Neil B

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Neil’s favorite books

shakespeare by Anthony Burgess

The Extraordinary Voyage of Pytheas the Greek by Barry Cunliffe

The Horseman on the Roof by Jean Giono

The Art of Reading Poetry by Harold Bloom

A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. Tuchman

The First Salute by Barbara W. Tuchman

The Book of J by Harold Bloom

Moscow 1812 by Adam Zamoyski

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

The Island at the Center of the World by Russell Shorto

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

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A Preface to Para...

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A Preface to Paradise Lost

by C.S. Lewis

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The Norse Myths that Shape the Way We Think

by Carolyne Larrington

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Chasing Homer

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by László Krasznahorkai

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