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Jen’s favorite books

I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman 1984 by George Orwell The Secret History by Donna Tartt Murder in Amsterdam by Ian Buruma Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. On Beauty by Zadie Smith No Exit and Three Other Plays by Jean-Paul Sartre Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Hector and the Secrets of Love by François Lelord The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
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I Want to Die but...
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Sympathy Tower Tokyo
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The Library Book
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by Susan Orlean (Goodreads Author)
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Biography, Classics, Fiction, Historical fiction, Memoir, Philosophy, Travel, and Young-adult


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