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Michael’s favorite books

The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt

Hegel by Frederick C. Beiser

The Crooked Timber of Humanity by Isaiah Berlin

1984 by George Orwell

The Enlightenment, Volume 1 by Peter Gay

The Enlightenment by Peter Gay

Socialism by Friedrich Engels

Caleb Williams by William Godwin

The Age of Reason by Jean-Paul Sartre

The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991 by Eric J. Hobsbawm

An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

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Crossroads

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by Jonathan Franzen

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Rameau's Nephew and First Satire

by Denis Diderot

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The Second Sex

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by Simone de Beauvoir

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Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre

The Stranger by Albert Camus

1984 by George Orwell

The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Age of Reason by Jean-Paul Sartre

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