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I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Night by Elie Wiesel Butcher's Crossing by John Williams Hard Rain Falling by Don Carpenter The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
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Adult Fiction, Book Club, Children's, Classics, Contemporary, Crime, Ebooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Literary Fiction, Mystery, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Science, Science fiction, Suspense, Thriller, and Young-adult


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