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Melissa’s favorite books

Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein

Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick

The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin

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Melissa is Currently Reading

The Sweetness at ...

Melissa is currently reading

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, #1)

by Alan Bradley (Goodreads Author)

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Your Blue Is Not My Blue: A Missing Person Memoir by Aspen Matis

from my own great mistakes how hard it

2026 Reading Challenge

Melissa has read 17 of 50 books.

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Beans Dunn

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Classics, Fiction, Historical fiction, Memoir, Non-fiction, and Young-adult

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