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Catcher in the Rye
Excellent book , it is another book that gets wayyyyyy over hyped , glad I read it before I heard the hype...
Retrato en Sepia
At the heart of this literary portrait is memory. Chilean writer Allende's new novel, skillfully crafted as the eloquent memoir of Aurora del Valle, c...
Wide Sargasso Sea
Read this book a few years back upon learning that it was written as a prequel to the beloved Jane Eyre, but realized it was much more. A brooding lov...
The Afghan
Again he did it! Details are remarkably accurate (I lived with the Afghans whom I respect very much as a great nation), the plot is irresistible, fast...
Dante's Equation
Excellent journey into the secrets of Qabbalah, from Nazi death camp to parallel dimensions, delving into the laws of universal equilibrium. Unputdown...
The Kindly Ones
Excellent book; the writer went to great pains to study the history of the Great Patriotic War (WW2, as Westerners know it), his description of Caucas...
People of the Lakes
My brother thought I looked bored while staying with him, so he tossed me this book to read. It isn't the type that I usually read, but I found it in...
Le Livre Du Voyage
Very strange, unlike any other book. Doesn't have a story, it's about the reader, and how he / she can be tranported by what "the book" tells him/ her...
El viaje del elefante
Saramago has done it again. Once you start this fabulous narration it is impossible to stop. Again, as in all of his works, Saramago offers a hidden t...
Mason & Dixon
Even though any decent Lit Prof will tell you Thomas Pynchon is one of the half-dozen most important living writers in any language, many people still...
THE LOST SYMBOL
THRILLING! THAT'S THE WORD FOR IT... But it is so fast paced and so jam-packed with information that you get yourself lost in all the symbology and...
Phantom
A wonderful poetic story that details the Phantoms life from his birth the dramatic and famous end below the Opera House. The story is told not only f...
Glass House People
One of my favoite books. Sixteen-year-old Beth and her brother discover that their mother has been estranged from her sister and the rest of her famil...
Sookie Stackhouse Series
I think I just enjoy looking at Eric more than anything else and I agree with you completely on all your other points I too want to fix Anna...
Quicksilver: The Baroque Cycle Book 1
The best american trilogy of the last couple of decades. Part adventure novel, part historical thriller, part science fiction, and frequently hilareo...
The Bell Jar
This is the autobiographical description of her lapse into depression. Events and the world are seen from the point of view of a young woman sufferin...
Chocolat
I really like how this book can show you the things you've always seen as good in a new perspective. I didn't really like the end of the book, but tha...
The Karamazov Brothers (Oxford World's Classics)
dostoeviski...a giant amongst his contemporaries and in the present time he is immortal his work my favourite is the possessed. brothers karamazov has...
Twenty Fragments if a Ravenous Youth
Very entertaining and poignant look into the mind of a young Chinese woman trying to make her way from rural life to the big time in Beijing. Playful...
House of leaves
"House of Leaves" is a contortionist's daydream, and a conservative reader's nightmare. A delicious and unique reading for all who wishes to enter a t...
The Complete Works of willaim Shakespeare
I've not read all of this but what I have read I was awed by....
Pirates!
As one of my all time favorite books, Pirates, takes you on an adventure through the seas with two young women trying to escape torture and heartache....
Life is Elsewhere
This book is a funny and melancholy exploration of the creative instinct... really a lovely read...
Louis L'Amour four complete novels
My favourite writer of Westerns. This website has no Westerns category for books!!!!!!!!!...
Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector and other stories
Gogle was a seminal writer in Russian literature and his Government Inspector play, written around 1838 and concerning corruption in local goevernment...
crash
"I believe in the mysterious beauty of Margaret Thatcher, in the arch of her nostrils and the sheen on her lower lip" J.G. Ballard...
The Woodlanders
woodlanders is my favourite of thomas hardy's collection all of which i treasure. woodlanders caught my drifting thoughts focused and assimilated the...
Mansfield Park
This is probably my least favorite Austen, but I still love it. I feel so bad for Fanny Price because of how she's treated her whole life, but I still...
