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This is an organized subset of all the books I’ve rated four or five stars on

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Alex's recommended novels

Genre

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Title and author

My rating

Summary by GPT

Fiction

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Worry

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by Alexandra Tanner

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Anita de Monte Laughs Last

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by Xochitl Gonzalez

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Counterfeit

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by Kirstin Chen

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Help Wanted

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by Adelle Waldman

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Yellowface

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by R.F. Kuang

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Birnam Wood

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by Eleanor Catton

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Tom Lake

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by Ann Patchett

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Demon Copperhead

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by Barbara Kingsolver

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My Name Is Lucy Barton

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by Rona Munro

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Pineapple Street

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by Jenny Jackson

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True Biz

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by Sara Nović

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The Verifiers

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by Jane Pek

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Harlem Shuffle

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by Colson Whitehead

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A Calling for Charlie Barnes

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by Joshua Ferris

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The Latecomer

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by Jean Hanff Korelitz

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Trust

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by Hernan Diaz

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The Candy House

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by Jennifer Egan

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To Paradise

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by Hanya Yanagihara

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The Vanishing Half

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by Brit Bennett

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Last Couple Standing

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by Matthew Norman

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Queenie

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by Candice Carty-Williams

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by David Nicholls

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Excellent Women

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by Barbara Pym

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My Year of Rest and Relaxation

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by Ottessa Moshfegh

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The First Bad Man

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by Miranda July

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French Exit

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by Patrick deWitt

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The Female Persuasion

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by Meg Wolitzer

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Symptoms of Being Human

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by Jeff Garvin

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Less

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by Andrew Sean Greer

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Daughter of Fortune

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by Isabel Allende

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The Emperor's Children

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by Claire Messud

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Fall on Your Knees

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by Ann-Marie MacDonald

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Mansfield Park

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by Jane Austen

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The Passion

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by Jeanette Winterson

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Cold Mountain

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by Charles Frazier

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The Kitchen God's Wife

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by Amy Tan

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Cat’s Eye

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by Margaret Atwood

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The Shipping News

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by Annie Proulx

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The House of the Spirits

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by Isabel Allende

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Emma

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by Jane Austen

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To Kill a Mockingbird

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by Harper Lee

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On Beauty

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by Zadie Smith

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George and Lizzie

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by Nancy Pearl

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My Ex-Life

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by Stephen McCauley

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Manhattan Beach

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by Jennifer Egan

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The Windfall

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by Diksha Basu

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Startup

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by Doree Shafrir

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Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

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by Gail Honeyman

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Behold the Dreamers

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by Imbolo Mbue

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Persian Nights

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by Diane Johnson

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The Joy Luck Club

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by Amy Tan

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Heartburn

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by Nora Ephron

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The Family Man

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by Elinor Lipman

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The Ten-Year Nap

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by Meg Wolitzer

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A Home at the End of the World

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by Michael Cunningham

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Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer

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by Steven Millhauser

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The Uncommon Reader

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by Alan Bennett

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Behind the Scenes at the Museum

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by Kate Atkinson

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Prep

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by Curtis Sittenfeld

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The Danish Girl

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by David Ebershoff

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Wilderness Tips

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by Margaret Atwood

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The Color Purple

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by Alice Walker

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American Wife

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by Curtis Sittenfeld

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The Pursuit of Love & Love in a Cold Climate

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by Nancy Mitford

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Two Girls, Fat and Thin

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by Mary Gaitskill

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The Pursuit of Love

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by Nancy Mitford

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The Echo Maker

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by Richard Powers

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The March

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by E.L. Doctorow

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The Hours

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by Michael Cunningham

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Animal Farm

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by George Orwell

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Love Medicine

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by Louise Erdrich

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Lord of the Flies

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by William Golding

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The Bluest Eye

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by Toni Morrison

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Ragtime

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by E.L. Doctorow

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Beginner's Greek

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by James Collins

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My Lucky Star

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by Joe Keenan

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Open City

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by Teju Cole

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The Robber Bride

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by Margaret Atwood

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Anywhere But Here

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by Mona Simpson

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A Regular Guy

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by Mona Simpson

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Searching for Caleb

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by Anne Tyler

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Saint Maybe

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by Anne Tyler

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Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

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by Anne Tyler

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Breathing Lessons

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by Anne Tyler

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The Accidental Tourist

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by Anne Tyler

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About a Boy

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by Nick Hornby

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Lonesome Dove

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by Larry McMurtry

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The Beautiful and Damned

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by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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JPod

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by Douglas Coupland

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Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

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by Douglas Coupland

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Microserfs

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by Douglas Coupland

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Bring Up the Bodies

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by Hilary Mantel

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Thank You for Smoking

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by Christopher Buckley

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I Married a Communist

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by Philip Roth

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The Human Stain

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by Philip Roth

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The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

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by Michael Chabon

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The Fourth Hand

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by John Irving

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The Hotel New Hampshire

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by John Irving

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A Widow for One Year

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by John Irving

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The Cider House Rules

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by John Irving

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The Corrections

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by Jonathan Franzen

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The Reluctant Fundamentalist

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by Mohsin Hamid

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Then We Came to the End

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by Joshua Ferris

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To Rise Again at a Decent Hour

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by Joshua Ferris

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The Nature of Blood

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by Caryl Phillips

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Cambridge

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by Caryl Phillips

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The Lacuna

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by Barbara Kingsolver

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Shine On, Bright and Dangerous Object

