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Jesse’s favorite books

The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene

My Favorite Universe by Neil deGrasse Tyson

Uncertainty by David Lindley

The History of Jazz by Ted Gioia

Everything Arises, Everything Falls Away by Ajahn Chah

The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux

Paul's Boutique by Dan LeRoy

What the Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula

The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD by Richard Cook

One Dharma by Joseph Goldstein

The Sound of Silence by Ajahn Sumedho

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The Best of Gene ...

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The Best of Gene Wolfe: A Definitive Retrospective of His Finest Short Fiction

by Gene Wolfe

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Spacemen 3 & The Birth of Spiritualized

by Erik Morse

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This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You

by Susan Rogers

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Biography, Contemporary, Fiction, History, Music, Non-fiction, Religion, Science fiction, physics, and popular-science

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