1001 Books to Read Before I Die
Please suggest any books you think I should read---especially ones that are on the official list! :)
List created by Keri (TXGrobanite) on Jul 9, 2010
List Votes: 378 Books: 841 Contributors: 195 Watchers: 781 List Type: Open
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Kim W. (Kim1264) - |
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Set in the small Southern town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the Depression, To Kill a Mockingbird follows three years in the life of 8-year-old Scout Finch, her brother, Jem, and their father, Atticus -- three years punctuated by the arrest and eventual trial of a young black man accused of... more
Book Votes: 862
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Donna B. (eclecticreader10) - |
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Be prepared to meet three unforgettable women:
Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace... more
Book Votes: 658
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| Patty R. (PattyR) |
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, Bk 1) by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter has never played a sport while flying on a broomstick. He's never worn a cloak of invisibility, befriended a giant, or helped hatch a dragon. All Harry knows is a miserable life with the Dursleys, his horrible aunt and uncle, and their abominable son, Dudley. Harry's room is... more
Book Votes: 585
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| Chris H. (jgud11) |
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, grifters, and misfits, a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression, making one-night stands in town after endless town. A veterinary student who almost... more
Book Votes: 553
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| Janelle C. (jscrappy) |
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank & B.M. Mooyaart-Doubleday (Tr...
Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last year of her life, Anne Frank's remarkable diary has since become a world classic -- a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit.
In 1942, with Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old... more
Book Votes: 542
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| Vicki T. (VickiT12) |
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
This powerful first novel tells a story of fierce cruelty and fierce yet redeeming love. Both transform the life of Amir, the privileged young narrator, who comes of age during the last peaceful days of the monarchy, just before his country's revolution and its invasion by Russian forces.... more
Book Votes: 491
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| Colleen T. (rainbowbrite98) |
The Hunger Games (Hunger Games, Bk 1) by Suzanne Collins
In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to... more
Book Votes: 483
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Rick B. (bup) - |
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.'
Thus memorably begins Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, one of the world's most popular novels. Pride and Prejudice -- Austen's own 'darling child' -- tells the story of... more
Book Votes: 460
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Jessica D. (MTGirlAtHeart) - |
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Little Women is one of the best loved books of all time. Lovely Meg, talented Jo, frail Beth, spoiled Amy: these are hard lessons of poverty and of growing up in New England during the Civil War. Through their dreams, plays, pranks, letters,... more
Book Votes: 454
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| Terri E. (stocktonmalonefan) - |
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Set in South Carolina in 1964, "The Secret Life of Bees" tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. When Lily's fierce-hearted "stand-in mother," Rosaleen, insults three of the town's... more
Book Votes: 408
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Jessica D. (MTGirlAtHeart) - |
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. This exemplary novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish... more
Book Votes: 402
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| Carleigh O. (temarifan) |
The Hobbit: Or, There and Back Again by J. R. R. Tolkien
J.R.R. Tolkien's own description for the original edition: If you care for journeys there and back, out of the comfortable Western world, over the edge of the Wild, and home again, and can take an interest in a humble hero (blessed with a little wisdom and a little courage and considerable good... more
Book Votes: 402
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| Joanne L. (jlustig) |
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
A literary sensation and runaway bestseller, this brilliant debut novel tells with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism the true confessions of one of Japan's most celebrated geisha. Speaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice at once haunting and startlingly immediate, Nitta... more
Book Votes: 397
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| Janelle C. (jscrappy) |
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Charlotte Bronte's impassioned novel is the love story of Jane Eyre, a plain yet spirited governess, and her employer, the arrogant, brooding Mr. Rochester. Published in 1847, under the pseudonym of Currer Bell, the book heralded a new kind of heroine -- one whose virtuous integrity, keen... more
Book Votes: 393
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| Terri E. (stocktonmalonefan) - |
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Here are the characters that have become symbols of passion and desire: darkly handsome Rhett Butler and flirtatious Scarlett O'Hara. Behind them stand their gentler counterparts: Ashley Wilkes and Melanie Hamilton.
As the lives and affairs of these absorbing characters play out against... more
Book Votes: 391
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| Stacy P. |
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
When we first meet Susie Salmon, she is already in heaven. As she looks down from this strange new place, she tells us, in the fresh and spirited voice of a fourteen-year-old girl, a tale that is both haunting and full of hope. In the weeks following her death, Susie watches life on Earth... more
Book Votes: 376
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| Lisa B. (sheesh) |
The Glass Castle : A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains. Rex was a charismatic,... more
Book Votes: 372
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Kim W. (Kim1264) - |
Animal Farm by George Orwell
A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned--a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that... more
Book Votes: 368
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Mary C. (purplepride) - |
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, Bk 1) by Stieg Larsson & Reg Keeland...
Harriet Vanger, scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest families, disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to seek the truth. He hires Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently trapped by a libel conviction, to investigate. He is aided by the... more
Book Votes: 358
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Elizabeth B. (Cattriona) - |
Night by Elie Wiesel & Stella Rodway (Translator)
Night -- A terrifying account of the Nazi death camp horror that turns a young Jewish boy into an agonized witness to the death of his family...the death of his innocence... and the death of his God.
Penetrating and powerful, as personal as The Diary of Anne Frank, Night awakens the shocking... more
Book Votes: 327
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Cassie S. (cassie86) - |
1984 by George Orwell
1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell's prophetic, nightmarish vision in 1949 of the world we were becoming is timelier than ever. 1984 is still the great modern classic of "Negative Utopia"--a startlingly original and haunting novel that creates an imaginary world that is... more
Book Votes: 324
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| Lori B. (LoriVB) |
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Her name is Dinah. In the Bible, her life is only hinted at in a brief and violent detour within the more familiar chapters of the Book of Genesis that are about her father, Jacob, and his dozen sons. Told in Dinah's voice, this novel reveals the traditions and turmoils of ancient womanhood... more
Book Votes: 323
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| James M. (monkeypox) |
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
J. D. Salinger's famous and enduring chronicle of Holden Caulfield's journey from innocence to experience is the quintessential coming-of-age novel--though it's an unusual one, in which the hero tries to cling to the simplicity of childhood, achieving a kind of maturity almost in... more
Book Votes: 322
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Kim W. (Kim1264) - |
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
When The Grapes of Wrath first appeared in 1939, it electrified an America still recovering from the Great Depression. Driven from their Oklahoma farm by the encroachment of large agricultural interests, the Joad family sets out, like generations before them, to the promised land of... more
Book Votes: 310
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| Leah G. (LeahG) |
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
In 1959, Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist, takes his four young daughters, his wife, and his mission to the Belgian Congo -- a place, he is sure, where he can save needy souls. But the seeds they plant bloom in tragic ways within this complex culture. Set against one of the most... more
Book Votes: 308
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| James M. (monkeypox) |
The Stand by Stephen King
Arguably the greatest horror novel ever written by the greatest horror novelist, this is a true Modern Classic that was first published in 1978, and then re-published in 1990, complete and unabridged, with 150,000 words cut from the first edition restored, and now accompanied by unusual and... more
Book Votes: 305
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| Stacy P. |
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic... more
Book Votes: 305
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| Elizabeth W. (pandagirl) |
The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
Ponyboy is fourteen, tough and confused, yet sensitive behind his bold front. Since his parents' death, his loyalties have been to his brothers and his gang, the rough, swinging, long-haired boys from the wrong side of the tracks. When his best friend, Johnny, kills a member of a rival gang, a... more
Book Votes: 297
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MP G. (philomene) - |
The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring / The Two Towers / The Return of the Ki...
The novel of the century, now with new movie tie-in art, color endpaper maps, flaps, and more.
In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring... more
Book Votes: 297
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| Heidi L. (caleighsmom) |
A Child Called 'It': One Child's Courage to Survive by Dave Pelzer
This book chronicles the unforgettable account of one of the most severe child abuse cases in California history. It is the story of Dave Pelzer, who was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother: a mother who played tortuous, unpredictable games--games that left... more
Book Votes: 296
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| Janelle C. (jscrappy) |
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics) by Mark Twain & Guy Cardwel...
Of all the contenders for the title of The Great American Novel, none has a better claim than The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. More than a century after its publication it remains a major work that can be enjoyed at many levels: as an incomparable adventure story and as a classic of American... more
Book Votes: 293
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Rick B. (bup) - |
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. And he detests the color yellow. This improbable story of Christopher's... more
Book Votes: 292
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| JAKE B. (jakehbrown) |
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, Bk 2) by Dan Brown
While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. While working to solve the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to... more
Book Votes: 290
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Kim W. (Kim1264) - |
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Over seventy-five years since its first publication, Steinbeck’s tale of commitment, loneliness, hope, and loss remains one of America’s most widely read and taught novels. An unlikely pair, George and Lennie, two migrant workers in California during the Great Depression, grasp for... more
Book Votes: 281
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| Erica W. (smerica) |
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
An American classic, the moving story set in the 1900's, about a young girl's coming of age at the turn of the century, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn follows the lives of 11-year-old Francie Nolan, her younger brother Neely, and their parents, Irish immigrants who have settled in the... more
Book Votes: 281
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| J. M. (nena) |
The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
Eddie is a grizzled war veteran who feels trapped in a meaningless life of fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. His days are a dull routine of work, loneliness, and regret.
Then, on his 83rd birthday, Eddie dies in a tragic accident, trying to save a little girl from a falling cart. He... more
Book Votes: 281
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| Stacy P. |
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
1939, Nazi Germany - The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier. Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with a foster family on Himmel Street. Her parents have been taken away to a concentration camp. Liesel steals books. This is her story and the story of the inhabitants of... more
Book Votes: 279
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Elizabeth B. (Cattriona) - |
Little House in the Big Woods (Little House, Bk 1) by Laura Ingalls Wilder & Gart...
In this first book in the series, the Ingalls family is snug in its Wisconsin log house, safe from blizzards, wolves, and the lonely forest.
Notable Children's Books of 1940'1970 (ALA)
1958 Lewis Carroll Shelf Award
1988 Choices (Association of Booksellers for Children)
Horn Book... more
Book Votes: 274
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| Ariana B. |
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
On the surface, Henry and Clare Detamble are a normal couple living in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood. Henry works at the Newberry Library and Clare creates abstract paper art, but the cruel reality is that Henry is a prisoner of time. It sweeps him back and forth at its leisure, from... more
Book Votes: 273
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| Colleen T. (rainbowbrite98) |
Catching Fire (Hunger Games, Bk 2) (Unabridged Audio CD) by Suzanne Collins
Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the annual Hunger Games with fellow district tribute Peeta Mellark. But it was a victory won by defiance of the Capitol and their harsh rules. Katniss and Peeta should be happy. After all, they have just won for themselves and their families a life of... more
Book Votes: 268
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MP G. (philomene) - |
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Originally published in 1954, William Golding's Lord of the Flies is one of the most disturbing and celebrated novels of modern times.
A plane crashes on a desert island. The only survivors are a group of schoolboys. At first they revel in the freedom and celebrate the absence of... more
Book Votes: 266
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| Amy B. (BaileysBooks) |
Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, Bk 1) by L. M. Montgomery
This is the classic and immensely popular first novel in the series about Anne Shirley, an irrepressible red-headed orphan. The Cuthberts decide to adopt an orphan -- a strong, hardworking boy to help with the farm chores. Anne is sent to live with them by mistake. Talkative, romantic and... more
Book Votes: 262
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| Peggy B. (peggymib) |
Outlander (Outlander, Bk 1) by Diana Gabaldon
Unrivaled storytelling... unforgettable characters... rich historical detail... these are the hallmarks of Diana Gabaldon's work. Her New York Times bestselling Outlander novels have earned the praise of critics and captured millions of readers.
Here is the story that started it all,... more
Book Votes: 261
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| Lori B. (LoriVB) |
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Ken Follett had long been a staple of the bestseller lists for his novels of intrigue and espionage. Then came The Pillars of the Earth, a grand novel of epic storytelling that readers and critics quickly hailed as his crowning achievement. Now, The Pillars of the Earth is available for the... more
Book Votes: 261
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| Rachael F. (rlferris) |
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult is widely acclaimed for her keen insights into the hearts and minds of real people. Now she tells the emotionally riveting story of a family torn apart by conflicting needs and a passionate love that triumphs over human weakness.
Anna is not... more
Book Votes: 259
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| Janelle C. (jscrappy) |
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again ... With these words the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone manse on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter recalls the chilling events that transpired as she began her new life as the young bride of a husband... more
Book Votes: 255
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Kim W. (Kim1264) - |
Interview with the Vampire (Vampire Chronicles, Bk 1) by Anne Rice
This is the story of the Louis, as told in his own words, of his journey through mortal and immortal life. Louis recounts how he became a vampire at the hands of the radiant and sinister Lestat and how he became indoctrinated, unwillingly, into the vampire way of life. His story ebbs and flows... more
Book Votes: 253
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Laurie H. (coolelle) - |
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Celie is a poor black woman whose letters tell the story of 20 years of her life, beginning at age 14 when she is being abused and raped by her father and attempting to protect her sister from the same fate, and continuing over the course of her marriage to "Mister," a brutal man who terrorizes... more
Book Votes: 253
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| Renee D. (reneeL) |
The Handmaid's Tale (Handmaid's Tale, Bk 1) by Margaret Atwood
In the world of the near future, who will control women's bodies?
Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to... more
Book Votes: 250
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Shaz H. (shaz) - |
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable... more
Book Votes: 247
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| Fianna R. (fiannafi) |
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Pi Patel, a God-loving boy and the son of a zookeeper, had a fervent love of stories and practices not only within his native Hinduism, but also Christianity and Islam. When Pi is sixteen, his family and their zoo animals emigrate from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship. Alas,... more
Book Votes: 246
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Heather M. (aggieeditor) - |
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
A classic novel of hte 1960s, this powerful story about life in a mental hospital is told by a half-Indian patient called Chief Bromden. The Chief will not talk, and he has deceived the staff into thinking him deaf and dumb; but through his self-imposed protective fog he is an acute observer. To... more
Book Votes: 240
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| rolise |
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett & Tasha Tudor (Illustrator)
When orphaned Mary Lennox, lonely and sad, comes to live at her uncle's great house on the Yorkshire moors, she finds it full of secrets. At night, she hears the sound of crying down one of the long corridors. Outside, she meets Dickon, a magical boy who can charm and talk to animals. Then,... more
Book Votes: 240
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| Charity S. (charitysheppard) |
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
"My greatest thought in living is Heathcliff. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be... Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure... but as my own being." Wuthering Heights is the... more
Book Votes: 239
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Don't panic! You're not timetripping! It's the tenth anniversary of the publication of Douglas Adams's zany, best-selling novel, and to celebrate Harmony is reissuing a special edition of this cult classic!
By now the story is legendary. Arthur Dent, mild-mannered, out-to-lunch earth-ling, is... more
Book Votes: 228
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Shaz H. (shaz) - |
Holes (Holes, Bk 1) by Louis Sachar
Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnats. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys' detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the boys build character... more
Book Votes: 225
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| Rachael F. (rlferris) |
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
With heart-wrenching power and suspense, the bestselling author of "The Kite Runner" shows how a woman's love for her family can move her to shocking and heroic acts of self-sacrifice, and that in the end it is love, or even the memory of love, that is often the key to survival.
Book Votes: 219
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Laurie H. (coolelle) - |
The Green Mile by Stephen King
Read this history-making serial novel -- from cliffhanger to cliffhanger -- in its entirety. When it first appeared, one volume per month, Stephen King's The Green Mile was an unprecedented publishing triumph: all six volumes ended up on the New York Times bestseller list -- simultaneously --... more
Book Votes: 218
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| Laura E. (laereader) |
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia) by C. S. Lewis & Paul...
"NARNIA...the land beyond the wardrobe, the secret country known only to Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy...the place where the adventure begins.
Lucy is the first to find the secret of the wardrobe in the professor's mysterious old house. At first, no one believes her when she tells... more
Book Votes: 216
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| Colleen T. (rainbowbrite98) |
Mockingjay (Hunger Games, Bk 3) by Suzanne Collins
MY NAME IS KATNISS EYERDEEN.
WHY AM I NOT DEAD?
I SHOULD BE DEAD.
Katniss Everdeen, girl on fire, has survived, even though her home has been destroyed. Gale has escaped. Katniss's family is safe. Peeta has been captured by the Capitol. District 13 really does exist. There are... more
Book Votes: 215
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| Carleigh O. (temarifan) |
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Also titled: The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
Set during five of the most intensely dramatic days ever portrayed, ROMEO AND JULIET was probably written in 1594 or 1595.
Romeo is forced to approach Juliet in secret because of the impassioned rivalry between his family, the Montagues--and... more
Book Votes: 211
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| Ronnie G. (frenchgiant) |
Bridge To Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
The story starts out simply enough: Jess Aarons wants to be the fastest boy in the fifth grade--he wants it so bad he can taste it. He's been practicing all summer, running in the fields around his farmhouse until he collapses in a sweat. Then a tomboy named Leslie Burke moves into the farmhouse... more
Book Votes: 210
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| J. M. (nena) |
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia ...
First, pleasure: savoring Italy's buffet of delights -- the world's best pizza, free-flowing wine and dashing conversation partners -- Gilbert consumes la dolce vita as spiritual succor. "I came to Italy pinched and thin," she writes, but soon fills out in waist and soul. Then,... more
Book Votes: 210
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| Allie B. (a11iecat) |
Watership Down by Richard Adams
One of the most beloved novels of our time, Richard Adams's Watership Down takes us to a world we have never truly seen: to the remarkable life that teems in the fields, forests and riverbanks far beyond our cities and towns. It is a powerful saga of courage, leadership and survival; an epic... more
Book Votes: 210
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| Wendy R. (wendybird) |
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Bar...
January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who could imagine that she would find it in a letter from a man she's never met, a native of the island of Guernsey, who has come across her name written... more
Book Votes: 208
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| Amanda H. (steelplace632) |
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
"Mine is a story of craving: an unreliable account of lusts and troubles that began, somehow, in 1956 on the day our free television was delivered...."
Meet Dolores Price. She's 13, wise-mouthed but wounded, having bid her childhood goodbye. Beached like a whale in front of her bedroom TV,... more
Book Votes: 199
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Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
First published in 1971, GO ASK ALICE was presented as the diary of a real teenaged girl whose descent into drug addition ushered her into a dark world of debauchery, abuse, and prostitution that eventually led to her death. Riding on the coattails of the 1960s, this provocative recipe of peer... more
Book Votes: 198
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Shaz H. (shaz) - |
The Count of Monte Cristo (Abridged) by Alexandre Dumas & Lowell Bair (Translator...
Set against the turbulent years of the Napoleonic era, Alexandre Dumas's thrilling adventure story is one of the most widely read romantic novels of all time. In it the dashing young hero, Edmond Dantès, is betrayed by his enemies and thrown into a secret dungeon in the Chateau... more
Book Votes: 191
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| Amy B. (BaileysBooks) |
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley's mighty novel of a soulless, streamlined Eden is the twentieth century's most brilliant profound and terrifying evocation of the future our civilization may be creating. Brave New World is Huxley's prophetic vision of natural man in an unnatural world, where freedom... more
Book Votes: 189
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| Erin A. (taechermama) |
The Giver (Giver, Bk 1) by Lois Lowry
At the age of twelve, Jonas, a young boy from a seemingly utopian, futuristic world, is singled out to receive special training from The Giver, who alone holds the memories of the true joys and pain of life.
Book Votes: 189
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| Ronnie G. (frenchgiant) |
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
At once brutal and tender, despairing and rashly hopeful, spare of language and profoundly moving, this work is a fierce and haunting meditation on the tenuous divide between civilization and savagery, and the essential, sometimes terrifying power of filial love.
Book Votes: 186
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| Keitha M. (kmama) |
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
An alluring tour de force: a brilliant debut novel told with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism as the true confessions of one of Japan's most celebrated geisha.
Speaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice at once haunting and startlingly immediate, Nitta Sayuri tells the... more
Book Votes: 186
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Denise S. (Dargent) - |
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel d'Hiv roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours.
Paris, May 2002:... more
Book Votes: 183
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| James M. (monkeypox) |
White Oleander by Janet Fitch
Astrid is the only child of a single mother, Ingrid, a brillant, obsessed poet who wields her luminous beauty to intimidate and manipulate men. Astrid worships her mother and cherishes their private world full of ritual and mystery - but their idyll is shattered when Astrid's mother falls... more
Book Votes: 178
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Kim W. (Kim1264) - |
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
A vulnerable young girl wins a dream assignment on a big-time New York fashion magazine and finds herself plunged into a nightmare. An autobiographical account of Sylvia Plath's own mental breakdown and suicide attempt, The Bell Jar is more... more
Book Votes: 177
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Lisa H. (FlouncePony) - |
Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes
FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON made its first appearance as a short story which was rapidly and widely anthologized, and translated internationally. It received further acclaim as a memorable television drama, and as a motion picture production. Now, full-bodies and richly-peopled, FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON... more
Book Votes: 177
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Laurie H. (coolelle) - |
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
An abridged, "Good Parts" version of The Princess Bride, a tale that pits country against country, good against evil, love against hate. This love story contains strange beasts, memorable surprises, and unforgettable characters.
Book Votes: 175
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Shaz H. (shaz) - |
A Tale of Two Cities : Abridged by Charles Dickens & Ian Richardson
Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title—offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All... more
Book Votes: 171
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| Terri E. (stocktonmalonefan) - |
Island of the Blue Dolphins (Illustrated) by Scott O'Dell & Ted Lewin (Illustrato...
Left alone on a beautiful but isolated island, a young Indian girl spends eighteen years, not only merely surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance, but also finding a measure of happiness in her solitary life. This newly illustrated edition of Island of the Blue... more
Book Votes: 171
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| Joanne L. (jlustig) |
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Four mothers, four daughters, four families... In 1949, four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, meet weekly to play mahjong and tell stories of what they left behind in China. United in loss, and with new hope for their daughters' futures, they call themselves the Joy Luck... more
Book Votes: 170
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| Kathy F. |
Ender's Game (Ender, Bk 1) by Orson Scott Card
Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards
In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his... more
Book Votes: 168
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| Terri E. (stocktonmalonefan) - |
Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley
This "bold...extraordinary...blockbuster..." (Newsweek magazine) begins with a birth in an African village in 1750, and ends two centuries later at a funeral in Arkansas. And in that time span, an unforgettable cast of men, women, and children come to life, many of them based on the... more
Book Votes: 166
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| Laura M. (mctiggr) |
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Ken Follett had long been a staple of the bestseller lists for his novels of intrigue and espionage. Then came The Pillars of the Earth, a grand novel of epic storytelling that readers and critics quickly hailed as his crowning achievement. Now, The Pillars of the Earth is available for the... more
Book Votes: 165
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Heather M. (aggieeditor) - |
It by Stephen King
They were just kids when they stumbled upon the hidden horror of their hometown. Now, as adults, none of them can withstand the force that has drawn them all back to Derry, Maine, to face the nightmare without end, and the evil without a name.
Book Votes: 162
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| Joanne L. (jlustig) |
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
One of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain is a masterpiece that is at once an enthralling adventure, a stirring love story, and a luminous evocation of a vanished American in all its savagery, solitude, and splendor.
