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The best books I have ever read

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Books that changed my life! No big deal! I have lived these characters. I have mourned them. I have loved them and they live in my heart forever.
 
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Just maybe my favorite book & series of all time. I have never loved so many characters at once. Also my favorite character ever lives in this world. I’ve read this 3 times and I will forever read them again and again!
Beartown
 
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An EPIC lovestory set in the middle of WW2 in the Soviet Union. Not only did I learn so much about the harrowing history but this has all the things I love in a romance! Pining, tension, slow burn, forbidden love! Ugh
The Bronze Horseman
 
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BEAUTIFUL HEARTBREAKING PERFECTION
The Song of Achilles
 
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One of the most unique, beautiful, and heartbreaking books I’ve ever read. Very dark, but also very poignant. Set in the near dystopian future where many animals have gone extinct.
Migrations
 
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Honestly I felt like an idiot when I first started it but by the end it became one of my favorite books. The main character is so painfully relatable, I even got a therapy session during it. She is one of the only characters that can make me laugh ou...
The Idiot
 
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A masterpiece in storytelling. The profound. So powerful. The end is utter perfection!
Homegoing
 
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This book felt like an epic movie that I never wanted to end. This is dark, nauseating, and super emotional. I sobbed. It’s so unique, so fantastical, so magical. I loved this!
Our Share of Night: A Novel
 
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I have never recovered from the end of this book sorry!!
If We Were Villains
 
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Incredibly underrated. Like criminally. I have no words!
Three
 
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This book left me speechless. So informative. Prose is top notch. The end is utterly haunting. No notes.
The Nickel Boys: A Novel: Whitehead, Colson
 
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Just READ it. It's life changing.
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, 1): Ferrante, Elena, Goldstein, Ann
 
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The writing is stunning. These characters will stay with me forever. The darkest of dark but there is so much light in between.
Betty by Tiffany McDaniel
 
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I consider Donna Tartt one of the best writers of modern day and I would literally read her grocery list if she released it. This book is a piece of art about a piece of art.
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
 
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This is one of most most beautiful well rounded gut wrenching books I've ever read. Such a strong beginning, middle, and end. Everyone should read this book.
A Thousand Splendid Suns: Hosseini, Khaled - Books
 
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Stunning! Stunning! Perfection. The ending had me in tears in the best way.
Homegoing
 
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The epitome of lost and confused and going on despite it. I think I underlined almost every page in this book.
An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures by Clarice Lispector
 
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A book that made me go wtf so many times. Such a highly enjoyable and immersive read.
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
 
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I think this is severely underrated. I have never felt so seen while reading a book. I underlined SO much. The passages were so powerful and thought provoking.
Beautiful World, Where Are You