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Ilse’s favorite books

The Riverside Chaucer by Geoffrey Chaucer Crush by Richard Siken The Lais of Marie de France by Marie de France De ondergang van de Batavia by Mike Dash The Good Doctor by Damon Galgut If Not, Winter by Sappho Beowulf by Unknown The Book of Margery Kempe by Margery Kempe Just Kids by Patti Smith The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Mary Queen of Scots by John Guy
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