My 5 Favorite Books of 2021

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OBVIOUS CHOICES:

Gravity's Rainbow (paid link):
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The Old Man and the Sea (paid link):
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The Elementary Particles (paid link):
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The Cask of Amontillado (paid link):
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FAVORITES:

5. His Name Was Death (paid link):
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4. As I Lay Dying (paid link):
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3. Lord of Dark Places (paid link):
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2. Miss Lonelyhearts (paid link):
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1. Crash (paid link):
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HONORABLE MENTIONS

No Longer Human (paid link):
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The Cathedral of Mist (paid link):
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Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
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The Necrophiliac by Gabrielle Wittkop - Halloween 2021
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Death in Midsummer by Yukio Mishima
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Holy the Firm by Annie Dillard
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The Key by Junichiro Tanizaki
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Platforms by Nina Power
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Consider This by Chuck Palahniuk
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Bookshelf Tour 2020:
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The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat
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Margery Kempe by Robert Glück
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Transparent Things by Vladimir Nabokov
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The Lover by Marguerite Duras
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Atomic Habits by James Clear
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Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal
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The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
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Reading is Expensive (A Rant)
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White by Bret Easton Ellis
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A Room on the Garden Side by Ernest Hemingway
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The Return by Roberto Bolaño
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Darkness Visible by William Styron
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"Blindness", an essay by Jorge Luis Borges
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The Alligators by John Updike
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The Diaries of Adam and Eve by Mark Twain
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Animal Crackers in My Soup by Charles Bukowski
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A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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