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Broken WingsBroken Wings
Best Price: $61.30
Broken Wings is a simple story which serves as a canvas for Kahlil Gibran's flights of...
The Catcher in the RyeThe Catcher in the Rye
I absolutely loved "The Catcher in the Rye." Thought it was an excellent book with an...
JessicaJessica
'A superb storyteller ...it is impossible not to be impressed by Courtenay's...
The DarkThe Dark
Best Price: $7.95
To some extent, banned books have a special place in my heart. I recall a local bookstore chain...
Waiting for the Barbarians (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)Waiting for the Barbarians (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
Best Price: $7.50
This exquisitely written book may also be the most important thing Coetzee has written. Like...


ChocolatChocolat
Best Price: $5.50
I truly regret wasting time reading this ...coz spare time is something I don't have much...
The Sky Is FallingThe Sky Is Falling
The Sky is Falling is one of my favourite novels! It is about a ten-year old girl named Norah....
Roughing It (The Penguin American Library)Roughing It (The Penguin American Library)
Best Price: $8.65
The genius of Mark Twain is that his work is still enjoyable, and funny, to this day. This...
Edgar Huntly, Or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker (Penguin Classics)Edgar Huntly, Or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker (Penguin Classics)
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I have read all of the books that Charles Brockden Brown had written in his short life (and, let...
The Woman in White (The Penguin English Library)The Woman in White (The Penguin English Library)
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I really enjoy when I find something by myself that I have never heard of, and therefore has no...


The Confessions (Penguin Classics)The Confessions (Penguin Classics)
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My feelings when reading this unusual autobiography was one of identification with the writer -...
On the Good Life (Penguin Classics)On the Good Life (Penguin Classics)
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This review refers to the work, -Cicero: On the Good Life-, translated and with introductions by...
Essays and Aphorisms (Penguin Classics)Essays and Aphorisms (Penguin Classics)
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A. Schopenhauer and Ralph W. Emerson deserve to be read together. I remember reading these two...
The Iliad (Penguin Classics)The Iliad (Penguin Classics)
Best Price: $79.08
Alexander Pope did for Homer what the King James translators did for the Bible. (Let brevity be...
Protagoras and Meno (Penguin Classics)Protagoras and Meno (Penguin Classics)
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I am not a philosopher but who says only philosophers can read Plato's texts and come out...

The Good Soldier Svejk: and His Fortunes in the World War (Penguin Classics)The Good Soldier Svejk: and His Fortunes in the World War (Penguin Classics)
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I read over fifty books a year--and have since I was around fifteen years old. I picked up...
Saint Joan: A Chronicle Play in Six Scenes and an Epilogue (Shaw Library)Saint Joan: A Chronicle Play in Six Scenes and an Epilogue (Shaw Library)
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While Shaw may have been a gifted playwright, his "Saint Joan" did an enormous...
Hard Times (Penguin Popular Classics)Hard Times (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgrind, school headmaster and model of...
Jane Eyre (Penguin Popular Classics)Jane Eyre (Penguin Popular Classics)
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This is a reprint of the famous Bronte novel that even now after so many years can thrill and...
Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Penguin Popular Classics)Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Someone pointed out a movie reviewer who has succinct entertaining reviews, via livejournal, and...

Mrs Dalloway (Classic, 20th-Century, Audio)Mrs Dalloway (Classic, 20th-Century, Audio)
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This is a really great book as an introduction into the style of stream of consciousness. I...
The Sonnets (The Pelican Shakespeare)The Sonnets (The Pelican Shakespeare)
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William Shakespeare is best known as a playwright. When you think of Shakespeare, you...
Hamlet (The Pelican Shakespeare)Hamlet (The Pelican Shakespeare)
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A good text for the most part -- nice layout, good font, adequately annotated -- but there are...
A Maiden's GraveA Maiden's Grave
Best Price: $39.50
Tense, engrossing, believible. Just what any suspense novel should be. But Maiden's Grave...
White FangWhite Fang
Best Price: $124.99
White Fang by Jack London is about a wolf-cub and his adventures of gowing-up. The cub's...