Sorely wounded and... more
Book Votes: 162
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| Caroline |
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
Two sisters competing for the greatest prize: the love of a king When Mary Boleyn comes to court as an innocent girl of fourteen, she catches the eye of Henry VIII. Dazzled by the king, Mary falls in love with both her golden prince and her growing role as unofficial queen. However, she soon... more
Book Votes: 162
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Les Miserables (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Victor Hugo
Sensational, dramatic, packed with rich excitement and filled with the sweep and violence of human passions, LES MISERABLES is not only superb adventure but a powerful social document. The story of how the convict Jean-Valjean struggled to escape his past and reaffirm his humanity, in a world... more
Book Votes: 161
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| Joanne L. (jlustig) |
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
History and fiction merge seamlessly in this luminous novel about artistic vision and sensual awakening. Girl with a Pearl Earring tells the story of sixteen-year-old Griet, whose life is transformed by her brief encounter with genius... even as she herself is immortalized in canvas and oil.
Book Votes: 159
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| Patty R. (PattyR) |
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
The author of The Virgin Suicides won a Pulitzer Prize for this long-awaited second novel. In it, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a Grosse Pointe girls' school in 1974, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking, strawberry blond classmate with a gift for acting. The passion that furtively... more
Book Votes: 158
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Sherry G. (Shervivor) - |
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
This is the story of young Victor Frankenstein, who longed to seek out the answers to life and death. Day and night he worked to create something that the world had never seen. But he did not know that one day his efforts would destroy him and everything he had.
Book Votes: 155
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| Sara H. (nursesara) |
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Travelling across America in search of who you are -- now they do it on cycles, in cars, by bus or in the time-honored tradition of foot and thumb. The wanderers of today may wear their hair long and speak a different jargon, but their trip is one that men (and women) have taken for as long as... more
Book Votes: 152
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Cheryl (pagebypage) - |
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed Amer...
The 1893 Chicago World's Fair is the setting for this true account of two very different men: the celebrated architect Daniel H. Burnham who designed and supervised the construction of the "White City" around which the fair was built, and H.H. Holmes (born Herman Webster Mudgett),... more
Book Votes: 151
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| James M. (monkeypox) |
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead has become an enduring piece of literature, more popular now than when published in 1943. On the surface, it is a story of one man, Howard Roark, and his struggles as an architect in the face of a successful rival, Peter Keating, and a newspaper columnist, Ellsworth Toohey. But... more
Book Votes: 146
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| D. G. (riahekans) |
Like Water for Chocolate (Like Water for Chocolate, Bk 1) by Laura Esquivel & Car...
English Translation of "Como Agua Para Chocolate"
Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this tale of family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico became a best-selling phenomenon with its winning blend of poignant romance and bittersweet wit. "Like Water For... more
Book Votes: 145
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| Joanne L. (jlustig) |
The Cider House Rules by John Irving
First published in 1985, The Cider House Rules is John Irving's sixth novel. Set in rural Maine in the first half of this century, it tells the story of Dr. Wilbur Larch--saint and obstetrician, founder and director of the orphanage in the town of St. Cloud's, ether addict and abortionist. It is... more
Book Votes: 142
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Shaz H. (shaz) - |
Catch-22 (Catch-22, Bk 1) by Joseph Heller
Catch-22 is like no other novel. It is one of the funniest books ever written, a keystone work in American literature, and even added a new term to the dictionary.
At the heart of Catch-22 resides the incomparable, malingering bombardier, Yossarian, a hero endlessly inventive in his schemes... more
Book Votes: 141
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| Stacy P. |
Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
"Running with Scissors" is the true story of a boy whose mother... gave him away to be raised by her unorthodox psychiatrist who bore a striking resemblance to Santa Claus....
At the age of twelve, Burroughs found himself amidst Victorian squalor living with the doctor's bizarre family, and... more
Book Votes: 139
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| Wendy R. (wendybird) |
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery & Katherine Woods (Translator)
The little prince lived alone on a tiny planet no larger than a house. He owned three volcanoes, two active and one extinct. He also owned a flower, unlike any flower in all the galaxy, of great beauty and of inordinate pride. It was this pride that ruined the serenity of the little prince's... more
Book Votes: 138
102
| Charity S. (charitysheppard) |
Dracula (Collector's Library) by Bram Stoker
When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula purchase a London house, he makes horrifying discoveries in his client's castle. Soon afterwards, disturbing incidents unfold in England: an unmanned ship is wrecked; strange puncture marks appear on a young woman's neck; and a... more
Book Votes: 137
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| Joanne L. (jlustig) |
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
With Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr, author of such classics as Cat's Cradle and God Bless You, Mr Rosewater, takes center stage as one of America's most important writers.
'Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. has written one of the major novels of the year . . . haunting . . . irresistible reading .... more
Book Votes: 137
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| DARYL D. (bookworm-51) |
The Pit and the Pendulum and Other Stories by Edgar Allan Poe
No description available.
Book Votes: 137
105
| Carleigh O. (temarifan) |
Hamlet (Signet Classics) by William Shakespeare
The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark:
Shakespeare's classic tragedy of love, madness, and revenge was first enacted in London in 1602. Young Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, is in mourning for his dead father, is visited by his father's ghost telling him that he was murdered by his own brother,... more
Book Votes: 134
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| Charity S. (charitysheppard) |
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy & Richard Pevear (Translator) & Larissa Volokhon...
Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and must endure the hypocrisies of society. Set against a vast and richly textured canvas of nineteenth-century... more
Book Votes: 134
107
| Amy O. (cheermom140) |
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
Enzo knows he is different from other dogs: a philosopher with a nearly human soul (and an obsession with opposable thumbs), he has educated himself by watching television extensively, and by listening very closely to the words of his master, Denny Swift, an up-and-coming race car... more
Book Votes: 134
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MP G. (philomene) - |
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
In language of great simplicity and power, Hemingway tells the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck--he hasn't caught a fish in 84 days--who goes out in his small skiff one more time. This time he hooks a huge marlin. During his relentless ordeal, a long and agonizing battle... more
Book Votes: 133
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| DARYL D. (bookworm-51) |
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
There are few more convincing, less sentimental accounts of love than Wuthering Heights. This is the story of a tormented foundling who falls in love with the daughter of his benefactor, and of the violence and misery that result from their thwarted longing for each other.
Book Votes: 132
110
| Stacy P. |
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
"As far as I was concerned, the French could be cold or even openly hostile. They could burn my flag or pelt me with stones, but if there were taxidermied kittens to be had then I would go and bring them back to this, the greatest country on earth." David Sedaris's new collection, Me Talk... more
Book Votes: 130
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| DARYL D. (bookworm-51) |
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
At last, Ayn Rand's masterpiece is available to her millions of loyal readers in trade paperback. With this acclaimed work and its immortal query, "Who is John Galt?", Ayn Rand found the perfect artistic form to express her vision of existence. Atlas Shrugged made Rand not only one of the most... more
Book Votes: 129
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Wizard of Oz (Aladdin Classics) by L. Frank Baum
Hailed as the first original American fairy tale, The Wizard of Oz inspired countless sequels and imitations, as well as the classic American musical film and the Broadway musical The Wiz. In L. Frank Baum's imaginative story, Dorothy Gale takes a magical journey from the American heartland into... more
Book Votes: 129
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Cassie S. (cassie86) - |
And Then There Were None (aka Ten Little Indians) by Agatha Christie
First there were ten--a curious assortment of strangers summoned as weekend guests to a private island off the coast of Devon. Their host, an eccentric millionaire unkonwn to all of them, is nowhere to be found. All that the guests have in common is a wicked past they're unwilling to... more
Book Votes: 128
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Cheryl (pagebypage) - |
Room by Emma Donoghue
To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It is where he was born and grew up; it's where he lives with his Ma as they learn and read and eat and sleep and play. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits.
Room is home... more
Book Votes: 122
115
| Amanda M. (Blondie1980) |
Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Anyone who has read J. D. Salinger's New Yorker stories - particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughing Man, and For Esme - With Love and Squalor, will not be surprised by the fact that his first novel is full of children. The hero-narrator of The... more
Book Votes: 122
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The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
When Margaret Lea opened the door to the past, what she confronted was her destiny.
All children mythologize their birth... So begins the prologue of reclusive author Vida Winter's collection of stories, which are as famous for the mystery of the missing thirteenth tale as they are for... more
Book Votes: 121
117
| Kayla F. (klawbie) |
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian... more
Book Votes: 119
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| Keitha M. (kmama) |
Little Women (Aladdin Classics) by Louisa May Alcott
The quintessential American family story, Little Women captured readers' hearts right from the start. A bestseller from the time it was originally published in 1868, it is the story of the four March sisters: Meg, Beth, Jo, and Amy. Louisa May Alcott recreates her own family's dramatic and... more
Book Votes: 119
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| Stacy P. |
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
A phenomenal #1 bestseller that has appeared on the New York Times bestseller list for nearly three years, this memoir traces Maya Angelou's childhood in a small, rural community during the 1930s. Filled with images and recollections that point to the dignity and courage of black men and... more
Book Votes: 115
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| Vera M. (bepa-jean) |
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (Penguin Classics) by Ken Kesey
Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is the seminal novel of the 1960s that has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time. Here is the unforgettable story of a mental ward and its inhabitants, especially the tyrannical Big Nurse... more
Book Votes: 114
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| Robin F. |
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Eleven-year-old Owen Meany, playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire, hits a foul ball and kills his best friend's mother. Owen doesn't believe in accidents; he believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul is both... more
Book Votes: 114
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Heather M. (aggieeditor) - |
Uncle Tom's Cabin : or, Life among the Lowly (Modern Library Classics) by Harriet Bee...
When Uncle Tom's Cabin was published in 1852, it became an international blockbuster, selling more than 300,000 copies in the United States alone in its first year. Progressive for her time, Harriet Beecher Stowe was one of the earliest writers to offer a shockingly realistic depiction of... more
Book Votes: 112
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| Terri E. (stocktonmalonefan) - |
Shogun by James Clavell
Shipwrecked English adventurer, John Blackthorn, finds himself a key figure in a vast power struggle that is to plunge medieval Japan into civil war. Set in the exotic world of Oriental intrigue, passions, discipline, courage, and rigid moral and martial codes.
Book Votes: 112
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| Stacy P. |
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
“Practically alone among the American writers of his generation,” wrote Edmund Wilson, “[Sinclair] put to the American public the fundamental questions raised by capitalism in such a way that they could not escape them.” When it was first published in 1906, The Jungle... more
Book Votes: 112
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Laurie H. (coolelle) - |
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
Ten years ago, Barbara Kingsolver published a first novel that is well on its way to becoming a classic work of American fiction. The Bean Trees is a book readers have taken to their hearts. It is now a standard in college literature classes across the nation and has been translated for a... more
Book Votes: 112
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Cheryl (pagebypage) - |
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
Lily is haunted by memories–of who she once was, and of a person, long gone, who defined her existence. She has nothing but time now, as she recounts the tale of Snow Flower, and asks the gods for forgiveness.
In nineteenth-century China, when wives and daughters were foot-bound and... more
Book Votes: 112
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Rick B. (bup) - |
Crime and Punishment (Oxford World's Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky & Jessie Cou...
Crime and Punishment is one of the most important novels of the nineteenth century. It is the story of a murder committed on principle, of a killer who wishes to set himself outside and above society. The novel is marked by Dostoevsky's own harrowing experience in penal servitude, and yet... more
Book Votes: 111
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| DARYL D. (bookworm-51) |
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
The Story of My Life, a remarkable account of overcoming the debilitating challenges of being both deaf and blind, has become an international classic, making Helen Keller one of the most well-known, inspirational figures in history. Originally published in 1903, Keller's fascinating memoir... more
Book Votes: 110
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| Christina B. (stina117) |
Eclipse: Special Edition (Twilight, Bk 3) by Stephenie Meyer
Edward?s soft voice came from behind me.
I turned to see him spring lightly up the porch steps, his hair windblown from running. He pulled me into his arms at once, just like he had in the parking lot, and kissed me again. This kiss frightened me. There was too much tension, too strong an... more
Book Votes: 110
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| Joanne L. (jlustig) |
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of Mr. Hosokawa, a powerful Japanese businessman. Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerized the international guests with her singing. It is a perfect... more
Book Votes: 109
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| Terri E. (stocktonmalonefan) - |
East of Eden (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by John Steinbeck
No description available.
Book Votes: 106
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| Stacy P. |
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
This classic novel of the American Civil War evokes the horrors of battle and the psychology of fear as it recounts the experience of a young, untried Union Army volunteer. Henry Fleming longs to prove himself by winning the "red badge beyond all doubt." But when he finally does come under fire,... more
Book Votes: 106
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Rick B. (bup) - |
Moby-Dick : Or the Whale (Tor Classics) by Herman Melville
Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title—offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All... more
Book Votes: 105
134
| Ronnie G. (frenchgiant) |
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon & Lucia Graves (Translator)
Barcelona, 1945 -- just after the war, a great world city lies in shadow, nursing its wounds, and a boy named Daniel awakes on his eleventh birthday to find that he can no longer remember his mother's face. To console his only child, Daniel's widowed father, an antiquarian book dealer,... more
Book Votes: 103
135
| Eileen C. (scrappingal) |
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
Born mute, speaking only in sign, Edgar Sawtelle leads an idyllic life with his parents on their farm in remote northern Wisconsin. For generations, the Sawtelles have raised and trained a fictional breed of dog whose thoughtful companionship is epitomized by Almondine, Edgar's lifelong... more
Book Votes: 102
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| Caroline |
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
"Elegant and powerful...an unusual and volatile...literary thriller." --Washington Post Book WorldIn this riveting novel of almost unbearable suspense, three fragile yet determined people become dangerously entangled in a relentlessly escalating crisis. Colonel Behrani, once a wealthy man in... more
Book Votes: 102
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| Shannon A. (shaxtell) |
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
In his journal, John Steinbeck called 'East of Eden' "the first book," and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich farmland of California's Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families - the Trasks and... more
Book Votes: 102
138
| Heidi L. (caleighsmom) |
Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
In the Deep South of the 1950s, journalist John Howard Griffin decided to cross the color line. Using medication that darkened his skin to deep brown, he exchanged his privileged life as a Southern white man for the disenfranchised world of an unemployed black man. His audacious, still... more
Book Votes: 101
139
| Stacy P. |
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
The New York Times bestseller, and one of the most talked about books of the year, Nickel and Dimed has already become a classic of undercover reportage.Millions of Americans work for poverty-level wages, and one day Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the... more
Book Votes: 101
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Diana C. (dianamarie) - |
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten-year-old girl, is taken with her parents by the French police as they go door to door arresting Jewish families in the middle of the night. Desperate to protect her younger brother, Sarah locks him in a bedroom cupboard -- their secret hiding place -- and promises... more
Book Votes: 99
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| Caroline |
Midwives by Chris Bohjalian
A talented midwife is arrested for murder when she saves a baby by performing a Caesarean section once she believes the mother has died--only to have her assistant insist later that the woman was still very much alive. Told in the mesmerizing voice of the midwife's daughter, Midwives depicts... more
Book Votes: 96
142
| DARYL D. (bookworm-51) |
The Adventures of Pippi Longstocking by Michael Chesworth & Astrid Lindgren
An enticing, newly illustrated collection of the enduringly popular Pippi stories. Since Pippi Longstocking was first published in 1950, the escapades of the incomparable Pippi,the girl with upside-down braids and no parents to tell her what to do, have delighted boys and girls alike. Now, for... more
Book Votes: 95
143
| Rachael F. (rlferris) |
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
In Sterling, New Hampshire, 17-year-old high school student Peter Houghton has endured years of verbal and physical abuse at the hands of classmates. His best friend, Josie Cormier, succumbed to peer pressure and now hangs out with the popular crowd that often instigates the harassment. One... more
Book Votes: 95
144
| Amy B. (BaileysBooks) |
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
He's rude, arrogant, cold, unfriendly, and easily bored. Nobody minds because he is a genius at solving mysteries. But to interest Holmes at all, the case must be impossible: like the mysteries of the blackmail scheme that might destroy a nation; the woman killed in a locked room - while... more
Book Votes: 94
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MP G. (philomene) - |
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque & A. W. Wheen (Translator)
Paul Baumer enlisted with his classmates in the German army of World War I. Youthful, enthusiastic, they become soldiers. But despite what they have learned, they break into pieces under the first bombardment in the trenches. And as horrible war plods on year after year, Paul holds fast to a... more
Book Votes: 93
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Laurie H. (coolelle) - |
My Antonia by Willa Cather
In Willa Cather's own estimation, My Antonia, first published in 1918, was "the best thing I've ever done." An enduring paperback bestseller on Houghton Mifflin's literary list, this hauntingly eloquent classic now boasts a new foreword by Kathleen Norris, Cather's soulmate of the plains.... more
Book Votes: 93
147
| Caroline |
The Host by Stephenie Meyer
Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. The earth has been invaded by a species that take over the minds of their human hosts while leaving their bodies intact, and most of humanity has succumbed.
Wanderer, the invading "soul" who has been given Melanie's body, knew about the... more
Book Votes: 93
148
| Joanne L. (jlustig) |
Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
Seabiscuit was one of the most electrifying and popular attractions in sports history and the single biggest newsmaker in the world in 1938, receiving more coverage than FDR, Hitler, or Mussolini. But his success was a surprise to the racing establishment, which had written off the... more
Book Votes: 92
149
| Amy O. (cheermom140) |
The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children, Bk 1) by Jean M. Auel
This novel of awesome beauty and power is a moving saga about people, relationships, and the boundaries of love. Through Jean M. Auel’s magnificent storytelling we are taken back to the dawn of modern humans, and with a girl named Ayla we are swept up in the harsh and beautiful Ice Age... more
Book Votes: 90
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| Amy B. (BaileysBooks) |
The Once and Future King by T. H. White
The whole world knows and loves this book. It is the magical epic of King Arthur and his shinning Camelot; of Merlyn and Owl and Guinevere; of beasts who talk and men who fly, of wizardry and war. It is the book of all things lost and wonderful and sad. It is the fantasy masterpiece by which all... more
Book Votes: 88
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Elizabeth B. (Cattriona) - |
My Side of the Mountain (Mountain, Bk 1) by Jean Craighead George
Every kid thinks about running away at one point or another; few get farther than the end of the block. Young Sam Gribley gets to the end of the block and keeps going--all the way to the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York. There he sets up house in a huge hollowed-out tree, with a falcon and... more
Book Votes: 88
152
| Kate K. |
Dune (Dune Chronicles, Bk 1) by Frank Herbert
Set in the far future amidst a sprawling feudal interstellar empire where planetary dynasties are controlled by noble houses that owe an allegiance to the imperial House Corrino, Dune tells the story of young Paul Atreides (the heir apparent to Duke Leto Atreides and heir of House Atreides) as... more
Book Votes: 87
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| Alicia P. (aljennin2010iu) |
A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks
There was a time when the world was sweeter ... when the women in Beaufort, North Carolina, wore dresses, and the men donned hats ...
Every April, when the wind smells of both the sea and lilacs, Landon Carter remembers his last year at Beaufort High. Landon had dated a girl or two,... more
Book Votes: 87
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Cheryl (pagebypage) - |
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
A sweeping, emotionally riveting first novel - an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home.
Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon at a mission hospital in Addis... more
Book Votes: 87
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| DARYL D. (bookworm-51) |
Homer - The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer
The history of Homer and his works is lost in doubtful obscurity, as is the history of many of the first minds who have done honor to humanity because they rose amidst darkness. The majestic stream of his song, blessing and fertilizing, flows like a river through many lands and nations. The... more
Book Votes: 86
156
| Sophia C. (poisha) |
Flowers in the Attic (Dollangagers, Bk 1) by V. C. Andrews
Way upstairs there are four secrets hidden.
Blond, beautiful, innocent little secrets, struggling to stay alive.
Flowers In the Attic
The four Dollanganger children had such perfect lives -- a beautiful mother, a doting father, a lovely home. Then Daddy was killed in a car accident, and... more
Book Votes: 85
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| Amanda R. |
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez & Edith Grossman (Translato...
In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs--yet he reserves his heart... more
Book Votes: 83
158
| Joanne L. (jlustig) |
Exodus by Leon Uris
Exodus is an international publishing phenomenon--the towering novel of the twentieth century's most dramatic geopolitical event. Leon Uris magnificently portrays the birth of a new nation in the midst of enemies--the beginning of an earthshaking struggle for power. Here is... more
Book Votes: 83
159
| Wendy R. (wendybird) |
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Ian McEwan's symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative and the provocation we have come to expect from this master of English prose.
On a hot summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis... more
Book Votes: 83
160
| Laura E. (laereader) |
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia) by C. S. Lewis
Narnia... the land beyond the wardrobe, the secret country known only to Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy... the place where the adventure begins.
Lucy is the first to find the secret of the wardrobe in the professor's mysterious old house. At first, no one believes her when she tells of... more
Book Votes: 83
161
| Joanne L. (jlustig) |
Stranger In A Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
This is the epic saga of an earthling, Valentine Michael Smith, born and educated on Mars, who arrives on our planet with many psi powers, including the ability to take control of the minds of others—and complete innocence regarding the mores of man.
Book Votes: 81
162
| Mar |
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
In the marshy mists of a village churchyard, a tiny orphan boy named Pip is suddenly terrified by a shivering, limping convict on the run. Years later, a supremely arrogant young Pip boards the coach to London where, by the grace of a... more
Book Votes: 81
163
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Shaz H. (shaz) - |
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
The Year 802,701 A.D. He stepped into the Time Machine and took the starting lever in his hand... "I drew a breath, set my teeth, and went off with a thud. The night came, like the turning off of a lamp, and in another moment came tomorrow. As I put on pace, night followed day like the... more
Book Votes: 78
164
| Sara H. (nursesara) |
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Student Edition
With more than five million copies sold, Flowers for Algernon is the beloved, classic story of a mentally disabled man whose experimental quest for intelligence mirrors that of Algernon, an extraordinary lab mouse. In poignant diary entries, Charlie tells how a brain operation... more
Book Votes: 77
165
| Sherry W. (octexan) |
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hille...
On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. �Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. �It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane’s bombardier, who was... more
Book Votes: 76
166
| Stephen W. (cubedst) |
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
The Story of two dogs and a boy...Billy, Old Dan and little Ann...A loving threesome, the ranged the dark hills and river bottoms of Cherokee country. Old Dan had the brawn, Little Ann had the brains and Billy had the will to train them to be the finest hunting team in the valley. Glory and... more
Book Votes: 75
167
| William M. |
The Pact: A Love Story by Jodi Picoult
Friendship, loyalty, lifelong love -- and teenage suicide. A riveting, timely, and terrifying novel from an acclaimed writer who skillfully intertwines the intimate perceptions of Anne Tyler with the dramatic tension of John Grisham
The Golds and the Hartes, neighbors for eighteen years,... more
Book Votes: 74
168
| Melissa B. (Phantene) |
One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus
In 1874 the great Cheyenne chief, Little Wolf, had an idea to help his people assimilate into the new white culture. He asked President Ulysses S. Grant for "the gift of 1000 white women as wives." Since all children born in the Cheyenne culture become members of their mother's... more
Book Votes: 74
169
| Lillie M. (lillie) |
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, comes an unforgettable edge-of-your-seat mystery that is at once heartbreakingly tender and morally courageous about what it means to be human.
Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school,... more
Book Votes: 73
170
| Cassi B. (brightforest) |
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
A young girl discovers her father's darkest secret and embarks on a harrowing journey across Europe to complete the quest he never could -- to find history's most legendary fiend: Dracula. When a motherless American girl living in Europe finds a medieval book and a package of letters,... more
Book Votes: 73
171
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Elizabeth B. (Cattriona) - |
The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss
"For many days we had been tempest-tossed . . .the raging storm increased in fury on the seventh day all hope was lost." From these dire opening lines, a delightful story of adventure begins. One family will emerge alive from this terrible storm: the Robinson's -- a Swiss... more
Book Votes: 73
172
| Keitha M. (kmama) |
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
San Piedro Island, north of Puget Sound, is a place so isolated that no one who lives there can afford to make enemies. But in 1954 a local fisherman is found suspiciously drowned, and a Japanese American named Kabuo Miyamoto is charged with his murder.
