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Melissa’s favorite books

Magical Thinking by Augusten Burroughs The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Shipping News by Annie Proulx As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner My Ántonia by Willa Cather The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
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Adult Fiction, Biography, Book Club, Children's, Classics, Cookbooks, Crime, Ebooks, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Humor and Comedy, Literary Fiction, Memoir, Mystery, Non-fiction, Romance, Self help, and Suspense


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