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A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

The Easter Parade by Richard Yates

Eleven Kinds of Loneliness by Richard Yates

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron

Blindness by José Saramago

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell

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behavioural-economics‎ (64)

travel‎ (63)
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international-development‎ (7)

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The Cider House Rules

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by Rachel Khong (Goodreads Author)

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Jess has read 36 of 52 books.

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Life of Pi by Yann Martel

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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

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