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Jess’s favourites shelf

A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories by Truman Capote

Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh

Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

I'll Sell You a Dog by Juan Pablo Villalobos

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell

When All is Said by Anne Griffin

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pre-1900‎ (154)
behavioural-economics‎ (64)

travel‎ (63)
planet-and-nature‎ (40)
banned-books‎ (19)
booker-prize‎ (18)

international-development‎ (7)

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The Yacoubian Bui...

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The Yacoubian Building

by Alaa Al Aswany

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I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest with You

by Miranda Hart

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2026 Reading Challenge

Jess has read 48 of 52 books.

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A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Man Booker Shortlist

272 books — 89 voters

Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart

Booker Prize Winners

62 books — 2,008 voters

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