Welcome to MarshaReads.com. You will find a collection of short essays about books I’ve read starting in spring 2016. Your comments are welcomed.
Since this list has grown substantially since I started this website, I provide two tables to help you find a particular book.
Because I’m not an expert webmaster, I have the two tables on two pages to minimize your need to scroll seemingly endlessly.
This page has a table with the books aphabetized by title.
“Books by Title” has a table with the books aphabetized by author’s last name. If “The” or “An” is in the title, the second word is used for aphabetization.
NOTE: I’ve decided to classify any book that was published >50 years ago as “Classic”. This is my personal definition. If we’re still reading a book published more than 50 years ago it must have something that continues to resonate with readers today and likely in the future. Good enough definition for me.
The list is not exhaustive prior to spring 2016.
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Author Last Name |
Author First Name |
Title |
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Haruf |
Kent |
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Doerr |
Anthony |
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Jones |
Tayari |
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Winspear |
Jacqueline |
The American Agent (12) |
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El Akkad |
Omar |
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Winspear |
Jacqueline |
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Tolstoy |
Leo |
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Sophocles |
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Mahfouz |
Naguig |
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Strout |
Elizabeth |
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Halliday |
Lisa |
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Lewis |
Sinclair |
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Updike |
John |
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Haurf |
Kent |
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Winspear |
Jacqueline |
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Oates |
Joyce Carol |
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Didion |
Joan |
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Hood |
Ann |
Book That Matters Most, The |
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Strout |
Elizabeth |
Burgess Boys, The |
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Ishiguro |
Kozuo |
Buried Giant, The |
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Walker |
Martin |
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Charmock |
Anne |
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Winspear |
Jacqueline |
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Galbraith |
Robert |
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Vonnegut |
Kurt |
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Heller |
Joseph |
Catch 22 |
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Galloway |
Steven |
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Russo |
Richard |
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Black |
Benjamin |
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Tyler |
Anne |
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Twain |
Mark |
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Gaskell |
Mrs (Elizabeth) |
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Galbraith |
Robert |
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Bradbury |
Ray |
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Winspear |
Jacqueline |
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Napolitano |
Ann |
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Munro |
Alice |
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Walker |
Martin |
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Tyler |
Anne |
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Le Guin |
Ursula |
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Walsh |
M. O. |
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Walsh |
M.O. |
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Russell |
Mary Doria |
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Tokarczuk |
Olga |
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Patchett |
Ann |
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Smiley |
Jane |
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Westover |
Tara |
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Black |
Benjamin |
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Windspear |
Jacqueline |
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Greene |
Graham |
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Jaswal |
Balli Kaur |
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Russon |
Richard |
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Haruf |
Kent |
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Hamid |
Moshin |
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Wolitzer |
Meg |
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Groff |
Lauren |
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Nunez |
Sigrid |
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Guskin |
Sharon |
Forgetting Time, The |
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Contreras |
Ingrid Rojas |
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Tripp |
Dawn |
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Howell |
Georgiana |
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Hyeonseo |
Lee |
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Zgheib |
Yara |
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Rao |
Shobha |
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Erpenbeck |
Jenny |
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Smiley |
Jane |
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Dickens |
Charles |
Great Expectations |
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Dweyer |
Carol |
Growth Mindset |
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Adichie |
Chimanda Ngozi |
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Atwood |
Margaret |
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Atwood |
Margaret |
Heart Goes Last, The |
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Kelly |
Jack |
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Shetterly |
Margot |
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Vance |
JD |
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Shamsie |
Kamila |
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Urrea |
Luis Alberto |
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Warton |
Edith |
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Ogawa |
Yoko |
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Marais |
Bianca |
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Kang |
Han |
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Sklott |
Rebecca |
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Silber |
Joan |
Improvement |
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Capote |
Truman |
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Godden |
Rummer |
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Winspear |
Jacqueline |
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Winspear |
Jacqueline |
Incomplete Revenge (5) *, An |
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Desai |
Kiran |
Inheritance of Loss, The |
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Haruf |
Kent |
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Berry |
Wendall |
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Windspear |
Jacqueline |
