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Rachel’s 2026-reads shelf

I, Claudius by Robert Graves The Secret History by Donna Tartt If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill Strong Female Character by Fern Brady My Friends by Fredrik Backman Ready Player One by Ernest Cline Piranesi by Susanna Clarke Open Throat by Henry Hoke Shrill by Lindy West
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My Friends by Fredrik Backman
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They’re painted as if the artist saw them so intensively and dreamed them so beautifully that he learned how to whisper in color. Painted by someone who must have been completely beaten to pieces inside, because no one could hold a brush so ...more
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