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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams A King's Commander by Dewey Lambdin Catch-22 by Joseph Heller I, Claudius by Robert Graves HMS Ulysses by Alistair MacLean The Gathering Storm by Robert Jordan Turn Coat by Jim Butcher Critical Mass by Craig Alanson Dracula by Bram Stoker The Broken Eye by Brent Weeks
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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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