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A Passage to India (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $5.76 Forster's novel is a classic. it appears on all "Top 100" lists, for list maniacs,...	Fathers and Sons (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $3.00 As a college-bound 17 year old, I'm so glad to have read Fathers and Sons. Arkady's...	The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $7.13 An editor writes a (supposedly factual) narrative of mysterious events about several deaths and...	Code to Zero Best Price: $21.00 The story line is good, but the narrator is so overly melodramatic it is iritating.	East of Eden Best Price: $11.41 The riches fill up fast and frequently in East of Eden, so much so that you're almost...



Cannery Row: (Centennial Edition) Best Price: $6.81 Bob Dylan included the subject line in his epic song, "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands."...	One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (theater tie-in) Best Price: $8.00 The book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey, is a great classic and still highly...	The Illustrated Jane Eyre (Penguin Illustrated Classics) Best Price: $2.65 If you are a Jane Eyre fan, junkie, or a first time reader, this is a wonderful edition to pick...	Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Best Price: $4.31 This moving story is about a family living in the South in the 1930's, facing racism and...	The Spy (An Isaac Bell Adventure) Best Price: $14.69 This book lives up to the previous Isaac Bell stories. Very good, high adventure!



The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott Best Price: $0.35 Louisa May Alcott's THE LOST SUMMER pairs Emily Janice Card's acting background and...	Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague Best Price: $19.95 After reading "March" and "People of the Book", I eagerly launched in to...	Hornet Flight Best Price: $6.99 I loved THe Eye of the Needle, Pillars of the Earth but this book is really bad.Most of the one...	A Perfect Day Best Price: $4.45 Another wonderful book by Richard Paul Evans! It is a book about learning what your priorities...	The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, Book 1) Best Price: $39.99 At first the narrator voice was a strange when reading the female lines but after getting used...

Just One Look Best Price: $0.01 What can a woman do when her world is suddenly turned upside down, when everything and everyone...	Lost City (NUMA Files) Best Price: $0.01 If an audio book could receive ten stars, Lost City should get them simply because both editions...	Aunt Dimity and the Next of Kin (Aunt Dimity Mystery) Best Price: $3.57 I love this series. The premise is that Aunt Dimity, who is dead, can communicate with Lori...	Europe Central Best Price: $4.98 The above title to this review refers to the character Elena's (who may serve as a...	The Judging Eye (The Aspect-Emperor) I just finished reading 'The Judging Eye' last night. As usual, I was absolutely blown...

The Winter's Tale (Oxford School Shakespeare) Best Price: $5.11 I have always favoured the Oxford Shakespeare series over others (Folger, etc), and the...	The Waves (Annotated) Best Price: $3.78 The one star rating refers not to Woolf's novel--which receives a five-star rating--but to...	Fiddlers: A Novel of the 87th Precinct (87th Precinct Mysteries) Best Price: $0.01 Having read more than half of the fifty-five 87th precinct novels written by the recently...	The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure Best Price: $4.92 Like many people, I was familiar with the 1987 film The Princess Bride long before I read (or...	The Kindness of Women Best Price: $6.55 'The Kindness of Women' is one of the most extraordinary books I have ever read - it...

Tales of Pirx the Pilot Best Price: $8.85 Not my favorite Lem book, but still a good read, if for no other reason than as a kind of...	The Charioteer Best Price: $4.50 As a young man still exploring my sexuality, The Charioteer fell into my hands. I might call it...	A Passage to India Best Price: $3.34 Ok, that I live in Italy, but even if a whole month's already elapsed, I haven't gotten...	The Tempest (Arden Shakespeare, Third Series Editions) Best Price: $139.68 All of the previous reviews of The Tempest are well taken. However, no one seems to comment on...	Neither Saints Nor Sinners: Writing the Lives of Women in Spanish America Best Price: $14.00 This book brings together the portraits and autobiographical texts of six 17th-century Latin...

