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Karen’s favorite books

I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman

The Summer Book by Tove Jansson

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

On Beauty by Zadie Smith

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Stoner by John Williams

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The Tiger's Wife

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The Tiger's Wife

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by George Saunders

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Karen Murphy has read 37 of 48 books.

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Biography, Classics, Crime, Fiction, Historical fiction, Memoir, Non-fiction, and Thriller

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