Parsons

Mike Parsons

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13 books

2006

December 6
The Shadow of the Wind
In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz
Bangkok Tattoo
Train
Bandits
The Last Jihad

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1 book

2007

Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover

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15 books

2008

Paris Trout
Born on a Blue Day: A Memoir of Asperger's and an Extraordinary Mind
Witch Hunt
Franny and Zooey
Broken Angels
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Inner Circle

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26 books

2009

Crash
Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream
City of Pearl
A Clockwork Orange
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Black Hawk Down
Picasso's War

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20 books

2010

The Kite Runner
The Crossing
Lolita
Fletch Won
A Man Called Intrepid
Among the Thugs

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16 books

2011

The Human Stain
Ballad of the Whiskey Robber
Lust for Life
The Long Goodbye
Sharpe's Tiger
Empire
The Conquest

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14 books

2012

Wheelers
The Dharma Bums
Never Let Me Go
Diamond
Creative Thinkering: Putting Your Imagination to Work
For Whom the Bell Tolls

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20 books

2013

The Longest Winter
Stick
Rough Country
Child of God
The Lost Painting
The Naked and the Dead
The Family Fang

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19 books

2014

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
The Walking Dead Compendium One
The Dogs of Riga
Mean Streets
Lindbergh
Creative Confidence
The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance

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10 books

2015

CliffNotes on One day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead
Daemon
A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life
Pale Fire
Freedom™
Raylan

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1 book

2016

The Secret History

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2 books

2019

Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: The Definitive Edition

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6 books

2020

Battle Ground
Sins of Empire
Peace Talks
Wrath of Empire
Blood of Empire
Hero of Rome

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8 books

2021

Newton's Wake
Little Big Man
Defender of Rome
Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi
Sharpe's Fortress
Caliban's War
Marvel Comics: The Untold Story

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9 books

2022

Abaddon's Gate
Hondo
Gathering Prey
Avenger of Rome
The Law
Cibola Burn
Nemesis Games

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7 books

2023

Children of Time
Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
Persepolis Rising
Neon Prey
Sharpe's Prey
Breaker Marine

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1 book

2024

Black list a thriller

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12 books

Art Artist

Fake! The Story of Elmyr de Hory, the Greatest Art Forger of Our Time
Picasso's War
Picasso: Creator and Destroyer
Lust for Life
The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
Creative Thinkering: Putting Your Imagination to Work

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25 books

Biography Memoir

October Sky
Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover
Born on a Blue Day: A Memoir of Asperger's and an Extraordinary Mind
Fake! The Story of Elmyr de Hory, the Greatest Art Forger of Our Time
Killing Pablo the hunt for the world's greatest outlaw
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Red Dust: A Path Through China

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21 books

Classics

Solaris
The World According to Garp
A Clockwork Orange
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
A Farewell to Arms
Catch-22
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

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10 books

Did Not Finish

War and Peace
The Brothers Karamazov
A Case of Conscience
East Is East
Brains on fire
SWEET TOOTH
The Secret History

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9 books

Favorites

The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Paris Trout
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Redshirts
The Naked and the Dead
Legends of the Fall

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5 books

Great Cover Design

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Catch-22
Lolita
Empire of the Sun
The Curse of Lono

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28 books

History

The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer & the Birth of the Modern Arms Race
Return with Honor
Killing Pablo the hunt for the world's greatest outlaw
Fake! The Story of Elmyr de Hory, the Greatest Art Forger of Our Time
Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War
In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz

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15 books

Left Field

Clans of the Alphane Moon
The World According to Garp
The Riverman: Ted Bundy and I Hunt for the Green River Killer
The Rules of Attraction
Vox
Survivor
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