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Grann
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David |
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI |
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Benedict |
Marie |
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Doig |
Ivan |
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Goodwin |
Doris Kearns |
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Ko |
Lisa |
Leavers, The |
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Windspear |
Jacqueline |
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Geer |
Andrew Sean |
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Winspear |
Jacqueline |
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Vida |
Vendela |
Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name |
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Galbraith |
Robert |
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Ulrich |
Laurel Thatcher |
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Saunders |
George |
Lincoln in the Bardo |
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Forman, Jr. |
James |
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Allende |
Isabel |
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Moore |
Liz |
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Atwood |
Margaret |
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Lewis |
Sinclair |
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Joukhadar |
Zeyn |
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Winspear |
Jacqueline |
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Winspear |
Jacqueline |
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Winspear |
Jacqueline |
Messenger of Truth (4)* |
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Quindlen |
Anna |
Miller’s Valley |
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Langer |
Ellen |
Mindfulness* |
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Dweck |
Carol |
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success |
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Watson |
Brad |
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Modiano |
Patrick |
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Wilke |
Collin |
Moonstone, The |
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Que Mai |
Nguyen Phan |
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Hijuelos |
Oscar |
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Macy |
Caitlin |
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Strout |
Elizabeth |
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Choo |
Yangsze |
Night Tiger, The |
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Russo |
Richard |
Nobody’s Fool* |
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Toibin |
Colm |
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Strout |
Elizabeth |
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Vuong |
Ocean |
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Quindlen |
Anna |
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Atwood |
Margaret |
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Dinensen |
Isak |
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Powers |
Richard |
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Lee |
Min Jin |
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Winspear |
Jacqueline |
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Wilde |
Oscar |
Picture of Dorian Gray, The |
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Haruf |
Kent |
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Doig |
Ivan |
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Sparks |
Muriel |
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Kingsolver |
Barbara |
Prodigal Summer |
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Schnittman |
Suzanne |
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Chevalier |
Tracy |
Remarkable Creatures |
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Wright |
Cameron |
Rent Collector, The |
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DeFoe |
Daniel |
Robinson Crusoe |
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Larson |
Kate Clifford |
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Orczy |
Baroness |
Scarlet Pimpernel, The |
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Brooks |
Geraldine |
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George |
Alex |
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Yun |
Jung |
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Zimmer |
Carl |
She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity |
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Galbraith |
Robert |
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Ward |
Jesmyn |
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Brennan-Jobs |
Lisa |
Small Fry |
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Lang |
James |
Small Teaching |
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Smiley |
Jane |
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McDermott |
Alice |
Someone |
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Darznik |
Jazmin |
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Iweala |
Uzodinma |
Speak No Evil |
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Dawson |
Evan |
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Chancellor |
Bryn |
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Michener |
James |
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Hardy |
Thomas |
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Atwood |
Margaret |
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Friedman |
Thomas L |
That Used to be us: How America Fell Behind in the World it invented and how we can come back |
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Orange |
Tommy |
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Adichie |
Chimamanda Ngozi |
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O’Brien |
Tim |
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Kahneman |
Daniel |
Thinking Fast and Slow |
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Frankel |
Laurie |
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Haruf |
Kent |
Tie That Binds, The |
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Stowe |
Harriet Beecher |
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Ullmann |
Linn |
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Bennett |
Brit |
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Kang |
Han |
Vegetarian, The |
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Appanah |
Natacha |
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Gundar-Goshen |
Ayelet |
Waking Lions |
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Tolstoy |
Leo |
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Rum |
Etaf |
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Woolfe |
Virginia |
Waves, The |
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Roberts |
Cokie |
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Kadish |
Rachel |
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Kalanithi |
Paul |
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Haruf |
Kent |
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Owens |
Delia |
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Anderson |
Carol |
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Rum |
Etaf |
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Collins |
Wilkie |
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Palacio |
R.J. |
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Coben |
Harlan |
The Woods |
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Atwood |
Margaret |
Year of the Flood, The |
