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Below isUnbreakable Kimmy SchmidtstarEllie Kempers list.

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Her new book,My Squirrel Days, is out now.

His books are invaluable time capsules of how Americans in previous generations spoke and thought about themselves.

This collection has me cry-laughing the most.

Working by Studs Terkel

Dons Story destroys me (in a positive way) every time.

Its likeAugust: Osage County, if it were set on Long Island in the 1930s.

The story may be bleak and hopeless, but Yatess prose is unpretentious and irresistible.

White Teeth by Zadie Smith

Eye-opening, required reading.

The clarity of prose which Ishiguro achieves in this novel is the treat here.

She is a shrewd, funny, charming companion.

Barrel Fever by David Sedaris

In 1417, Poggio Bracciolini discovers Lucretiuss ancient poem, On the Nature of Things.

I love the wayCurtis Sittenfeldwrites.

It feels personal and immediate.

Cold Spring Harbor by Richard Yates

Sittenfelds observations are razor-edged, dark, and brazenly funny.

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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

Emma by Jane Austen

Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble by Nora Ephron

The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt

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