Author
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Title
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Level
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Published
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Comment
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Unknown
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Beowulf
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Just think that it needs to be
part of your package.
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Chinua Achebe
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Things Fall Apart
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Issac Asimov
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I Robot
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I read it twice. Being a CS
major,
it must be part of my package. I've got Asimov's Foundation series
queued up.
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Sherwood Anderson
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Winesburg, Ohio
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Maybe I did not give this the
attention it deserves. Often listed among the best. Not for me.
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Margaret Atwood
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The Handmaid's Tale
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A futuristic society where the
state controls too much - Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea .... stop the
USA from moving in that direction.
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Jane Austen
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Pride and Prejudice
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Set in the early 1800s. A bunch
of English girls worry about getting married. Gives us an insight about
life back then. Not a favorite, but it held my interest for the most
part. It adds a tile to my mosiac as I try to understand the world --
past and present. I add that you should read it, because it is part of
the general conversation.
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Jane Austen
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Emma
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Emma is no Jane Eyre. More match
making in England around the 1800s.
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Jane Austen
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Persuasion
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L. Frank Baum
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The Wizard of Oz
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I am very glad to have read
this. Somewhat different than the movie.
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Natalie Babbitt
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Tuck Everlasting
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Worth the time. Life is full of
choices. What would you do?
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Judy Blume
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Are You There God? It's Me
Margaret
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Once is enough for me.
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Ray Bradbury
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Fahrenheit 451
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Guy Montag gets it! He figures
it out.
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Charlotte Bronte
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Jane Eyre
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Mandatory reading.
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Emily Bronte
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Wuthering Heights
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Twice read. Difficult for me to
rate very highly. However, it is part of the conversation, so you've
got to read it. Maybe it reasonates with you?
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Pearl S. Buck
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The Good Earth
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Must read. What a great piece of
work. The book will fill you up.
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John Bunyan
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Pilgrim's Progress
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Consider when it was written. It
will not be hard to read this one.
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Albert Camus
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The Stranger
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I think I need to re-read this
again.
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Albert Camus
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The Plague
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This one too.
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Eric Carle
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar
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Read it and flip the pages to a
pre-schooler.
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Willa Cather
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O Pioneers!
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Willa Cather
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My Antonia
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Just great. I've read it twice
now. Yes. A big yes. Willa can tell a story. Stay with it. Not all
books need to have glitz and glamour.
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Miguel de Cervantes
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Don Quixote
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Started to wear on me a bit.
But, I am glad I stuck with it.
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Lee Child
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Running Blind
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Jack Reacher to the rescue.
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Lee Child
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Gone Tomorrow
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"I do not want to be educated, I
want to be entertained."
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Lee Child
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Persuader
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Another Reacher. He does the
right thing.
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Lee Child
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The Enemy
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Can I be like Jack Reacher?
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Lee Child
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One Shot
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Good ole Jack Reacher. What a
guy.
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Lee Child
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Bad Luck and Trouble
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More Jack.
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Lee Child
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Nothing to Lose
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Reacher rules.
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Lee Child
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Worth Dying For
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A nice relief from academic
novels. Go Jack Reacher.
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Andrew Clements
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Frindle
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I really enjoyed Frindle.
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Joseph Conrad
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Heart of Darkness
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The original source for the
movie Apocolypse Now. Only it was an African river not a Vietnamese
River.
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James Fennimore Cooper
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The Last of the Mohicans
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La Longue Carabine. This book
grows on me. I watched the movie after I read the book. The other
Hawkeye based books are on my must read list.
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Stephen Crane
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The Red Badge of Courage
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Short book. If you can get a
young person to stick with it that would be good. War is never pretty.
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Sharon Creech
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Walk Two Moons
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Coming to grips when things go
wrong. A terrific book.
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Roald Dahl
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The BFG
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Roald Dahl
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
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Near the end, Dahl makes a plea
-- through Willie Wonka --- that kids read more. How right he is! Turn
the gadgets off. Turn the brain on.
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Daniel Defoe
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Robinson Crusoe
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This book is in the
conversation. Get a copy and move yourself through it.
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Kate DiCamillo
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Because of Winn Dixie
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Charles Dickens
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Tale of Two Cities
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Sidney Carton. What a guy.
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Charles Dickens
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Great Expectations
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Pip and Gargery.
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Charles Dickens
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Oliver Twist
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Making my way through Dickens.
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Charles Dickens
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A Christmas Carol
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Don't just settle for watching
the movie. Always a favorite.
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Crime and Punishment
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When I read this in college, I
could not put it down. I will make time to read it again.
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Alexander Dumas
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The Count of Monte Cristo
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An absolute must.
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George Eliot
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Silas Marner
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Everybody needs to read this
book.
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William Faulkner
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The Sound and the Fury
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Once I got the idea I could
follow it. It deserves a re-reading some day.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The Great Gatsby
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I do not feel this book. Listed
by many as one of the greats Hmmm.
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Gustave Flaubert
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Madame Bovary
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Read it when I was a lot lot
younger. Need to give it another shot.
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Sid Fleischman
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The Whipping Boy
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Kind of a Prince and a Pauper
type situation.
