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Melissa’s favorite books

To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis The Green Mile by Stephen King Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck The Gunslinger by Stephen King Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler Push by Sapphire Hamlet by Kenneth Branagh The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams 1984 by George Orwell Doubt, a Parable by John Patrick Shanley
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Crystal
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Classics, Contemporary, Crime, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, Humor and Comedy, Literary Fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Science fiction, Spirituality, dystopia, post-apocalyptic, speculative-fiction, science-fiction-fantasy, and apocalyptic


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