In the course of the ensuing trial, it... more
Book Votes: 73
173
| Vera M. (bepa-jean) |
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Few novels have had as profound an impact on American culture as On the Road. Pulsating with the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, illicit drugs, and the mystery and promise of the open road, Kerouac's classic novel of freedom and longing defined what it meant to be "beat" and has... more
Book Votes: 71
174
| Fianna R. (fiannafi) |
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
In this phenomenal #1 bestseller, David Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job selling drinks. He attends his brother's wedding. He mops his sister's floor. He gives directions to a lost traveler. He eats a hamburger. He has his blood sugar... more
Book Votes: 70
175
| Terri E. (stocktonmalonefan) - |
Walden (Everyman's Library classics) by Henry David Thoreau
In July 1845, Henry David Thoreau built a small cottage in the woods near Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. During the two years and two months he spent there, he began to write "Walden", a chronicle of his coexistence with nature. Thoreau has an important place among naturalists, but... more
Book Votes: 70
176
| Joanne L. (jlustig) |
The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
When Quoyle's two-timing wife meets her just desserts, he retreats with his two daughters to his ancestral home on the starkly beautiful Newfoundland coast, where a rich cast of local characters and family members all play a part in Quoyle's struggle to reclaim his life. As Quoyle confronts his... more
Book Votes: 70
177
| Stacy P. |
Sophie's Choice by William Styron
"[One morning] in the early spring, I woke up with the remembrance of a girl I'd once known, Sophie. It was a very vivid half-dream, half-revelation, and all of a sudden I realized that hers was a story I had to tell." That very day, William Styron began writing the first chapter... more
Book Votes: 70
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Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Invisible Man is a milestone in American literature, a book that has continued to engage readers since its appearance in 1952. A first novel by an unknown writer, it remained on the bestseller list for sixteen weeks, won the National Book Award for fiction, and established Ralph Ellison as one... more
Book Votes: 69
179
| DARYL D. (bookworm-51) |
Aesop's Fables (Complete and Unabridged Classics) by Aesop
In this elegantly designed volume, more than sixty of Aesop's timeless fables have been carefully selected, humorously retold, and brought gloriously to life by four-time Caldecott Honor-winner Jerry Pinkney. Included are the Shepherd Boy and The Wolf, the Lion and the Mouse, the Tortoise and... more
Book Votes: 69
180
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Shaz H. (shaz) - |
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Melinda Sordino busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops. Now her old friends won't talk to her, and people she doesn't even know hate her from a distance. The safest place to be is alone, inside her own head. But even that's not safe. Because there's something she's trying not to think... more
Book Votes: 68
181
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Emily L. (fairfax512) - |
Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra & Edith Grossman (Translator)
Edith Grossman's definitive English translation of the Spanish masterpiece. Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, and one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don Quixote of La... more
Book Votes: 68
182
| DARYL D. (bookworm-51) |
Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss
We all know the basics of punctuation. Or do we? A look at most neighborhood signage tells a different story. Through sloppy usage and low standards on the Internet, in e-mail, and now text messages, we have made proper punctuation an endangered species. In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, former... more
Book Votes: 68
183
| Stacy P. |
The Color of Water : A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride
This is a book that will "make you proud to be a member of the human race," says Mirabella, and countless readers have already discovered its power. Written in remembrance of his Polish-born, Southern-raised Jewish mother, who married a black man and raised twelve children, all of whom... more
Book Votes: 67
184
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Laurie H. (coolelle) - |
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of... more
Book Votes: 67
185
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Judy B. (Hoody) - |
Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague by Geraldine Brooks
This gripping historical novel is based on the true story of Eyam, the "Plague Village," in the rugged mountain spine of England. In 1666, a tainted bolt of cloth from London carries bubonic infection to this isolated settlement of shepherds and lead miners. A visionary young preacher convinces... more
Book Votes: 67
186
| Stephen W. (cubedst) |
Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future.
Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than... more
Book Votes: 67
187
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Laurie H. (coolelle) - |
Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi
Stones from the River is a daring, dramatic and complex novel of life in Germany. It is set in Burgdorf, a small fictional German town, between 1915 and 1951. The protagonist is Trudi Montag, a Zwerg -- the German word for dwarf woman. As a dwarf she is set apart, the outsider whose physical... more
Book Votes: 65
188
| Wendy R. (wendybird) |
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink & Carol Brown Janeway (Translator)
Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral claims it makes upon the reader, this mesmerizing novel is a story of love and secrets, horror and compassion, unfolding against the haunted landscape of postwar Germany.
When he falls ill on his way home from school, fifteen-year-old Michael Berg... more
Book Votes: 65
189
| Mar |
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse & Hilda Rosner (Translator)
This classic novel of self-discovery has inspired generations of seekers. With parallels to the enlightenment of the Buddha, Hesse's SIDDHARTHA is the story of a young Brahmn's quest for the ultimate reality. His quest takes him from the extremes of indulgent sensuality to the rigors of... more
Book Votes: 65
190
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The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky & Constance Garnett (Translator)
The Brothers Karamazov is a towering masterpiece of literature, philosophy, psychology, and religion. It tells the story of intellectual Ivan, sensual Dmitri, and idealistic Alyosha Karamazov, who collide in the wake of their despicable father's brutal murder.
With an introduction and... more
Book Votes: 64
191
| DARYL D. (bookworm-51) |
War and Peace (Oxford World's Classics Hardcovers) by Leo Tolstoy & Louise and Ay...
Published to coincide with the centenary of Tolstoy's death, here is an exciting new edition of one of the great literary works of world literature. Tolstoy's epic masterpiece captures with unprecedented immediacy the broad sweep of life during the Napoleonic wars and the brutal invasion of... more
Book Votes: 64
192
| Wendy R. (wendybird) |
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
One of the first questions people ask about The Things They Carried is this: Is it a novel, or a collection of short stories? The title page refers to the book simply as "a work of fiction," defying the conscientious reader's need to categorize this masterpiece. It is both: a collection of... more
Book Votes: 64
193
| Christina B. (stina117) |
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
Two sisters competing for the greatest prize: the love of a king.
A rich and compelling novel of love, sex, ambition, and intrigue, THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL introduces a woman of extraordinary determination and desire who lived at the heart of the most exciting and glamorous court in Europe... more
Book Votes: 64
194
| Ronnie G. (frenchgiant) |
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns detective. He collects evidence, deciphers secret symbols... more
Book Votes: 63
195
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Sherry G. (Shervivor) - |
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
In his own words, Robinson Crusoe tells how a terrible storm drowed all his shipmates and left him marooned on a deserted island. Forced to overcome despair, doubt, and self pity, he struggles to create a life for himself in the wilderness.
Book Votes: 62
196
| Joanne L. (jlustig) |
The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
Praise for Anne Tyler's THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST:
"Beautiful, incandescent, heartbreaking, exhilarating... Indisputably her best book... There's magic in it... comic scenes that explode with joy... It leaves one aching with pleasure and pain. Words fail me: one cannot reasonably expect fiction to... more
Book Votes: 62
197
| Shelley Z. (shellbzep) |
The Giver (Giver, Bk 1) (Audio Cassette) (Unabridged) by Lois Lowry & Ron Rifkin ...
Jonas's world is perfect. Everything is under control. There is no war or fear of pain. There are no choices. Every person is assigned a role in the community. When Jonas turns twelve he is singled out to receive special training from The Giver. The Giver alone holds the memories of the true... more
Book Votes: 62
198
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Lisa A. (NeedyBookLover) - |
The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb
When high school teacher Caelum Quirk and his wife, Maureen, a school nurse, move to Littleton, Colorado, they both get jobs at Columbine High School. In April 1999, while Caelum is away, Maureen finds herself in the library at Columbine, cowering in a cabinet and expecting to be killed.... more
Book Votes: 61
199
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Sherry G. (Shervivor) - |
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea by Sebastian Junger
October 1991. It was "the perfect storm" -- a tempest that may happen only once in a century -- a nor'easter created by so rare a combination of factors that it could not possibly have been worse. Creating waves ten stories high and winds of 120 miles an hour, the storm whipped the sea to... more
Book Votes: 60
200
| Stacy P. |
Madame Bovary (Signet Classics) by Gustave Flaubert
Set amid the stifling atmosphere of nineteenth-century bourgeois France, Madame Bovary is at once an unsparing depiction of a woman's gradual corruption and a savagely ironic study of human stupidity. Provocative and deeply tragic, it is "possibly the most beautifully written book ever composed"... more
Book Votes: 60
201
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Shaz H. (shaz) - |
Around the World in 80 Days (Puffin Classics) by Jules Verne
Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title--offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All... more
Book Votes: 58
202
| Amy B. (BaileysBooks) |
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Ignatius J. Reilly, a grossly overweight medieval scholar who lives with his mother, is forced to seek employment when she can no longer tolerate his laziness. His disdainful encounters with the modern culture of New Orleans, his habitual misunderstanding of its inhabitants (some of them no less... more
Book Votes: 58
203
| Charity S. (charitysheppard) |
The Divine Comedy: Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso by Dante Alighieri
The Divine Comedy written by legendary author Dante Alighieri is widely considered to be one of the greatest books of all time. This great classic will surely attract a whole new generation of readers. For many, The Divine Comedy is required reading for various courses and curriculums. And for... more
Book Votes: 56
204
| Joanne L. (jlustig) |
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Meet the Ganguli family, new arrivals from Calcutta trying their best to become Americans even as they pine for home... Ashima and Ashoke Ganguli arrive in America at the end of the 1960s, shortly after their arranged marriage in Calcutta, in order for Ashoke to finish his engineering degree at... more
Book Votes: 56
205
| Shreya - |
The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream by Paulo Coelho & Alan R. Clark...
An Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of a treasure buried in the Pyramids. Along the way he meets a Gypsy woman, a man who calls himself king, and an alchemist, all of whom point Santiago in the direction of his quest. No... more
Book Votes: 56
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207
| DARYL D. (bookworm-51) |
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Considered the greatest satire ever written in English, Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels chronicles the fantastic voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, principally to four marvelous realms: Lilliput, where the people are six inches tall; Brobdingnag, a land inhabited by giants; Laputa, a... more
Book Votes: 55
208
| Nancy S. |
Still Alice by Lisa Genova
Still Alice is a compelling debut novel about a 50-year-old woman's sudden descent into early onset Alzheimer's disease, written by first-time author Lisa Genova, who holds a Ph. D in neuroscience from Harvard University. Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children and a house on... more
Book Votes: 55
209
| Barbara W. (idiotBarbie) |
The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford & Carl Burger (Illustrator)
Instinct told them that the way home lay to the west. And so the doughty young Labrador retriever, the roguish bull terrier and the indomitable Siamese set out through the Canadian wilderness. Separately, they would soon have died. But, together, the three house pets faced starvation, exposure,... more
Book Votes: 54
210
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Cheryl (pagebypage) - |
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells -- taken without her knowledge -- became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first “immortal” human cells... more
Book Votes: 54
211
| Amy B. (BaileysBooks) |
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Remains of the Day is a profoundly compelling portrait of the perfect English butler and of his fading, insular world in postwar England.
At the end of his three decades of service at Darlington Hall, Stevens embarks on a country drive, during which he looks back over his career to... more
Book Votes: 53
212
| Elizabeth K. (elizabethgraces) |
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn & H.T. Willetts ...
This account of a day in the life of a prisoner in a remote Siberian labour camp pays tribute to the capacity of man to survive under appalling conditions and an indictment of humanity that such conditions exist.
This edition has been retranslated and revised and approved by the author.
Book Votes: 53
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Linda G. (WindynWVa) - |
Same Kind of Different As Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and th...
A dangerous, homeless drifter who grew up picking cotton in virtual slavery.An upscale art dealer accustomed to the world of Armani and Chanel. A gutsy woman with a stubborn dream. A story so incredible no novelist would dare dream it.
It begins outside a burning plantation hut in Louisiana... more
Book Votes: 52
214
| Kathy F. |
Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, Bk 1) by Elizabeth Strout
At times stern, at other times patient, at times perceptive, at other times in sad denial, Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher, deplores the changes in her little town of Crosby, Maine... and in the world at large. But she doesn’t always recognize the changes in those around her: a... more
Book Votes: 52
215
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Kristin K. (escapeartistk) - |
The Metamorphosis, The Penal Colony, and Other Stories by Franz Kafka & Willa Mui...
This volume brings together everything that Franz Kafka himself published during his lifetime; all those works he thought finished enough to permit their publication. These include: 'The Judgemen,' 'The Metamorphosis,' 'In the Penal Colony,' 'A Country Doctor' and... more
Book Votes: 52
216
| Amy O. (cheermom140) |
Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children, Bk 1) by Jean Auel
This novel of awesome beauty and power is a moving saga about people, relationships, and the boundaries of love. Through Jean M. Auel’s magnificent storytelling we are taken back to the dawn of modern humans, and with a girl named Ayla we are swept up in the harsh and beautiful Ice Age... more
Book Votes: 52
217
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Sherry G. (Shervivor) - |
The Agony and the Ecstasy : A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo by Irving Stone
Celebrating the 500th anniversary of Michelangelo's David, New American Library releases a special edition of Irving Stone's classic biographical novel-in which both the artist and the man are brought to life in full. A masterpiece in its own right, this novel offers a compelling portrait of... more
Book Votes: 51
218
| Stacy P. |
Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak & Max Hayward (Translator) & Manya Harari (Tra...
It is the story of Zhivago, poet and physician, and his struggle to keep his family alive in the midst of the overwhelming chaos of the Russian Revolution. And, it is about Zhivago's love for the beautiful Lara, the woman he pursues beyond all reason, the human symbol of life's sweetness... more
Book Votes: 51
219
| James M. (monkeypox) |
The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
"The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life led in hotels."So says John Berry, son of a hapless dreamer, brother to a cadre of eccentric siblings, and chronicler of the lives lived, the... more
Book Votes: 50
220
| Pamela C. |
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
In 1996, Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, is offered the job of a lifetime: analysis and conservation of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, which has been rescued from Serb shelling during the Bosnian war. Priceless and beautiful, the book is one of the earliest Jewish volumes ever to be... more
Book Votes: 50
221
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Nicola W. (Wellnico) - |
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Audio CD) (Unabridged) by Annie Ba...
January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who could imagine that she would find it in a letter from a man she's never met, a native of the island of Guernsey, who has come across her name written... more
Book Votes: 50
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Elizabeth B. (Cattriona) - |
Night Shift by Stephen King
A collection of King's short stories.
Contents:
-- Jerusalem's lot
-- Graveyard shift
-- Night surf
-- I am the doorway
-- The mangler
-- The boogeyman
-- Gray matter
-- Battleground
-- Trucks
-- Sometimes they come back
-- Strawberry spring
-- The ledge
-- The... more
Book Votes: 48
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchet...
According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (the world's only completely accurate book of prophecies, written in 1655, before she exploded), the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just before dinner.
So the armies of Good and Evil are amassing,... more
Book Votes: 47
224
| DARYL D. (bookworm-51) |
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Green Town, Bk 2) by Ray Bradbury
The carnival rolls in sometime after midnight, ushering in Halloween a week early. The shrill siren song of a calliope beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and youth regained.
In this season of dying, Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to Green Town,... more
Book Votes: 47
225
| Beverlee A. |
Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult
How do you recover the past when it was never yours to lose? Delia Hopkins has led a charmed life. Raised in rural New Hampshire by her beloved, widowed father, she now has a young daughter, a handsome fiance, and her own search-and-rescue bloodhound, which she uses to find missing persons. But... more
Book Votes: 47
226
| Shannon A. (shaxtell) |
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories by Robert Louis Stevens...
Idealistic young scientist Henry Jekyll struggles to unlock the secrets of the soul. Testing chemicals in his lab, he drinks a mixture he hopes will isolate -- and eliminate -- human evil. Instead it unleashes the dark forces within him, transforming him into the hideous and murderous Mr.... more
Book Votes: 47
227
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King Lear (Oxford School Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
Harold Bloom begins his introduction to this text by claiming that nothing in language goes beyond The Tragedy of King Lear. This text includes a brief biography of William Shakespeare, thematic and structural analysis of the play, as well as a host of critical essays by some of the most... more
Book Votes: 46
228
| Joanne L. (jlustig) |
Angle of Repose (Contemporary American Fiction) by Wallace Stegner
Wallace Stegner's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is a story of discovery--personal, historical, and geographical. Confined to a wheelchair, retired historian Lyman Ward sets out to write his grandparents' remarkable story, chronicling their days spent carving civilization into the surface of... more
Book Votes: 46
229
| Caroline |
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
"Why did crime in New York drop so suddenly in the mid-90s? How does an unknown novelist end up a bestselling author? Why is teenage smoking out of control, when everyone knows smoking kills? What makes TV shows like Sesame Street so good at teaching kids how to read? Why did Paul Revere succeed... more
Book Votes: 46
230
| Alicia P. (aljennin2010iu) |
The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks
Seventeen year old Veronica "Ronnie" Miller's life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father moved from New York City to Wilmington, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry and alienated from her parents, especially her father...until her mother... more
Book Votes: 46
231
| Stacy P. |
Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Civilizations Rise and Fall, Bk ...
In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world.
Societies that had had a head start in food production advanced beyond the... more
Book Votes: 45
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Thomas W. (tomtir) - |
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
Leaving behind a world on the brink of destruction, man came to the Red planet and found the Martians waiting, dreamlike. Seeking the promise of a new beginning, man brought with him his oldest fears and his deepest desires. Man conquered Mars—and in that instant, Mars conquered him. ... more
Book Votes: 45
233
| Lillie M. (lillie) |
Perfume by Patrick Suskind
Patrick S?skind's first novel, Perfume (Das Parfum) tells the horrific story of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, an orphan born in Paris in 1738. When Grenouille's abandoned body is found in the garbage, he is taken to an orphanage, where everyone who comes into contact with him finds something about... more
Book Votes: 44
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Elizabeth B. (Cattriona) - |
Travels With Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck
With his dog Charley, John Steinbeck set out in his truck to explore and experience America in the 1960s. As he talked with all kinds of people, he sadly noted the passing of regional speech, fell in love with Montana, and was appalled by racism in New Orleans.
Book Votes: 44
235
| DARYL D. (bookworm-51) |
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title--offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All... more
Book Votes: 44
236
| Shannon A. (shaxtell) |
Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
Set in the rural South, this tale centers around the Boatwright family, a proud and close-knit clan known for their drinking, fighting, and womanizing. Nicknamed Bone by her Uncle Earle, Ruth Anne is the bastard child of Anney Boatwright, who has fought tirelessly to legitimize her child. When... more
Book Votes: 44
237
| Shannon A. (shaxtell) |
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Bluest Eye, published in 1970, is the first novel written by Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature.It is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove--a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others--who prays for her... more
Book Votes: 44
238
| Pamela M. |
The Friday Night Knitting Club (Knitting Club, Bk 1) by Kate Jacobs
A charming and moving novel about female friendship and the experiences that knit us together - even when we least expect it. Walker and Daughter is Georgia Walker's little yarn shop, tucked into a quiet storefront on Manhattan's Upper West Side. The Friday Night Knitting Club was... more
Book Votes: 44
239
| Krista K. (Krista0521) |
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
When it was published in 1955, Lolita immediately became a cause celebre because of the freedom and sophistication with which it handled the unusual erotic predilections of its protagonist. But Vladimir Nabokov's wise, ironic, elegant masterpiece owes its stature as one of the twentieth... more
Book Votes: 44
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241
| DARYL D. (bookworm-51) |
On the Beach by Nevil Shute
"The most shocking fiction I have read in years. What is shocking about it is both the idea and the sheer imaginative brilliance with which Mr. Shute brings it off."THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLEThey are the last generation, the innocent victims of an accidental war, living out their last days,... more
Book Votes: 43
242
| Kate K. |
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Bk 1) by George R. R. Martin
In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are massing beyond the kingdom's protective Wall.
At the center of the conflict lie the... more
Book Votes: 43
243
| Jim W. (jimwillisca) |
The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
Pat Conroy has created a huge, brash thunderstorm of a novel, stinging with honesty and resounding with drama.
Spanning forty years, this is the story of turbulent Tom Wingo, his gifted and troubled twin sister, Savannah, and the dark and violent past of the extraordinary family to which... more
Book Votes: 43
244
| Stacy P. |
Out of Africa / Shadows On The Grass by Isak Dinesen
One of the great figures in twentieth century literature is Isak Dinesen (the pen name of Baroness Karen Blixen). At the age of twenty-seven, she left Denmark and sailed for East Africa to marry her Swedish cousin, Baron Bror Blixen. Together they bought a four-thousand-acre coffee plantation in... more
Book Votes: 42
245
| Stacey R. (bromeliad) |
Uglies (Uglies, Bk 1) by Scott Westerfeld
Everybody gets to be supermodel gorgeous. What could be wrong with that?
Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can't wait. Not for her license -- for turning pretty. In Tally's world, your sixteenth birthday brings an operation that turns you from a repellent ugly into a stunningly... more
Book Votes: 42
246
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Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Readers with an eye on European politics will recognize Ali as the Somali-born member of the Dutch parliament who faced death threats after collaborating on a film about domestic violence against Muslim women with controversial director Theo van Gogh (who was himself assassinated). Even before... more
Book Votes: 41
247
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Kristin K. (escapeartistk) - |
The Stranger (Large Print) by Albert Camus
Patrick McCarthy places The Stranger in the context of a French and French-Algerian history and culture, examines the way the work undermines traditional concepts of fiction, and explores the parallels (and more importantly the contrasts) between Camus and Sartre. His account provides a useful... more
Book Votes: 41
248
| Nori-Lynn T. (norilynn) |
Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
Johnny Got His Gun is the interior monologue of infantryman Joe Bonham as he lies in a hospital with wounds that leave him unable to communicate. He recalls his earlier life and strives to overcome the tremendous obstacles that now stand between him and the rest of humanity.
This is no... more
Book Votes: 40
249
| Krista K. (Krista0521) |
Kiss the Girls (Alex Cross, Bk 2) by James Patterson
In Los Angeles, a reporter investigating a series of murders is killed. In Chapel Hill, North Carolina, a beautiful medical intern suddenly disappears. Washington D.C.'s Alex Cross is back to solve the most baffling and terrifying murder case ever. Two clever pattern killers are... more
Book Votes: 40
250
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Laurie H. (coolelle) - |
Just-So Stories (Puffin Classics) by Rudyard Kipling
One of the world's greatest storytellers weaves together an unforgettable collection of animal tales, including how the camel got its hump, how the leopard got its spots, and how even a butterfly stamping his leg can change a man's life.
Initially written for his own "best... more
Book Votes: 39
251
| Caroline |
Under the Banner of Heaven : A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer
Jon Krakauer’s literary reputation rests on insightful chronicles of lives conducted at the outer limits. In UNDER THE BANNER OF HEAVEN, he shifts his focus from extremes of physical adventure to extremes of religious belief within our own borders. At the core of his book is an appalling... more
Book Votes: 39
252
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Sherry G. (Shervivor) - |
The Long Walk by Stephen King & Richard Bachman
Phenomenal bestselling horror. On the first day of May, one hundred teenage boys meet for an event known throughout the country as "The Long Walk," a deadly contest of endurance and determination, where each step could literally be their last.
