Melanie Sum

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Melanie Sum

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Melanie’s favorite books

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Gastronomical Me by M.F.K. Fisher

Just Kids by Patti Smith

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

My Life in France by Julia Child

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling

Perfume by Patrick Süskind

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Stranger by Albert Camus

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by Ottessa Moshfegh

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Bread of Angels: A Memoir

by Patti Smith (Goodreads Author)

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Melanie’s Quotes

Michelle Zauner

“It felt like the world had divided into two different types of people, those who had felt pain and those who had yet to.”
― Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

tags: grief-and-loss

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2026 Reading Challenge

Melanie Sum has read 2 of 10 books.

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Art, Chick-lit, Classics, Crime, Fantasy, Fiction, History, Horror, Memoir, Mystery, and Thriller

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