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Karen’s favorite books

Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog by Bruce D. Perry

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

In the Eye of the Sun by Ahdaf Soueif

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

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The Unselected Jo...

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The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 4

by Beth Brower (Goodreads Author)

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The Paris Novel

by Ruth Reichl

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We Need to Talk About Kevin

by Lionel Shriver (Goodreads Author)

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Karen has read 66 of 75 books.

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Biography, Book Club, Christian, Classics, Contemporary, Ebooks, Fiction, Literary Fiction, Memoir, Philosophy, Psychology, and Young-adult

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