Book Votes: 38
253
| DARYL D. (bookworm-51) |
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
The story deals with the tri-cornered relationship between Charles Smithson, Ernestina, his fianc?e, and Sarah Woodruff, reputed and professing to be a French Lieutenant's discarded woman. Charles is a well-born young man of scientific bent and dilettante pursuits; Ernestina, up from trade, is... more
Book Votes: 38
254
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Laurie H. (coolelle) - |
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
First published in 1899, this beautiful, brief novel so disturbed critics and the public that it was banished for decades afterward. Now widely read and admired, The Awakening has been hailed as an early vision of woman's emancipation. This... more
Book Votes: 38
255
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Heather M. (aggieeditor) - |
Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
The Piper family is steeped in secrets, lies, and unspoken truths... At the eye of the storm is one secret that threatens to shake their lives and maybe even destroy them. Set on the stormy Cape Breton Island off Nova Scotia, this multigenerational saga chronicles the lives of four sisters.... more
Book Votes: 37
256
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Shaz H. (shaz) - |
Illustrated Classic Editions: The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
In a specially adapted version by Eliza Gatewood Warren. Set against the exciting days of the French and Indian War 200 years ago, this story follows the adventures of a colonial scout and his Indian friend, Hawkeye and Chingachgook, two men bound together by their love for the New World and... more
Book Votes: 37
257
| Ronnie G. (frenchgiant) |
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
This brilliant epic novel set in New York and Prague introduces us to two misfit young men who make it big by creating comic-book superheroes. Joe Kavalier, a young artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdiniesque escape, has just smuggled himself out of Nazi-invaded Prague and landed... more
Book Votes: 37
258
| Tina S. (cats59) |
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
The first of Thomas Hardy’s great novels, Far From the Madding Crowd established the author as one of Britain’s foremost writers. It also introduced readers to Wessex, an imaginary county in southwestern England that served as the pastoral setting for many of the author’s later... more
Book Votes: 37
259
| Shirl P. (happiness) |
A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
They had been there often as tourists. They had cherished the dream of someday living all year under the Provencal sun. And suddenly it happened.
Here is the month-by-month account of the charms and frustrations that Peter Mayle and his wife -- and their two large dogs -- experience their... more
Book Votes: 37
260
| Angela S. (readabk) |
The Chosen (Reuven Malther, Bk 1) by Chaim Potok
It is the now-classic story of two fathers and two sons and the pressures on all of them to pursue the religion they share in the way that is best suited to each. And as the boys grow into young men, they discover in the other a lost spiritual brother, and a link to an unexplored world that... more
Book Votes: 37
261
| Stacy P. |
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
As I Lay Dying is the harrowing, darkly comic tale of the Bundren family's trek across Mississippi to bury Addie, their wife and mother, in the town of her choice. The story is told by each family member -- including Addie herself.
Faulkner's use of multiple viewpoints to reveal the inner... more
Book Votes: 35
262
| DARYL D. (bookworm-51) |
Journey to the Center of the Earth (Classic) by Jules Verne
Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title—offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All... more
Book Votes: 35
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Gap Creek: The Story of a Marriage by Robert Morgan
Julie Harmon works hard, "hard as a man" they say, so hard that at times she's not sure she can stop. People depend on her. She is just a teenager when her brother dies in her arms. The following year, she marries Hank and moves to Gap Creek. Julie and Hank discover that the modern world is... more
Book Votes: 35
264
| Krista K. (Krista0521) |
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. The author spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as renowned for its famous... more
Book Votes: 35
265
| Beth A. (cachebether) |
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster & Jules Feiffer (Illustrator)
This ingenious fantasy centers around Milo, a bored ten-year-old who comes home to find a large toy tollbooth sitting in his room. Joining forces with a watchdog named Tock, Milo drives through the tollbooth's gates and begins a memorable journey. He meets such characters as the foolish, yet... more
Book Votes: 35
266
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Alyssa T. - |
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
Berlin 1942
When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move from their home to a new house far far away, where there is no one to play with and nothing to do. A tall fence... more
Book Votes: 35
267
| Marta K. (janeeyre72) |
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Bleak House, Dickens's most daring experiment in the narration of a complex plot, challenges the reader to make connections - between the fashionable and the outcast, the beautiful and the ugly, the powerful and the victims. Nowhere in Dickens's later novels is his attack on an uncaring... more
Book Votes: 34
268
| Joanne L. (jlustig) |
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
When the future began... The men had it. Yeager. Conrad. Grissom. Glenn. Heroes ... the first Americans in space ... battling the Russians for control of the heavens ... putting their lives on the line. The women had it. While Mr. Wonderful was aloft, it tore your heart out that the Hero's Wife,... more
Book Votes: 34
269
| Caroline |
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers" -- the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much... more
Book Votes: 34
270
| Caroline |
Blink : The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
How do we make decisions--good and bad--and why are some people so much better at it than others? Thats the question Malcolm Gladwell asks and answers in the follow-up to his huge bestseller, The Tipping Point. Utilizing case studies as diverse as speed dating, pop music, and the shooting of... more
Book Votes: 34
271
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Elizabeth B. (Cattriona) - |
Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft by Thor Heyerdahl & F. H. Lyon (Translator)
Kon-Tiki is the record of an astonishing adventure -- a journey of 4,300 nautical miles across the Pacific Ocean by raft.
Intrigued by Polynesian folklore, biologist Thor Heyerdahl suspected that the South Sea Islands had been settled by an ancient race from thousands of miles to the east,... more
Book Votes: 33
272
| Stephanie M. (grinky22) |
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
You are about to travel to Edgecombe St. Mary, a small village in the English countryside filled with rolling hills, thatched cottages, and a cast of characters both hilariously original and as familiar as the members of your own family. Among them is Major Ernest Pettigrew (retired), the... more
Book Votes: 33
273
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Denise S. (Dargent) - |
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Nine year-old Oskar Schell has embarked on an urgent, secret mission that will take him through the five boroughs of New York. His goal is to find the lock that matches a mysterious key that belonged to his father, who died in the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11. This seemingly... more
Book Votes: 33
274
| Kate K. |
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Standing on the fringes of life...offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see what it looks like from the dance floor.This haunting novel about the dilemma of passivity vs. passion marks the stunning debut of a provocative new voice in contemporary fiction: The Perks of Being a... more
Book Votes: 33
275
| Joanne L. (jlustig) |
Ahab's Wife: Or, The Star-Gazer by Sena Jeter Naslund & Herman Melville & Chr...
From the opening line--"Captain Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last"--you will know that you are in the hands of a masterful storyteller and in the company of a fascinating woman hero. Inspired by a brief passage in Melville's Moby-Dick, where Captain Ahab speaks... more
Book Votes: 32
276
| Stacy P. |
Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man -- also named Jonathan Safran Foer -- sets out to find the woman who may or may not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Accompanied by an old man haunted by memories of the war; an amorous dog named Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior; and the... more
Book Votes: 32
277
| DARYL D. (bookworm-51) |
The Origin of Species: 150th Anniversary Edition by Charles Darwin
This higher education, abridged editoin of The Origin of Species is for use in schools, colleges, and prestigious learning institutions.
Special introduction with thought-provoking information on:
* The history of evolution
* Timeline of Darwin's life
* Intelligent Design vs.... more
Book Votes: 32
278
| Carla L. (carlal) |
The World According to Garp by John Irving
This is the life and times of T. S. Garp, the bastard son of Jenny Fields — a feminist leader ahead of her times. This is the life and death of a famous mother and her almost-famous son; theirs is a world of sexual extremes — even of sexual assassinations. It is a novel rich with... more
Book Votes: 32
279
| James M. (monkeypox) |
Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
Victor Mancini, a medical-school dropout, is an antihero for our deranged times. Needing to pay elder care for his mother, Victor has devised an ingenious scam: he pretends to choke on pieces of food while dining in upscale restaurants. He then allows himself to be “saved” by fellow... more
Book Votes: 31
280
| Stacy P. |
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Didion's journalistic skills are displayed as never before in this story of a year in her life that began with her daughter in a medically induced coma and her husband unexpectedly dead due to a heart attack. This powerful and moving work is Didion's "attempt to make sense of the weeks and then... more
Book Votes: 31
281
| DARYL D. (bookworm-51) |
The Woman in White (Modern Library Classics) by Wilkie Collins
Generally considered the first English sensation novel, The Woman in White features the remarkable heroine Marian Halcombe and her sleuthing partner, drawing master Walter Hartright, pitted against the diabolical team of Count Fosco and Sir Percival Glyde. A gripping tale of murder, intrigue,... more
Book Votes: 31
282
| Caroline |
The Dive from Clausen's Pier by Ann Packer
How much do we owe the people we love? Is it a sign of strength or weakness to walk away from someone in need? These questions lie at the heart of Ann Packer's intimate and emotionally thrilling new novel, which has won its author comparisons with Jane Hamilton and Sue Miller.
At the age of... more
Book Votes: 31
283
| catsandroses |
The Shack by William P. Young
Mackenzie Allen Philips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious... more
Book Votes: 31
284
| Ronnie G. (frenchgiant) |
Blindness by Jose Saramago & Giovanni Pontiero (Translator)
A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven... more
Book Votes: 30
285
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Elizabeth B. (Cattriona) - |
Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
Those fateful words heralded the end. When the unthinkable nightmare of nuclear holocaust ravaged the United States, it was instant death for tens of millions of people; for survivors, it was a nightmare of hunger, sickness, and brutality. Overnight, a thousand years of civilization were... more
Book Votes: 30
286
| DARYL D. (bookworm-51) |
The Arabian Nights : Tales from a Thousand and One Nights (Modern Library Classics) b...
Full of mischief, valor, ribaldry, and romance, The Arabian Nights has enthralled readers for centuries. These are the tales that saved the life of Shahrazad, whose husband, the king, executed each of his wives after a single night of marriage. Beginning an enchanting story each evening,... more
Book Votes: 30
287
| Kathy F. |
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Bod is an unusual boy who inhabits an unusual place-he's the only living resident of a graveyard. Raised from infancy by the ghosts, werewolves, and other cemetery denizens, Bod has learned the antiquated customs of his guardians' time as well as their timely ghostly teachings -- like... more
Book Votes: 30
288
| Sara H. (nursesara) |
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
“Practically alone among the American writers of his generation,” wrote Edmund Wilson, “[Sinclair] put to the American public the fundamental questions raised by capitalism in such a way that they could not escape them.” When it was first published in 1906, The Jungle... more
Book Votes: 30
289
| Stacy P. |
Time and Again by Jack Finney
Simon Morley moves into the Dakota apartments and returns to the year 1882 under hypnosis, Where he falls in love and refuses to change records for the government agency controlling his experiment.
"Sleep. And when you awake everything you know of the twentieth century will be gone from your... more
Book Votes: 29
290
| Stacy P. |
The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, Bk 1) by Patricia Highsmith
Ripley is back. This new publication of Patricia Highsmith's classic inaugurates the complete Ripley series at Norton.
Since his debut in 1955, Tom Ripley has evolved into the ultimate bad boy sociopath, influencing countless novelists and filmmakers. In this first novel, we are... more
Book Votes: 29
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Thomas W. (tomtir) - |
Dandelion Wine (Green Town, Bk 1) by Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury's moving recollection of a vanished golden era remains one of his most enchanting novels. DANDELION WINE stands out in the Bradbury literary canon as the author's most deeply personal work, a semi-autobiographical recollection of a magical small town summer in... more
Book Votes: 29
292
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Tracy F. (golfergurl) - |
Love Story by Erich Segal
This is the wonderful, tumultuous, heartfelt story of Oliver Barrett IV and Jenny Cavilleri--the story of a rich Harvard jock and a wisecracking Radcliffe music major who have nothing in common but love . . . and everything else to share but... more
Book Votes: 29
293
| Joanne L. (jlustig) |
Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
Called a “magnificently crafted story . . . brimming with wisdom” by Howard Frank Mosher in The Washington Post Book World, Crossing to Safety has, since its publication in 1987, established itself as one of the greatest and most cherished American novels of the twentieth century.... more
Book Votes: 28
294
| Michelle M. (sapphire72) |
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach
In the cloud-washed airspace between the cornfields of Illinois and blue infinity, a man puts his faith in the propeller of his biplane. For disillusioned writer and itinerant barnstormer Richard Bach, belief is as real as a full tank of gas and sparks firing in the cylinders ... until he meets... more
Book Votes: 28
295
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Jami G. (jamiG) - |
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan
What to eat, what not to eat, and how to think about health: a manifesto for our times.
Food. There's plenty of it around, and we all love to eat it. So why should anyone need to defend it?
Because in the so-called Western diet, food has been replaced by nutrients, and common sense by... more
Book Votes: 28
296
| Wendy R. (wendybird) |
Smilla's Sense of Snow (aka Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow) by Peter Hoeg & Tina ...
She thinks more highly of snow and ice than she does of love. She lives in a world of numbers, science and memories -- a dark, exotic stranger in a strange land. And now Smilla Jaspersen is convinced she has uncovered a shattering crime...
It happened in the... more
Book Votes: 28
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Suzanne J. (09suzij) - |
Into Thin Air : A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
A bank of clouds was assembling on the not-so-distant horizon, but journalist-mountaineer Jon Krakauer, standing on the summit of Mt. Everest, saw nothing that "suggested that a murderous storm was bearing down." He was wrong. The storm, which claimed five lives and left countless... more
Book Votes: 28
298
| Joanne L. (jlustig) |
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
'A thrilling reading experience! One of the greatest adventure stories of our times' - New York Times Book Review. In 1914 Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 men, sailed for the South Atlantic on the 'Endurance' with the object of crossing the Antarctic over land. In October 1915, still half a... more
Book Votes: 27
299
| Joanne L. (jlustig) |
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
The classic depiction of the harsh realities of American life, the dark side of the American Dream, and one man's doomed pursuit of love and success... "Mr. Dreiser is not imitative and belongs to no school. He is at heart a mysticist and a fatalist, though using the realistic method. He is, on... more
Book Votes: 27
300
| Joanne L. (jlustig) |
Electric Kool Aid Acid Test by Tom James Wolfe
Tom Wolfe's much-discussed kaleidoscopic non-fiction novel chronicles the tale of novelist Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters. In the 1960s, Kesey led a group of psychedelic sympathizers around the country in a painted bus, presiding over LSD-induced "acid tests" all along the way. Long... more
Book Votes: 27
301
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Laurie H. (coolelle) - |
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Not since DUNE has a science fiction novel generated as much enthusiasm and excitement as THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS. Discover for yourself this thought-provoking tale of an alien planet where all the people are of one sex, and the lone earthman is forced into a subtle planetary intrigue where he... more
Book Votes: 27
302
| Caroline |
Hearts In Atlantis by Stephen King
Stephen King, whose first novel, Carrie, was published in 1974, the year before the last U.S. troops withdrew from Vietnam, is the first hugely popular writer of the TV generation. Images from that war -- and the protests against it -- had flooded America's living rooms for a decade. Hearts in... more
Book Votes: 27
303
| Ashley S. |
Little Bee (aka The Other Hand) by Chris Cleave
Worlds collide when Little Bee, a Nigerian girl orphaned by violence, meets Sarah, a dissatisfied British professional away on holiday. The story is extremely funny, but the African beach scene is horrific. The story starts there, but the book doesn't. And it's what happens... more
Book Votes: 27
304
| Stephen W. (cubedst) |
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut's absurdist classic Slaughterhouse-Five introduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who becomes 'unstuck in time' after he is abducted by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore. In a plot-scrambling display of virtuosity, we follow Pilgrim simultaneously through all phases of... more
Book Votes: 27
305
| Jenny K. |
Wicked (Wicked Years, Bk 1) by Gregory Maguire
The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum's classic tale, we heard only her side of the story. But what about her arch-nemesis, the mysterious witch? Where did she come from? How did she become so... more
Book Votes: 27
306
| rachel-renee |
The Mists of Avalon (Avalon, Bk 1) by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Here is the magical legend of King Arthur, vividly retold through the eyes and lives of the women who wielded power from behind the throne. A spellbinding novel, an extraordinary literary achievement, THE MISTS OF AVALON will stay with you for a long time to come....
Book Votes: 27
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Cheryl (pagebypage) - |
Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel by Jeannette Walls
Jeannette Walls's The Glass Castle was "nothing short of spectacular" (Entertainment Weekly). Now she brings us the story of her grandmother -- told in a voice so authentic and compelling that the book is destined to become an instant classic.
"Those old cows knew trouble was coming before... more
Book Votes: 27
308
| rolise |
On the Beach by Nevil Shute
Nevil Shute’s most powerful novel?a bestseller for decades after its 1957 publication?is an unforgettable vision of a post-apocalyptic world.
After a nuclear World War III has destroyed most of the globe, the few remaining survivors in southern Australia await the radioactive cloud... more
Book Votes: 26
309
| Tina S. (cats59) |
Vanity Fair : A Novel without a Hero (Modern Library Classics) by William Makepeace T...
A marvelous, incisive social satire that gleefully exposes the greed and corruption raging in England during the turmoil of the Napoleonic wars through its tracing of the changing fortunes of two unforgettable women. It is a comic masterpiece that still resonates today."Re-reading Vanity Fair,... more
Book Votes: 25
310
| Vera M. (bepa-jean) |
The Beach by Alex Garland
The Khao San Road, Bangkok--first stop for the hordes of rootless young Westerners traveling in Southeast Asia. On Richard's first night there, in a low-budget guest house, a fellow traveler slashes his wrists, bequeathing to Richard a meticulously drawn map to "the Beach." The Beach, as... more
Book Votes: 25
311
| Amanda R. |
The Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett
St. Elizabeth's is a home for unwed mothers in the 1960s. Life there is not unpleasant, and for most, it is temporary. Not so for Rose, a beautiful, mysterious woman who comes to the home pregnant but not unwed. She plans to give up her baby because she knows she cannot be the mother it needs.... more
Book Votes: 25
312
| Stacy P. |
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
One of Waugh's most famous books, Brideshead Revisited tells the story of the difficult loves of insular Englishman Charles Ryder, and his peculiarly intense relationship with the wealthy but dysfunctional family that inhabited Brideshead. Taking place in the years after World War I,... more
Book Votes: 25
313
| Wendy R. (wendybird) |
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing; one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover--these are the two couples whose story is told in this masterful novel. In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by... more
Book Votes: 25
314
| Wendy R. (wendybird) |
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
Seventeen-year-old David Balfour's villainous uncle has him kidnapped in order to steal his inheritance. David escapes only to fall into the dangerous company of rebels who are resisting British redcoats in the Scottish highlands.
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson remains one of the... more
Book Votes: 25
315
| Joanne L. (jlustig) |
The Sparrow (Sparrow, Bk 1) by Mary Doria Russell
In 2019, humanity finally finds proof of extraterrestrial life when a listening post in Puerto Rico picks up exquisite singing from a planet which will come to be known as Rakhat. While United Nations diplomats endlessly debate a possible first contact mission, the Society of Jesus quietly... more
Book Votes: 24
316
| Joanne L. (jlustig) |
WHAT IS THE WHAT by Dave Eggers
What is the What is an epic novel about the lives of two boys during the Sudanese civil war. For those who think they know about the so-called Lost Boys of Sudan, this novel will be an eye-opener. And if you think you know the work of Dave Eggers, this is in many ways a complete departure: it's... more
Book Votes: 24
317
| DARYL D. (bookworm-51) |
The Turn of the Screw and The Aspern Papers by Henry James
The Turn of the Screw is the classic ghost story for which James is most remembered. Set in a country house, it is a chilling tale of the supernatural.
The Aspern Papers is a tale of Americans in Europe, cleverly evoking the drama of comedie humaine against the settings of a Venetian palace.
Book Votes: 24
318
| Preston A. (preston) |
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1) by George R. R. Martin
Here is the first volume in George R. R. Martin?s magnificent cycle of novels that includes A Clash of Kings and A Storm of Swords. As a whole, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, bringing together the best the genre has to offer. Magic, mystery, intrigue, romance, and... more
Book Votes: 24
319
| Nancy S. |
The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
A tiny girl is abandoned on a ship headed for Australia in 1913. She arrives completely alone with nothing but a small suitcase containing a few clothes and a single book -- a beautiful volume of fairy tales. She is taken in by the dockmaster and his wife and raised as their own. On her... more
Book Votes: 24
320
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Betsy W. (Queenofthekitchen) - |
The Stand (The Complete and Uncut Edition) by Stephen King
This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death.
And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99... more
Book Votes: 24
321
| Cassi B. (brightforest) |
In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
It is November 25, 1960, and three beautiful sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. The official state newspaper reports their deaths as accidental. It does not mention that a fourth sister lives. Nor does... more
Book Votes: 23
322
| Terri E. (stocktonmalonefan) - |
The Last Child (Johnny Merrimon, Bk 1) by John Hart
John Hart's New York Times bestselling debut, The King of Lies, announced the arrival of a major talent. With Down River, he surpassed his earlier success, transcending the barrier between thriller and literature and winning the 2008 Edgar Award for best novel. Now, with The Last Child, he... more
Book Votes: 23
323
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Nicola W. (Wellnico) - |
Moloka'i (Moloka'i, Bk 1) by Alan Brennert
Rachel Kalama, a spirited seven-year-old Hawaiian girl, dreams of visiting far-off lands like her father, a merchant seaman. Then one day a rose-colored mark appears on her skin, and those dreams are stolen from her. Taken from her home and family, Rachel is sent to Kalaupapa, the quarantined... more
Book Votes: 23
324
| Kristina B. (kristimb) |
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
Journey to Wonderland and through the Looking Glass with Alice. Meet the unforgettable characters of these two magical books, collected in one volume: the White Rabbit, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, and many others. Nothing is ordinary in the surprising worlds... more
Book Votes: 23
325
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Alyssa T. - |
Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back by...
A young boy emerges from life-saving surgery with remarkable stories of his visit to heaven.
Heaven is for Real is the true story of the four-year old son of a small town Nebraska pastor who during emergency surgery slips from consciousness and enters heaven. He survives and begins talking... more
Book Votes: 23
326
| Ronnie G. (frenchgiant) |
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
THE CORRECTIONS is a grandly entertaining novel for the new century-a comic, tragic masterpiece about a family breaking down in an age of easy fixes. After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity to... more
Book Votes: 22
327
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Sherry G. (Shervivor) - |
I, Elizabeth by Rosalind Miles
Publicly declared a bastard at the age of three, daughter of a disgraced and executed mother, last in the line of succession to the throne of England, Elizabeth I inherited an England ravaged by bloody religious conflict, at war with Spain and France, and badly in debt. When she died in 1603,... more
Book Votes: 22
328
| Kathy F. |
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night.... more
Book Votes: 22
329
| James M. (monkeypox) |
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Japan's most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writers with this heroically imaginative novel, which is at once a detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets of World War II.
In a Tokyo... more
Book Votes: 21
330
| Ronnie G. (frenchgiant) |
The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason
In 1886 a shy, middle-aged piano tuner named Edgar Drake receives an unusual commission from the British War Office: to travel to the remote jungles of northeast Burma and there repair a rare piano belonging to an eccentric army surgeon who has proven mysteriously indispensable to the imperial... more
Book Votes: 21
331
| Mamie |
Right Ho, Jeeves: A British Humor Classic by P. G. Wodehouse
Jeeves has some outrageous ideas about how Gussie Fink-Nottle can capture the affections of Miss Madeline Bassett including scarlet tights and a false beard. What follows is a delightful romp through the banquet halls and boudoirs of English high society by "the funniest writer ever to put words... more
Book Votes: 21
332
| Vera M. (bepa-jean) |
Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk
Tender Branson - last surviving member of the so-called "Creedish Death Cult" - is dictating his incredible life story into the flight recorder of Flight 2039, cruising on autopilot at 39,000 feet somewhere over the Pacific Ocean. He is all alone in the plane, which will shortly reach terminal... more
Book Votes: 21
333
| Charity S. (charitysheppard) |
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
?I think I could be a good woman, if I had five thousand a year,? observes beautiful and clever Becky Sharp, one of the wickedest?and most appealing?women in all of literature. Becky is just one of the many fascinating figures that populate William Makepeace Thackeray?s novel Vanity Fair, a... more
Book Votes: 21
334
| Amy B. (BaileysBooks) |
Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut
Vonnegut's first novel, an unforgiving portrait of an automated and totalitarian future, was published in 1952. A human revolt against the machines which control life was arranged by the machines themselves to prove the futility of such resistance. Visionary and unrelenting, this is felt by some... more
Book Votes: 21
335
| Amy B. (BaileysBooks) |
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
‘When you looked down into the stone, you looked into a yellow deep that drew your eyes into it so that they saw nothing else’
The Moonstone, a yellow diamond looted from an Indian temple and believed to bring bad luck to its owner, is bequeathed to Rachel Verinder on her... more
Book Votes: 21
336
| Michelle M. (sapphire72) |
Contact by Carl Sagan
The future is here...in an adventure of cosmic dimension.
