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Five Classical Epics, recommended by Nicholas Bowling

The Odyssey
by Homer

The Aeneid
by Virgil

Civil War
by Lucan

Paradise Lost
by John Milton

The Rape of the Lock
by Alexander Pope

The Best of True Crime, recommended by Jax Miller

People Who Eat Darkness: Love, Grief and a Journey into Japan's Shadows
by Richard Lloyd Parry

In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote

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by Vincent Bugliosi

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story
by John Berendt

Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood
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