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Morally Gray Hero
Morally Gray Hero is the promise that all that friction is going somewhere. If you want tension you can feel, banter that actually lands, and a payoff that doesn't come out of nowhere, start here.
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State of Wonder
The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
The Housemaid
The House in the Cerulean Sea
One True Loves
The Glass Castle
Born a Crime
The Woman in Me
Wild
Saving 6
Yes Please
This Is Going to Hurt
The Christmas Tree Farm (Dream Harbor, Book 3)
Madame Bovary
I Kissed Shara Wheeler
The Reading List
Empire of Pain
Orange Is the New Black
Mary Jane
The Happiness Project, Tenth Anniversary Edition
Sunburn