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259 books.
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The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy (The Penderwicks #1)
by: Jeanne Birdsall
"4.5
Practically perfect in every way."
- katelynn
06/11/2021
Practically perfect in every way."
- katelynn
06/11/2021
Snowflower and the Secret Fan
by: Lisa See
The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper
by: Phaedra Patrick
Idaho
by: Emily Ruskovich
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
by: Lucia Berlin
Winter Cottage
by: Mary Ellen Taylor
The Incendiaries
by: R.O. Kwon
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Worthy: Boost Your Self-Worth to Grow Your Net Worth
by: Nancy Levin
The Library at the Edge of the World (Finfarran #1)
by: Felicity Hayes-McCoy
Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner Saint
by: Nadia Bolz-Weber
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Polaris Rising (Consortium Rebellion, #1)
by: Jessie Mihalik
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Star-Crossed
by: Minnie Darke
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Letters from Father Christmas
by: J.R.R. Tolkien
Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day
by: Peter Zuckerman
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Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1)
by: Sarah J. Maas
"Started the first 40% of this on audio, but it made me HATE all the characters. YA to the max.
But reading the actual book engaged me so much, I really loved it. I was completely absorbed for the second half - couldn't put it down."
- katelynn
06/29/2023
But reading the actual book engaged me so much, I really loved it. I was completely absorbed for the second half - couldn't put it down."
- katelynn
06/29/2023
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This Beautiful Truth: How God's Goodness Breaks into Our Darkness
by: Sarah Clarkson
The Prince of Tides
by: Pat Conroy
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Steal Away Home: Charles Spurgeon and Thomas Johnson, Unlikely Friends on the Passage to Freedom
by: Matt Carter
The Light We Lost
by: Jill Santopolo
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The Last Bookshop in London
by: Madeline Martin
Everything Here Is Beautiful
by: Mira T. Lee
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Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself
by: Melody Beattie
The Black Jersey
by: Jorge Zepeda Patterson
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Holding Up the Universe
by: Jennifer Niven
The Great Believers
by: Rebecca Makkai
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Long Island Compromise
by: Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Hannah Coulter
by: Wendell Berry
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice
by: Bill Browder
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Sandwich
by: Catherine Newman
Goldenrod: Poems
by: Maggie Smith
Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint
by: Nadia Bolz-Weber
The Shell Seekers
by: Rosamunde Pilcher
Eight Hundred Grapes
by: Laura Dave
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Yellowface
by: R.F. Kuang
"This book was like a train wreck – I couldn’t look away. I liked it enough to be riveted and not be able to put it down but ultimately it leaves a really bad taste in your mouth. But I think that’s intentional."
- katelynn
07/03/2024
- katelynn
07/03/2024
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
by: Alexandra Fuller
Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions (Tante Poldi #1)
by: Mario Giordano
Sing, Unburied, Sing
by: Jesmyn Ward
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The Fixer Upper
by: Lauren Forsythe
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Ghost (Track, #1)
by: Jason Reynolds
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Seven Days in June
by: Tia Williams
Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions
by: Mario Giordano
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The Transit of Venus
by: Shirley Hazzard
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
by: Anne Fadiman
The Brothers K
by: David James Duncan
A Song of Wraiths and Ruin (A Song of Wraiths and Ruin, #1)
by: Roseanne A. Brown
Lilac Girls
by: Martha Hall Kelly
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Passing
by: Nella Larsen
Love and First Sight
by: Josh Sundquist
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The Book of Delights: Essays
by: Ross Gay
"I mean, is there a better description than: DELIGHTFUL! This, in combination with One Thousand Gifts by Ann Voskamp, lifted me out of a dark place. I've started my own delight list (which is also a gratitude list in a way) and it's been transformational.
Ross Gay made me laugh out loud and kept a smile on my face throughout."
- katelynn
08/22/2024
Ross Gay made me laugh out loud and kept a smile on my face throughout."
- katelynn
08/22/2024
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The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
by: Jasper Fforde
Summers at Castle Auburn
by: Sharon Shinn
Shibumi
by: Trevanian Trevanian
The Last Ballad
by: Wiley Cash
The Yellow House
by: Sarah M. Broom
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The Latecomer
by: Jean Hanff Korelitz
To Be Taught, If Fortunate
by: Becky Chambers
Moon of the Crusted Snow
by: Waubgeshig Rice
The Yield
by: Tara June Winch
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Landslide
by: Susan Conley
Washington Black
by: Esi Edugyan
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know
by: Malcolm Gladwell
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The Very Nice Box
by: Laura Blackett
House of Leaves
by: Mark Z. Danielewski
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Hula
by: Jasmin Iolani Hakes
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This Time Tomorrow
by: Emma Straub
The Royal We (Royal We, #1)
by: Heather Cocks
Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts
by: Kate Racculia
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Paper Girls, Volume 1
by: Brian K. Vaughan
That Sounds Fun: The Joys of Being an Amateur, the Power of Falling in Love, and Why You Need a Hobby
by: Annie F. Downs
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Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life
by: Tish Harrison Warren
"Profound! There's some thoughts in here I think I'll be chewing on for years."
