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Alec’s favorite books

Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion Storming the Gates of Paradise by Rebecca Solnit The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin 1984 by George Orwell The Black Atlantic by Paul Gilroy Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey Dubliners by James Joyce The Aeneid by Virgil White Noise by Don DeLillo The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
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Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
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“People are rotten everywhere you go. They’re no good. You want to see a very bad man? Make an ordinary man successful beyond his imagination. Let’s see how good he is when he can do whatever he wants.”
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Classics, Contemporary, Ebooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic novels, Historical fiction, History, Humor and Comedy, Manga, Memoir, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, and Travel


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