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Derek’s favorite books

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Chronicles, Volume One by Bob Dylan

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Lament for a Son by Nicholas Wolterstorff

1984 by George Orwell

Cathedral by Raymond Carver

Empire Falls by Richard Russo

Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor

The Cross by Sigrid Undset

The Big Rock Candy Mountain by Wallace Stegner

Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev

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In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

by Marcel Proust

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