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Melissa’s favorite books

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson 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 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
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Biography, Classics, Fiction, Graphic novels, Historical fiction, History, Non-fiction, Poetry, Religion, Spirituality, and Young-adult


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