In December, 1999, a multinational team journeys out to the stars, to the most awesome encounter in human history. Who -- or what -- is out there?
In Cosmos, Carl Sagan explained the universe. In Contact, he predicts its future --... more
Book Votes: 21
337
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Kristin K. (escapeartistk) - |
Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit (Ishmael Bk 1) by Daniel Quinn
The narrator of this extraordinary tale is a man in search for truth. He answers an ad in a local newspaper from a teacher looking for serious pupils, only to find himself alone in an abandoned office with a full-grown gorilla who is nibbling delicately on a slender branch.
"You are... more
Book Votes: 21
338
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Laurie H. (coolelle) - |
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce & Seamus Deane (Editor)
Masterpiece of semi-autobiographical fiction reveals a powerful portrait of the coming of age of a young man of unusual intelligence, sensitivity and character. Telling portrayals of an Irish upbringing and schooling, the Catholic Church and its priesthood, Parnell and Irish politics, sexual... more
Book Votes: 21
339
| Amanda M. (Blondie1980) |
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
A volume containing two interrelated stories by J.D. Salinger, published in book form in 1961. The stories, originally published in The New Yorker magazine, concern Franny and Zooey Glass, two members of the family that was the subject of most of Salinger's short fiction. Franny is an... more
Book Votes: 21
341
| Karen L. (kittycat176) |
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett & Tasha Tudor (Illustrator)
Generations of children have treasured the story of Sara Crewe, the little girl who imagines shes a princess in order to survive hard times at Miss Minchins London boarding school. Now, this classic novel is available in two beautiful new collectors editions. With Tasha Tudors enchanting... more
Book Votes: 21
342
| Mick (zobielover) |
11/22/63 by Stephen King
On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? Stephen King’s heart-stoppingly dramatic new novel is about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassination -- a thousand page tour de... more
Book Votes: 21
343
|
Alyssa T. - |
Tuck Everlasting (25th Anniversary Edition) by Natalie Babbitt
What if you could live forever?
Is eternal life a blessing or a curse? That is what young Winnie Foster must decide when she discovers a spring on her family’s property whose waters grant immortality. Members of the Tuck family, having drunk from the spring, tell Winnie of their... more
Book Votes: 21
344
| Leah G. (LeahG) |
Good Grief by Lolly Winston
A brilliantly funny and heartwarming debut about a young woman who stumbles,then fights to build a new life after the death of her husband.Lolly Winston has written an astonishing first novel. In Good Grief she takes a sad situation and artfully finds the humor and pathos to make readers smile... more
Book Votes: 20
345
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Cheryl (pagebypage) - |
The Passage (Passage, Bk 1) by Justin Cronin
It happened fast. Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born."
First, the unthinkable: a security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling military experiment. Then, the unspeakable: a night of chaos and carnage gives way... more
Book Votes: 20
346
| Stacy P. |
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
A long-lost book reappears, mysteriously connecting an old man searching for his son and a girl seeking a cure for her widowed mother's loneliness.
Leo Gursky is just about surviving, tapping his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbor know he's still alive. But life... more
Book Votes: 20
347
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Denise S. (Dargent) - |
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
"There in the middle of the broad, bright high-road-there, as if it had that moment sprung out of the earth or dropped from the heaven-stood the figure of a solitary woman, dressed from head to foot in white garments." Thus young Walter Hartright first meets the mysterious woman in... more
Book Votes: 20
348
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Thomas W. (tomtir) - |
The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
He was a riot of rockets and fountains and people, in such intricate detail and color that you could bear the voiced murmuring, small and muted, from the crowds that inhabited his body.The Illustrated ManRay Bradbury brings wonders alive. A peerless American storyteller, his oeuvre has been... more
Book Votes: 20
349
| Shannon A. (shaxtell) |
A Widow for One Year by John Irving
Ruth Cole is a complex, often self-contradictory character--a "difficult" woman. By no means is she conventionally "nice," but she will never be forgotten.
Ruth's story is told in three parts, each focusing on a crucial time in her life. When we first meet her--on Long Island, in the summer... more
Book Votes: 20
350
| Kate K. |
Scarlet Pimpernel (Complete and Unabridged Classics) by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
The first and most successful in the Baroness’s series of books that feature Percy Blakeney, who leads a double life as an English fop and a swashbuckling rescuer of aristocrats, The Scarlet Pimpernel was the blueprint for what became known as the masked-avenger genre. As Anne Perry writes... more
Book Votes: 20
351
| Sherry W. (octexan) |
The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
Set in a world torn apart, where man enslaves his fellow man and freedom remains elusive, THE POWER OF ONE is the moving story of one young man's search for the love that binds friends, the passion that binds lovers, and the realization that it takes only one to change the world. A weak and... more
Book Votes: 20
352
| Jim W. (jimwillisca) |
Beach Music by Pat Conroy
Pat Conroy is without doubt America's favorite storyteller, a writer who portrays the anguished truth of the human heart and the painful secrets of families in richly lyrical prose and unforgettable narratives. Now, in Beach Music, he tells of the dark memories that haunt generations, in a... more
Book Votes: 20
353
| Tina S. (cats59) |
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
From David Mitchell, the Booker Prize nominee, award-winning writer and one of the featured authors in Granta’s “Best of Young British Novelists 2003” issue, comes his highly anticipated third novel, a work of mind-bending imagination and scope.
A reluctant voyager... more
Book Votes: 19
354
| Stacy P. |
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller
In Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller remembers her African childhood with candor and sensitivity. Though it is a diary of an unruly life in an often inhospitable place, it is suffused with Fuller's endearing ability to find laughter, even when there is little to... more
Book Votes: 19
355
| Heather M. (hmarottek) |
Still Life with Crows (Pendergast, Bk 4) by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
New York Times bestselling authors Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child return with a suspenseful Midwest Gothic thriller about a serial killer who terrorizes a small town. Medicine Creek, Kansas, has been slowly dying for the last century. A small, quiet place, the primary occupation is still... more
Book Votes: 19
356
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Cassie S. (cassie86) - |
The Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory
I am Catalina, Princess of Spain, daughter of the two greatest monarchs the world has ever known... and I will be Queen of England.
Thus, bestselling author Philippa Gregory introduces one of her most unforgettable heroines: Katherine of Aragon. Known to history as the Queen who was pushed... more
Book Votes: 19
357
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Denise S. (Dargent) - |
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf and To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf by Virg...
A Room of One's Own & To The Lighthouse written by legendary author Virginia Woolf are widely considered to be two of the top 100 greatest books of all time. These two great classics will surely attract a whole new generation of readers. For many, A Room of One's Own & To The Lighthouse are... more
Book Votes: 19
358
| Marina K. (marinka) |
Sounder by William H. Armstrong & James Barkley (Illustrator)
Sounder, a landmark in children's literature, traces the keen sorrow and the abiding faith of a poor African-American boy in the nineteenth-century South. The boy's father is a sharecropper, struggling to feed his family in hard times. Night after night, he and his great coon dog,... more
Book Votes: 19
359
|
oddpelican - |
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Who are you? What have we done to each other? These are the questions Nick Dunne finds himself asking on the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary, when his wife Amy suddenly disappears. The police suspect Nick. Amy's friends reveal that she was afraid of Nick. That she kept secrets from... more
Book Votes: 19
360
| Lillie M. (lillie) |
Saturday by Ian McEwan
From the pen of a master -- the #1 bestselling, Booker Prize--winning author of Atonement -- comes an astonishing novel that captures the fine balance of happiness and the unforeseen threats that can destroy it. A brilliant, thrilling page-turner that will keep readers on the edge of their... more
Book Votes: 18
361
|
wiglaf - |
Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake & Richard Holmes
This beautiful, hardcover gift edition allows Blake to communicate with his readers as he intended, reproducing his illuminations and lettering from the finest existing example of the original. In this way readers can experience the mystery and beauty of Blake?s poems as he created them. This... more
Book Votes: 18
362
| JAKE B. (jakehbrown) |
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Dem...
Jon Stewart, host of the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning The Daily Show, and his coterie of patriots, deliver a hilarious look at American government.
American-style democracy is the world's most beloved form of government, which explains why so many other nations are eager for us to impose... more
Book Votes: 18
363
| Shirl P. (happiness) |
The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama
The daughter of a Chinese mother and a Japanese father, Tsukiyama uses the Japanese invasion of China during the late 1930s as a somber backdrop for her unusual story about a 20-year-old Chinese painter named Stephen who is sent to his family's summer home in a Japanese coastal village to... more
Book Votes: 18
364
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Judy B. (Hoody) - |
Katherine by Anya Seton
This classic romance novel tells the true story of the love affair that changed history—that of Katherine Swynford and John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, the ancestors of most of the British royal family. Set in the vibrant 14th century of Chaucer and the Black Death, the story features... more
Book Votes: 18
365
| Krista K. (Krista0521) |
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
Juxtaposing the most common and the most gothic, the humorous and the tragic, Jeffrey Eugenides creates a vivid and compelling portrait of youth and lost innocence. He takes us back to the elm-lined streets of suburbia in the seventies, and introduces us to the men whose lives have been forever... more
Book Votes: 18
366
| Jim W. (jimwillisca) |
The Great Santini by Pat Conroy
Step into the powerhouse life of Bull Meecham. He’s all Marine-fighter pilot, king of the clouds, and absolute ruler of his family. Lillian is his wife -- beautiful, southern-bred, with a core of velvet steel. Without her cool head, her kids would be in real trouble.
Ben is the oldest,... more
Book Votes: 18
367
| Karen L. (kittycat176) |
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Told by the central character, Alex, this brilliant, hilarious, and disturbing novel creates an alarming futuristic vision of violence, high technology, and authoritarianism.Anthony Burgess' 1963 classic stands alongside Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World as a classic of... more
Book Votes: 18
368
| Ronnie G. (frenchgiant) |
Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin
A bestseller that takes readers on a journey to New York of the Belle Epoque, where Peter Lake attempts to rob a Manhattan mansion only to find the daughter of the house at home. Thus begins the love between the middle-aged Irishman and Beverly Penn, a young girl who is dying. “This... more
Book Votes: 17
369
| Vera M. (bepa-jean) |
The Basketball Diaries by Jim Carroll
Jim Carroll's memoir of his adolescent years in the early 1960s attending Trinity School on Manhattan's Upper West Side, playing basketball, and getting high on a various combinations of chemicals, alcohol, and narcotics is a classic of its kind. His cast of characters, mostly drawn from real... more
Book Votes: 17
370
| Joanne L. (jlustig) |
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
An exhilarating meditation on nature and its seasons-a personal narrative highlighting one year's exploration on foot in the author's own neighborhood in Tinker Creek, Virginia. In the summer, Dillard stalks muskrats in the creek and contemplates wave mechanics; in the fall she watches a monarch... more
Book Votes: 17
371
| Joanne L. (jlustig) |
Rabbit Run (Harry Rabbit Angstrom, Bk 1) by John Updike
Harry Angstrom was a star basketball player in high school and that was the best time of his life. Now in his mid-20s, his work is unfulfilling, his marriage is moribund, and he tries to find happiness with another woman. But happiness is more elusive than a medal, and Harry must continue to... more
Book Votes: 17
372
| Stacy P. |
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith?s dazzling debut caught critics grasping for comparisons and deciding on everyone from Charles Dickens to Salman Rushdie to John Irving and Martin Amis. But the truth is that Zadie Smith?s voice is remarkably, fluently, and altogether wonderfully her own.
At the center of this... more
Book Votes: 17
373
| Caroline |
Columbine by Dave Cullen
In this remarkable account of the April 20, 1999, Columbine High School shooting, journalist Cullen not only dispels several of the prevailing myths about the event but tackles the hardest question of all: why did it happen? Drawing on extensive interviews, police reports and his own reporting,... more
Book Votes: 17
374
| Amanda M. (Blondie1980) |
Nine Stories by J. D. Salinger
Since the publication of The Catcher in the Rye in 1951, the works of J.D. Salinger have been acclaimed for their humor, intensity, and their lack of phoniness. A collection of short fiction, Nine Stories contains works with those qualities that make Salinger such a well-loved... more
Book Votes: 17
375
| Krista K. (Krista0521) |
Bitter is the New Black : Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered ...
Jen Lancaster was living the sweet life-until real life kicked her to the curb. She had the perfect man, the perfect job-hell, she had the perfect life-and there was no reason to think it wouldn't last. Or maybe there was, but Jen Lancaster was too busy being manicured, pedicured, highlighted,... more
Book Votes: 17
376
| Kaycee M. (kayceelee) |
Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, Bk 1) by E. L. James
When literature student Anastasia Steele goes to interview young entrepreneur Christian Grey, she encounters a man who is beautiful, brilliant, and intimidating. The unworldly, innocent Ana is startled to realize she wants this man and, despite his enigmatic reserve, finds she is desperate to... more
Book Votes: 17
377
| Kaarla V. (hestia74) |
The Scarlet Letter (Modern Library Classics) by Nathaniel Hawthorne
A stark and allegorical tale of adultery, guilt, and social repression in Puritan New England, The Scarlet Letter is a foundational work of American literature. Nathaniel Hawthorne's exploration of the dichotomy between the public and private self, internal passion and external convention, gives... more
Book Votes: 17
378
| Cassi B. (brightforest) |
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto by Chuck Klosterman
Countless writers and artists have spoken for a generation, but no one has done it quite like Chuck Klosterman. With an exhaustive knowledge of popular culture and an almost effortless ability to spin brilliant prose out of unlikely subject matter, Klosterman attacks the entire spectrum of... more
Book Votes: 16
379
| Stacy P. |
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Published in 1934, Tender Is the Night was one of the most talked-about books of the year. "It's amazing how excellent much of it is," Ernest Hemingway said to Maxwell Perkins. "I will say now," John O'Hara wrote Fitzgerald, "Tender Is the Night is in the early... more
Book Votes: 16
380
|
Jennifer G. (Simons-Mom) - |
Peony in Love by Lisa See
“I finally understand what the poets have written. In spring, moved to passion; in autumn only regret.”
For young Peony, betrothed to a suitor she has never met, these lyrics from The Peony Pavilion mirror her own longings. In the garden of the Chen Family Villa, amid the scent... more
Book Votes: 16
381
| Marina K. (marinka) |
These Happy Golden Years (Little House, Bk 8) by Laura Ingalls Wilder & Garth Wil...
Fifteen-year-old Laura lives apart from her family for the first time, teaching school in a claim shanty twelve miles from home. She is very homesick, but keeps at it so that she can help pay for her sister Mary's tuition at the college for the blind. During school vacations Laura has fun... more
Book Votes: 16
382
|
Cheryl (pagebypage) - |
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig
The extraordinary story of a man's quest for truth. It will change the way you think and feel about your life.
"The cycle you're working on is a cycle called 'yourself.'"
"The study of the art of motorcycle maintainence is really a study of the art of rationality itself. Working on a... more
Book Votes: 16
383
|
Alyssa T. - |
House Rules by Jodi Picoult
Jodi Picoult wraps another stirring melodramatic plot around a misunderstood modern affliction in this tale of Jacob Hunt, an 18-year-old murder suspect who has Asperger's Syndrome.
Jacob's mother Emma and his little brother Theo have gradually become reluctant satellites of Jacob... more
Book Votes: 16
384
| rachel-renee |
Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy by Sarah Ban Breathnach
This book features 366 essays penned from a woman's perspective. Sample topics include gratitude, harmony, self-nurturing, positive body image, the importance of scented linen closets, and many others.
Book Votes: 16
385
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Jennifer G. (Simons-Mom) - |
Divergent (Divergent, Bk 1) by Veronica Roth
In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue -- Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of... more
Book Votes: 16
386
| Kaarla V. (hestia74) |
Emma by Jane Austen
Emma, when first published in 1816, was written when Jane Austen was at the height of her powers.??In it we have her two greatest comic creations -- the eccentric Mr. Woodhouse and that quintissential bore, Miss Bates.??In it, too, we have her most profound characterization:??the witty,... more
Book Votes: 16
387
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Shaz H. (shaz) - |
Captains Courageous (Tor Classics) by Rudyard Kipling
Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title—offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All... more
Book Votes: 15
388
| Vera M. (bepa-jean) |
The Master and Margarita (Picador Books) by Mikhail Bulgakov & Mikhail Bulgakov
Moscow, 1929: a city that has lost its way amid corruption and fear, inhabited by people who have abandoned their morals and forsaken spirituality. But when a mysterious stranger arrives in town with a bizarre entourage that includes a giant talking cat and a fanged assassin, all hell breaks... more
Book Votes: 15
389
| Susanne L. (mygalrosie) |
My Name Is Mary Sutter by Robin Oliveira
The Civil War offers a 20-year-old midwife who dreams of becoming a doctor the medical experience she craves, plus hard work and heartbreak, in this rich debut that takes readers from a small upstate New York doctor's office to a Union hospital overflowing with the wounded and... more
Book Votes: 15
390
| Stacy P. |
The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad
After living for three months with the Kabul bookseller Sultan Khan in the spring of 2002, Norwegian journalist Seierstad penned this astounding portrait of a nation recovering from war, undergoing political flux and mired in misogyny and poverty. As a Westerner, she has the privilege of... more
Book Votes: 15
391
| DARYL D. (bookworm-51) |
Daisy Miller (Modern Library Classics) by Henry James
Originally published in The Cornhill Magazine in 1878 and in book form in 1879, Daisy Miller brought Henry James his first widespread commercial and critical success. The young Daisy Miller, an American on holiday with her mother on the shores of Switzerland’s Lac Leman, is one of... more
Book Votes: 15
392
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Cassie S. (cassie86) - |
Eden Close by Anita Shreve
A compelling tale of edgy, small-town emotions, lingering obsession, and romantic salvation. Andrew, after many years, returns to his hometown to attend his mother's funeral. Planning to remain only a few days, he is drawn into the tragic legacy of his childhood friend and beautiful girl next... more
Book Votes: 15
393
| Caroline |
Jamaica Inn (Audio Cassette) (Abridged) by Daphne du Maurier & Samantha Bond (Nar...
The coachman tried to warn young Mary Yellan away from the ruined, forbidding place on the rainswept Cornish coast. But Mary chose instead to honor her mother's dying request that she join her frightened Aunt Patience and foreboding Uncle Joss Merlyn at Jamaica Inn. From her first glimpse on... more
Book Votes: 15
394
| Caroline |
Escape by Carolyn Jessop & Laura Palmer
The dramatic first-person account of life inside an ultra-fundamentalist American religious sect, and one woman’s courageous flight to freedom with her eight children.When she was eighteen years old, Carolyn Jessop was coerced into an arranged marriage with a total stranger: a man... more
Book Votes: 15
395
| Kate K. |
We the Living by Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand said of her first novel, We the Living: "It is as near to an autobiography as I will ever write. The plot is invented, the background is not ... The specific events of Kira's life were not mine; her ideas, her convictions, her values, were and are."
First published in... more
Book Votes: 15
396
| Kate K. |
Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins
Still Life with Woodpecker is sort of a love story that takes place inside a pack of Camel cigarettes. It reveals the purpose of the moon, explains the difference between criminals and outlaws, examines the conflict between social activism and romantic individualism, and paints a... more
Book Votes: 15
397
| Keitha M. (kmama) |
Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux by Black Elk...
The most famous Native American book ever written, Black Elk Speaks is the acclaimed story of Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863-1950) and his people during the momentous, twilight years of the nineteenth century. Black Elk grew up in a time when white settlers were invading... more
Book Votes: 15
398
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Cheryl (pagebypage) - |
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
Originally published in 1915, Of Human Bondage is a potent expression of the power of sexual obsession and of modern man's yearning for freedom. This classic bildungsroman tells the story of Philip Carey, a sensitive boy born with a clubfoot who is orphaned and raised by a religious aunt and... more
Book Votes: 15
399
| Pamela M. |
A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, Bk 1) by Deborah Harkness
Deep in the stacks of Oxford's Bodleian Library, young scholar Diana Bishop unwittingly calls up a bewitched alchemical manuscript in the course of her research. Descended from an old and distinguished line of witches, Diana wants nothing to do with sorcery; so after a furtive glance and a... more
Book Votes: 15
400
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Nicola W. (Wellnico) - |
Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross
For a thousand years men have denied her existence--Pope Joan, the woman who disguised herself as a man and rose to rule Christianity for two years. Now this compelling novel animates the legend with a portrait of an unforgettable woman who struggles against restrictions her soul cannot... more
Book Votes: 15
401
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Cheryl (pagebypage) - |
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
The true story of one family, caught between America’s two biggest policy disasters: the war on terror and the response to Hurricane Katrina.
Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun run a house-painting business in New Orleans. In August of 2005, as Hurricane Katrina approaches, Kathy... more
Book Votes: 15
402
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Alyssa T. - |
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Logans, Bk 4) by Mildred D. Taylor
Why is the land so important to Cassie's family? It takes the events of one turbulent year--the year of the night riders and the burnings, the year a white girl humiliates Cassie in public simply because she is black--to show Cassie that having a place of their own is the Logan family's... more
Book Votes: 15
403
| Kristina B. (kristimb) |
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith
Seth Grahame-Smith's revision of a Jane Austen classic blew readers' minds and became an instant national bestseller. Now, he tackles our greatest president...When Abraham Lincoln was nine years old, his mother died from an ailment called the "milk sickness." Only later did he learn that his... more
Book Votes: 15
404
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Rick B. (bup) - |
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
When the renowned aviation hero and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh defeated Franklin Roosevelt by a landslide in the 1940 presidential election, fear invaded every Jewish household in America. Not only had Lindbergh, in a nationwide radio address, publicly blamed the Jews for... more
Book Votes: 14
405
| Vera M. (bepa-jean) |
Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk
Ever heard of a culling song? It’s a lullaby sung in Africa to give a painless death to the old or infirm. The lyrics of a culling song kill, whether spoken or even just thought. You can find one on page 27 of Poems and Rhymes from Around the World, an anthology that is sitting on the... more
Book Votes: 14
406
| Stacy P. |
Wilkie Collins Omnibus: The Moonstone / The Haunted Hotel / My Lady's Money by Wilkie...
