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Ryan’s favorite books

Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

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Holes by Louis Sachar

This is Not a Drill by Paul Carter

The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr

Six Graves to Munich by Mario Puzo

In Jail with Nazim Hikmet by Orhan Kemal

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The Witch and the...

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The Witch and the Woodcutter

by L.S. Walker (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, fantasy

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Orbital

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by Samantha Harvey

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— Jun 19, 2026 10:40AM

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The Gulag Archipe...

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The Gulag Archipelago: 50th Anniversary Abridged Edition

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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— Jun 18, 2026 12:19AM

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2026 Reading Challenge

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Ryan has read 9 books of his goal of 4!

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