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Nels Highberg

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Nels Highberg

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Nels’s favorite books

Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by Z.Z. Packer

The Red Parts by Maggie Nelson

Edinburgh by Alexander Chee

Going to Meet the Man by James Baldwin

My Tender Matador by Pedro Lemebel

Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Sula by Toni Morrison

The Art of Cruelty by Maggie Nelson

The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

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Nels’s Bookshelves

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read‎ (205)
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2026 Reading Challenge

Nels Highberg has read 22 of 24 books.

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Art, Biography, Gay and Lesbian, Memoir, Non-fiction, and Travel

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