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Little Women Louisa May Alcott 1868 · Classics Another story about sisterly closeness and ambition, much gentler and more hopeful.
Pachinko Min Jin Lee 2017 · Historical Another novel that follows people from poverty through shifting decades.
Normal People Sally Rooney 2018 · Literary A modern, spare novel about the pull between two very different people from the same place.