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Ellen’s favorite books

Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt

Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland

Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton

The Places in Between by Rory Stewart

All Cats Have Asperger Syndrome by Kathy Hoopmann

Manhunt by James L. Swanson

Over the Edge of the World by Laurence Bergreen

The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Erasure by Percival Everett

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

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read‎ (471)
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Biography, Classics, Contemporary, Crime, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Memoir, Mystery, and Non-fiction

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