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Chris’s favorite books

Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt A Working Stiff's Manifesto by Iain Levison Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman Meditations by Marcus Aurelius A Joseph Campbell Companion by Joseph Campbell New and Selected Poems, Volume One by Mary Oliver The $64 Tomato by William Alexander Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama The Wisdom of Yoga by Stephen Cope On Writing by Stephen King
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Oh William!
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by Elizabeth Strout (Goodreads Author)
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The Essential Rumi
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Rimbaud: Poems
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Biography, Book Club, Classics, Fiction, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, and Travel


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