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The Best Books
​I Read In 2017

Charles Darwin, Idealistic Roosters,
​US Navy SEALS, Salt, and More...
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Annihilation
Jeff VanderMeer
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Timeline
Michael Crichton
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The Hinge of the World
Richard N. Goodwin
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Perennial Seller
Ryan Holiday
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Sphere
Michael Crichton
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Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton
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State of Fear
Michael Crichton
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Diamonds Are Forever
Ian Fleming
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The City of Ember
Jeanne DuPrau
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Into The Woods
Stephen Sondheim & James Lapine
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Zero Cool
Michael Crichton
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The Romantic Manifesto
Ayn Rand
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On Tyranny
Timothy Snyder
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The Miracle Worker
William Gibson
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Ready Player One
Ernest Cline
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Eaters of the Dead
Michael Crichton
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Anne Frank: The Diary
of a Young Girl
Anne Frank
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Astrophysics For
​People In A Hurry
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
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Anthem
Ayn Rand
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Summer for the Gods
Edward J. Larson
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The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Bug-Jargal
Victor Hugo
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Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
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Dragon Teeth
Michael Crichton
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The New Psycho-​Cybernetics
Dr. Maxwell Maltz
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Inherit the Wind
Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee
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The Princess Far Away
Edmond Rostand
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The Republic
​of Pirates

Colin Woodard
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The Winslow Boy
Terence Rattigan
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Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters
Major Dick Winters
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A-frame
Chad Randl
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An Illustrated Book ​of Bad Arguments
Ali Almossawi

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Zorro
Isabel Allende
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Mythology
Edith Hamilton
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The Lean Startup
Eric Ries
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Confessions of an
​Advertising Man
David Ogilvy
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Extreme Ownership
Jocko Willink & Leif Babin
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The Man Who Was Cyrano
Sue Lloyd
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​Chantecler
Edmond Rostand
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Monna Vanna
Maurice Maeterlinck
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Salt: A World History
Mark Kurlansky
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The Eaglet
Edmond Rostand
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Polyeuctus
Pierre Corneille
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