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Emily’s favorite books

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman Mindset by Carol S. Dweck The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith The Shining by Stephen King The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Favorite Genres

Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, Humor and Comedy, Literary Fiction, Poetry, Thriller, and Young-adult


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