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Pastoralia by George Saunders I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman The Gift of Therapy by Irvin D. Yalom Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler The Secret History by Donna Tartt So Big by Edna Ferber The Shipping News by Annie Proulx Out of My Later Years by Albert Einstein In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts by Gabor Maté ❴Bel by Ann Patchett The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
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Oathbringer
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by Brandon Sanderson (Goodreads Author)
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How to Read Now
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