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17 books

gadders · Sep 14, 2018
How to Win Friends and Influence People
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gadders · Jul 22, 2016
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie.
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gadders · Nov 12, 2012
Atlas Shrugged.
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gadders · Feb 28, 2012
The whole series of Game of Thrones novels.
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gadders · Nov 12, 2012
Sophie's World:
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gadders · Jul 13, 2012
The Black Company series by Glen Cook.
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gadders · Nov 18, 2014
Philip Jose Farmer Riverworld
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gadders · Jul 1, 2014
I'm now reading I, Claudius which is a lot better.
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gadders · Nov 12, 2015
I've just binge-read all the Martin Cruz Smith Arkady Renko novels - Gorky Park etc. Really well written, great plots and very droll in places.
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gadders · Sep 14, 2018
Charisma by Marcia Grad - helped me become less shy as a teenager
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gadders · Dec 12, 2018
The Destroyermen novels I would definitely recommend.
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gadders · Dec 4, 2024
The Dan Abnett Eisenhorn and Ravenor Warhammer novels
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gadders · Jul 1, 2014
The action is good, but the account of hacking a nuclear power station using iPhones is completely risible.
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