Jen

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Jen’s favorite books

Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein

The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton

The Dead and the Living by Sharon Olds

The Intellectual Devotional by David S. Kidder

Night by Elie Wiesel

The Door by Magda Szabó

Mommie Dearest by Christina Crawford

The Blind Side by Michael Lewis

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

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Jen’s Bookshelves

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audible‎ (46)

i-books‎ (19)
jack-read‎ (18)
wishlist‎ (15)
dont-want-to-read-anymore‎ (12)
mysteries-to-read‎ (6)

half-way-through-didn-t-like‎ (5)
read-w-j‎ (3)
smith-book-club‎ (3)
summer-reading‎ (2)
hils-reco‎ (0)

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Jen is Currently Reading

A Rising Man

Jen is currently reading

A Rising Man (Sam Wyndham, #1)

by Abir Mukherjee (Goodreads Author)

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David Copperfield

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David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

bookshelves: i-books, currently-reading

Reading for the 2nd time

read in March 2026

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There's Always Th...

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There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

by Hanif Abdurraqib

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Mar 22, 2026 06:48PM

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Jen’s Quotes

Henry Ward Beecher

“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
― Henry Ward Beecherr

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2026 Reading Challenge

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Listopia Votes

And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini

I Always Loved You by Robin Oliveira

Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish by David Rakoff

Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver

Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel

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Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Best Historical Fiction

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African American, Classics, Ebooks, Fiction, Historical fiction, Mystery, Poetry, Politics, Travel, and War

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