Steve

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Steve’s favorite books

The Knot of Vipers by François Mauriac

The Water of the Hills by Marcel Pagnol

The Train Was on Time by Heinrich Böll

The human factor by Graham Greene

Krapp's Last Tape & Embers by Samuel Beckett

The Comedians by Graham Greene

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

The Glass Room by Simon Mawer

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Withnail and I by Bruce Robinson

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Steve is Currently Reading

The Stranger & Th...

Steve is currently reading

The Stranger & The Fall & The Plague (DLB edition)

by Albert Camus

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Apr 12, 2026 03:10PM

The Complete Work...

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The Complete Works of Franz Kafka. Novels, Novellas and Short Stories (47 Titles). Illustrated: Amerika, The Trial, The Castle, The Metamorphosis, The Warden of the Tomb and many others

by Franz Kafka

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Apr 08, 2026 02:49PM

The Magic Mountai...

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The Magic Mountain & Death in Venice & Doctor Faustus (Grapevine Classic Books)

by Thomas Mann

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Steve’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for Perfectly Ordinary People

Perfectly Ordinary People by Nick Alexander

slightly surrealist

In Pale Battalions

by Robert Goddard

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2026 Reading Challenge

Steve has read 2 of 12 books.

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