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Skunk Works by Ben R. Rich The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy Thoughts for Young Men by J.C. Ryle All Things for Good by Thomas Watson The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom Endurance by Alfred Lansing The River of Doubt by Candice Millard The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie In My Father's House by Corrie ten Boom The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
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A Christian Guide to the Classics by Leland Ryken
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The classics have a particular knack for capturing what is universal in human experience.
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