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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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The Sheltering Sky
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The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson
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It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life ...more
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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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