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Benjamin Percy is the author of seven novels -- most recently The Sky Vault (William Morrow) -- three short fiction collections, and a book of essays, Thrill Me, that is widely taught in creative writing classrooms. He writes Wolverine, X-Force, and Ghost Rider for Marvel Comics. His fiction and nonfiction have been published in Esquire (where he is a contributing editor), GQ, Time, Men's Journal, Outside, the Wall Street Journal, Tin House, and the Paris Review. His honors include an NEA fellowship, the Whiting Writer's Award, the Plimpton Prize, two Pushcart Prizes, the iHeart Radio Award for Best Scripted Podcast, and inclusion in Best American Short Stories and Best American Comics. ...more

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	Red Moon 3.37 avg rating — 5,871 ratings — published 2013 — 44 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dead Lands 3.45 avg rating — 3,727 ratings — published 2015 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Teen Titans, Volume 1: Damian Knows Best by Benjamin Percy (Goodreads Author) (Writer), Jonboy Meyers (Artist), Jim Charalampidis (Colourist) 3.83 avg rating — 2,319 ratings — published 2017 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Green Arrow, Volume 1: The Death and Life of Oliver Queen by Benjamin Percy (Goodreads Author) (Writer), Otto Schmidt (Artist), Juan Ferreyra (Artist) 3.75 avg rating — 1,893 ratings — published 2017 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ninth Metal (The Comet Cycle, #1) 3.70 avg rating — 1,837 ratings — published 2021	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dark Net 3.22 avg rating — 2,066 ratings — published 2017 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thrill Me: Essays on Fiction 4.35 avg rating — 1,119 ratings — published 2016 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Green Arrow: Rebirth #1 by Benjamin Percy (Goodreads Author), Juan Ferreyra (Cover Art), Otto Schmidt (Penciller) 4.14 avg rating — 948 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Green Arrow, Volume 2: Island of Scars by Benjamin Percy (Goodreads Author) (Writer), Stephen Byrne (Illustrator), Otto Schmidt (Illustrator) 3.59 avg rating — 1,055 ratings — published 2017 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	X-Force, Vol. 1 by Benjamin Percy (Goodreads Author), Joshua Cassara (Illustrator), Stephen Segovia (Illustrator) 3.72 avg rating — 994 ratings — published 2020 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Green Arrow (2016) (Single Issues) (53 books)
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W. Scott Forbes (Cover Art),

Stephen Byrne (Penciller)

3.92 avg rating — 6,245 ratings

Green Arrow (2016) (8 books)
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Benjamin Percy (Goodreads Author),

Juan Ferrerya (Illustrator)

3.68 avg rating — 5,841 ratings

Teen Titans (2016) (7 books)
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Benjamin Percy (Goodreads Author),

Alison Borges (Illustrator)

3.64 avg rating — 5,587 ratings

Wolverine (2020) (Single Issues) (24 books)
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Benjamin Percy (Goodreads Author),

Gerry Duggan (Goodreads Author),

Adam Kubert (Cover Art),

Joshua Cassara (Artist)

3.73 avg rating — 5,068 ratings

X-Force (2019) (9 books)
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Tba (Illustrator)

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“Bookstores should be broken down into two sections: books that suck and books that don’t suck.”
― Benjamin Percy

tags: humorous-quotes

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“Plagues don't just kill people—and that's what lobos is, a plague—they kill humanity.”
― Benjamin Percy, Red Moon

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“...if he sees his fellow humans as anything more than complicated animals. Not so different from a deer or a wolf, knitted together with the same sinew but in another design.”
― Benjamin Percy

tags: humanity-animals-philosophy

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It's time to vote for the first Graywolf Press Book Club selection of 2011! You have until Thursday, December 16th to vote on our January 2011 read, and the winner will be announced on December 17th. All new books in all genres from 2010 are included. Happy voting!

Your Presence Is Requested at Suvanto: A Novel by Maile Chapman

5 votes 29.4%

I Curse the River of Time by Per Petterson

3 votes 17.6%

The Report by Jessica Francis Kane

3 votes 17.6%

Ghosts of Wyoming by Alyson Hagy

2 votes 11.8%

Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty: Poems by Tony Hoagland

2 votes 11.8%

Vanishing Point: Not a Memoir by Ander Monson

1 vote 5.9%

The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction by Dean Young

1 vote 5.9%

Obabakoak by Bernardo Atxaga

0 votes 0.0%

The Stranger Manual: Poems by Catie Rosemurgy

0 votes 0.0%

We Don't Know We Don't Know: Poems by Nick Lantz

0 votes 0.0%

I Just Lately Started Buying Wings by Kim Dana Kupperman

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The Art of Description: World into Word by Mark Doty

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Out of Sight: New and Selected Poems by Eamon Grennan

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The Wilding by Benjamin Percy

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Essays from the Nick of Time: Reflections and Refutations by Mark Slouka

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Crave Radiance: New and Selected Poems 1990-2010 by Elizabeth Alexander

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Skin, Inc.: Identity Repair Poems by Thomas Sayers Ellis

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Missing You, Metropolis: Poems by Gary Jackson

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