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List created for the 2025 reading challenge in the Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge group .
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A book under 250 pages.
Please use this list for all books you are considering reading, as well as books you would recommend for this prompt! If you use the "Search" feature to add books (instead of choosing from "My Books"), that will eliminate multiple versions of the same book being added to the list. When you add the book, you can add a comment (in the box provided next to "why you added this book") if you wish.
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All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
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Martha Wells (Goodreads Author)
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The Little Prince
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Animal Farm
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Night
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The Giver (The Giver, #1)
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Lois Lowry (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 2,754,278 ratings
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Every Heart a Doorway (Wayward Children, #1)
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Seanan McGuire (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 121,518 ratings
score: 873,
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The Great Gatsby
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3.93 avg rating — 5,783,977 ratings
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
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4.22 avg rating — 1,983,405 ratings
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Crying in H Mart
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4.24 avg rating — 568,398 ratings
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Of Mice and Men
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3.89 avg rating — 2,775,062 ratings
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A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)
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Becky Chambers (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 172,633 ratings
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The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)
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Nghi Vo (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 42,934 ratings
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Small Things Like These
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4.11 avg rating — 373,713 ratings
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Fahrenheit 451
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3.97 avg rating — 2,752,930 ratings
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The Outsiders
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S.E. Hinton (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 1,556,300 ratings
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
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Animal Farm
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4.01 avg rating — 4,413,081 ratings
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Galatea
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Madeline Miller (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 117,961 ratings
score: 493,
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The House on Mango Street
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3.69 avg rating — 225,897 ratings
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The Crucible
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3.61 avg rating — 455,223 ratings
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Fangs
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Sarah Andersen (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 52,034 ratings
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How to Keep House While Drowning
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4.21 avg rating — 74,532 ratings
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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3.92 avg rating — 1,003,534 ratings
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The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #1)
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Alexander McCall Smith (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 273,998 ratings
score: 467,
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The Phantom Tollbooth
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4.20 avg rating — 303,410 ratings
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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
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4.27 avg rating — 226,572 ratings
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Thornhedge
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3.93 avg rating — 55,067 ratings
score: 459,
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Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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Mitch Albom (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 1,168,099 ratings
score: 459,
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Binti (Binti, #1)
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Nnedi Okorafor (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 79,248 ratings
score: 456,
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Coraline
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Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 766,387 ratings
score: 445,
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Ring Shout
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P. Djèlí Clark (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 48,777 ratings
score: 444,
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The Tea Dragon Society (Tea Dragon, #1)
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4.34 avg rating — 68,321 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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4.47 avg rating — 11,160,999 ratings
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Penric’s Demon (Penric and Desdemona, #1)
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Lois McMaster Bujold (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 12,080 ratings
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Even Though I Knew the End
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C.L. Polk (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 18,868 ratings
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84, Charing Cross Road
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4.16 avg rating — 94,278 ratings
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I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)
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4.21 avg rating — 372,664 ratings
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Bridge to Teribithia
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4.06 avg rating — 582,887 ratings
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Of Mice and Men
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3.89 avg rating — 2,775,062 ratings
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Letter from the Birmingham Jail
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4.72 avg rating — 8,533 ratings
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Little House in the Big Woods (Little House, #1)
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4.21 avg rating — 283,067 ratings
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Convenience Store Woman
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3.68 avg rating — 356,778 ratings
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Skipping Christmas
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John Grisham (Goodreads Author)
3.57 avg rating — 84,437 ratings
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Girl, Interrupted
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3.94 avg rating — 271,852 ratings
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Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
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3.93 avg rating — 104,574 ratings
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Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)
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3.66 avg rating — 645,009 ratings
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The Haunting of Hill House
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3.81 avg rating — 371,484 ratings
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A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 1,268,606 ratings
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James and the Giant Peach
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie Bucket, #1)
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4.17 avg rating — 917,848 ratings
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Matilda
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Melissa
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4.09 avg rating — 47,476 ratings
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The Message
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Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
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3.99 avg rating — 380,349 ratings
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The City in Glass
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Nghi Vo (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 5,767 ratings
score: 280,
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Play It As It Lays
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3.91 avg rating — 87,432 ratings
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The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)
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Malka Ann Older (Goodreads Author)
3.62 avg rating — 8,973 ratings
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What Feasts at Night (Sworn Soldier, #2)
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3.81 avg rating — 35,033 ratings
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When Among Crows (Curse Bearer, #1)
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Veronica Roth (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 23,097 ratings
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The White Darkness
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David Grann (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 9,261 ratings
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The Fall of the House of Usher
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3.85 avg rating — 84,757 ratings
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A Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables, #1)
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Alix E. Harrow (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 38,477 ratings
score: 266,
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A Mirror Mended (Fractured Fables, #2)
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Alix E. Harrow (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 14,831 ratings
score: 264,
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The Deal of a Lifetime
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Fredrik Backman (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 59,506 ratings
score: 260,
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Ella Minnow Pea
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3.94 avg rating — 56,801 ratings
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The Remains of the Day
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Kazuo Ishiguro (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 348,947 ratings
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The Scourge Between Stars
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3.56 avg rating — 4,998 ratings
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Last Chance to See
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Talk Before Sleep
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3.96 avg rating — 12,336 ratings
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Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
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The Bell Jar
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Orbital
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3.53 avg rating — 118,590 ratings
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The Hundred Dresses
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Three Days in June
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Anne Tyler (Goodreads Author)
3.64 avg rating — 77,751 ratings
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SantaLand Diaries
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Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)
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3.79 avg rating — 67,402 ratings
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You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism
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4.42 avg rating — 21,868 ratings
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey
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The Five People You Meet in Heaven
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Mitch Albom (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 788,386 ratings
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Ru
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Foster
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The Gifts of Imperfection
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Brené Brown (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 217,035 ratings
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The Gift
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Freida McFadden (Goodreads Author)
3.22 avg rating — 127,436 ratings
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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The Mountains of Mourning (Vorkosigan Saga, #5.1)
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Lois McMaster Bujold (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 8,957 ratings
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The Grown Up
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Gillian Flynn (Goodreads Author)
3.55 avg rating — 149,820 ratings
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The Lottery
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The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
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Kate DiCamillo (Goodreads Author)
4.39 avg rating — 119,683 ratings
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Speak
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Laurie Halse Anderson (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 625,306 ratings
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We'll Prescribe You a Cat (We'll Prescribe You a Cat, #1)
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
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Giovanni’s Room
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Wash Day Diaries
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We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
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The Notebook (The Notebook, #1)
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Nicholas Sparks (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 1,818,761 ratings
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Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3)
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A Room with a View
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And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer
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