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Albion's Seed by David Hackett Fischer A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle The Fourth Bear by Jasper Fforde The Raj Quartet by Paul Scott The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova Our Town by Thornton Wilder The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
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Adult Fiction, Book Club, Classics, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Humor and Comedy, Literary Fiction, Travel, War, and Women's Fiction


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