Jess Hough

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Jess Hough

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Jess’s favorite books

The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston

Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion

White Teeth by Zadie Smith

No Name in the Street by James Baldwin

1984 by George Orwell

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin

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The Hand That Fir...

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The Hand That First Held Mine

by Maggie O'Farrell (Goodreads Author)

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Chick-lit, Classics, Contemporary, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Mystery, Poetry, Romance, Science fiction, and Suspense

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