Melanie

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Melanie

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Melanie’s favorite books

The Complete Stories of Truman Capote by Truman Capote

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

The Color of Water by James McBride

Black White and Jewish by Rebecca Walker

To Be Real by Rebecca Walker

Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama

Flesh and Blood by Michael Cunningham

Workin' on the Chain Gang by Walter Mosley

Days of Grace by Arthur Ashe

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House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III

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2026 Reading Challenge

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Adult Fiction, Biography, Book Club, Cooking, Fiction, Food, Historical fiction, Humor and Comedy, Literary Fiction, Mystery, Non-fiction, and Young-adult

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