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Ben’s favorite books

The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen by Wilfred Owen

Riders to the Sea by J.M. Synge

Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence

The Art of War by Niccolò Machiavelli

An Unsung Hero by Michael Smith

Over the Edge of the World by Laurence Bergreen

Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

Genesis by Eduardo Galeano

Dubliners by James Joyce

King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard

Into Africa by Martin Dugard

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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

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