The Alchemist

Kathy Miller
Sep 5, 2025
1 min read

Paulo Coelho, 1988

Date read: 9/5/25

This is the kind of novel I am doing this list to find! I wish I could read Portuguese because I suspect it would be even better in the original. But it is just the perfect novel. It is the kind of story you read and it lives in your brain thereafter. Gorgeous.

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