- katelynn
07/23/2024
- katelynn
07/23/2024
Half a Creature from the Sea: A Life in Stories
by: David Almond
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Symphony of Secrets
by: Brendan Slocumb
Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
by: Gabrielle Hamilton
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The Gospel Comes with a House Key
by: Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
This Must Be the Place
by: Maggie O'Farrell
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The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives
by: Lola Shoneyin
The Wonder
by: Emma Donoghue
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The Vaster Wilds
by: Lauren Groff
Mending the Divides: Creative Love in a Conflicted World
by: Jon Huckins
In the Name of Jesus: Reflections on Christian Leadership
by: Henri J.M. Nouwen
The Line That Held Us
by: David Joy
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Hum If You Don't Know the Words
by: Bianca Marais
"3.5
I liked this okay. I learned a lot and the characters were easy to root for. Just didn't make a big impact."
- katelynn
12/02/2021
I liked this okay. I learned a lot and the characters were easy to root for. Just didn't make a big impact."
- katelynn
12/02/2021
The Paris Library
by: Janet Skeslien Charles
The Seasons of God: How the Shifting Patterns of Your Life Reveal His Purposes for You
by: Richard Blackaby
The Leavers
by: Lisa Ko
The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard, #1)
by: Scott Lynch
The Sound of Gravel
by: Ruth Wariner
The Lonely Hearts Hotel
by: Heather O'Neill
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Our Wives Under the Sea
by: Julia Armfield
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The Garden of Small Beginnings
by: Abbi Waxman
"I devoured this like a timely and delicious meal. This book goes into that rare category of books that are not just funny but make me actually laugh out loud. So much of the parenting stuff was just like, "YES! Exactly!!" She gets it."
- katelynn
10/17/2021
- katelynn
10/17/2021
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Small Things Like These
by: Claire Keegan
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The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy (Hart and Mercy, #1)
by: Megan Bannen
The Sense of an Ending
by: Julian Barnes
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Lucy's Little Village Book Club
by: Emma Davies
A Gentleman in Moscow
by: Amor Towles
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True History of the Kelly Gang
by: Peter Carey
Castle of Water
by: Dane Huckelbridge
The Corrections
by: Jonathan Franzen
The Ensemble
by: Aja Gabel
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I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
by: Maggie O'Farrell
"Oh my goodness, this writing! Memoir perfection. She is brilliant.
The ending had me weeping and also fist pumping. "
- katelynn
01/19/2022
The ending had me weeping and also fist pumping. "
- katelynn
01/19/2022
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Keep Your Love On: Connection Communication And Boundaries
by: Danny Silk
Come to Me
by: Amy Bloom
The All of It
by: Jeannette Haien
Gap Creek
by: Robert Morgan
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The Secrets We Kept
by: Lara Prescott
Gilead
by: Marilynne Robinson
Gold
by: Chris Cleave
Love and Ruin
by: Paula McLain
The Uncommon Reader
by: Alan Bennett
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The Celebrants
by: Steven Rowley
Crossing to Safety
by: Wallace Stegner
The Truth According to Us
by: Annie Barrows
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
by: Lisa See
The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)
by: Robert Galbraith
Give Them Grace: Dazzling Your Kids with the Love of Jesus
by: Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
Montana 1948
by: Larry Watson
Lilac Girls (Lilac Girls, #1)
by: Martha Hall Kelly
Visible Empire
by: Hannah Pittard
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The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
by: Stuart Turton
Elizabeth Is Missing
by: Emma Healey
Esperanza Rising
by: Pam Muñoz Ryan
Between the World and Me
by: Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Memphis
by: Tara M. Stringfellow
The Nanny
by: Gilly Macmillan
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Change Your Life and Everyone In It
by: Michele Weiner-Davis
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
by: Daniel James Brown
American Dirt
by: Jeanine Cummins
There There
by: Tommy Orange
Young Jane Young
by: Gabrielle Zevin
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I Shall Be Near to You
by: Erin Lindsay McCabe
The Female Persuasion
by: Meg Wolitzer
Love, Hate & Other Filters
by: Samira Ahmed
How to Be an Artist
by: Jerry Saltz
Follow the River
by: James Alexander Thom
I Know This Much Is True
by: Wally Lamb
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Eight Dates: Essential Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
by: John M. Gottman
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The Light Pirate
by: Lily Brooks-Dalton
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Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors (The Rajes, #1)
by: Sonali Dev
November Road
by: Lou Berney
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Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband?
