Laura

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Laura

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Laura’s favorite books

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

Travesuras de la niña mala by Mario Vargas Llosa

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

The Call of the Wild by Jack London

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

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Laura’s Bookshelves

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memoir‎ (9)
bipoc-authors‎ (4)

romance‎ (4)
classics‎ (3)
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thriller‎ (3)

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dystopian-science-fiction‎ (1)
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Workhorse

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by Caroline Palmer

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Small Great Things

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Small Great Things

by Jodi Picoult (Goodreads Author)

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Classics, Contemporary, Fiction, Historical fiction, Memoir, Non-fiction, and Suspense

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