Three classic mysteries by Wilkie Collins in one volume:
THE MOONSTONE: Stolen from the forehead of a Hindu idol, the dazzling gem known as "The Moonstone" resurfaces at a birthday party in an English country home--with an enigmatic trio of watchful Brahmins hot on its trail. Laced with... more
Book Votes: 14
407
| Joanne L. (jlustig) |
Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey
The magnificent second novel from the legendary author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Sailor Song is a wild-spirited and hugely powerful tale of an Oregon logging clan. A bitter strike is raging in a small lumber town along the Oregon coast. Bucking that strike out of sheer cussedness... more
Book Votes: 14
408
| Joanne L. (jlustig) |
Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette by Sena Jeter Naslund
Marie Antoinette was a child of fourteen when her mother, the Empress of Austria, arranged for her to leave her family and her country to become the wife of the fifteen-year-old Dauphin, the future King of France. Coming of age in the most public of arenas -- eager to be a good wife and strong... more
Book Votes: 14
409
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Elizabeth B. (Cattriona) - |
Replay by Ken Grimwood
Jeff Winston, forty-three, didn't know he was a replayer until he died and woke up twenty-five years younger in his college dorm room; he lived another life. And died again. And lived again and died again -- in a continuous twenty-five-year cycle -- each time starting from scratch at the age of... more
Book Votes: 14
410
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Cheryl (pagebypage) - |
Thunderstruck by Erik Larson
A true story of love, murder, and the end of the world’s “great hush”In Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men—Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of... more
Book Votes: 14
411
| Joanne L. (jlustig) |
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
Geek Love is the story of the Binewskis, a carny family whose mater- and paterfamilias set out–with the help of amphetamine, arsenic, and radioisotopes–to breed their own exhibit of human oddities. There’s Arturo the Aquaboy, who has flippers for limbs and a megalomaniac... more
Book Votes: 14
412
| Beth A. (cachebether) |
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
"They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved and how. And how much. "The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, a skyblue Plymouth with chrome tailfins is stranded on the highway amid a Marxist... more
Book Votes: 14
413
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Jennifer G. (Simons-Mom) - |
Garden Spells (Waverley Family, Bk 1) by Sarah Addison Allen
In a garden surrounded by a tall fence, tucked away behind a small, quiet house in an even smaller town, is an apple tree that is rumored to bear a very special sort of fruit... The Waverleys have always been a curious family, endowed with peculiar gifts that make them outsiders even in their... more
Book Votes: 14
414
| Sherry R. (Saffron) |
Odd Thomas, (Odd Thomas, Bk 1) by Dean Koontz
"The dead don't talk. I don't know why." But they do try to communicate, with a short-order cook in a small desert town serving as their reluctant confidant. Odd Thomas thinks of himself as an ordinary guy, if possessed of a certain measure of talent at the Pico Mundo Grill and rapturously in... more
Book Votes: 14
415
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Denise S. (Dargent) - |
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
THINGS FALL APART tells two overlapping, intertwining stories, both of which center around Okonkwo, a “strong man” of an Ibo village in Nigeria. The first of these stories traces Okonkwo's fall from grace with the tribal world in which he lives, and in its classical purity of... more
Book Votes: 14
416
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Denise S. (Dargent) - |
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown
Immediately recognized as a revelatory and enormously controversial book since its first publication in 1971, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is universally recognized as one of those rare books that forever changes the way its subject is perceived. Now repackaged, with a new introduction from... more
Book Votes: 14
417
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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, Bk 1...
A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. And a strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the... more
Book Votes: 14
418
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Alicia (bluebyrd) - |
Their Eyes were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
"Belongs in the category ... of enduring American literature." Saturday Review Fair and long-legged, independent and articulate, Janie Crawford sets out to be her own person no mean feat for a black woman in the '30s. Janie's quest for identity takes her through three marriages and into a... more
Book Votes: 14
419
| James M. (monkeypox) |
White Noise by Don DeLillo
Winner of the National Book Award, White Noise was immediately hailed as Don DeLillo's "breakout novel" when it first appeared in 1985. The novel entertains a wide array of compelling topics and concerns with consummate agility.
After a deadly toxic accident and his wife's addiction to an... more
Book Votes: 13
421
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Laurie H. (coolelle) - |
Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins
Jitterbug Perfume is an epic. which is to say, it begins in the forests of ancient Bohemia and doesn't conclude until nine o'clock tonight [Paris time]. It is a saga, as well. A saga must have a hero, and the hero of this one is a janitor with a missing bottle. The bottle is blue, very,... more
Book Votes: 13
422
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Laurie H. (coolelle) - |
The Lover by Marguerite Duras & Barbara Bray (Translator)
Set in the prewar Indochina of Marguerite Duras's childhood, this is the haunting tale of a tumultuous affair between an adolescent French girl and her Chinese lover. In spare yet luminous prose, Duras evokes life on the margins of Saigon in the waning days of France's colonial empire,... more
Book Votes: 13
423
| Shannon A. (shaxtell) |
Love Medicine (Love Medicine, Bk 1) by Louise Erdrich
The first of Louise Erdrich’s polysymphonic novels set in North Dakota – a fictional landscape that, in Erdrich’s hands, has become iconic – Love Medicine is the story of three generations of Ojibwe families. Set against the tumultuous politics of the reservation,the... more
Book Votes: 13
424
| Kathy F. |
Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
On the windswept, fossil-strewn beaches of the English coast, poor and uneducated Mary Anning learns that she has a unique gift: "the eye" to spot fossils no one else can see. When she uncovers an unusual fossilized skeleton in the cliffs near her home, she sets the religious community... more
Book Votes: 13
425
| DARYL D. (bookworm-51) |
Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott
Unless you're a mathematician, the chances of you reading any novels about geometry are probably slender. But if you read only two in your life, these are the ones. Taken together, they form a couple of accessible and charming explanations of geometry and physics for the curious... more
Book Votes: 13
426
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Cheryl (pagebypage) - |
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
A story of Howard Roark, an intransigent young architect whose genius and integrity will not be compromised. His ideas work against conventional standard result. He's also in an explosive love affair with a beautiful woman who struggles to defeat him.
Book Votes: 13
427
| Megan S. (theshepherds) |
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Set in the rich farmland of California's Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families -- the Trasks and the Hamiltons -- whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and... more
Book Votes: 13
428
|
courtneym - |
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Winner of the 2013 Odyssey Award for Excellence in Audiobook Production Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters... more
Book Votes: 13
429
| Marie N. (pottergal) |
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
A stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.
Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he... more
Book Votes: 13
430
| Ronnie G. (frenchgiant) |
Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
She's a fashion model who has everything: a boyfriend, a career, a loyal best friend. But when a sudden freeway "accident" leaves her disfigured and incapable of speech, she is transformed from the beautiful center of attention to an invisible monster, so hideous that no one will acknowledge she... more
Book Votes: 12
431
| Stacy P. |
Basket Case by Carl Hiaasen
Once a hotshot investigative reporter, Jack Tagger now bangs out obituaries for a South Florida daily, “plotting to resurrect my newspaper career by yoking my byline to some famous stiff.” Jimmy Stoma, the infamous front man of Jimmy and the Slut Puppies, dead in a fishy-smelling... more
Book Votes: 12
432
| Merrikay B. |
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill : A Love Story . . . with Wings by Mark Bittner
Like a lot of young people in the 1970s, Mark Bittner took the path of the “dharma bum.” When the counterculture faded, Mark held on, seeking shelter in the nooks and crannies of San Francisco’s fabled bohemian neighborhood, North Beach. While living on the eastern slope of... more
Book Votes: 12
433
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Cheryl (pagebypage) - |
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. ...
A call to arms against our era's most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women in the developing world.
With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake a journey through Africa and Asia to meet an extraordinary array of women... more
Book Votes: 12
434
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Cheryl (pagebypage) - |
Forever by Pete Hamill
This widely praised bestseller is the magical, epic tale of an extraordinary man who arrives in New York in 1740 and remains...forever. Through the eyes of young Cormac O'Connor--granted immortality as long as he never leaves the island of Manhattan--we watch New York grow from a tiny... more
Book Votes: 12
435
| Krista K. (Krista0521) |
Intensity by Dean Koontz
Chyna Shepherd is a twenty-six-year-old woman whose deeply troubled childhood taught her the hard rules of survival, and whose adult life has been an unrelenting struggle for self-respect and safety. Now rare trust has blossomed for Chyna into friendship with the woman whose family home she is... more
Book Votes: 12
436
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Cheryl (pagebypage) - |
The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
Julie Otsuka’s long awaited follow-up to When the Emperor Was Divine is a tour de force of economy and precision, a novel that tells the story of a group of young women brought over from Japan to San Francisco as ‘picture brides’ nearly a century ago.
In eight incantatory... more
Book Votes: 12
437
| Kristina B. (kristimb) |
Congo by Michael Crichton
Deep in the heart of the darkest region of the Congo ... an eight-person field expedition dies mysteriously and brutally in a matter of minutes. Ten thousand miles away, at the Houston-based Earth Resources Technology Services, Inc., supervisor Karen Ross watches a gruesome video transmission of... more
Book Votes: 12
438
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Cheryl (pagebypage) - |
The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman
In 70 CE, nine hundred Jews held out for months against armies of Romans on a mountain in the Judean desert, Masada. According to the ancient historian Josephus, two women and five children survived. Based on this tragic historical event, Hoffman weaves a spellbinding tale of four extraordinary,... more
Book Votes: 12
439
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Denise S. (Dargent) - |
Candide by Voltaire & Henry Morley (Translator) & Lauren Walsh (Translator) &...
One of the finest satires ever written, Voltaire's Candide savagely skewers this very "optimistic" approach to life as a shamefully inadequate response to human suffering. The swift and lively tale follows the absurdly melodramatic adventures of the youthful Candide, who is forced... more
Book Votes: 12
440
| acalla |
Pride and Prejudice (Abridged) by Jane Austen & Norah Woollard (Editor) & Ann...
Abridged textbook for foreign speakers.
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."
So begins Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen's witty comedy of manners--one of the most popular novels of all time... more
Book Votes: 12
441
| Claire W. (cornflakegod) |
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Cat's Cradle is Vonnegut's satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet's ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist; a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer; and a vision of the future that is at once blackly... more
Book Votes: 12
442
| Marie N. (pottergal) |
Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
Orphan Train is a gripping story of friendship and second chances from Christina Baker Kline, author of Bird in Hand and The Way Life Should Be.
Penobscot Indian Molly Ayer is close to “aging out” out of the foster care system. A community service position helping an elderly woman... more
Book Votes: 12
443
| D. G. (riahekans) |
The Pursuit of Love / Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford
Few aristocratic English families of the twentieth century enjoyed the glamorous notoriety of the infamous Mitford sisters. Nancy Mitford's most famous novels, The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate, satirize British aristocracy in the twenties and thirties through the amorous... more
Book Votes: 11
444
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Mary C. (purplepride) - |
Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
Antonio Marez is six years old when Ultima comes to stay with his family in New Mexico. She is a curandera, one who cures with herbs and magic. Under her wise wing, Tony probes his family ties and discovers himself in the magical secrets of the pagan past -- a mythic legacy as palpable as the... more
Book Votes: 11
445
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Beverly H. (Teege) - |
Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEA...
Four US Navy SEALS departed one clear night in early July 2005 for the mountainous Afghanistan-Pakistan border for a reconnaissance mission. Their task was to document the activity of an al Qaeda leader rumored to be very close to Bin Laden with a small army in a Taliban stronghold. Five days... more
Book Votes: 11
446
| Jim W. (jimwillisca) |
The Lords of Discipline by Pat Conroy
A novel you will never forget... This powerful and breathtaking novel is the story of four cadets who have become bloodbrothers. Together they will encounter the hell of hazing and the rabid, raunchy and dangerously secretive atmosphere of... more
Book Votes: 11
447
| Mick (zobielover) |
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, Bk 1) by Margaret Atwood
When the story opens, the narrator Snowman, self-named though not self-created, is sleeping in a tree, wearing an old bedsheet, mourning the loss of his companions Oryx and Crake as he, himself, slowly starves in a wasteland once the home of people and now the home of insects, pigoons and... more
Book Votes: 11
448
| Jenny K. |
Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
From Fever 1793 "Where's Polly?" I asked as I dropped the bucket down the well. "Did you pass by the blacksmith's? "I spoke with her mother, with Mistress Logan," Mother answered softly, looking at her neat rows of carrots. "And?" I waved a mosquito away from my face. "It happened quickly.... more
Book Votes: 11
449
| Amber M. (amber681) |
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream b...
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the strangest journeys ever undertaken.
Book Votes: 11
450
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Denise S. (Dargent) - |
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery & Alison Anderson (Translator)
We are in the center of Paris, in an elegant apartment building inhabited by bourgeois families. Rene, the concierge, is witness to the lavish but vacuous lives of her numerous employers. Outwardly she conforms to every stereotype of the concierge: fat, cantankerous, addicted to television. Yet,... more
Book Votes: 11
451
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Russ S. (RussS) - |
On Writing by Stephen King
"If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write."
In 1999, Stephen King began to write about his craft -- and his life. By midyear, a widely reported accident jeopardized the survival of both. And in his months of recovery, the link... more
Book Votes: 11
452
| Katie C. (crusenberryk) |
Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
"When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy. I would figure out this or that way and run it down through my head until it got easy." So begins the tale of Ellen Foster, the brave and engaging heroine of Kaye Gibbons's first novel, which won the Sue Kaufman Prize from... more
Book Votes: 11
453
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Alyssa T. - |
A Stolen Life: A Memoir by Jaycee Dugard
In the summer of June of 1991, I was a normal kid. I did normal things. I had friends and a mother that loved me. I was just like you. Until the day my life was stolen. For eighteen years I was a prisoner. I was an object for someone to use and abuse. For eighteen years I was not allowed to... more
Book Votes: 11
454
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Cheryl (pagebypage) - |
The Goldfinch: A Novel by Donna Tartt
The author of the classic bestsellers The Secret History and The Little Friend returns with a brilliant, highly anticipated new novel.
A young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, miraculously survives an explosion that takes the life of his mother. Alone and determined to avoid being taken in by... more
Book Votes: 11
455
| Claire W. (cornflakegod) |
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie & Ellen Forney ...
Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school... more
Book Votes: 11
456
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Terry D. (tmdaviss) - |
A Wrinkle in Time: 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition (Madeleine L'Engle's Time Q...
Fifty years ago, Madeleine L?Engle introduced the world to A Wrinkle in Time and the wonderful and unforgettable characters Meg and Charles Wallace Murry, and their friend Calvin O?Keefe. When the children learn that Mr. Murry has been captured by the Dark Thing, they time travel to Camazotz,... more
Book Votes: 11
457
| Joanne L. (jlustig) |
Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness by Edward Abbey
A CELEBRATION OF THE BEAUTY OF LIVING IN A HARSH AND HOSTILE LAND
Edward Abbey lived for three seasons in the desert at Moab, Utah, and what he discovered about the land before him, the world around him, and the heart that beat within, is a fascinating, sometimes raucous, always personal... more
Book Votes: 10
458
| Amanda R. |
Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
Written with austere clarity , Disgrace explores the downfall of one man and dramatizes with unforgettable, almost unbearable vividness the plight of South Africa -- a country caught in the chaotic aftermath of the overthrow of Apartheid.
A middle-aged professor of Romantic poetry sees his... more
Book Votes: 10
459
| Joanne L. (jlustig) |
Rabbit Redux by John Updike
"Rabbit Redux is the complete Updike at last, an awesomely accomplished writer.....For God's sake, read the book. It may even--will probably change your life." BOOK OF THE MONTH CLUB
"It may be even more than brilliant....It succeeds in putting us in touch with ourselves and our times in ways... more
Book Votes: 10
460
| Stacy P. |
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
Jemubhai Popatlal, a retired Cambridge-educated judge, lives in Kalimpong, at the foot of the Himalayas, with his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, and his cook....[When] a surge of unrest disturbs the region. Jemubhai, with his hunting rifles and English biscuits, becomes an obvious target. Besides... more
Book Votes: 10
461
| DARYL D. (bookworm-51) |
The Magnificent Ambersons (The Modern Library Classics) by Booth Tarkington
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize when it was first published in 1918, The Magnificent Ambersons chronicles the changing fortunes of three generations of an American dynasty. The protagonist of Booth Tarkington's great historical drama is George Amberson Minafer, the spoiled and arrogant grandson of... more
Book Votes: 10
462
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Laurie H. (coolelle) - |
High Tide in Tucson by Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver has entertained and touched the lives of legions of readers with her critically acclaimed and bestselling novels The Bean Trees, Animal Dreams, and Pigs in Heaven.In these twenty-five newly conceived essays, she returns once again to her favored literary terrain to explore the... more
Book Votes: 10
463
| Joanne L. (jlustig) |
A Son of the Circus by John Irving
A Hindi film star . . . an American missionary . . . twins separated at birth . . . a dwarf chauffeur . . . a serial killer . . . all are on a collision course. In the tradition of A Prayer for Owen Meany, Irving's characters transcend nationality. They are misfits--coming from everywhere,... more
Book Votes: 10
464
| Amanda M. (Blondie1980) |
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction by J. D. Salinger
The last book-length work of fiction by J. D. Salinger published in his lifetime collects two novellas about "one of the liveliest, funniest, most fully realized families in all fiction" (New York Times).
These two novellas, set seventeen years apart, are both concerned with Seymour... more
Book Votes: 10
465
| Wendy R. (wendybird) |
Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard
This classic, award-winning novel tells of a young boy's struggle to survive World War II in China.
Jim is separated from his parents in a world at war. To survive, he must find a strength greater than all the events that surround him.
Shanghai, 1941 -- a city aflame from the... more
Book Votes: 10
466
| Krista K. (Krista0521) |
Mrs. Kimble by Jennifer Haigh
In her masterful first novel Mrs. Kimble, Jennifer Haigh delivers the riveting story of three women who marry the same man.Ken Kimble is revealed through the eyes of the women he seduces: his first wife, Birdie, who struggles to hold herself together following his desertion; his second wife,... more
Book Votes: 10
467
| Amy O. (cheermom140) |
Marjorie Morningstar by Herman Wouk
Marjorie Morningstar is a love story. It presents one of the greatest characters in modern fiction: Marjorie, the pretty seventeen-year-old who left the respectability of New York's Central Park West to join the theater, live in the teeming streets of Greenwich Village, and seek love in the... more
Book Votes: 10
468
| Amy O. (cheermom140) |
Marjorie Morningstar by Herman Wouk
It is a fictional novel about a 15-yr old Jewish girl growing up in NY in the 1930's or so. No dust cover, but from a Book of the month club article, "It is a story of tremendous authenticity as well as pathos, which, because of the excellence of the writer's observation and the rare... more
Book Votes: 10
469
| Melissa G. (melisskvg) |
Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers
Can God's Love Save Anyone? Bestselling author Francine Rivers skillfully retells the biblical love story of Gomer and Hosea in a tale set against the exciting backdrop of the California Gold Rush. The heroine, Angel, is a young woman who was sold into prostitution as a child. Michael... more
Book Votes: 10
471
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Cheryl (pagebypage) - |
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The famous novel, translated by Andrew R. MacAndrew. Introductory essay by Konstantin Mochulsky.
Book Votes: 10
472
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Denise S. (Dargent) - |
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Of all Dickens's novels, David Copperfield most fervently embraces the comic delights, the tender warmth, the tragic horrors of childhood. It is our classic tale of growing up, an enchanting story of a gentle orphan discovering life and love in an indifferent adult... more
Book Votes: 10
473
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Denise S. (Dargent) - |
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Wide Sargasso Sea is the story of Antoinette Cosway, a Creole heiress who grew up in the West Indies on a decaying plantation. When she comes of age she is married off to an Englishman, and he takes her away from the only place she has known--a house with a garden where "the paths were overgrown... more
Book Votes: 10
474
| Melody B. (5ducksfans) |
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust B...
The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since. Timothy Egan's critically acclaimed account rescues this iconic chapter of American history from the shadows in a tour de force of historical reportage. Following a... more
Book Votes: 10
475
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Alyssa T. - |
Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, Bk 1) by Dan Brown
An ancient secret brotherhood. A devastating new weapon of destruction. An unthinkable target. When world-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to his first assignment to a Swiss research facility to analyze a mysterious symbol -- seared into the chest of a murdered physicist... more
Book Votes: 10
476
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Cheryl (pagebypage) - |
And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
Presents a story inspired by human love, how people take care of one another, and how choices resonate through subsequent generations. Afghanistan, 1952. Abdullah and his sister Pari live with their father and step-mother in the small village of Shadbagh. Their father, Saboor, is constantly in... more
Book Votes: 10
477
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Alyssa T. - |
The Boxcar Children (Boxcar Children, No 1) by Gertrude Chandler Warner
Henry, Jessie, Violet and Benny, four orphaned brothers and sisters, suddenly appear in a small town. No one knows who these young wanderers are or where they have come from. Frightened to live with a grandfather they have never met, the children make a home for themselves in an abandoned red... more
Book Votes: 10
478
| Margaret E. (safari) |
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
"BRILLIANT . . . A THRILLING WORK OF ART."
--Chicago Sun-Times
When Larry Cook, the aging patriarch of a rich, thriving farm in Iowa, decides to retire, he offers his land to his three daughters. For Ginny and Rose, who live on the farm with their husbands, the gift makes sense--a... more
Book Votes: 10
479
| Ronnie G. (frenchgiant) |
The Quincunx by Charles Palliser
An extraordinary modern novel in the Victorian tradition, Charles Palliser has created something extraordinary -- a plot within a plot within a plot of family secrets, mysterious clues, low-born birth, high-reaching immorality, and, always, always the fog-enshrouded, enigmatic character of 19th... more
Book Votes: 9
480
| Marta K. (janeeyre72) |
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
"If on a Winter's Night a Traveler" turns out to be not one novel but ten, each with a different plot, style, ambiance, and author, and each interrupted at a moment of suspense. Together they form a labyrinth of literatures, known and unknown, alive and extinct, though which two readers, a male... more
Book Votes: 9
481
| Stacy P. |
Freedom: by Jonathan Franzen
Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul - the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal sort of neighbor, who could tell you where to recycle your batteries and how to get the local cops to actually do their job.... more
Book Votes: 9
482
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Cassie S. (cassie86) - |
The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood
Marian has a problem. A willing member of the consumer society in which she lives, she suddenly finds herself identifying with the things being consumed. She can cope with her tidy-minded fiancé, Peter, who likes shooting rabbits. She can cope with her job in market research, and the antics... more
Book Votes: 9
483
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Cheryl (pagebypage) - |
Enrique's Journey by Sonia Nazario
In this astonishing true story, award-winning journalist Sonia Nazario recounts the unforgettable odyssey of a Honduran boy who braves unimaginable hardship and peril to reach his mother in the United States. When Enrique is five years old, his mother, Lourdes, too poor to feed her children,... more
Book Votes: 9
484
| Krista K. (Krista0521) |
Such a Pretty Fat by Jen Lancaster
Personal Training, Session One: I'm standing at the front desk, waiting for the mythical "Barbie" to appear. While I was sucking down water and aspirin earlier today, trying to shed my hangover, I started thinking about how judgmental I can be. I mean, why should I have instantly... more
Book Votes: 9
485
| Krista K. (Krista0521) |
Delta Of Venus by Anais Nin
In Delta of Venus Anaïs Nin penned a lush, magical world where the characters of her imagination possess the most universal of desires and exceptional of talents. Among these provocative stories, a Hungarian adventurer seduces wealthy women then vanishes with their money; a veiled woman... more
Book Votes: 9
486
| Pamela M. |
The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason
A mysterious coded manuscript, a violent Ivy League murder, and the secrets of a Renaissance prince collide in a labyrinth of betrayal, madness, and genius. THE RULE OF FOUR Princeton. Good Friday, 1999. On the eve of graduation, two students are a hairsbreadth from solving the mysteries of... more
Book Votes: 9
487
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Jennifer G. (Simons-Mom) - |
The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen
In this irresistible follow-up to her New York Times bestselling debut, Garden Spells, author Sarah Addison Allen tells the tale of a young woman whose family secrets and secret passions are about to change her life forever.
Twenty-seven-year-old Josey Cirrini is sure of three things:... more
Book Votes: 9
488
| Amber M. (amber681) |
Marked (House of Night, Bk 1) by Kristin Cast & P. C. Cast
Enter the dark, magical world of the House of Night, a world very much like our own, except here vampyres have always existed.
