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  The Bazaar of Bad Dreams

  by Stephen King
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  Departure(s)

  by Julian Barnes
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  The First Forty-Nine Stories

  by Ernest Hemingway
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  The Book of Alchemy

  by Suleika Jaouad

2026 Reading Log

1. The Last Lion: Alone by William Manchester
2. Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
3. Stillness Is the Key by Ryan Holiday
4. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
5. Vera, or Faith by Gary Shteyngart
6. Foster by Claire Keegan
7. Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
8. The Running Man by Stephen King
9. The Best American Essays 2025 by Jia Tolentino (editor)
10. John Adams by David McCullough
11. The Best American Essays 1986 by Elizabeth Hardwick (editor)
12. The Hustler by Walter Tevis
13. The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis
14. Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed
15. So Late in the Day by Claire Keegan

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