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EM Forster
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A Passage to India
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Ok I guess. Just did not fill me
up like many other books have.
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Diana Gabaldon
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Outlander
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Really enjoyed it. Will need to
read the next in the series. Highly recommended.
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Diana Gabaldon
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Dragonfly in Amber
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Two down.
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William Golding
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Lord of the Flies
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Bette Greene
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Summer of My German Soldier
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Thomas Hardy
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
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The classic double standard. I
am so glad that I read this book. What took him so long?
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The Scarlet Letter
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Ernest Hemingway
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A Farewell to Arms
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I struggle to enjoy Hemingway.
Very difficult for me to enjoy him.
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Ernest Hemingway
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The Old Man and the Sea
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Robert Heinlein
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Stranger in a Strange Land
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Frank Herbet
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Dune
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Am I missing something? Help me
out here. Why is this on so many people's list? The best that I can say
is that I completed it and I have now checked it off of my list.
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Herman Hesse
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Siddhartha
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Another mandatory read.
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S.E. Hinton
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The Outsiders
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Another wonderful
elementary/middle school book.
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Victor Hugo
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Les Miserables
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Probably the greatest hero in
the history of literature. Do not let your life pass by without reading
this. Make the time.
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Victor Hugo
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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Books will outlast buildings.
Hugo makes this point. But the book will fill you up. Quasimodo rocks.
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Irene Hunt
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Across Five Aprils
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Yes! Learn a bit of history.
Learn how people felt about their education.
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Aldous Huxley
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Brave New World
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You can read this with five
other books on this list and have a futuristic extravaganza.
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James Joyce
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A Portrait of the Artist as a
Young Man
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Well, I got through the first
reading. Will make a second pass. There is more there, but I did not
give it a fair shake.
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Daniel Keyes
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Flowers for Algernon
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Read it when I was a kid. Saw
the movie too.
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Hossein Khalid
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Kite Runner
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I enjoyed this book. It would be
worth reading.
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Arthur Koestler
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Darkness at Noon
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So, what always happens when the
revolutionaries take over. Still, important for us all to read.
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Dean Kootz
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Breathless
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John Knowles
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A Separate Peace
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I hated the book in high school.
Thirty years later --- the book filled me up. Just great.
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E.L. Konigsburg
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The View from Saturday
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Very nice.
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Harper Lee
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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Atticus is the greatest father
in the history of literature. I have read it three times. Just perfect.
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Madeleine L'Engle
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A Wrinkle in Time
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C. S. Lewis
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The Lion, the Witch, and the
Wardrobe
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I think the whole series is
somewhat over rated.
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C.S. Lewis
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Prince Caspian
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C.S. Lewis
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The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
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C.S. Lewis
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The Silver Chair
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C.S. Lewis
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The Horse and His Boy
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C.S. Lewis
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The Magician's Nephew
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C.S. Lewis
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The Last Battle
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Yikes!
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Jack London
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Call of the Wild
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Buck. Just need to read the darn
thing.
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Lois Lowry
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The Giver
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Not a favorite.
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Patricia MacLachlan
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Sarah, Plain and Tall
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A nice little book.
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Patricia MacLachlan
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Yann Martel
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Life of Pi
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2001
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Herman Melville
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Moby Dick
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You'll get a lesson on all the
kinds of whales there are in the world.
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Arthur Miller
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Death of a Salesman
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Phyllis Naylor
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Shiloh
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Margaret Mitchell
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Gone with the Wind
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Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Anne of Green Gables
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Must read for any human being.
We all need a bit of Anne Shirley within us.
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Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Anne of Avonlea
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Lucy Maud Mongomery
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Anne of the Island
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Vladimir Nabokov
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Lolita
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Yikes. Painful for me to read.
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Laura Joffe Numeroff
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If You Give a Pig a Pancake
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This is where it all starts.
Read all three of them out loud.
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Laura Joffe Numeroff
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If you Give a Mouse a Cookie
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Laura Joffe Numeroff
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If You Give a Moose a Muffin
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George Orwell
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1984
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Let's hope O'Bama doesn't
continue to push our great country in this direction.
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George Orwell
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Animal Farm
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Napoleon and Snowball. Hugo
Chavez should read this book.
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Katherine Paterson
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Lyddie
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Very nice. Lyddie figures it
out. Reading is so very important to the quality of your life.
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Katherine Paterson
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The Great Gilly Hopkins
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I struggled with this at first,
but I hung with it and I am glad I did.
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Katherine Paterson
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Bridge to Terabethia
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Excellent book. Gosh. I think
Katherine Pateson has got it going.
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Gary Paulson
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Hatchet
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Gary Paulson
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The Tent
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Sylvia Plath
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The Bell Jar
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All books are not meant to
entertain. Some are meant to inform.
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Richard Peck
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A Year Down Under
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Chaim Potok
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The Chosen
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Annie Proulx
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The Shipping News
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By the end of the book, I was
sold on it. I needed to be patient with it, but it did wear well.
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Mario Puzo
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The Godfather
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I was glued to the book before I
watched the movie. Shows you how old I am.
