Karen Serles

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Karen Serles

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Karen’s favorite books

Four Letters of Love by Niall Williams

The City and the House by Natalia Ginzburg

All Our Yesterdays by Natalia Ginzburg

On Writing by Stephen King

The Ornament of the World by María Rosa Menocal

Brunelleschi's Dome by Ross King

Learning to Talk by Hilary Mantel

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

Fludd by Hilary Mantel

L'amico ritrovato by Fred Uhlman

The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

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Karen’s Bookshelves

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Shakespeare: The ...

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Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent

by Judi Dench

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Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts

by Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)

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2026 Reading Challenge

Karen Serles has read 5 of 36 books.

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Drew Serles

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Art, Biography, Book Club, Classics, Contemporary, Cookbooks, Cooking, Fiction, Food, History, Literary Fiction, Memoir, Politics, Psychology, and Travel

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