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Deep Cuts
Holly Brickley
★★★★· Published 2025· 277 pages· read 2025
Two music-obsessed college kids in the early 2000s bond over songs, collaborate, and fall into something complicated. Each chapter is named for a track, and there's a real playlist to go with it. So fun.
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