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Carl’s favorite books

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams

The Sandman, Vol. 9 by Neil Gaiman

The Sandman, Vol. 2 by Neil Gaiman

J.R.R. Tolkien's Sanctifying Myth by Bradley J. Birzer

A Conflict of Visions by Thomas Sowell

A World Lit Only by Fire by William Manchester

The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus by Graham Chapman

The Sandman, Vol. 4 by Neil Gaiman

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Letters to a Young Contrarian by Christopher Hitchens

The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson

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Destiny of the Re...

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Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President

by Candice Millard

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Dune (Dune, #1)

by Frank Herbert

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The Consolation of Philosophy: De consolatione philosophiae Translated into English Prose and Verse

by Boethius

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