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Kirsten’s favorite books

The Secret History by Donna Tartt The Book Thief by Markus Zusak The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides Life of Pi by Yann Martel I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson The Untethered Soul by Michael A. Singer Still Alice by Lisa Genova The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
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Theo of Golden
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Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted by Suleika Jaouad
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The power of story is to heal and to sustain, she wrote. And if we are brave enough to tell our own story, we realize we’re not alone, again and again.
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The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Biography and Memoirs that are BETTER than Fiction
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The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2017
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Fiction, Memoir, Mystery, Science, Self help, Thriller, and Young-adult


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