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Gary A.’s Ten Favorite Books

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steppenwolf

1. Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse

2. The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac

3. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

4. Ask the Dust by John Fante

5. Sixty-Seven Poems For Downtrodden Saints by Jack Micheline

6. The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck

7. The Subterraneans by Jack Kerouac

8. White Trash by Jeff Foley

9. Cities of the Red Night by William S. Burroughs

10. It Catches My Heart in Its Hands by Charles Bukowski

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Author: Top Ten List Contributor Tags: iu, top ten Category: On Literature, Your Top Ten Books July 5, 2013

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