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1,727 Reads

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68 books

2009

A Good Indian Wife
Out of Place: A Memoir
Zeitoun
Free Food for Millionaires
I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti
Tortilla Flat
Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It

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111 books

2010

Catching Fire
Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, The Torments of Low Thread Count, The Never-Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems
The World to Come
A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table
Show no fear
Next to die
The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror

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42 books

2011

Little Bee
Anthem
An Object of Beauty
Vaclav & Lena
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
The proper care and maintenance of friendship
You Know When the Men Are Gone

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49 books

2012

These Girls
The Time In Between
When She Woke
Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots
The Last Werewolf
The Darlings
Waking Up Married

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55 books

2013

Breasts a natural and unnatural history
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
Gift From the Sea
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
11/22/63
The Dinner
It Starts with Food

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25 books

2014

The Circle
Dreamland: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep
Someone Could Get Hurt
The Perfect Protein
The Little Book of Thin
A Discovery of Witches
A Practical Wedding

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21 books

2015

Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs
Why Not Me?
The underwriting
Life in Motion
The Divorce Papers
Stuffocation
Voluntary simplicity

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81 books

2016

The Unseen World
Kitchens of the Great Midwest
So You've Been Publicly Shamed
Champagne Baby: How One Parisian Learned to Love Wine--and Life--the American Way
Between the World and Me
No One Knows
The Veins of the Ocean

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279 books

2017

Sourdough
Drop the Ball: Achieving More by Doing Less
Purple Hibiscus
Burntown
Young Jane Young
The Last Days of Café Leila
Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

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213 books

2018

The social shaping of technology
The Lost Art of Reading Nature's Signs: Use Outdoor Clues to Find Your Way, Predict the Weather, Locate Water, Track Animals-and Other Forgotten Skills
An American Marriage
So Close to Being the Sh*t, Y’all Don’t Even Know
Rainbirds
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
Still Lives

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109 books

2019

Red, White & Royal Blue
A Better Man
Modern Love
Failing Up
Lovability
Be Prepared
Kingdom of the Blind

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194 books

2020

Dot Journaling
Force of Nature
Interior Chinatown
Why We Swim
Last Tang Standing
Inconvenient Daughter
Heart Berries

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146 books

2021

A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
Like Streams to the Ocean: Notes on Ego, Love, and the Things That Make Us Who We Are
Sadie
Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
The Minimalist Entrepreneur
Trace

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111 books

2022

The House Across the Lake
When We Fell Apart
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
Killers of a Certain Age
Kitchens of the Great Midwest
The Love of my Life
Sea of Tranquility

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13 books

2023

A World of Curiosities
Factory Girls
Fellowship Point
People Person
Strange Flowers A Novel
Odder
History of the Rain

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7 books

All Time Fave

My Ántonia
So You Want to Talk About Race
The Song of Achilles
East of Eden
The Count of Monte Cristo
Rebecca
The Grapes of Wrath

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2 books

Book Club

The Witches Are Coming
Koh-i-Noor: The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond

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101 books

Books I Own

The social shaping of technology
Purple Hibiscus
Why We Swim
Rainbirds
Still Lives
Listen, Liberal
The Sparrow

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7 books

Favorites

Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
The Unseen World
11/22/63
My Ántonia
Americanah
East of Eden
The Count of Monte Cristo

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32 books

On Pause

All We Can Save
The Last Cowboys
Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Hurricane Season
Upstream

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2 books

Owned

Zorrie
East of Eden
The Godfather
Southernmost
Wayward
Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity

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2 books

Preordered

Afterland
Mexican Gothic