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Helen’s favorite books

Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell

The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing

The Blue Bear by Lynn Schooler

Gather Together in My Name by Maya Angelou

Martha Quest by Doris Lessing

Skallagrigg by William Horwood

Possessing the Secret of Joy by Alice Walker

The Valley of Horses by Jean M. Auel

The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

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The Testaments

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The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)

by Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)

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A Confederacy of Dunces

by John Kennedy Toole

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Underland: A Deep Time Journey - The bestselling nature book from the author of Is a River Alive?

by Robert Macfarlane (Goodreads Author)

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2026 Reading Challenge

Helen has read 12 of 25 books.

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Chick-lit, Classics, Contemporary, Ebooks, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Poetry, Romance, and Travel

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