Karen

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Karen’s favorite books

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Comfort & Joy by Kristin Hannah

The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

The Distance Between Us by Reyna Grande

Wool Omnibus by Hugh Howey

Jerusalem by Yotam Ottolenghi

A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas

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A Different Kind of Power

by Jacinda Ardern

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This Is How You Lose the Time War

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Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community

by Robert D. Putnam

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Classics, Contemporary, Cookbooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Memoir, Non-fiction, Science, Suspense, Spirituality, Thriller, and Travel

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