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Allie Coker

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Allie Coker lives and works in Chapel Hill and Durham, North Carolina. She holds a BA in English from Davidson College and an MFA in Creative Writing from Queens University of Charlotte.

Her first book, What I Learned at Davidson, was published in 2012. Her second book, a novella titled The Last Resort, is forthcoming in January 2021 and is her first book of fiction.

Allie has taught creative writing courses as part of the Informal Class program at the University of Texas at Austin as well as at The ArtsCenter in Carrboro, NC.

She has been an editor with Warren Publishing for four years and was the founder and Editor-in-Chief of HIP Literary Magazine which ran from 2012-2014.

Allie’s works have appeared in the Yale Journal for Humanities in Med ...more

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Last Girl Gone (Laura Chambers Mystery, #1)

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“A man with no enemies is a man with no character.”
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“I'm a supporter of gay rights. And not a closet supporter either. From the time I was a kid, I have never been able to understand attacks upon the gay community. There are so many qualities that make up a human being... by the time I get through with all the things that I really admire about people, what they do with their private parts is probably so low on the list that it is irrelevant.”
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“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

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“Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.”
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“What are you going to do? Everything, is my guess. It will be a little messy, but embrace the mess. It will be complicated, but rejoice in the complications.”
― Nora Ephron

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message 1: by Allie (last edited Apr 23, 2018 10:39AM)

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Well, it's official. I've read 1,000 books in my life. I decided, as part of the week long celebration commemorating this milestone, to list out my absolute favorites so far and it was by no means an easy task. I found curious aspects of creating this list, such as noticing that books that made me cry were often top favorites and that many of the authors I adore (Eve Ensler, Malcolm Gladwell, and Billy Collins to name a few) did not have their works included. It may be that the totality of their works leaves a lasting impression with one or two titles not standing out among the numerous stupendous texts they have written.

At first, it was proposed I list the top 5% or 10% of books that I enjoyed, a seemingly impossible task when I first heard it, but after utilizing Goodreads to review my five star ratings and what emotions (among other factors) these titles elicited, I realized that I could narrow my list down considerably. Below are my TOP 48 BOOKS (in no particular order) out of the 1K I've read.