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Melissa’s favorite books

The Reader by Bernhard Schlink The Confessions of Max Tivoli by Andrew Sean Greer Comfortable with Uncertainty by Pema Chödrön The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry The Book Thief by Markus Zusak House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
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Lois Lowry
“Life here is so orderly, so predictable-so painless. It's what they've chosen.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver
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Adult Fiction, Art, Biography, Book Club, Chick-lit, Classics, Contemporary, Crime, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Memoir, Mystery, Non-fiction, Romance, Suspense, Thriller, and Young-adult


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