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I'm a bookworm through and through. Studied Chaucer and Victorian Lit. Enormous personal library that I will probably never get through! I take recommendations, but am a particular lover of the "classics", Toni Morrison, & historical non-fiction.
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TequilaJoJo1 rated The Grownup: 4 stars
The Grownup by Gillian Flynn
A canny young woman is struggling to survive by perpetrating various levels of mostly harmless fraud. On a rainy April …
TequilaJoJo1 rated Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: 5 stars
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
This is the diary of a young Jewish girl whose family went into hiding from the Nazis in 1942 when …
TequilaJoJo1 rated The radium girls: 5 stars
Kate Moore: The radium girls (2017, Sourcebooks, Inc.)
The radium girls by Kate Moore
As World War I raged across the globe, hundreds of young women toiled away at the radium-dial factories, where they …
TequilaJoJo1 rated The Grapes of Wrath: 5 stars
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Steinbeck’s classic novel of the Great Depression is as vivid now as ever. The story focuses on a family of …
TequilaJoJo1 rated New essays on Song of Solomon: 5 stars
New essays on Song of Solomon by Smith, Valerie (The American novel)
TequilaJoJo1 rated Parable Of The Sower: 5 stars
Parable Of The Sower by Octavia E. Butler
In 2025, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful journey toward a better future.
…TequilaJoJo1 rated Kindred: 5 stars
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler (Black women writers series)
The first science fiction written by a black woman, Kindred has become a cornerstone of black American literature. This combination …
TequilaJoJo1 rated The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel: 5 stars
The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel by Neil Gaiman
A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in is long …
TequilaJoJo1 rated And the Mountains Echoed: 5 stars
And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
And the Mountains Echoed is the third novel by Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini. Published in 2013 by Riverhead Books, it …