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Joan’s favorite books

World War Z by Max Brooks

The Anthropology of Turquoise by Ellen Meloy

The Great Influenza by John M. Barry

Why I Wake Early by Mary Oliver

Fidelity by Wendell Berry

Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver

What the Living Do by Marie Howe

2001 by Arthur C. Clarke

Night by Elie Wiesel

They Came Like Swallows by William Maxwell

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

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Real Vermonters D...

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Real Vermonters Don't Milk Goats: 43rd Anniversary Edition

by Frank Bryan

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2026 Reading Challenge

Joan Carson has read 46 of 54 books.

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Biography, Classics, Crime, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Memoir, Mystery, Philosophy, and Science fiction

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