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Christina

1,672 Reads

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19 books

2017 Favourites

The Futures
Spinster
Pachinko
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter: Essays
Exit West

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24 books

2018 Favourites

La femme qui fuit
Conversations with Friends
How to Behave in a Crowd
The Boat People
Beartown
The Heart's Invisible Furies
Educated: A Memoir

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30 books

2019 Favourites

Belonging a German reckons with home and history
The Great Believers
A Ladder to the Sky
My Ex-Life
Lake Success
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes With Death
The Library Book

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43 books

2020 Favourites

Ask Again, Yes
Know My Name
Fleishman Is in Trouble
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
Paul à la maison
A Gentleman in Moscow
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays

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45 books

2021 Favourites

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
The Yellow House
The Years
Hamnet
Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery
We Run the Tides

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76 books

2022 Favourites

The Border: A Journey Around Russia Through North Korea, China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Norway, and the Northeast Passage
The Secret to Superhuman Strength
Our Woman in Moscow
Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch
The Passenger
Love in Case of Emergency
Civilizations

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4 books

2023 Favourites

My Best Stories
Foster
The Marriage Portrait
Horse

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24 books

Advice

How to Be a Person in the World: Ask Polly's Guide Through the Paradoxes of Modern Life
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who's Been There
168 Hours: You Have More Time than You Think
The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life
Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

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37 books

All Time Favourites

Anna Karenina
The Golem and the Djinni
Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea
To End All Wars
The Life and Times of The Thunderbolt Kid
TransAtlantic
Americanah

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30 books

Arts Entertainment

Bossypants
I Love Your Laugh
Laughing All the Way to the Mosque
Yes Please
Where I Belong
Drama high
No Regrets: The Life of Edith Piaf

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26 books

Biography

Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An American Life
No Regrets: The Life of Edith Piaf
Clarence Darrow
Ada's Algorithm
Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch
Appetite for life : the biography of Julia Child
Long Walk To Freedom

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192 books

Canadian

Kanata
The Birth House
A Fair Country: Telling Truths About Canada
I Love Your Laugh
The Virgin Cure
Anne of Green Gables
Jan Wong's China

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33 books

Classics

We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Candide
Emma
Doctor Zhivago
Animal Farm
Great Expectations
The Odyssey

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86 books

Current Events

It's What I Do : A Photographer's Life of Love and War
The Terror Years
Jan Wong's China
American Fascists : the Christian Right and the War on America
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea

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39 books

Essays

Me Talk Pretty One Day
Bad Feminist
This is the Story of a Happy Marriage
Around the world in seventy-two days and other writings
Naked
One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter: Essays
Vous n'aurez pas ma haine

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54 books

Favourite Fiction

Cutting for Stone
Madame Proust and the Kosher Kitchen
The Thorn Birds
Empire Falls
The seamstress
The Time of Our Singing
Fall on Your Knees

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17 books

Favourite History

The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
The Girls of Atomic City
To End All Wars
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
The Story of French
The French Intifada: The Long War Between France and Its Arabs

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23 books

Favourite Memoirs

Fire Shut Up in My Bones
Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything
This is the Story of a Happy Marriage
The Life and Times of The Thunderbolt Kid
The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress
Day of Honey

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28 books

Favourite Nonfiction

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
What We See When We Read
In Cold Blood
Far from the Tree
Straphanger
Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea
Ninety Percent of Everything

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792 books

Fiction

The Wonder
You Will Know Me
The One-in-a-Million Boy
Started Early, Took My Dog
When Will There Be Good News?
The Mystery of Henri Pick
We Have Always Lived in the Castle

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31 books

Food Drink

A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table
The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World's Most Glorious - and Perplexing - City
My Life in France
Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen
As Always, Julia
Day of Honey
The Apprentice

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75 books

Francophone

Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea
Les étoiles de Sidi Moumen
La Part de l'autre
Joséphine Tome 2
La Vérité sur l'Affaire Harry Quebert
Le Magasin des suicides
Les yeux jaunes des crocodiles

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59 books

Gender Sexuality

Rumors of Our Progress Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
Full Frontal Feminism
Cinderella Ate My Daughter
Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
Price of Honor
The Feminine Mystique

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86 books

Geography Travel

An Age Of License
Skyfaring
The New Global Student
I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away
Visit Sunny Chernobyl
The Geography of Bliss
The Lost Girls

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46 books

Graphic Books

The Encyclopedia of Early Earth
Paul a un travail d'été
An Age Of License
Paul à la campagne
V for Vendetta
Blankets
Burma Chronicles
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