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Old 05-31-2008, 01:42 PM
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Crime and Punishment
Wuthering Heights
Catch-22
The Silmarillion
Don Quixote: the first book is well worth the effort.
The Odyssey: I have enjoyed it more than once.
The Brothers Karamazov
Ulysses
War and Peace: I cannot do the Russians
Madame Bovary
A Tale of Two Cities
Jane Eyre
The Name of the Rose: An enjoyable read.
Moby Dick: Yes!
Emma
The Iliad: Sing, goddess ...
Vanity Fair
Love in the Time of Cholera
The Blind Assassin
Pride and Prejudice: Good stuff.
The Historian: A Novel
The Canterbury Tales: Timeless.
The Kite Runner
Great Expectations
Life of Pi
The Time Traveler's Wife
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Atlas Shrugged: see The Fountainhead.
Foucault's Pendulum
Dracula: Did not get through to me.
The Grapes of Wrath: A must read
Frankenstein: see Dracula
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Mrs. Dalloway
Sense and Sensibility
Middlemarch
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Sound and The Fury
Memoirs of a Geisha
Brave New World: Huxley's dystopia should be required reading for all who love liberty.
Quicksilver
American Gods
Middlesex
The Poisonwood Bible
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West[B]
The Picture of Dorian Gray
[B]Dune
: Frank Herbert Rules!
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Satanic Verses
Mansfield Park
Gulliver's Travels: Recommended.
The Three Musketeers:
The Inferno
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Fountainhead: Rand Rocks!
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Oliver Twist: Dickens needed an editor.
To the Lighthouse
A Clockwork Orange
Robinson Crusoe:
Persuasion
The Scarlet Letter:
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: Harsh, nasty, and spellbinding!
The Once and Future King: Bedtime stories for the kinder. One chapter a night.
Anansi Boys
Atonement
The God of Small Things
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Cryptonomicon
Dubliners
Oryx and Crake
Angela's Ashes
Beloved
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: If enough people read it, we may save our so called civilization.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
In Cold Blood:
Lady Chatterley's Lover
A Confederacy of Dunces
Les Misérables
The Amber Spyglass
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
Watership Down: Bedtime stories for the kinder. One chapter a night.
Beowulf
The Aeneid:
A Farewell to Arms: I enjoyed it.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: Beauty in prose.
Treasure Island: Mo’ good bedtime stories.
David Copperfield
Sons and Lovers
Possession
The Book Thief
The History of Tom Jones
The Road
Tender is the Night
The War of the Worlds: A good read.
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