Books I Love

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Beloved Oldest Friends
Jean Auel, Clan of the Cave Bear (series)
Colleen McCullough, The First Man in Rome
    (entire History of Rome series)
Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

Taught Me Things We All Need To Know
Isabel Wilkerson, Caste
Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All  Maladies
Walter Isaacson, The Code Breaker

Old Friends
Ken Follett, The Pillars of the Earth
Orhan Pamuk, My Name is Red
Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
Elif Shafak, The Architect’s Apprentice
Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
Erik Larsen, The Splendid and the Vile

Recent New Friends
Lisa See, The Island of Sea Women
Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals
Souvankham Thammavongsa, How to
   Pronounce Knife
Richard Powers, The Overstory
Maggie O’Farrell, Hamnet
Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun

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