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Michael’s favorite books

Caught Inside by Daniel Duane

Selected Stories Of Philip K. Dick by Philip K. Dick

A Theory Of Fun For Game Design by Ralph Koster

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff

Confessions of an Advertising Man by David Ogilvy

The Gunslinger by Stephen King

Chess Story by Stefan Zweig

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon

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The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn

by Richard Hamming

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by Wendy Cope

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The Enigma of Reason

by Hugo Mercier

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American War by Omar El Akkad

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

Underground Airlines by Ben H. Winters

Paradise by Toni Morrison

Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

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