The Waste Lands (The Dark Tower, Book 3)The Waste Lands (The Dark Tower, Book 3)
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I fell in love with Roland by the end of The Gunslinger. I read Drawing in 2 days and needed...
Blanche Passes GoBlanche Passes Go
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This novelist has written a series of Blanche detective novels that have as their heroine a...
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Classic, Audio)The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Classic, Audio)
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It's hard to imagine how anyone could read Mark Twains hillarious satire and social...
The Woman in White (musical tie-in) (Penguin Summer Classics S.)The Woman in White (musical tie-in) (Penguin Summer Classics S.)
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This advice for writing serial romances, alternately attributed to Wilkie Collins, Charles...
The Blood of the LambThe Blood of the Lamb
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Peter De Vries's *Blood of the Lamb* is a novel of singular depth and humanity. De Vries...

The Road to WellvilleThe Road to Wellville
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This book provides a fair amount of food for thought. While the treatments described here look...
The Deptford TrilogyThe Deptford Trilogy
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At 5:58 p.m. on the 27th of December, 1908, a young kid throws a rock-laden snowball at his...
The Portable Emerson (Viking Portable Library)The Portable Emerson (Viking Portable Library)
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After scanning through and thinking about the works of Marcus Aurilius, another philosopher came...
Cannery RowCannery Row
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I wish I knew how to convey to you the importance of reading this book and how I think it will...
Anne of Green Gables TreasuryAnne of Green Gables Treasury
Best Price: $76.54
I have loved Anne of Green Gables ever since I was a child. It is very hard to obtain Anne-books...

The Gods Will Have Blood (Les Dieux Ont Soif)The Gods Will Have Blood (Les Dieux Ont Soif)
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I once challenged myself to read all the Penguin Classics in the Viking catalogue. I think...
Winesburg, Ohio (Penguin Classics)Winesburg, Ohio (Penguin Classics)
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A beautiful work that exposes the underside of life in a small town. The narrator carefully...
Henderson the Rain King (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)Henderson the Rain King (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
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I am a Bellow fan and have read most of his novels. After a while his books become like old...
Lady Chatterley's Lover: Cambridge Lawrence Edition (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)Lady Chatterley's Lover: Cambridge Lawrence Edition (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
Best Price: $6.70
The beauty of belonging to a reading group is that everyone is exposed to books that they might...
The Souls of Black Folk (Penguin Classics)The Souls of Black Folk (Penguin Classics)
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And so "education" should be, one of many great, though by no means unique,...

Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early LifeSurprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
Best Price: $10.22
I just finished the 230-page book by C.S. Lewis, "Surprised By Joy - The Shape of My Early...
Poet's ChoicePoet's Choice
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"Poetry is a necessary part of our planet." Edward Hirsch Poet and critic, Edward...
John the RevelatorJohn the Revelator
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An "Irish gothic" novel with dark, religious overtones, JOHN THE REVELATOR is set in...
BabbittBabbitt
Best Price: $29.95
If you ask me. And I mean it, I mean, I really mean it. I mean, the people in this book are,...
A Fair MaidenA Fair Maiden
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"Getting treasures by a lying tongue Is the fleeting fantasy of those who seek...

Where Is Joe Merchant?: A Novel TaleWhere Is Joe Merchant?: A Novel Tale
Best Price: $38.95
Telling stories is what Jimmy Buffett does best. Any fan (or Parrothead, as the case may be) of...
Astrid & VeronikaAstrid & Veronika
I began reading this book twice, putting it down within the first 30 pages, but eventually...
The Waste Land and Other Poems (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)The Waste Land and Other Poems (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
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Both a poetic diagnosis on an ailing civilization and a desperate quest for spiritual renewal,...
A Room with a View (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)A Room with a View (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
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When A ROOM WITH A VIEW was first published in 1908, the sun had not yet set on the British...
The Sunne in SplendourThe Sunne in Splendour
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As an avid reader and historian, I have to say that this book is a masterpiece. Not only is it...

