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Mike’s favorite books

The Forever War by Joe Haldeman

World War Z by Max Brooks

Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion

Plum Island by Nelson DeMille

Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain

Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion

Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt

In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway

One L by Scott Turow

Ten Apples Up on Top by Dr. Seuss

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett

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Mike’s Bookshelves

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Mike is Currently Reading

A Thousand Acres

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A Thousand Acres

by Jane Smiley (Goodreads Author)

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Serafina and the Black Cloak (Serafina, #1)

by Robert Beatty (Goodreads Author)

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Divergent (Divergent, #1)

by Veronica Roth (Goodreads Author)

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Mike’s Quotes

Terry Pratchett

“Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken.”
― Terry Pratchett, Eric

tags: erotic, kinky, suggestive

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Terry Pratchett

“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
― Terry Pratchett, Jingo

tags: humor, proverb

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The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

(Not) Modern Library's 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century

104 books — 164 voters

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

The ACTUAL 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century

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Favorite Genres

Adult Fiction, Book Club, Children's, Classics, Cookbooks, Cooking, Ebooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic novels, History, Humor and Comedy, Science fiction, Suspense, Travel, and War

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