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Ayn Rand
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Anthem
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I just think all young people
need to read Ayn Rand. It starts with this little book.
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Ayn Rand
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Fountainhead
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Roark. Howard Roark.
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Ayn Rand
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Atlas Shrugged
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She calls them looters. Ayn Rand
has got it right. Mandatory reading.
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Wilson Rawls
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Where the Red Fern Grows
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Everybody should know exactly
where the red fern does grow.
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Erich Remarque
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All Quiet on the Western Front
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War is hell - no matter what
side you are fighting for.
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J.K. Rowling
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's
Stone
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J.K. Rowling
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of
Secrets
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J.K. Rowling
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of
Fire
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J.K. Rowling
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of
Azkaban
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J.K. Rowling
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Harry Potter and the Half Blood
Prince
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J.K. Rowling
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Harry Potter and
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Ivy Ruckman
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The Night of the Twisters
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Louis Sachar
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Holes
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Antoine de Saint Exupery
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The Little Prince
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Do not grow up too fast. Adults
need to come back to this book every now and then.
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J.D. Salinger
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Catcher in the Rye
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Holden Caulfield. Part of the
conversation, Am glad I read it, but I am not eager to read it again.
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Sir Walter Scott
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Ivanhoe
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Cedric the Saxon is Ivanhoe
father. Read it in 9th grade. Re-read it recently. Most young
people would find it too dry. Not me. This book is part of the
conversation. Read it.
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Anne Sewell
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Black Beauty
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From the point of view of the
horse.
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William Shakespeare
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MacBeth
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What happens when your
initiative, ego, and pride drive you too far. Not to mention the pushy
wife.
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William Shakespeare
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Othello
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Sometimes we believe the ones we
trust a bit too much.
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Willam Shakespeare
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King Lear
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George Bernard Shaw
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Pygmalion
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Mary Shelly
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Frankenstein
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You need to read the book. Do
not settle for the movie.
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Jerry Spinelli
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Maniac Magee
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Reading these 4th grade books
now has been great. Where was I in 4th grade? Newbury award winner.
Newbury has never failed me.
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John Steinbeck
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Of Mice and Men
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John Steinbeck
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The Pearl
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Steinbeck starts with this book.
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John Steinbeck
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East of Eden
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Wow. Intense reading. I am glad
to have read this book. Now I get to see why Steinbeck is rated so
highly.
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John Steinbeck
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The Grapes of Wrath
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Get a glimpse of the how folks
struggled in the day. Another important book.
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Robert Lewis Stepheson
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Kidnapped
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Robert Lewis Stevenson
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Treasure Island
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Jonathan Swift
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Gulliver's Travels
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In one of his travels, Gulliver
goes to the land of smart horses. I liked this part of the book the
most.
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J.R.R. Tolkien
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The Hobbit
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Bilbo Baggins is my favorite in
this series. Of the four books, this one is my favorite.
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J.R.R. Tolkien
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The Fellowship of the Rings
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J.R.R. Tolkien
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The Two Towers
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J.R.R. Tolkien
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The Return of the King
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Leo Tolstoy
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Anna Karenina
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Russian gentry. Get a sense of
how life was like through the eyes of Anna and all the others.
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Leo Tolstoy
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War and Peace
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Not many people make it through
this book. I now have a much better understanding of Napoleon than I
did before. Russia gentry.
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Mark Twain
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Tom Sawyer
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Mark Twain
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The Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn
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Virgil
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The Aeneid
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Voltaire
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Candide
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Kurt Vonnegut
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Slaughterhouse Five
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Evelyn Waugh
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Brideshead Revisited
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Elie Weisel
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Night
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Edith Wharton
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Ethan Frome
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Didn't like it in high school.
Not much fun as an adult either.
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Edith Wharton
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Age of Innocence
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E. B. White
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Charlotte's Web
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Good ole EB White.
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E. B. White
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Stuart Little
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Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Little House on the Prairie
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Yes. Just a short investment in
time. Gets you to appreciate how spoiled we are now.
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Virginia Wolff
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To the Lighthouse
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Listed as one the all-time
greats. One needs to be in the mood to listen to it. An academic
exercise. I'm glad that it is over. The plot is
seemingly not the important issue. Rather, introspective thinking by a
variety of characters occurs. As the reader, you get a chance to listen
to what people are thinking about as the novel unfolds. Do not expect
an adventure per se. The author operates on another level. She is
enamoured with her own ability to break down her own private thoughts
and, as such, embues her characters with this ability. To me the author
must be in a funk. Most of the characters are not happy people. The are
unable to enjoy life. They are too busy thinking about little stuff and
they are too busy being selfish. Just my opinion. I am checking
this book off of my list and I am not likely to ever go back to it.
Life is too short. Thank God Lily finally finished her painting.
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Stuart Woods
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L.A. Dead
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Stuart Woods
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Orchid Beach
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I like Holly Barker more than I
like Stone Barrington.
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Stuart Woods
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Fresh Disasters
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Stuart Woods
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Hothouse Orchid
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More Holly Barker.
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Stuart Woods
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Hot Mahogany
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Stuart Woods
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Dirty Work
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