Interesting Books To Read Novels & Stories

I can’t explain it, but I don’t have to, either, if I don’t bring it up, and I’m not one to ever start conversations. I sniff the paperback—old, musty paper, glue, and Justus—and set it on the pallet. The next book in the pile, Peter Kropotkin’s The Conquest of Bread, has a picture of two men chopping down a tree on the cover. It smells the same. All the books are dog-eared paperbacks with yellowed pages—Walden by Henry David Thoreau, Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler, Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant, several each by Ursula K. Le Guin and N. K. Jemison, and a massive hardback of Plato’s collected works. The Plato is the only one that looks like it hasn’t been read a hundre

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a plain, simple office. Still, I'm curious. I wander over to the bookshelves, surprised to see how many books Rafe has - he never struck me as much of a reader - but his collection is wide and varied. There's an entire shelf full of classic novels. Another of photography and art books. There's a section devoted to mechanical skills, another full of books on fitness, weight-training, and other similar pursuits. The more I look, the more interesting the books become - next to the atlases and travel guides are books on astronomy and space travel. Beside the books on filmmaking are biographies of famous people from all walks of life - not just Hollywood types but also philosophers, scientists, a