by: Lizzie Damilola Blackburn
The Dreamers
by: Karen Thompson Walker
The Most Fun We Ever Had
by: Claire Lombardo
Seabiscuit: An American Legend
by: Laura Hillenbrand
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Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone (Ernest Cunningham, #1)
by: Benjamin Stevenson
In This House of Brede
by: Rumer Godden
The Time in Between
by: María Dueñas
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Alter in the World Barbara Brown Taylor
by: Barbara Brown Taylor
Space
by: James A. Michener
Home Fire
by: Kamila Shamsie
A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table
by: Molly Wizenberg
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The Last Anniversary
by: Liane Moriarty
"4.5
I loved this so much - as I knew I would. Liane Moriarty has yet to disappoint. She just gets it! She understands parenting, she understands relationships.
This book had a broad cast of interesting, flawed, funny characters. She showed and gave grace for the different types of mothers in the world. And there was a truly shocking twist in the last second! So so fun."
- katelynn
11/29/2021
I loved this so much - as I knew I would. Liane Moriarty has yet to disappoint. She just gets it! She understands parenting, she understands relationships.
This book had a broad cast of interesting, flawed, funny characters. She showed and gave grace for the different types of mothers in the world. And there was a truly shocking twist in the last second! So so fun."
- katelynn
11/29/2021
Dear Emmie Blue
by: Lia Louis
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We're Going to Need More Wine
by: Gabrielle Union
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The Things We Cannot Say
by: Kelly Rimmer
Babette’s Feast
by: Isak Dinesen
Heating Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs
by: Beth Ann Fennelly
The Eighth Life
by: Nino Haratischwili
The Silent Corner (Jane Hawk, #1)
by: Dean Koontz
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The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
by: Carlos Ruiz Zafón
"4.5
Oh man I really did love this book, but a few things pushed it down from a perfect 5 stars. Just a few times it crossed the line for me - just too much (disturbing).
But the poetry and the characters, this was truly a lovely experience."
- katelynn
08/28/2023
Oh man I really did love this book, but a few things pushed it down from a perfect 5 stars. Just a few times it crossed the line for me - just too much (disturbing).
But the poetry and the characters, this was truly a lovely experience."
- katelynn
08/28/2023
Ursula, Under
by: Ingrid Hill
Ride the Wind
by: Lucia St. Clair Robson
The Big Green Tent
by: Lyudmila Ulitskaya
The Library at the Edge of the World (Finfarran Peninsula, #1)
by: Felicity Hayes-McCoy
Better Nate Than Ever (Better Nate Than Ever, #1)
by: Tim Federle
A Share in Death (Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James, #1)
by: Deborah Crombie
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The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
by: Stuart Turton
All Over But the Shoutin'
by: Rick Bragg
Mr. Ives' Christmas
by: Oscar Hijuelos
What We Were Promised
by: Lucy Tan
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The Dictionary of Lost Words
by: Pip Williams
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Blessing Your Spirit: With the Blessings of Your Father and the Names of God
by: Sylvia Gunter
Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)
by: Waubgeshig Rice
A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana
by: Haven Kimmel
You Think It, I'll Say It
by: Curtis Sittenfeld
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The Dearly Beloved
by: Cara Wall
"4.5"
- katelynn
01/03/2023
- katelynn
01/03/2023
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
by: Olga Tokarczuk
The Golem and the Jinni (The Golem and the Jinni, #1)
by: Helene Wecker
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Cozy Minimalist Home: More Style, Less Stuff
by: Myquillyn Smith
An Unlikely Match
by: Sarah M. Eden
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Jayber Crow
by: Wendell Berry
"This had some beautiful and profound moments, but overall it was just too.. nothing. Too like real life, I guess. "
- katelynn
04/16/2022
- katelynn
04/16/2022
One True Loves
by: Taylor Jenkins Reid
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The Ghost Bride
by: Yangsze Choo
A Place for Us
by: Fatima Farheen Mirza
City of Ghosts (Cassidy Blake, #1)
by: Victoria Schwab
A Girl Named Zippy
by: Haven Kimmel
Exit West
by: Mohsin Hamid
This is the Story of a Happy Marriage
by: Ann Patchett
A Kiss of Adventure (Treasures of the Heart #1)
by: Catherine Palmer
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The Mysterious Benedict Society (The Mysterious Benedict Society, #1)
by: Trenton Lee Stewart
The Weight of Him
by: Ethel Rohan
Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change
by: Maggie Smith
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Olga Dies Dreaming
