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My English IV students got their public library cards!

Suzanne's books

The Hate U Give
The God of Small Things
Future Design
The Secret History
Your Second Life Begins When You Realize You Only Have One
The Book of Margery Kempe
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
Top 10 Scotland
Rick Steves Scotland
The Boston Girl
Going Gray: What I Learned about Beauty, Sex, Work, Motherhood, Authenticity, and Everything Else That Really Matters
When the Moon is Low
Origin
The Left Hand of Darkness
Rick Steves Italy 2018
Behold the Dreamers
Bad Behavior
The Collected Stories
Sour Heart
Americanah


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Top Five

Some interesting books I've read recently are:
Charlotte Temple by Susanna Rowson
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Seek You: A Journey through American Loneliness by Kristen Radtke
Almost American Girl by Robin Ha
Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead

2020 Top Five
Sing to It by Amy Hempel
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
Jack by Marilynne Robinson
Reader, Come Home by Maryanne Wolf
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2019 Top Five
Testaments by Margaret Atwood 
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
​Sister Age
by M.F.K. Fisher
The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Closed Door and Other Stories by Dorothy Whipple

2018 Top Five
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life by Yiyun Li
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout
The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant (as an audiobook which was an excellent experience)

2017 Top Five
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Eagan
The Collected Stories by Amy Hempel
Sour Heart by Jenny Zhang
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Anything Is Possible by Elizabeth Strout

2016 Top Five (okay, really six since there are four Neapolitan novels):
The Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
Here I Am by Jonathan Safran Foer

2015 Top Five
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehsi Coates
Disgruntled by Asali Solomon
God Help the Child by Toni Morrison
The Vagrants by Yiyun Li
Home by Marilynne Robinson

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