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Ryan Dowd

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Ryan’s favorite books

The Color of Water by James McBride

Let Your Life Speak by Parker J. Palmer

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Tattoos on the Heart by Gregory Boyle

The Defining Decade by Meg Jay

The Opposite of Loneliness by Marina Keegan

Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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Project Hail Mary

Ryan Dowd is currently reading

Project Hail Mary

by Andy Weir (Goodreads Author)

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2026 Reading Challenge

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Ryan Dowd has read 30 books of his goal of 30!

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Playground by Richard Powers

2025 Tournament of Books Longlist

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Biography, Cookbooks, Non-fiction, Psychology, and Spirituality

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