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Karen’s favorite books

The Mitford Girls by Mary S. Lovell

Tokyo Express by Seichō Matsumoto

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss

On Beauty by Zadie Smith

The People of the Abyss by Jack London

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Middlemarch by George Eliot

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Karen’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (246)
currently-reading‎ (1)

read‎ (184)
did-not-finish‎ (1)

on-my-shelf‎ (12)
classics‎ (7)

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Karen is Currently Reading

Martyr!

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by Kaveh Akbar

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Jul 22, 2026 06:05AM

2026 Reading Challenge

Karen has read 9 of 16 books.

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Classics, Contemporary, Fiction, and Historical fiction

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