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Lamb of God frontman Randy Blythe celebrates the release of his new book Just Beyond the Light by sharing a list of 10 books he thinks everyone should read.

If you’re confused by a turn of phrase in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” or a startling metaphor in Kafka’s “Metamorphosis,” just ask the book to explain itself, and it will.