by: Xóchitl González
Census
by: Jesse Ball
Women in Sunlight
by: Frances Mayes
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The Cliffs
by: J. Courtney Sullivan
The Paris Architect
by: Charles Belfoure
Hum If You Don’t Know the Words
by: Bianca Marais
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
by: David Grann
My Berlin Kitchen: A Love Story (with Recipes)
by: Luisa Weiss
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The Divorce Remedy: The Proven 7-Step Program for Saving Your Marriage
by: Michele Weiner-Davis
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To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings
by: John O'Donohue
The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line (Veronica Mars, #1)
by: Rob Thomas
The War That Saved My Life (The War That Saved My Life, #1)
by: Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Dreamland Burning
by: Jennifer Latham
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Romantic Comedy
by: Curtis Sittenfeld
Gilead (Gilead, #1)
by: Marilynne Robinson
Wonder (Wonder, #1)
by: R.J. Palacio
After the End
by: Clare Mackintosh
Ginny Moon
by: Benjamin Ludwig
Y: The Last Man, Vol. 1: Unmanned
by: Brian K. Vaughan
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
by: Isabel Wilkerson
The Song of Achilles
by: Madeline Miller
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The Eyes and the Impossible
by: Dave Eggers
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The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy (The Penderwicks, #1)
by: Jeanne Birdsall
"4.5
Practically perfect in every way."
- katelynn
06/11/2021
Practically perfect in every way."
- katelynn
06/11/2021
Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs
by: Beth Ann Fennelly
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Search
by: Michelle Huneven
The Art of Racing in the Rain
by: Garth Stein
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Girls and Their Horses
by: Eliza Jane Brazier
Mr. Fox
by: Helen Oyeyemi
How to Find Love in a Book Shop
by: Veronica Henry
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Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me
by: Ada Calhoun
The Second Chance Supper Club
by: Nicole Meier
Interpreter of Maladies
by: Jhumpa Lahiri
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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
by: Alfred Lansing
Rush
by: Lisa Patton
What Does It Mean to Be Welcoming?: Navigating LGBT Questions in Your Church
by: Travis Collins
Share Your Stuff. I'll Go First: 10 Questions to Take Your Friendships to the Next Level
by: Laura Tremaine
I Was Anastasia
by: Ariel Lawhon
Life After Life (Todd Family, #1)
by: Kate Atkinson
Heavy
by: Kiese Laymon
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All the Broken Places (The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, #2)
by: John Boyne
All You Can Ever Know
by: Nicole Chung
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Braver Than You Think: Around the World on the Trip of My (Mother’s) Lifetime
by: Maggie Downs
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Herding Tigers: Be the Leader That Creative People Need
by: Todd Henry
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From Lukov with Love
by: Mariana Zapata
Plainsong (Plainsong, #1)
by: Kent Haruf
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The Hills is Lonely (Hebridean Trilogy, #1)
by: Lillian Beckwith
West with the Night
by: Beryl Markham
The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1)
by: Patrick Ness
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Try Softer: A Fresh Approach to Move Us out of Anxiety, Stress, and Survival Mode--and into a Life of Connection and Joy
by: Aundi Kolber
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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
by: Patrick Radden Keefe
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
by: Tim Marshall
Spellbreaker (Spellbreaker Duology, #1)
by: Charlie N. Holmberg
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Loved and Missed
by: Susie Boyt
Rules of Civility
by: Amor Towles
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A Monster Calls
by: Patrick Ness
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Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
by: Rebecca Yarros
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We All Want Impossible Things
by: Catherine Newman
Spill Simmer Falter Wither
by: Sara Baume
Cutting for Stone
by: Abraham Verghese
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know
by: Malcolm Gladwell
Gods of Howl Mountain
by: Taylor Brown
Just Kids
by: Patti Smith
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Demon Copperhead
by: Barbara Kingsolver
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A Quiet Life
by: Ethan Joella
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Nineteen Minutes
by: Jodi Picoult
"I really liked it but oof, it was brutal. An emotional beating for sure."
- katelynn
01/20/2023
- katelynn
01/20/2023
