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Right now I'm reading the novel "Falling Leaves" by Adeline Yen Mah. It's a really beautiful, heartbreaking novel about an unwanted Chinese daughter who is hated and abused by her step-mother. Really, really good book.

I'm also about half-way through "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" by Haruki Murakami. It's... well, I couldn't even begin to summarize what that book is about, but it's pretty incredible. I read "A Wild Sheep Chase" by Murakami and fell in love with his writing, so now I'm trying to read as much of his work as I can!

I'm wondering, who are some people's favorite authors?