Joel Ryken
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I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong The Sword of Kaigen by M.L. Wang
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Dark Age (Red Rising Saga #5) by Pierce Brown
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I think…I think what I’ve realized is that every father makes a mess of things. It’s just a matter of if he cared when he did it. Our father didn’t, and I think you spotted that.”
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