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Nov 2020
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our most elite reads of the year

LILLY AND OLIVIA
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In today's episode, Lilly and Olivia discuss some of the books that they believe saved 2020, aka the best books that we have read this year. Since joining booktok we have both been introduced to many new books, and these are the one's that are actually worth the hype. Spoiler free episode! 

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