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Old 03-29-2014, 08:58 AM
 
Location: Tonawanda NY
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I love reading some of the selections, bought back memories of books I forgot about but enjoyed.

My favorites that first come to mind

1. Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
2. Mr. Dream Merchant by Erroll Bailey
3. The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe
4. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
5. The Oxford English Dictionary (I can't live without this)
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Old 03-29-2014, 09:42 AM
 
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The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar
The Red Tent by Anita Diamante
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
Before I Go to Sleep by S.J. Watson
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

and many more than just five!
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Old 04-02-2014, 06:31 PM
 
Location: SoCal desert
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5. The Mirror by Milhauser (can't really remember her name, but it was my "gateway book" that turned me into a book lover when I was in 6th grade).
Oh my, I've never met another person who read this book!

Author's name is Marlys Millhiser- the SF Book Club classified it as a horror book, LOL
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Old 04-08-2014, 04:49 PM
 
Location: TOVCCA
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There are many novels I've liked, but these books changed the way I look at life:

Be Here Now by Ram Dass
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Religions of Man by Huston Smith
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Old 04-08-2014, 08:24 PM
 
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Thank God for Evolution by Michael Dowd

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Bossypants by Tina Fey
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Old 04-10-2014, 06:55 AM
 
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Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho
Perfect by Judith McNaught ( Teenage memory)
Harry Potter by J.K Rowling (Yes I m Potter fan)
Deception Point by Dan Brown ( Though I like all of his work)
Master of the Game (Another memory from teenage)
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Old 04-28-2014, 12:52 AM
 
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Love in the Time of Cholera

The Bell Jar

Anything Victor Hugo

Never Change

The Haunting of L
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Old 05-06-2014, 03:42 PM
 
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A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck

The Fires of Spring by James Michener

Found Money by Charlie Carillo
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Old 05-07-2014, 03:53 AM
 
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1. Exodus - Leon Uris
2. Enders Game - Orson Scott Card
3. Trinity - Leon Uris
4. Agincourt - Bernard Cornwell (probably not that great but I loved it)
5. A Storm of Swords - George R.R. Martin
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Old 05-12-2014, 09:13 PM
 
Location: Denver, CO
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Walden - Henry David Thoreau
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
The Great Gatsby- F. Scott Fitzgerald
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