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If The Accidental by Ali Smith is on your shelf, these 24 titles belong there too. Connected by Women, Literary and selected for literary and thematic overlap. Featuring work by Angie Cruz, Jonathan Safran Foer, John Updike, Cathy Lamb, and others.