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Shams’s favorite books

Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali The Secret History by Donna Tartt The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy Dead Poets Society by N.H. Kleinbaum The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde East of Eden by John Steinbeck A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini The Stranger by Albert Camus White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman Archer's Voice by Mia Sheridan
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The Intruder
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by Freida McFadden (Goodreads Author)
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Nov 10, 2026 12:42PM
Giovanni’s Room
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Nov 06, 2026 12:31AM
Thirty Days
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by César Zurita (Goodreads Author)
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Shams’s Notes & Highlights

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How to Kill Men and Get Away With It by Katy Brent
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‘When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should – so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again.’
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Classics, Crime, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Science, Science fiction, Thriller, and Young-adult


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