One minute, sixteen-year-old Zoey Redbird is a normal teenager dealing with everyday high school stress: her cute boyfriend Heath, the school’s star quarterback... more
Book Votes: 9
489
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Denise S. (Dargent) - |
The Trial : A new translation based on the restored text by Franz Kafka
Written in 1914, The Trial is one of the most important novels of the twentieth century: the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information. Whether read as an... more
Book Votes: 9
490
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Denise S. (Dargent) - |
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Nobody knew the hypocrises of "old New York" better than Edith Wharton, and nobody portrayed them as well. In "The Age of Innocence," Wharton took readers on a trip through the stuffy upper crust of 1870s New York, wrapped up in a hopeless love affair.
Newland Archer, of... more
Book Votes: 9
491
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Denise S. (Dargent) - |
Cry, the Beloved Country (Scribner Library Reprint Series) by Alan Paton
Cry, the Beloved Country stands as a singularly important novel in twentieth-century South African literature. A work of searing beauty, Cry, the Beloved Country is the deeply moving story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom, set against the background of South Africa and a... more
Book Votes: 9
492
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oddpelican - |
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe -- and built her back up again. At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, her family scattered and... more
Book Votes: 9
493
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Cheryl (pagebypage) - |
Island by Aldus Huxley
In his final novel, which he considered his most important, Aldous Huxley transports us to the remote Pacific island of Pala, where an ideal society has flourished for 120 years.
Inevitably, this island of bliss attracts the envy and enmity of the surrounding world. A conspiracy is underway... more
Book Votes: 8
494
| Tina S. (cats59) |
The Wee Free Men (Discworld, Bk 30) (Tiffany Aching, Bk 1) by Terry Pratchett
A nightmarish danger threatens from the other side of reality . . .
Armed with only a frying pan and her common sense, young witch-to-be Tiffany Aching must defend her home against the monsters of Fairyland. Luckily she has some very unusual help: the local Nac Mac Feegle (aka the Wee Free... more
Book Votes: 8
495
| Leah G. (LeahG) |
Happiness Sold Separately by Lolly Winston
Elinor Mackey has always done the right things in the right order -- college, law school, career, marriage -- but now everything's going wrong. After two painful years of trying, Elinor has learned that she can't have children. All the doctors can tell her is that it's probably because of her... more
Book Votes: 8
496
| Leah G. (LeahG) |
The Inn at Lake Devine (Vintage Contemporaries) by Elinor Lipman
It's 1962 and all across America barriers are collapsing. But when Natalie Marx's mother inquires about summer accommodations in Vermont, she gets the following reply: The Inn at Lake Devine is a family-owned resort, which has been in continuous operation since 1922. Our guests who feel most... more
Book Votes: 8
497
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Sherry G. (Shervivor) - |
The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. (Josephine B., Bk 1) by Sandra Gullan...
In this first of three books inspired by the life of Josephine Bonaparte, Sandra Gulland has created a novel of immense and magical proportions. We meet Josephine in the exotic and lush Martinique, where an old island woman predicts that one day she will be queen. The journey from the remote... more
Book Votes: 8
498
| Stacy P. |
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories by Raymond Carver
In his second collection of stories, as in his first, Carver's characters are peripheral people--people without education, insight or prospects, people too unimaginative to even give up. Carver celebrates these men and women.
Why don't you dance --
Viewfinder --
Mr. Coffee and Mr.... more
Book Votes: 8
499
| Stacy P. |
Collapse : How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
In his runaway bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond brilliantly examined the circumstances that allowed Western civilizations to dominate much of the world. Now he probes the other side of the equation: What caused some of the great civilizations of the past to fall into ruin, and... more
Book Votes: 8
500
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Laurie H. (coolelle) - |
The Dispossessed (Hainish Cycle, Bk 5) by Ursula K. Le Guin
Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. he will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down the walls of hatred that have isolated his planet of anarchists from the rest of the civilized universe. To do this dangerous task will mean giving up his family and... more
Book Votes: 8
501
| Chris H. (jgud11) |
The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield
In the Depression year of 1931, on the golf links at Krewe Island off Savannah's windswept shore, two legends of the game, Bobby Jones and Walter Hagen, meet for a mesmerizing thirty-six-hole showdown. Another golfer will also compete--a troubled local war hero, once a champion, who comes with... more
Book Votes: 8
502
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Cheryl (pagebypage) - |
Trans-Sister Radio by Chris Bohjalian
When Allison Banks develops a crush on Dana Stevens, she knows that he will give her what she needs most: attention, gentleness, kindness, passion. Her daughter, Carly, enthusiastically witnesses the change in her mother. But then a few months into their relationship, Dana tells Allison his... more
Book Votes: 8
503
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Cassie S. (cassie86) - |
Mary by Janis Cooke Newman
An engrossing novel about Mary Todd Lincoln – one of history’s most misunderstood and enigmatic women.Writing from Bellevue asylum — where the shrieks of the other inmates keep her awake at night — a famous widow can finally share the story of her life in her own words.... more
Book Votes: 8
504
| Wendy R. (wendybird) |
The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
This classic selection of writings by Goethe reflects the author's philosophy of love and death.
When first published in Germany in 1774, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Sorrows of Young Werther created a sensation, and was both condemned and embraced. A full-blooded portrayal of impetuous youth... more
Book Votes: 8
505
| Wendy R. (wendybird) |
Corelli's Mandolin by Louis De Bernieres
Extravagant, inventive, emotionally sweeping, Corelli's Mandolin is the story of a timeless place that one day wakes up to find itself in the jaws of history.??The place is the Greek island of Cephallonia, where gods once dabbled in the affairs of men and the local saint periodically rises from... more
Book Votes: 8
506
| Rebecca G. (beckaboo4475) |
Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust by Immaculee Ilibagiza &am...
Immaculee Ilibagiza grew up in a country she loved, surrounded by a family she cherished. But in 1994 her idyllic world was ripped apart as Rwanda descended into a bloody genocide. Immaculee’s family was brutally murdered during a killing spree that lasted three months and claimed the... more
Book Votes: 8
507
| Krista K. (Krista0521) |
Bright Lights, Big Ass: A Self-Indulgent, Surly, Ex-Sorority Girl's Guide to Why it O...
From Publishers Weekly
Lancaster (Bitter Is the New Black) is a plus-sized, downwardly mobile Republican. She makes fun of disabled people. She cracks nasty about Anna Nicole Smith (granted, she was still alive at the time). She annotates her text with footnotes cheering herself on. When... more
Book Votes: 8
508
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Cheryl (pagebypage) - |
The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant
Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter back from northern Europe to decorate the chapel walls in the family's Florentine palazzo. A child of the Renaissance, with a precocious mind and a talent for drawing, Alessandra is... more
Book Votes: 8
509
| Kristina B. (kristimb) |
The Guardian by Nicholas Sparks
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Nights in Rodanthe explores a darker realm of the heart in an explosive and emotional tale of love and obsession. At 29, Julie Barenson is too young to give up on love. Four years after her husband's tragic death, she is finally ready to risk giving... more
Book Votes: 8
510
| catsandroses |
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a "baby farmer," who raised her with unusual tenderness, as if Sue were her own. Mrs. Sucksby's household, with its fussy babies calmed with doses of gin, also hosts a transient family of petty thieves --... more
Book Votes: 8
511
| Amber M. (amber681) |
Push: A Novel by Sapphire
Precious is a 16-year-old who has never left Harlem. Her story is one of neglect and abuse and a fierce determination to acquire an education. Pregnant by her own father, she is forced to leave school. Her defences and her world unravel as she struggles to gain control of her own life.
Book Votes: 8
512
| Chelsea C. (cjclarkc) |
Odd Thomas (Odd Thomas, Bk 1) by Dean Koontz
The dead don't talk. I don't know why. But they do try to communicate, with a short-order cook in a small desert town serving as their reluctant confidant. Odd Thomas thinks of himself as an ordinary guy, if possessed of a certain measure of talent at the Pico Mundo Grill and rapturously... more
Book Votes: 8
513
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Denise S. (Dargent) - |
The Second Sex by Simone De Beauvoir & H. M. Parshley (Translator & Editor)
"One day I wanted to explain myself to myself... And it struck me with a sort of suprise that the first thing I had to say was 'I am a woman.'"
The classic manifesto of the liberated woman, originally published in France in 1949, this book explores every facet of a... more
Book Votes: 8
514
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Denise S. (Dargent) - |
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories (World's Classics) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Charlotte Perkins Gilman was America's leading feminist intellectual of the early twentieth century. The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories makes available the fullest selection ever printed of her short fiction, featuring the pioneering feminist masterpiece of the title, her stories... more
Book Votes: 8
515
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Denise S. (Dargent) - |
Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
Caleb's Crossing is inspired by the life of Caleb Cheeshahteaumauk, the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College in 1665. Author Geraldine Brooks first learned about him during her time as a Radcliffe fellow at Harvard in 2006. Caleb was from the Wampanoag tribe of Native... more
Book Votes: 8
516
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Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally
Schindler's List is a remarkable work of fiction based on the true story of German industrialist and war profiteer, Oskar Schindler, who, confronted with the horror of the extermination camps, gambled his life and fortune to rescue 1,300 Jews from the gas chambers. Working with the... more
Book Votes: 8
517
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Cheryl (pagebypage) - |
The Once And Future King by T. H. White
Quartet of novels by T.H. White, published in a single volume in 1958. The quartet comprises "The Sword in the Stone" (1938), "The Queen of Air and Darkness"--first published as "The Witch in the Wood"(1939)--"The Ill-Made Knight" (1940), and "The Candle in the Wind" (published in the composite... more
Book Votes: 8
518
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Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his... more
Book Votes: 8
519
|
R E K. (bigstone) - |
Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
Jordan won the 2006 Bellwether Prize for Mudbound, her first novel. The prize was founded by Barbara Kingsolver to reward books of conscience, social responsibility, and literary merit. In addition to meeting all of the above qualifications, Jordan has written a story filled with characters... more
Book Votes: 8
520
| Kaarla V. (hestia74) |
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Navigating between the Indian traditions they've inherited and the baffling new world, the characters in Jhumpa Lahiri's elegant, touching stories seek love beyond the barriers of culture and generations. In "A Temporary Matter," published in The New Yorker, a young... more
Book Votes: 8
522
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Heather M. (aggieeditor) - |
Unless (P.S.) by Carol Shields
Forty-four-year-old Reta Winters, wife, mother, writer, and translator, is living a happy life until one of her three daughters drops out of university to sit on a downtown street corner silent and cross-legged with a begging bowl in her lap and a placard round her neck that says... more
Book Votes: 7
524
| DARYL D. (bookworm-51) |
Lewis: Main Street and Babbitt (Library of America) by Sinclair Lewis
Sinclair Lewis drew on his boyhood memories of Sauk Centre, Minnesota, to explore middle-class life in America as no writer had done before. These remarkable novels combine biting satire with an lingering affection for the men and women who, as he wrote of Babbitt, want to "seize something more... more
Book Votes: 7
525
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Elizabeth B. (Cattriona) - |
The Bridal Wreath (Kristin Lavransdatter, Bk 1) by Sigrid Undset
Volume one of the trilogy; Kristin's girlhood.
The acknowledged masterpiece of the Nobel Prize-winning Norwegian novelist Sigrid Undset, Kristin Lavransdatter tells the story of the heroine, Kristin -- beautiful, strong-willed, and passionate --and of a woman's life in... more
Book Votes: 7
526
| Stacy P. |
The New York Trilogy: City of Glass / Ghosts / The Locked Room (New York, Bks 1-3) by...
First published in 1985-1986, The New York Trilogy (City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room) brought immediate international attention to its author, Paul Auster, and elevated him to near-celebrity status, particularly in France.
This trilogy and his many works since then (including In the... more
Book Votes: 7
528
| Krista K. (Krista0521) |
Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America by Elizabeth Wurtzel
Twenty-six-year-old Wurtzel, a former critic of popular music for New York and the New Yorker, recounts in this luridly intimate memoir the 10 years of chronic, debilitating depression that preceded her treatment with Prozac in 1990. After her parents' acrimonious divorce, Wurtzel was raised by... more
Book Votes: 7
529
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Cheryl (pagebypage) - |
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Audio CD)...
In this brilliantly written, fast-paced book, based on three years of uncompromising reporting, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human.
Annawadi is a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport, and as India starts to prosper,... more
Book Votes: 7
530
| Carla L. (carlal) |
Magical Thinking by Augusten Burroughs
Augusten Burroughs continues his series of memoirs with this wild collection of stories. Here Burroughs confesses to various outrageous thoughts, including his desire to murder his cleaning lady and an obsession with becoming a transsexual.
Book Votes: 7
531
| Jenny K. |
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Melinda Sordino busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops. Now her old friends won't talk to her, and people she doesn't even know hate her from a distance. The safest place to be is alone, inside her own head. But even that's not safe. Because there's something she's trying not to think... more
Book Votes: 7
532
| Amber M. (amber681) |
The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty (Erotic Adventures of Sleeping Beauty, Bk 1) by A. N....
In the traditional folk tale "Sleeping Beauty," the spell cast upon the lovely young princess and everyone in her castle can only be broken by the kiss of a Prince. Anne Rice's retelling of the Beauty story probes the unspoken implications of this lush, suggestive tale by exploring... more
Book Votes: 7
533
| Chelsea C. (cjclarkc) |
Forever Odd (Odd Thomas, Bk 2) by Dean Koontz
Every so often a character so captures the hearts and imaginations of readers that he seems to take on a life of his own long after the final page is turned. For such a character, one book is not enough -- readers must know what happens next. Now Dean Koontz returns with the novel his fans have... more
Book Votes: 7
535
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Denise S. (Dargent) - |
Gaudy Night by Dorothy L Sayers
When Harriet Vane attends her Oxford reunion, known as the "Gaudy," the prim academic setting is haunted by a rash of bizarre pranks: scrawled obsentities, burnt effigies and poison-pen letters -- including one that says, "Ask your boyfriend with the title if he likes arsenic in... more
Book Votes: 7
536
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Cell by Stephen King
There's a reason cell rhymes with hell.
On October 1st, God is in His heaven, the stock market stands at 10,140, most of the planes are on time, and Clayton Riddell, an artist from Maine, is almost bouncing up Boylston Street in Boston. He's just landed a comic book deal that might finally... more
Book Votes: 7
537
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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by E...
Erik Larson, bestselling author of Devil in the White City, delivers a remarkable story set during Hitler’s rise to power.
The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America’s first ambassador to Hitler’s Nazi Germany in a year that proved to be a... more
Book Votes: 7
538
| Carol F. (cactusflowerwomen) |
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick
From the perilous ocean crossing to the shared bounty of the first Thanksgiving, the Pilgrim settlement of New England has become enshrined as our most sacred national myth. Yet, as bestselling author Nathaniel Philbrick reveals in his spellbinding new book, the true story of the Pilgrims is... more
Book Votes: 7
539
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Cheryl (pagebypage) - |
Mistress of the Art of Death (Mistress of the Art of Death, Bk 1) by Ariana Franklin
A chilling, mesmerizing novel that combines the best of modern forensic thrillers with the detail and drama of historical fiction. In medieval Cambridge, England, four children have been murdered. The crimes are immediately blamed on the town's Jewish community, taken as evidence that Jews... more
Book Votes: 7
540
| Kaarla V. (hestia74) |
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Frankl's timeless memoir and meditation on finding meaning in the midst of suffering With a new Foreword by Harold S. Kushner and a new Biographical Afterword by William J. Winslade Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi... more
Book Votes: 7
541
| Kaarla V. (hestia74) |
The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World by Michael...
Providing an exploration of the American food industry, this book brings a fresh perspective to the question 'What shall we have for dinner?'. Such a simple question has grown to have a very complicated answer. We can eat almost anything nature has to offer, but deciding what we... more
Book Votes: 7
542
| Kaarla V. (hestia74) |
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
This brilliant novel explores the hidden springs of thought and action in one day of a woman’s life. Direct and vivid in her account of the details of Clarissa Dalloway’s preparations for a party she is to give that evening, Woolf ultimately managed to reveal much more. For it is the... more
Book Votes: 7
543
| Angi B. |
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
At last, Ayn Rand's masterpiece is available to her millions of loyal readers in trade paperback. With this acclaimed work and its immortal query, "Who is John Galt?", Ayn Rand found the perfect artistic form to express her vision of existence. Atlas Shrugged made Rand not only one of the most... more
Book Votes: 7
544
| D. G. (riahekans) |
The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa & Edith Grossman (Translator)
Haunted all her life by feelings of terror and emptiness, forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral returns to her native Dominican Republic -- and finds herself reliving the events of l961, when the capital was still called Trujillo City and one old man terrorized a nation of three million.
Rafael... more
Book Votes: 6
545
| Mamie |
Leave it to Psmith (Psmith) by P. G. Wodehouse
A debonair young Englishman who has quit the fish business, "even though there is money in fish and decided to support himself by doing anything that he is hired to do by anyone, Psmith, wandering in and out of romantic, suspenseful and invariably hilarious situations, is in the great... more
Book Votes: 6
546
| Peggy B. (peggymib) |
The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons
Mesmerizing from the beginning to the final, breathtaking end, The Bronze Horseman brings alive the story of two indomitable, heroic spirits and their great love that triumphs over the devastation of a country at war.Leningrad, 1941: the European war seems far away in this city of fallen... more
Book Votes: 6
547
| Amy B. (BaileysBooks) |
The Monk (World's Classics) by Matthew Lewis
One of the most extravagantly dark works of Gothic fiction ever written in English, admired by the likes of Lord Byron and the Marquis de Sade, The Monk drew a firestorm of criticism when it was published in 1796. Contemporaries condemned it as "lewd," "libidinous and impious." "Lust, murder,... more
Book Votes: 6
548
| Stacy P. |
The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
The newspaper was founded in Rome in the 1950s, a product of passion and a multi-millionaire's fancy. Over fifty years, its eccentricities earned a place in readers' hearts around the globe. But now, circulation is down, the paper lacks a website, and the future looks bleak. Still, those... more
Book Votes: 6
549
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Linda M. (5cats) - |
The Frogs and Other Plays (Penguin Classics) by Aristophanes
Aristophanes [c. 445 - c. 385 B.C.E.] was the last and greatest of the Old Attic Comedians. Eleven of his plays survive and this collection contains The Wasps, ones of the earliest, The Poet and the Women [Thesmohphoriazusae], a gem of parody and low comedy, and The Frogs, a comic masterpiece... more
Book Votes: 6
550
| Stacy P. |
Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser
Young Martin Dressler begins his career as an industrious helper in his father's cigar store. In the course of his restless young manhood, he makes a swift and eventful rise to the top, accompaniedby two sisters--one a dreamlike shadow, the other a worldly business partner. As the eponymous... more
Book Votes: 6
551
| Merrikay B. |
The Geography of Thought : How Asians and Westerners Think Differently...and Why by R...
When psychologist Richard E. Nisbett showed an animated underwater scene to his American students, they zeroed in on a big fish swimming among smaller fish. Japanese observers instead commented on the background environment -- and the different "seeings" are a clue to profound cognitive... more
Book Votes: 6
552
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Cheryl (pagebypage) - |
The Whiskey Rebels by David Liss
David Liss's bestselling historical thrillers, including A Conspiracy of Paper and The Coffee Trader, have been called remarkable and rousing: the perfect combination of scrupulous research and breathless excitement. Now Liss delivers his best novel yet in an entirely new setting -- America... more
Book Votes: 6
553
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Cheryl (pagebypage) - |
FEED by M.T. Anderson
?We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck.?So says Titus, whose ability to read, write, and even think for himself has been almost completely obliterated by his ?feed,? a transmitter implanted directly into his brain. Feeds are a crucial part of life for Titus... more
Book Votes: 6
554
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Jami G. (jamiG) - |
Population: 485 : Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time (Wisconsin) by Michael P...
Welcome to New Auburn, Wisconsin (population: 485), where the local vigilante is a farmer's wife armed with a pistol and a Bible, the most senior member of the volunteer fire department is a cross-eyed butcher with one kidney and two ex-wives (both of whom work at the only gas station in town),... more
Book Votes: 6
555
| Jeehae R. (jeehae) |
The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life by Amy Tan
Amy Tan has touched millions of readers with haunting and sympathetic novels of cultural complexity and profound empathy. With the same spirit and humor that characterize her acclaimed novels, she now shares her insight into her own life and how she escaped the curses of her past to make a... more
Book Votes: 6
556
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Phyllis E. - |
Endurance : Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
'A thrilling reading experience! One of the greatest adventure stories of our times' - New York Times Book Review. In 1914 Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 men, sailed for the South Atlantic on the 'Endurance' with the object of crossing the Antarctic over land. In October 1915, still half a... more
Book Votes: 6
557
| Ronnie G. (frenchgiant) |
Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War by Karl Marlantes
Matterhorn is an epic war novel in the tradition of Norman Mailer’s The Naked and the Dead and James Jones’s The Thin Red Line. It is the timeless story of a young Marine lieutenant, Waino Mellas, and his comrades in Bravo Company, who are dropped into the... more
Book Votes: 6
558
| Michelle W. (drycreek) |
Life As We Knew It (Last Survivors, Bk 1) by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Miranda'’s disbelief turns to fear in a split second when an asteroid knocks the moon closer to the earth. How should her family prepare for the future when worldwide tsunamis wipe out the coasts, earthquakes rock the continents, and volcanic ash blocks out the sun?
As summer... more
Book Votes: 6
559
| Krista K. (Krista0521) |
Devil's Knot : The True Story of the West Memphis Three by Mara Leveritt
"Free the West Memphis Three."Maybe you've heard the phrase.But do you know why their story is so alarming?Do you know the facts?The guilty verdicts handed out to three Arkansas teens in a horrific capital murder case were popular in their home state -- even upheld on appeal. But after two HBO... more
Book Votes: 6
560
| Karen L. (kittycat176) |
Republic by Plato & G. M. A. Grube (Translator) & C. D. C. Reeve (Reviser)
Since its publication in 1974, scholars throughout the humanities have adopted G. M. A. Grube's masterful translation of choice for their study and teaching of Plato's most influential work.
In this brilliant revision, C. D. C. Reeve furthers Grube's success both in preserving... more
Book Votes: 6
561
| Kristina B. (kristimb) |
The Visitation by Frank Peretti
A weeping crucifix brings healing to a severely crippled man. A mysterious visitor appears to a distraught woman, assuring her that God has heard her plea for a miracle. A group of worshippers see Christ in the clouds. Are these miracles a sign that God is speaking to His people in the last... more
Book Votes: 6
562
| Ashley Ziegler (ashleyslibrary) |
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs confront their pasts in this powerful story about how rebellion ages, influence corrupts, habits turn to addictions, lifelong friendships fluctuate and turn, and how art... more
Book Votes: 6
563
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Denise S. (Dargent) - |
Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
With a new Introduction by Geoff DyerCommentary by Anthony Burgess, Jessie Chambers, Frieda Lawrence, V.S. Pritchett, Kate Millett, and Alfred KazinOf all Lawrence's work, Sons and Lovers tells us most about the emotional source of his ideas," observed Diana Trilling. "The famous Lawrence theme... more
Book Votes: 6
564
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Denise S. (Dargent) - |
Gathering Blue (Giver, Bk 2) by Lois Lowry
Kira, an orphan with a twisted leg, lives in a world where the weak are cast aside. She fears for her future until she is spared by the all-powerful Council of Guardians. Kira is a gifted weaver and is given a task that no other community member can do. While her talent keeps her alive and... more
Book Votes: 6
565
| Jennie C. (jwolf121) |
Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America Forever by Bill O'Re...