The Eustace Diamonds (Centenary Edition of Anthony Trollope's Palliser Novels) Best Price: $7.49 Anthony Trollope is fabulous. A suspenseful story of a vain young woman who's old bag...	Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass (150th Anniversary Edition) Best Price: $20.92 According to the OUP website, this is the 1855 edition: "The publication of Leaves of...	Fifty More Fables of La Fontaine La Fontaine has never fared better in English than in Shapiro's translations. To say more...	The Bears of Blue River (Library of Indiana Classics) Best Price: $16.45 In 2001 my father age 82 mentioned this book as the only one he remembered his father reading to...	Hobbit Best Price: $28.59 Myth throughout the ages has been a powerful tool for mankind, providing wonderful stories,...

Savage Betrayal This was a great book. Excellent chemistry, story line and dialouge. The book starts with Mina,...	Mistress by Contract (Mills & Boon Romance) Best Price: $18.00 There was only one way for Mikayla to clear her father's debt to powerful tycoon Rafael...	The Danish Girl This is a stunning debut novel by someone who is no novice to the publishing industry, as he is...	Sharp Objects I initially picked this book up because the cover looked intriguing and the dust flap synopsis...	Inside Picture Books (Yale Nota Bene) Best Price: $3.70 Inside Picture Books by Ellen Handler Spitz, takes the reader on a deep dive into many favorite...

Fred Astaire (Icons of America) Best Price: $4.07 Part of Yale University's Icons of America series, this fascinating Joseph Epstein study of...	Gulliver's Travels Many would bring some escapist fiction like Robinson Crusoe or Swiss Family Robinson which tell...	Wuthering Heights (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $5.35 My only complaint with this Oxford version is that the explanatory notes are all at the very end...	The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $6.98 I had previously read Holmes in novel-length, but this is the first I've read Holmes in...	The Taming of the Shrew: The Oxford Shakespeare (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $6.14 "The Taming of the Shrew" is probably William Shakespeare's second most...

Notre-Dame de Paris (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $7.01 The fact that this Oxford edition chooses to retain the novel's original French title...	The Souls of Black Folk (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $7.01 This was required reading for a graduate course in the Humanities. William Edward Burghardt Du...	A Journal of the Plague Year (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $5.89 This is one man's (fictional) account of the infamous Black Plague that came close to...	The Mind's Eye: A Guide to Writing Poetry Best Price: $25.92 University academician Kevin Clark holds a Distinguished Teaching Award, as well as a widely...	Little, Brown Compact Handbook, The (with What Every Student Should Know About Using a Handbook) (6th Edition) Best Price: $19.99 This is an excellent book. It really helped me write a better paper. I would recommend it to...

Lullaby Best Price: $122.49 A journalist notices a link between a number of victims of cot death. All of the children had...	On the Heights of Despair Best Price: $12.52 This exhilarating and euforic book is one of the masterpieces written by Emil Cioran. "On...	The Jewel in the Crown (The Raj Quartet, Book 1) Best Price: $10.75 If I had to choose one book to take with me to a desert isle as a shipwreck, The Raj Quartet...	Bloomsbury Recalled Best Price: $19.39 In Bloomsbury Recalled, Quentin Bell, one of the sons of Virginia Woolf's sister, Vanessa,...	Daring Chloe (Getaway Girls) Best Price: $0.34 Laura Jensen Walker's books are always fun to read, and usually when I pick up one of her...

Between Sundays Best Price: $1.85 Karen Kingsbury has done it again. I could hardly put Between Sundays down. This uplifting...	The Sea (Man Booker Prize) Best Price: $3.95 Booker Prize-winning author John Banville presents a sensitive and remarkably complete character...	Terrorist Best Price: $0.25 Though not without its flaws (cf. James Wood's review in the New Republic online),...	The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus: And a Selection from the Letters of Marcus and Fronto (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $40.53 This is an amazing book, a window into the mind of a 1st Century Roman. It's a day book of...	The Taming of the Shrew (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $8.99 There are many reviews of the play below,, so I am reviewing this particular edition of tthe...

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $4.50 Scared at first, yes. I find reading can be fun and relaxing.. but I didn't quite...	Saint Foucault: Towards a Gay Hagiography Best Price: $30.95 I must agree with the first review. Although this book is well-researched, it suffers from a...	The Genius of Shakespeare Best Price: $30.00 Jonathan Bate's THE GENIUS OF SHAKESPEARE takes issue with cultural conservatives and with...	Hitler's Vienna: A Dictator's Apprenticeship Best Price: $55.47 Another Hitler book? Aren't there enough already? That's what I thought, til I read...	The Genius of Shakespeare Trying out a moderate position that lets him have his conservative genius Shakespeare in quotes...