The Neverending StoryThe Neverending Story
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The Neverending Story is truly an outstanding book. First published I believe in German, it has...
The Greek Myths: Illustrated EditionThe Greek Myths: Illustrated Edition
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The only reason this doesn't get 5 starts is because it's too sparse for me, but I'm...
Pearlhanger (Lovejoy Mystery)Pearlhanger (Lovejoy Mystery)
Best Price: $8.50
This was my second Lovejoy novel and I loved it. The main character is great and and the...
FoeFoe
Best Price: $7.93
I gaurantee that you won't be able to better spend 3-4 hours than to spend it reading this...
Less than ZeroLess than Zero
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I thought that this was well written, for the one reason that it was different. I'm sick of...

Baumgartner's BombayBaumgartner's Bombay
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Baumgartner's Bombay is a memorable and haunting tale of the holocaust and the resulting new...
Americana (Contemporary American fiction)Americana (Contemporary American fiction)
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This first line is something that, in 1971, when the book was first published, almost predicts...
The Cloning of Joanna MayThe Cloning of Joanna May
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I first read 'The Cloning of Joanna May' over a decade ago, and often find myself...
Animal FarmAnimal Farm
Best Price: $6.15
Animal Farm is really short and accessible. The characters are what makes this book great. Who...
Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early LifeSurprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
Best Price: $10.22
I just finished the 230-page book by C.S. Lewis, "Surprised By Joy - The Shape of My Early...

Poet's ChoicePoet's Choice
Best Price: $0.01
"Poetry is a necessary part of our planet." Edward Hirsch Poet and critic, Edward...
John the RevelatorJohn the Revelator
Best Price: $0.01
An "Irish gothic" novel with dark, religious overtones, JOHN THE REVELATOR is set in...
BabbittBabbitt
Best Price: $29.95
If you ask me. And I mean it, I mean, I really mean it. I mean, the people in this book are,...
A Fair MaidenA Fair Maiden
Best Price: $0.63
"Getting treasures by a lying tongue Is the fleeting fantasy of those who seek...
Where Is Joe Merchant?: A Novel TaleWhere Is Joe Merchant?: A Novel Tale
Best Price: $38.95
Telling stories is what Jimmy Buffett does best. Any fan (or Parrothead, as the case may be) of...

Astrid & VeronikaAstrid & Veronika
I began reading this book twice, putting it down within the first 30 pages, but eventually...
The Waste Land and Other Poems (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)The Waste Land and Other Poems (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
Best Price: $7.99
Both a poetic diagnosis on an ailing civilization and a desperate quest for spiritual renewal,...
A Room with a View (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)A Room with a View (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
Best Price: $4.95
When A ROOM WITH A VIEW was first published in 1908, the sun had not yet set on the British...
The Time MachineThe Time Machine
Best Price: $4.48
I went to college with John and while we aren't really friends, I know his friends and...
A Thread of Sky: A NovelA Thread of Sky: A Novel
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Deanna Fei's A THREAD OF SKY is a lyrical look at life for one complicated family -- one of...

Inherent ViceInherent Vice
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Ron McLarty's stage skills and films holds a familiar voice for many and provides a lively...
The PostmistressThe Postmistress
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Set in 1940-41, The Postmistress is a story that follows the lives of three very different...
The Girl Who Played With FireThe Girl Who Played With Fire
Oh wow, was this book ever good! After becoming heavily invested in the characters after reading...
The Birthday PresentThe Birthday Present
Best Price: $24.00
As a long-time fan of Ruth Rendell / Barbara Vine, I can't express how much it pains me to...
Tartuffe: A Comedy in Five Acts (English and French Edition)Tartuffe: A Comedy in Five Acts (English and French Edition)
Best Price: $94.41
WARNING! This cornucopia of lechery, blastphemy and hypocracy has been found to be an addiction...

