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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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The Hallmarked Man

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The Hallmarked Man (Cormoran Strike, #8)

by Robert Galbraith

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Agrippa: A Novel of Ancient Rome's Descent into Dictatorship

by Robert Harris (Goodreads Author)

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A Stranger in Corfu

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A Stranger in Corfu

by Alex Preston (Goodreads Author)

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Sam Olsen has read 91 books of his goal of 81!

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Business, Classics, Fiction, History, Memoir, Non-fiction, Science, Science fiction, and Travel

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