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The entire Mr. Mercedes/Bill Hodges/Holly Gibney trilogy. I feel like I inhaled these books, but that's pretty typical of SK books I've learned from the few I've read before now.

I also read The Outsider and the If it Bleeds collection since both involve Holly. Regarding If it Bleeds, I know we have some Life of Chuck fans here, and I did enjoy it, but I think my favorite story of that group was Rat. LOL

I also read Misery. The book is always better than the movie, isn't it? ;-) But the movie does have Kathy Bates.

I want to read Holly and Billy Summers and maybe Fairy Tale too.

In non SK work, I also read Yellowface. It wasn't quite what I expected, but I really enjoyed it. I enjoyed how multifaceted the story is with it covering how destructive social media can be to cultural/racial appropriation. The book brought up American Dirt which I haven't read yet, but I know about the controversy.

Also I read The Sentence by Louise Erdrich. Louise is woman/writer who is half Native American and half French who typically writes Native American stories with Native American characters. This one is about a woman who is an ex con who gets a job in an independent bookstore upon her release. A woman she calls her most annoying customer dies and her ghost remains in the store. I really liked this book and I loved the main couple, but I feel like the story was a bit all over the place. This is the second book by this writer I've read and I do plan on reading her The Night Watchman which she won the Pulitzer for.