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Kate’s favorite books

Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain

Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

Lies & the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken

SantaLand Diaries by David Sedaris

Charms for the Easy Life by Kaye Gibbons

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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Biological War: A...

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Biological War: A Scenario

by Annie Jacobsen (Goodreads Author)

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Favorite Genres

Adult Fiction, Biography, Book Club, Chick-lit, Classics, Contemporary, Cookbooks, Cooking, Fiction, Food, Historical fiction, Humor and Comedy, Memoir, Non-fiction, Science fiction, Suspense, and Women's Fiction

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