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Melissa’s favorite books

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov Marjorie Morningstar by Herman Wouk The Secret History by Donna Tartt The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Dubliners by James Joyce Erasure by Percival Everett As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
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Biography, Classics, Fiction, Graphic novels, Historical fiction, History, Non-fiction, Poetry, Religion, Spirituality, and Young-adult


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