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Karissa’s favorite books

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The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

In Persuasion Nation by George Saunders

The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

Dune by Frank Herbert

Jackrabbit Homestead by Kim Stringfellow

Out of Our Heads by George Case

Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys by Viv Albertine

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Butter by Asako Yuzuki

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

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Time, Myth and Ma...

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Time, Myth and Matter

by LD Deutsch

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The Woman Destroyed

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The Woman Destroyed

by Simone de Beauvoir

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by Jessica Hundley

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Art, Biography, Fiction, Music, and Science fiction

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