The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Dorothy is carried to Oz by a cyclone and walks the yellow brick road with Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and Lion.
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The World According to Garp
Writer Garp navigates fame, marriage, and loss with bears and wrestling.
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The Year of Magical Thinking
After sudden loss at dinner, Didion records the year mind keeps expecting return.
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The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
A young mother confined for her health fixates on yellow wallpaper, plus 39 other Gilman stories on marriage and work.
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Janie Crawford tells Pheoby about Eatonville life with Logan Killicks, Joe Starks called Jody, and Tea Cake.
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Then She Was Gone
Ten years after Ellie vanished, her mother finds a link in a new family.
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They Both Die at the End
Two teens called as dying meet through an app and share one full day.
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Things Fall Apart
Proud Igbo wrestler Okonkwo rises in 1890s Umuofia, then loses standing through hard exile, a son's conversion, and British missionaries and courts remaking…
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Things We Left Behind
Lucian Rollins returns to Knockemout to bury his father's past and collides with librarian Sloane Walton.
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Things We Never Got Over
Naomi runs from her wedding to help her twin in Knockemout and clashes with Knox Morgan.
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Think and Grow Rich
Hill teaches desire, faith and autosuggestion, distilling lessons from Carnegie interviews into thirteen principles for success.
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
Kahneman's tour of two minds: fast gut System 1 and slow careful System 2, and how biases, overconfidence, and framing shape every choice.
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