Under the SkinUnder the Skin
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This novel is a true original--truly wierd and truly touching. A marvelous ...
L'AmericaL'America
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Spoilers Ahead! Martha McPhee's L'America is so much more than an epic and immortal...
The Ticket OutThe Ticket Out
Best Price: $4.71
This book started out with lots of action and excellent character development of main charaters,...
Northanger Abbey (Penguin Popular Classics)Northanger Abbey (Penguin Popular Classics)
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The book and the story are pretty good, but Price and Prejudice will always be my favorite Jane...
Scarlet Letter (Penguin Popular Classics)Scarlet Letter (Penguin Popular Classics)
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My son wants to know why the cover of this book is bright green since that seems to have nothing...

Cat Who Dropped A BombshellCat Who Dropped A Bombshell
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Although I have enjoyed most of Lilian Jackson Braun's books concerning James Qwilleran and...
The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory (Penguin Classics)The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory (Penguin Classics)
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Trying to full describe the writings of Jorge Luis Borges is like trying to explain exactly why...
Predator (Kay Scarpetta Mysteries)Predator (Kay Scarpetta Mysteries)
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but this is the last Patricia Cornwell I will read. The 2 previous books were very dark, dreary...
A Death in the Family (Penguin Classics)A Death in the Family (Penguin Classics)
Best Price: $8.86
My older Avon edition, with the far more appropriate cover of the empty easy chair, had only one...
The Bastard of IstanbulThe Bastard of Istanbul
Best Price: $7.23
I live in So California where we have a sizable Armenian community. I have come to hear tales of...

Kindness Goes Unpunished (Walt Longmire Mysteries)Kindness Goes Unpunished (Walt Longmire Mysteries)
Best Price: $7.94
I can not say enough good things about Craig Johnson, his books and his characters. He makes...
In the WoodsIn the Woods
Best Price: $3.35
My title is taken from a line in this amazing book, which alludes to detective Cassie...
Home to Holly Springs (Father Tim, Book 1)Home to Holly Springs (Father Tim, Book 1)
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the whole series of Karons books, telling about the life of Father Tim, have been wonderful. I...
Adam Bede (Penguin Classics)Adam Bede (Penguin Classics)
Best Price: $7.44
I find the mostly 5 star reviews of Adam Bede rather puzzling. I am a great of lover nineteenth...
The Hunting of the Snark : An Agony in Eight Fits (Penguin Classics)The Hunting of the Snark : An Agony in Eight Fits (Penguin Classics)
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This edition of Lewis Carroll's hilarious and haunting nonsense poem was originally...

Mansfield Park (Penguin Classics)Mansfield Park (Penguin Classics)
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There can be few greater pleasures in the world than reading a Jane Austen novel for the very...
Bleak HouseBleak House
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Bleak House, Charles Dickens' scathing look at the Victorian Legal system, is a wonderful...
The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
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Perhaps it is my unique sense of humor, but I found this book incredibly funny. I wasn't...
Dombey and Son (Penguin Classics)Dombey and Son (Penguin Classics)
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Upon finishing Dombey and Son this morning, I thought back to the first Dickens work I ever...
The Woman in White (Penguin Classics)The Woman in White (Penguin Classics)
Best Price: $14.24
I'll keep this brief. This is an excellent book, as other reviews will tell you. This...

Uncle Silas (Penguin Classics)Uncle Silas (Penguin Classics)
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One of my most favourite books by an awe-inspiring author. Sucks you in right from the...
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Penguin Classics)The Hound of the Baskervilles (Penguin Classics)
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When I was a kid I used to read about a detective named Encyclopedia Brown. In these stories...
The Annals of Imperial Rome (Penguin Classics)The Annals of Imperial Rome (Penguin Classics)
Best Price: $5.64
If you love history, this has got to be one of the most important books you could have. This,...
  

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