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Whitley Strieber
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Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall was the best piece of historical fiction I have read in easily ten years. Certainly among the top three I have ever read. In fact, it went beyond historical fiction. It was modern literature of the highest order set in the world of Henry VIII. Not since Gore Vidal's Julian the Apostate has anybody done that, and Wolf Hall succeeds even more brilliantly, if that is poss...
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Communion: A True Story
by Whitley Strieber (Goodreads Author), Morw    3.41 avg rating — 1,529 ratings
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1987
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The Wolfen
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1978
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The Hunger (Hunger, #1)
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1980
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2012: The War for Souls
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2007
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Warday
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1984
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The Grays
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Transformation: The Breakthrough
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1988
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Majestic
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1989
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Catmagic
by Whitley Strieber (Goodreads Author), Jonathan Barry 3.82 avg rating — 190 ratings
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The Day After Tomorrow
by Whitley Strieber (Goodreads Author), Roland Emmerich 3.75 avg rating — 176 ratings
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The Nye Incidents
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by Whitley Strieber (Goodreads Author), Craig Spector
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by Whitley Strieber (Goodreads Author), Craig Spector
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“...endless day-to-day shallowness, a monotony that leaves a person wondering years later where all the time went and sorry that it's all gone”
― Whitley Strieber
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