Not surprised at all to see "Where the Crawdads Sing" on the list; I highly recommend it. I also read the "Return" by Nicholas Sparks....honestly I found it disappointing. One of Grisham's books made the list, but I stopped reading his books because I found them to be very liberal oriented.
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