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Ellen’s favorite books

I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

1984 by George Orwell

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Night by Elie Wiesel

On Photography by Susan Sontag

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

The Myth of Sisyphus, and Other Essays by Albert Camus

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by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence. – Ovid

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