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Anna’s to-read shelf

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Sweet Gum Tree by Katherine Allred

The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai

This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel

Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See

Trust by Hernan Diaz

This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub

The Magic of Motherhood by Ashlee Gadd

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

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Anna is Currently Reading

Frankenstein

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by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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The Play

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The Play (Briar U, #3)

by Elle Kennedy (Goodreads Author)

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The Frozen River

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The Frozen River

by Ariel Lawhon (Goodreads Author)

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2026 Reading Challenge

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Anna Essmann has read 62 books of their goal of 50!

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Adult Fiction, Book Club, Chick-lit, Classics, Contemporary, Cooking, Fantasy, Fiction, History, Humor and Comedy, Romance, and Women's Fiction

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