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Jan’s favorite books

The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

While I Was Gone by Sue Miller

Family Pictures by Sue Miller

The Good Mother by Sue Miller

When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chödrön

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton

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The Mad Wife

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by Meagan Church (Goodreads Author)

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2026 Reading Challenge

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Art, Biography, Chick-lit, Classics, Contemporary, Cookbooks, Crime, Ebooks, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Humor and Comedy, Memoir, Music, Mystery, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Religion, Romance, Science, Self help, and Spirituality

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