good Man in Africa by William Boyd

The Smartest Guys in the Room by Bethany McLean

Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt

Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

When Genius Failed by Roger Lowenstein

Rough Crossings by Simon Schama

Sharpe's Enemy by Bernard Cornwell

The Reader by Bernhard Schlink

Nathaniel's Nutmeg by Giles Milton

An Introduction to Political Philosophy by Jonathan Wolff

Writing the Romantic Comedy by Billy Mernit

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A Deadly Episode

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A Deadly Episode (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #6)

by Anthony Horowitz (Goodreads Author)

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Thunderball

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Thunderball (James Bond, #9)

by Ian Fleming

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Atlas of the Roman Empire

by Unknown Author

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