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Melanie

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Art Spiegelman: Maus II And Here My Troubles Began (1992, Penguin)
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EssentialInsight Summaries: Summary : Atomic Habits (2019, Independently published)
Stephen King: Never Flinch (2025, Simon & Schuster)

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Aldous Huxley: Brave New World (Paperback, 1998, HarperPerennial)
Murray Shanahan: The Technological Singularity (2015)
Donna Tartt: The Secret History (2004, Vintage Contemporaries)

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Kate L. Turabian: A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations (Paperback, 2018, University of Chicago Press)
Art Spiegelman: Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
William Shakespeare: Julius Caesar (2012, Sweet Cherry Publishing)

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18% complete! Melanie has read 5 of 27 books.

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reviewed The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (Penguin classics)

Shirley Jackson: The Haunting of Hill House (2006, Penguin Books)

First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as …

Review of 'The Haunting of Hill House' on 'Goodreads'

In the horror community, The Haunting of Hill House has long been considered a game changer. Not only did it popularize the concept of the "haunted house," it also pronounced that absurdity is humanity's greatest fear, building upon the foundations H.P. Lovecraft lay.

reviewed Lord of the Flies by William Golding (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century; Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)

William Golding: Lord of the Flies (1999, Penguin (Non-Classics))

Lord of the Flies is a 1954 novel by Nobel Prize–winning British author William Golding. …

Review of 'Lord of the Flies' on 'Goodreads'

The book was well written, but its topic failed to strike me as moving. We all understand the basic absurdity of power, why bother reading about it? I suppose this book is valuable as a teacher about the barbarism of society; as someone who understood that from a very young age, it just didn't resonate with me.

reviewed It by Stephen King

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Stephen King: It (1987)

A promise made twenty-eight years ago calls seven adults to reunite in Derry, Maine, where …

Review of 'It' on 'Goodreads'

If I had the time to read this book a thousand times over I absolutely would. Stephen King, a master of horror, has created a story that feels like more than a work of fiction. IT will leave you with a changed perspective on childhood and maintains a sense nostalgia amidst the horror. Not only would I recommend reading IT, I implore you to read it.