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The Wife Upstairs

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The Wife Upstairs

by Freida McFadden (Goodreads Author)

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by Megha Majumdar (Goodreads Author)

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Melissa’s Quotes

“Sometimes she missed people before they even left her, got depressed about a vacation being over before it started.”
― Jennifer Close, Girls in White Dresses

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2026 Reading Challenge

Melissa has read 71 of 75 books.

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Adult Fiction, Art, Book Club, Chick-lit, Children's, Classics, Contemporary, Crime, Ebooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, Literary Fiction, Mystery, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Romance, Suspense, Spirituality, Thriller, and Young-adult

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