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A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

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The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom

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The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny

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Adult Fiction, Art, Book Club, Chick-lit, Contemporary, Crime, Fiction, Historical fiction, Literary Fiction, Memoir, Paranormal, Suspense, and Women's Fiction

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