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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy Catch-22 by Joseph Heller Noble House by James Clavell Look to Windward by Iain M. Banks The Gathering Storm by Robert Jordan A Memory of Light by Robert Jordan The Bands of Mourning by Brandon Sanderson The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson Critical Mass by Craig Alanson Dracula by Bram Stoker
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“Living either never has any point, or is always its own point; being a naturally cheery soul, I lean towards the latter.”
― Iain M. Banks, The Hydrogen Sonata
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