The Bible As Literature: An Introduction Best Price: $15.00 It is difficult to separate the literary and religious aspects of the Bible, but the...	The Bijak of Kabir Best Price: $12.49 Kabir was an extraordinary oral poet whose works have been sung and recited by millions...	The Monk (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $42.95 Like "Casting The Runes" in this same series of Oxford World's Classics, this...	Cymbeline (Arden Shakespeare Second) Best Price: $104.44 A combination of "Romeo and Juliet," "Much Ado About...	The Last Safe Place on Earth (Laurel Leaf Books) Why does this book wind up "missing" from public and school libraries? It is...

Measure for Measure (The World's Classics, the Oxford Shakespeare) Best Price: $2.95 Shakespeare's way of handling all the relationships has always been his forte: King Lear is...	The Vicar of Wakefield (World's Classics) Best Price: $12.80 I found this little book a delight from start to finish.This was a favourite little...	Five Children and It (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $575.61 I really liked this book! What would you wish for if given the chance? And one each day, not...	The Lusï¿1/2ads (World's Classics) The name "Os Lusíadas" (The Lusiads) means sons of Lusos. Lusos...	Pride and Prejudice (World's Classics) Best Price: $3.67 I must confess up front that I am a sucker of love stories. As such, Pride and Prejudice had me...

Bleak House (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $3.25 We all know the criticisms of Dickens and why he wasn't taken seriously as a major writer...	Twelfth Night, or What You Will (Oxford Shakespeare) Best Price: $4.95 This, being the first work of Shakespeare that I have read, already has me hypnotized into his...	Heart and Soul Best Price: $1.99 I have read many of Binchy's books and this one is the weakest. She is stringing together...	The Chicago Way Best Price: $2.00 The Chicago Way is a tough, provocative take on an old crime. PI Michael Kelly, former Chicago...	The Widows of Eastwick Best Price: $0.21 (3.5 stars) Thirty years after Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie worked their black magic on their...

The Emperor's Children (Vintage) Best Price: $0.71 Claire Messud's, The Emperor's Children took me back to a stylized portrayal of life on...	Lucy Best Price: $1.09	Final Payments Best Price: $6.93 Mary Gordon's Final Payments is a great American Novel. Through her tale of a girl from...	I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts On Being a Woman (Vintage) Best Price: $2.10 I bought this book on the reviews I found online, and to vet it before I buy it as a gift: thank...	Bee Season Best Price: $0.76 I think that the book bee season, was actually quite boring. It didn't pull me in as other...

A Simple Plan Best Price: $3.95 In spite of this being a real page-turner, I found the story to be fairly predictable w/ tired...	La Cena Secreta (Spanish Edition) Best Price: $51.07 This is an relatively easy novel for those trying to improve their Spanish skills, as the...	Heart and Soul Best Price: $1.99 I have read many of Binchy's books and this one is the weakest. She is stringing together...	The Chicago Way Best Price: $2.00 The Chicago Way is a tough, provocative take on an old crime. PI Michael Kelly, former Chicago...	The Widows of Eastwick Best Price: $0.21 (3.5 stars) Thirty years after Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie worked their black magic on their...

The Emperor's Children (Vintage) Best Price: $0.71 Claire Messud's, The Emperor's Children took me back to a stylized portrayal of life on...	Lucy Best Price: $1.09	Final Payments Best Price: $6.93 Mary Gordon's Final Payments is a great American Novel. Through her tale of a girl from...	I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts On Being a Woman (Vintage) Best Price: $2.10 I bought this book on the reviews I found online, and to vet it before I buy it as a gift: thank...	Bee Season Best Price: $0.76 I think that the book bee season, was actually quite boring. It didn't pull me in as other...

A Simple Plan Best Price: $3.95 In spite of this being a real page-turner, I found the story to be fairly predictable w/ tired...	La Cena Secreta (Spanish Edition) Best Price: $51.07 This is an relatively easy novel for those trying to improve their Spanish skills, as the...

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