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Daughter of Fortune
Isabel Allende
★★★★· Published 1998· 432 pages
A young Chilean woman stows away to Gold Rush California chasing her lover. Allende at her sweeping, romantic best.
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Memoirs of a Geisha
Arthur Golden
The life of a geisha in pre-war Kyoto, lush with detail. Immersive and hard to put down.
The Thorn Birds
Colleen McCullough
A sweeping Australian family saga and a forbidden love that spans decades. Big, old-fashioned, and totally absorbing.
★ 5A Long Way from Chicago (A Long Way from Chicago, #1)
Richard Peck
A boy and his sister spend summers with their larger-than-life Grandma Dowdel in small-town Illinois. So funny.