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BEST BOOK TO READ FIRST |
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The Weight of Dreams |
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Bastard Out of Carolina |
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In the Time of the Butterflies |
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Vinegar Hill |
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Ship Fever: Stories |
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Picturing Will |
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Durable Goods |
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Rubyfruit Jungle |
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Revenge of the Middle Aged Woman |
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Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine |
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Sally Hemings: a Novel |
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Girl with a Pearl Earring |
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The Quilter’s Apprentice |
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The Foreign Student |
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The Beans of Egypt, Maine |
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The House on Mango Street |
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The Persian Pickle Club |
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A Book of Common Prayer |
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Sister of My Heart |
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Love Medicine |
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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café |
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Sullivan’s Island |
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A Cure for Dreams |
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Rhoda: a Life in Stories |
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A Mother and Two Daughters |
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Kaaterskill Falls |
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Men and Angels |
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Domestic Pleasures |
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The Book of Ruth |
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The Seal Wife |
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The Great Fire |
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Stones From the River |
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Illumination Night |
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The Dress Lodger |
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The Safety of Objects |
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Walter's Purple Heart |
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Close Relations |
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Typical American |
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Le Divorce |
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At Home in Mitford |
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The Secret Life of Bees |
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A Girl Named Zippy (NF) |
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The Autobiography of My Mother |
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The Bean Trees |
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Interpreter of Maladies |
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Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life (NF) |
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Patty Jane's House of Curl |
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Where the Heart Is |
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Then She Found Me |
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Foreign Affairs |
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Hank and Chloe |
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The Great Divorce |
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Clear Springs (NF) |
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Tending to Virginia |
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The Giant's House |
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Charming Billy |
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Waiting to Exhale |
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Bright Angel Time |
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Liars and Saints |
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Family Pictures |
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Evening |
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The Deep End of the Ocean |
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Birds of America |
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The Whiteness of Bones |
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The Waiting Room |
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A Dangerous Woman |
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Song of Solomon |
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Ahab's Wife |
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Them |
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The Passion Dream Book |
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The Collected Stories |
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Bel Canto |
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The Funeral Makers |
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Harvesting the Heart |
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Woman on the Edge of Time |
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Evergreen |
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Blue Angel |
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The Shipping News |
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One True Thing |
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Step-Ball-Change |
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She is Me |
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Beyond Deserving |
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Lucky (NF) |
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Crows Over a Wheatfield |
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The Pilot's Wife |
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Up Island |
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Almanac of the Dead |
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Tully |
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Anywhere But Here |
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A Thousand Acres |
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Fair and Tender Ladies |
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The Volcano Lover |
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I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots |
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The Joy Luck Club |
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The Secret History |
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Three Women at the Water's Edge |
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Big Stone Gap |
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The Samurai's Garden |
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Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant |
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Girl in Hyacinth Blue |
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The Color Purple |
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Evidence of Things Unseen |