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Melissa’s favorite books

Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume

Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein

All Creatures Great and Small / All Things Bright and Beautiful by James Herriot

The Elements Of Style by William Strunk Jr.

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

A Dangerous Woman by Mary McGarry Morris

A Dry White Season by André Brink

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard

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Melissa’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (406)
currently-reading‎ (1)

read‎ (746)
did-not-finish‎ (0)

started-but-didn-t-finish‎ (13)

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Melissa is Currently Reading

The Big Sleep

Melissa is currently reading

The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)

by Raymond Chandler

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2026 Reading Challenge

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Melissa has read 24 books of her goal of 10!

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Jose Pires

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This Book Is Full of Spiders by David Wong

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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Favorite Genres

Adult Fiction, Biography, Book Club, Chick-lit, Classics, Contemporary, Crime, Ebooks, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Horror, Memoir, Mystery, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Politics, Romance, Suspense, Thriller, Travel, Young-adult, and Women's Fiction

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