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Chris’s favorite books

I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman

Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton

Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris

My Life by Bill Clinton

Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

Animal Farm by George Orwell

The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs

All the President’s Men by Carl Bernstein

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

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Lessons in Chemistry

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Lessons in Chemistry

by Bonnie Garmus (Goodreads Author)

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The Complete Stories

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The Complete Stories

by Flannery O'Connor

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The Backyard Bird...

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The Backyard Bird Chronicles

by Amy Tan (Goodreads Author)

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Chris’s Quotes

Ocean Vuong

“How come the past tense is always longer?”
― Ocean Vuong, Time Is a Mother

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Favorite Genres

Biography, Book Club, Contemporary, Crime, Ebooks, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Literary Fiction, Memoir, Mystery, Non-fiction, Politics, Religion, Self help, Suspense, Thriller, and Young-adult

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