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All Creatures Great and Small / All Things Bright and Beautiful by James Herriot The Sculptress by Minette Walters The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry Anne of the Island by L.M. Montgomery My Ántonia by Willa Cather Nobody's Fool by Richard Russo The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough Well-Schooled in Murder by Elizabeth George The Book Thief by Markus Zusak The Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett Drinking by Caroline Knapp
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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeePride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Joy Luck Club by Amy TanLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
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