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by Laurie Colwin

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Goodbye Without Leaving

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by Laurie Colwin

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Happy All the Time

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by Laurie Colwin

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The Man of the House

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by Stephen McCauley

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The Object of My Affection

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by Stephen McCauley

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The Magician's Assistant

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by Ann Patchett

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A Family Daughter

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by Maile Meloy

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Liars and Saints

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by Maile Meloy

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Americanah

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by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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The Sacrifice

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by Adele Wiseman

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Unless

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by Carol Shields

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The Stone Diaries

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by Carol Shields

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Larry's Party

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by Carol Shields

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A Thousand Acres

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by Jane Smiley

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Moo

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by Jane Smiley

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Small Island

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by Andrea Levy

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Olive Kitteridge

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by Elizabeth Strout

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Possession

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by A.S. Byatt

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Wolf Hall

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by Hilary Mantel

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Brideshead Revisited

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by Evelyn Waugh

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Their Eyes Were Watching God

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by Zora Neale Hurston

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A Clockwork Orange

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by Anthony Burgess

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Animal Farm / 1984

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by George Orwell

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Mrs. Dalloway

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by Virginia Woolf

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Howards End

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by E.M. Forster

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Anna Karenina

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by Leo Tolstoy

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Middlemarch

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by George Eliot

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Jane Eyre

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by Charlotte Brontë

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The House of Mirth

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by Edith Wharton

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The Age of Innocence

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by Edith Wharton

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Vanity Fair

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by William Makepeace Thackeray

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Commonwealth

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by Ann Patchett

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Lost for Words

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by Edward St. Aubyn

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Euphoria

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by Lily King

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Rainbows End

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by Vernor Vinge

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Brave New World

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by Aldous Huxley

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Oryx and Crake

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by Margaret Atwood

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All I Love and Know

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by Judith Frank

Sci-fi-ish

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The Husbands

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by Holly Gramazio

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Machines like Me

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by Ian McEwan

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Future Home of the Living God

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by Louise Erdrich

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American War

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by Omar El Akkad

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All Our Wrong Todays

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by Elan Mastai

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Galatea 2.2

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by Richard Powers

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Cryptonomicon

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by Neal Stephenson

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Every Day

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by David Levithan

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Underground Airlines

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by Ben H. Winters

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My Real Children

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by Jo Walton

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Pattern Recognition

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by William Gibson

Science fiction

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Anathem

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by Neal Stephenson

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Ready Player One

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by Ernest Cline

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The Future

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by Naomi Alderman

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Translation State

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by Ann Leckie

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The Ministry for the Future

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by Kim Stanley Robinson

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Project Hail Mary

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by Andy Weir

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A Closed and Common Orbit

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by Becky Chambers

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The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

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by Becky Chambers

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The Left Hand of Darkness

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by Ursula K. Le Guin

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Autonomous

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by Annalee Newitz

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The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.

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by Neal Stephenson

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Seveneves

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by Neal Stephenson

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Parable of the Talents

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by Octavia E. Butler

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Broken Angels

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by Richard K. Morgan

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Woken Furies

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by Richard K. Morgan

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Crux

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by Ramez Naam

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Apex

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by Ramez Naam

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The Rising

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by Ian Tregillis

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The Mechanical

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by Ian Tregillis

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The Lathe of Heaven

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by Ursula K. Le Guin

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Year Zero

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by Rob Reid

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The House of the Scorpion

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by Nancy Farmer

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LoveStar

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by Andri Snær Magnason

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Parable of the Sower

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by Octavia E. Butler

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MaddAddam

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by Margaret Atwood

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The Year of the Flood

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by Margaret Atwood

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Permutation City

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by Greg Egan

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Ancillary Mercy

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by Ann Leckie

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The Speed of Dark

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by Elizabeth Moon

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The City & the City

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by China Miéville

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He, She and It

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by Marge Piercy

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Diaspora

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by Greg Egan

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Nexus

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by Ramez Naam

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On the Beach

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by Nevil Shute

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1984

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by George Orwell

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Snow Crash

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by Neal Stephenson

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Neuromancer

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by William Gibson

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The Chrysalids

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by John Wyndham

Fantasy

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Babel

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by R.F. Kuang

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The Poppy War

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by R.F. Kuang

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The Stone Sky

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by N.K. Jemisin

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The Obelisk Gate

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by N.K. Jemisin

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The Night Circus

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by Erin Morgenstern

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Stiletto

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by Daniel O'Malley

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The Fifth Season

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by N.K. Jemisin

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Utopia

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by Thomas More

Romance

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Romantic Comedy

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by Curtis Sittenfeld

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Olga Dies Dreaming

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by Xochitl Gonzalez

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Such a Fun Age

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by Kiley Reid

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State of the Union: A Marriage in Ten Parts

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by Nick Hornby

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Eligible: A Modern Retelling of Pride & Prejudice

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by Curtis Sittenfeld

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Family Happiness

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by Laurie Colwin

Mystery/Thriller

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Hope Never Dies

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by Andrew Shaffer

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Back Channel

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by Stephen L. Carter

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Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War

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by P.W. Singer

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One Good Turn

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by Kate Atkinson

Neurodiversity & disability

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Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement

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by Ashley Shew

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The Prodigy's Cousin: The Family Link Between Autism and Extraordinary Talent

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by Joanne Ruthsatz

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Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain

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by Daniel J. Siegel

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Self-Reg: How to Help Your Child

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by Stuart Shanker

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Bright Not Broken: Gifted Kids, ADHD, and Autism

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by Diane M. Kennedy

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NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity

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by Steve Silberman

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The List

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by Yomi Adegoke

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Crook Manifesto

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by Colson Whitehead

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