A riveting historical narrative of the heart-stopping events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and the first work of history from mega-bestselling author Bill O'Reilly�The anchor of The O'Reilly Factor recounts one of the most dramatic stories in American history?how one gunshot... more
Book Votes: 6
566
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oddpelican - |
Old Yeller by Fred Gipson
A faithful dog named Old Yeller helps a boy named Travis and his family survive life on the Texas frontier.
Book Votes: 6
567
| Kaarla V. (hestia74) |
The House of Mirth (Dover Thrift Editions) by Edith Wharton
Wharton's first literary success, set amid the previously unexplored territory of fashionable New York society, reveals the hypocrisy and destructive effects of the city's social circle on the character of Lily Bart. Impoverished but well-born, Lily must secure her future by acquiring a wealthy... more
Book Votes: 6
568
| Kaarla V. (hestia74) |
The English Patient (Large Print) by Michael Ondaatje
This novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of WW II. Hana, the exhausted nurse, Caravaggio, the maimed thief, and the wary Kip are all haunted by the riddle of the English patient, the nameless, burned man who lies in an upstairs room and whose... more
Book Votes: 6
569
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Jake (neverender) - |
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
My new friends have begun to suspect I haven't told them the full story of my life.
"Why did you leave Sierra Leone?"
"Because there is a war."
"You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other?"
"Yes, all the time."
"Cool."
I smile a little.
"You should tell us... more
Book Votes: 6
570
| Jane Y. (jyule) |
Hawaii by James A. Michner
James A. Michener tells the whole story of the people, Polynesian, American, Portuguese, Chinese, Philippine, Japanese, who have mingled to make our fiftieth state. "Hawaii is the hero, a paradise that has reeked with blood and breathed a flowery fragrance. Industry, religion, politics, morals... more
Book Votes: 6
571
| Ronnie G. (frenchgiant) |
All the Names by Jose Saramago & Margaret Jull Costa (Translator)
Senhor José is a low-grade clerk in the city's Central Registry, where the living and the dead share the same shelf space. A middle-aged bachelor, he has no interest in anything beyond the certificates of birth, marriage, divorce, and death that are his daily routine. But one day,... more
Book Votes: 5
572
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Sherry G. (Shervivor) - |
A Rip in Heaven : A Memoir of Murder And Its Aftermath by Jeanine Cummins
When my parents packed my brother, sister and me into the family van and drove us to Missouri for Spring Break, we brought our entirely imagined city-hardness with us. The hard truth that we were about to learn was that, in fact, we weren't tough kids at all. Our life in the city had not... more
Book Votes: 5
573
| Joanne L. (jlustig) |
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million by Daniel Mendelsohn & Matt Mendelsohn ...
Mendelsohn grew up in a family haunted by the disappearance of six relatives during the Holocaust -- an unmentionable subject during his childhood. Decades later, he embarked on a hunt for the remaining eyewitnesses of his relatives' fates. This is their story.
Book Votes: 5
574
| Amanda R. |
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
The highly original satire about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy, meets some extremely interesting characters, and attains a not inconsiderable amount of self knowledge.
Book Votes: 5
575
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Laurie H. (coolelle) - |
The End of the Pier by Martha Grimes
In a sleepy resort town, Maud Chadwick waits tables at the Rainbow Cafe. Her confidant is Sheriff Sam DeGheyn and what they have in common is obsession. Maude doesn't want her son to leave home, and Sam cannot let go of the unsolved murders of three local women -- or his intuition that the... more
Book Votes: 5
576
| Shannon A. (shaxtell) |
The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich
The unsolved murder of a farm family still haunts the white small town of Pluto, North Dakota, generations after the vengeance exacted and the distortions of fact transformed the lives of Ojibwe living on the nearby reservation.
Part Ojibwe, part white, Evelina Harp is an ambitious young girl... more
Book Votes: 5
577
| Wendy R. (wendybird) |
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
This mesmerizing debut, uncannily uniting the trials of a postmodern upbringing with a murder mystery, heralds the arrival of a vibrant new voice in literary fiction Special Topics in Calamity Physics is a darkly hilarious coming-of-age novel and a richly plotted suspense tale told through... more
Book Votes: 5
578
| Krista K. (Krista0521) |
Testimony by Anita Shreve
There are dark impulses that sway the lives of seeming innocents, the needs and fears that drive ordinary men and women into intolerable dilemmas, and the ways in which our best intentions can lead to our worst transgressions... At a New England boarding school, a sex scandal is about to break.... more
Book Votes: 5
579
| Stephen W. (cubedst) |
Summer of the Monkeys by Wilson Rawls
What a way to spend a summer! When the circus comes to town and 30 monkeys and a chimpanzee escape, Jay and his dog spend the summer tracking them down in this heartwarming family story.
Book Votes: 5
580
| Michele K. (michelekostelecky) |
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
Six years after the phenomenal success of The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger has returned with a spectacularly compelling and haunting second novel set in and around Highgate Cemetery in London.
When Elspeth Noblin dies of cancer, she leaves her London apartment to her twin... more
Book Votes: 5
581
| Jim W. (jimwillisca) |
The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
The Heart of the Matter is not a mystery, a high-octane adventure, nor does it center on an extraordinary event. Rather it is a story of one man whose faith and character is put to the ultimate test. That man is Henry Scobie.
Henry Scobie is a British assistant police comissioner stationed in... more
Book Votes: 5
582
| Melissa G. (melisskvg) |
The House Next Door by Anne Rivers Siddons
Their love would never be the same. Colquitt and Walter Kennedy enjoyed a life of lazy weekends, gathering with the neighbors on their quiet, manicured street and sipping drinks on their patios. But when construction of a beautiful new home begins in the empty lot next door, their easy... more
Book Votes: 5
583
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Cheryl (pagebypage) - |
The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean
In the fall of 1941, the German army approached the outskirts of Leningrad, signaling the beginning of what would become a long and torturous siege. During the ensuing months, the city's inhabitants would brave starvation and the bitter cold, all while fending off the constant German... more
Book Votes: 5
584
| Connie H. (Goshe) |
A Gathering of Old Men (Vintage Contemporaries) by Ernest J. Gaines
Set on a Louisiana sugarcane plantation in the 1970s, A Gathering of Old Men is a powerful depiction of racial tensions arising over the death of a Cajun farmer at the hands of a black man. "Poignant, powerful, earthy...a novel of Southern racial confrontation in which a group of elderly black... more
Book Votes: 5
585
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Denise S. (Dargent) - |
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
The Magic Mountain is at once a novel of romantic transcendence and an elegiac paean to the bygone way of life of the European bourgeoisie in the days before the First World War. In the enchanted, otherworldly realm of an exclusive tuberculosis sanatorium in the Swiss Alps, Hans Castorp -- a... more
Book Votes: 5
586
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Denise S. (Dargent) - |
The Daughter of Time (Alan Grant, Bk 5) by Josephine Tey
Josephine Tey is often referred to as the mystery writer for people who don't like mysteries. Her skills at character development and mood setting, and her tendency to focus on themes not usually touched upon by mystery writers, have earned her a vast and appreciative audience.
In Daughter of... more
Book Votes: 5
587
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Denise S. (Dargent) - |
Regeneration (Regeneration, Bk 1) by Pat Barker
In 1917 Seigfried Sasson, noted poet and decorated war hero, publicly refused to continue serving as a British officer in World War I. His reason: The war was a senseless slaughter. He was officially classified "mentally unsound" and sent to Craiglockhart War Hospital. There a... more
Book Votes: 5
588
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Russ S. (RussS) - |
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American...
In this sweeping adventure story, Stephen E. Ambrose, the bestselling author of D-Day, presents the definitive account of one of the most momentous journeys in American history. Ambrose follows the Lewis and Clark Expedition from Thomas Jefferson's hope of finding a waterway to the Pacific,... more
Book Votes: 5
589
| Katie C. (crusenberryk) |
A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
Tree-ear is an orphan boy in a 12th-century Korean potters' village. For a long time he is content living with Crane-man under a bridge barely surviving on scraps of food. All that changes when he sees master potter Min making his beautiful pottery. Tree-ear sneaks back to Min's... more
Book Votes: 5
590
| Carol F. (cactusflowerwomen) |
The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough
At the end of the last century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families striving for a piece of the nation's burgeoning industrial prosperity. In the mountains above Johnstown, an old earth dam had been hastily rebuilt to create a lake for... more
Book Votes: 5
591
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CJ Vaughn (chantelowsley) - |
One Second After (After, Bk 1) by William R. Forstchen
A story in which one man struggles to save his family and his small North Carolina town after America loses a war that sends our nation back to the Dark Ages.
A war lost because of a terrifying weapon, an Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) .. . that may already be in the hands of our... more
Book Votes: 5
592
|
Alyssa T. - |
Defending Jacob by William Landay
Andy Barber has been an assistant district attorney for two decades. He is respected. Admired in the courtroom. Happy at home with the loves of his life, his wife, Laurie, and teenage son, Jacob.
Then Andy’s quiet suburb is stunned by a shocking crime: a young boy stabbed to death in a... more
Book Votes: 5
593
| Angi B. |
Defending Jacob by William Landay
Andy Barber has been an assistant district attorney for two decades. He is respected. Admired in the courtroom. Happy at home with the loves of his life: his wife, Laurie, and their teenage son, Jacob.
Then Andy’s quiet suburb is stunned by a shocking crime: a young boy stabbed to death... more
Book Votes: 5
594
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Denise S. (Dargent) - |
2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke & Stanley Kubrick
The bestselling classic-now in trade paperback with an introduction by the author and a dazzling new package. The classic science-fiction novel that changed the way we look at the stars-and ourselves.
Book Votes: 5
595
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Sally W. (MustangSally) - |
The Killer Angels (Civil War, Bk 2) by Michael Shaara
In the four most bloody and courageous days of our nation's history, two armies fought for two dreams. One dreamed of freedom, the other of a way of life.
Far more than rifles and bullets were carried into battle. There were memories. There were promises. There was love. And far more than... more
Book Votes: 5
596
| Joan S. (Yoni) |
Lolita. Vladimir Nabokov (Essential Penguin) by Vladimir Nabokov
'Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of my tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta'. Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, frustrated college professor. In love with his landlady's twelve-year-old... more
Book Votes: 5
597
| Nanette N. (nanutter) |
Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
An unforgettable memoir in the tradition of The Glass Castle about a young girl who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University
Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the... more
Book Votes: 5
598
| Amy B. (BaileysBooks) |
The Paradise War (Song of Albion, Volume 1) by Stephen R. Lawhead
In this first book in the Song of Albion series, Lewis must search for his missing roommate Simon. But when he finds him, life changes forever.
Book Votes: 4
599
| Amy B. (BaileysBooks) |
Hood (King Raven, Bk 1) by Stephen R. Lawhead
The Legend Begins Anew
For centuries, the legend of Robin Hood and his band of thieves has captivated the imagination. Now the familiar tale takes on new life, fresh meaning, and an unexpected setting.
Hunted like an animal by Norman invaders, Bran ap Brychan, heir to the throne Elfael,... more
Book Votes: 4
600
| Joanne L. (jlustig) |
Rule of the Bone by Russell Banks
When we first meet him, Chappie is a punked-out teenager living with his mother and abusive stepfather in an upstate New York trailer park. During this time, he slips into drugs and petty crime. Rejected by his parents, out of school and in trouble with the police, he claims for himself a new... more
Book Votes: 4
601
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Kristin K. (escapeartistk) - |
Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen
Peter Matthiessen's great American epic Killing Mister Watson, Lost Man's River, and Bone by Bone was conceived as one vast mysterious novel, but because of its length it was originally broken up into three books. Peter Mattiessen has consolidated his epic masterpiece of Florida --... more
Book Votes: 4
602
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Laurie H. (coolelle) - |
One Writer's Beginnings (The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the History of America...
One Writer's Beginnings, Eudora Welty's memoir and meditation on the sources of her narrative art, began as a set of talks given at Harvard in April 1983. Here is the original spoken version of the engaging narration, which contains several extended readings from Welty's fiction not included in... more
Book Votes: 4
603
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Cheryl (pagebypage) - |
The Bone People by Keri Hulme
Winner of the Booker Prize.
In a tower on the New Zealand sea lives Kerewin Holmes, part Maori, part European, an artist estranged from her art, a woman in exile from her family. One night her solitude is disrupted by a visitor -- a speechless, mercurial boy named Simon, who tries to... more
Book Votes: 4
604
| Shannon A. (shaxtell) |
Caucasia by Danzy Senna
"Lucid and magnificent." --James McBride, author of The Color of Water "Senna's remarkable first novel [will] cling to your memory. There's Birdie, who takes after her mother's white, New England side of the family--light skin, straight hair. There's her big sister, Cole, who takes after her... more
Book Votes: 4
605
| Wendy R. (wendybird) |
Therese Raquin (Penguin Classics) by Emile Zola & Leonard Tancock
One of Zola's most famous realistic novels, Therese Raquin is a clinically observed, sinister tale of adultry and murder among the lower classes in nineteenth-century Parisian society. Zola's shocking tale dispassionately dissects the motivations of his characters--mere "human beasts", who kill... more
Book Votes: 4
606
| Keitha M. (kmama) |
My Grandfather's Blessings: Stories of Strength, Refuge, and Belonging by Rachel Naom...
From the New York Times bestselling author comes the wisdom to heal ourselves and those around us.With Kitchen Table Wisdom, Dr. Remen established herself as an important new voice bringing hope and healing to a difficult world. Her book spent more than three months on the New York Times... more
Book Votes: 4
607
| Kaitlyn P. (kaitlynrouge) |
The Game of Kings (Lymond Chronicles, Bk 1) by Dorothy Dunnett
The first book in the legendary Lymond Chronicles, Game of Kings takes place in 1547. Scotland has been humiliated by an English invasion and is threatened by machinations elsewhere beyond its borders, but it is still free. Paradoxically, her freedom may depend on a man who stands accused of... more
Book Votes: 4
608
| Catherine H. (bibliobsessed) |
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City: A Memoir by Nick Flynn
"A stunningly beautiful new memoir…a near-perfect work of literature."—Stephen Elliot, San Francisco Chronicle"Sometimes I'd see my father, walking past my building on his way to another nowhere. I could have given him a key, offered a piece of my floor. But if I let him inside the... more
Book Votes: 4
609
| Pamela M. |
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never...
Full of incredible characters, amazing athletic achievements, cutting-edge science, and, most of all, pure inspiration, Born to Run is an epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt? In search of an answer, Christopher McDougall sets off to find a tribe of the... more
Book Votes: 4
610
| Michele K. (michelekostelecky) |
The Wednesday Letters by Jason F. Wright
In the wake of his bestselling Christmas Jars comes a sweetly crafted story from Wright, a Virginia businessman. Jack and Laurel Cooper are two hardworking, loving Christian pillars of the community who die in each other's arms one night in the bed-and-breakfast that they own and operate. The... more
Book Votes: 4
611
| Jim W. (jimwillisca) |
The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
At Westish College, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for big league until a routine throw goes disastrously off course. In the aftermath of his error, the fates of five people are upended. Henry's fight against self-doubt threatens to ruin his future. College president Guert... more
Book Votes: 4
612
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Cheryl (pagebypage) - |
The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht
In a Balkan country mending from war, Natalia, a young doctor, is compelled to unravel the mysterious circumstances surrounding her beloved grandfather’s recent death. Searching for clues, she turns to his worn copy of "The Jungle Book" and the stories he told her of his... more
Book Votes: 4
613
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Cheryl (pagebypage) - |
The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli
A unique and sweeping debut novel of an American female combat photographer in the Vietnam War, as she captures the wrenching chaos and finds herself torn between the love of two men.
On a stifling day in 1975, the North Vietnamese army is poised to roll into Saigon. As the fall... more
Book Votes: 4
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oddpelican - |
Boy's Life by Robert McCammon
Zephyr, Alabama, is an idyllic hometown for eleven-year-old Cory Mackenson -- a place where monsters swim the river deep and friends are forever. Then, one cold spring morning, Cory and his father witness a car plunge into a lake -- and a desperate rescue attempt brings his father face-to-face... more
Book Votes: 4
615
| Brittany R. (publicenemysgt) |
Moon Called (Mercy Thompson, Bk 1) by Patricia Briggs
Moon Called is the beginning of the story of Mercedes Thompson a coyote shapeshifter who is also a pretty decent mechanic. Mercy's world looks a lot like ours except that the Otherworld is beginning to be forced out of hiding by our modern technologies. Mercy shares her back fence with the... more
Book Votes: 4
616
| Brittany R. (publicenemysgt) |
Cry Wolf (Alpha and Omega, Bk 1) by Patricia Briggs
Anna never knew werewolves existed until the night she survived a violent attack...and became one herself. After three years at the bottom of the pack, she'd learned to keep her head down and never, ever trust dominant males. Then Charles Cornick, the enforcer, and son, of the leader of the... more
Book Votes: 4
617
| Stacy A. |
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
This short, intense new novel follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he never much thought about -- until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance, one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. Tony Webster thought he'd left all this behind as he built a... more
Book Votes: 4
618
| Chelsea C. (cjclarkc) |
Brother Odd (Odd Thomas, Bk 3) by Dean Koontz
Loop me in, odd one. The words, spoken in the deep of night by a sleeping child, chill
the young man watching over her. For this was a favorite phrase of Stormy Llewellyn,
his lost love, and Stormy is dead, gone forever from this world. In the haunted halls of the isolated monastery where he... more
Book Votes: 4
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Denise S. (Dargent) - |
Selected Stories of Anton Chekov by Anton Chekhov
Called the greatest of short story writer, Anton Chekhov changed the genre itself with his spare, impressionistic depictions of Russian life and the human condition. Now, thirty of his best tales from the major periods of his creative life are available in this outstanding one volume edition. ... more
Book Votes: 4
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Denise S. (Dargent) - |
Snow by Orhan Pamuk & Maureen Freely (Translator)
From the acclaimed author of My Name Is Red, comes a spellbinding tale of disparate yearnings–for love, art, power, and God–set in a remote Turkish town, where stirrings of political Islamism threaten to unravel the secular order.
Following years of lonely political exile in... more
Book Votes: 4
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Denise S. (Dargent) - |
Flu : The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic by Gina Kolata
When we think of plagues, we think of AIDS, Ebola, anthrax spores, and, of course, the Black Death. But in 1918 the Great Flu Epidemic killed an estimated 40 million people virtually overnight. If such a plague returned today, taking a comparable percentage of the U.S. population with it, 1.5... more
Book Votes: 4
622
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Denise S. (Dargent) - |
The Ghost Road (Regeneration #3) by Pat Barker
Central to this novel are two men divided by class and experience, but sharing a mutual respect and empathy. One is Lieutenant Billy Prior, cured of shell shock by famed psychologist Dr. William Rivers at Craiglockhart War Hospital, and determined to return to the front in France even as the war... more
Book Votes: 4
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Denise S. (Dargent) - |
The Cancer Ward by Solzhenitsyn & Alexsandr
On the crowded pages of The Cancer Ward come to life men and women of every kind, good and bad, noble and treacherous, loving and lustful, proud and broken. Dominating the entire panoramic story is one of the most remarkable heroes of modern fiction, Oleg Kostoglotov. A still-young survivor of... more
Book Votes: 4
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Denise S. (Dargent) - |
Testament of Youth (Penguin Classics) by Vera Brittain
Much of what we know and feel about the First World War we owe to Vera Brittain’s elegiac yet unsparing book, which set a standard for memoirists from Martha Gellhorn to Lillian Hellman. Abandoning her studies at Oxford in 1915 to enlist as a nurse in the armed services, Brittain served ... more
Book Votes: 4
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Denise S. (Dargent) - |
Wolf Hall (Wolf Hall, Bk 1) by Hilary Mantel
In the ruthless arena of King Henry VIII?s court, only one man dares to gamble his life to win the king's favor and ascend to the heights of political power
England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil... more
Book Votes: 4
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Hollow City (Miss Peregrine, Bk 2) by Ransom Riggs
Having escaped Miss Peregrine’s island by the skin of their teeth, Jacob and his new friends flee to London, the peculiar capital of the world. There, they encounter a dangerous madman named Caul, who also happens to be Miss Peregrine’s brother. Complete with dozens of newly... more
Book Votes: 4
627
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The Children's Blizzard by David Laskin
The gripping story of an epic prairie snowstorm that killed hundreds of newly arrived settlers and cast a shadow on the promise of the American frontier. January 12, 1888, began as an unseasonably warm morning across Nebraska, the Dakotas, and Minnesota, the weather so mild that children walked... more
Book Votes: 4
628
| Kt L. (shagschain) |
Wild Swans : Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
Blending the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history, Wild Swans has become a bestselling classic in thirty languages, with more than ten million copies sold. The story of three generations in twentieth-century China, it is an engrossing record of Mao's impact on China,... more
Book Votes: 4
629
| Caitlyn P. (clbialkowski) |
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
Robert Neville may well be the last living man on Earth . . .. but he is not alone.
An incurable plague has mutated every other man, woman, and child into bloodthirsty, nocturnal creatures who are determined to destroy him. By day, he is a hunter, stalking the infected monstrosities through... more
Book Votes: 4
630
| Kaarla V. (hestia74) |
Dangerous Liaisons (Les Liasions Dangereuses) by Choderlos de Laclos & Richard Al...
The Vicomte de Valmont and the Marquise de Merteuil, narcissistic rivals and former lovers. But now they have become partners in a perverse game of sexual chess and avidly promote each other's amorous exploits. Expertly they attempt to go the other one better in seduction and betrayal of the... more
Book Votes: 4
631
| Kaarla V. (hestia74) |
The Human Stain by Philip Roth
It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town, an aging classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues decree that he is a racist. The charge is a lie, but the real truth... more
Book Votes: 4
632
| CM A. |
Under the Dome by Stephen King
When the small town of Chester's Mill, Maine, is surrounded by an invisible force field, the people inside must exert themselves to survive. The situation deteriorates rapidly due to the dome's ecological effects and the machinations of Big Jim Rennie, an obscenely sanctimonious local... more
Book Votes: 4
633
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Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult
Alice Metcalf was a devoted mother, loving wife and accomplished scientist who studied grief among elephants. Yet it's been a decade since she disappeared under mysterious circumstances, leaving behind her small daughter, husband, and the animals to which she devoted her life. All signs... more
Book Votes: 4
634
| Jane Y. (jyule) |
Trinity by Leon Uris
The "terrible beauty" that is Ireland comes alive in this mighty epic that re-creates that Emerald's Isle's fierce struggle for independence. "Trinity" is a saga of glories and defeats, triumphs and tragedies, lived by a young Catholic rebel and the beautiful and... more
Book Votes: 4
635
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The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas & Lowell Bair (Translator)
Three great swordsmen, Porthos, Aramis, and Anthos, with their protege, D'Artagnan, match wits with the sinister Cardinal Richelieu who seeks to divide the royalty in his own quest for power.
Book Votes: 4
636
| Jayne M. (denreads) |
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Winner of the Booker Prize 2000, The Blind Assassin is a spellbinding novel that spans the decades between the First World War and the present, offering the sweep of an epic and the intimate focus of a family drama.For the past twenty-five years, Margaret Atwood has written works of striking... more
Book Votes: 4
637
| Ronnie G. (frenchgiant) |
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano & Natasha Wimmer (Translator)
New Year’s Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in poetry, leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. Their quest: to track down the obscure, vanished poet Cesárea Tinajero. A violent showdown in the Sonora desert turns search to... more
Book Votes: 3
638
| Ronnie G. (frenchgiant) |
A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin
On his, last long walk, septuagenarian war hero, deserter,and professor Alessandro Giuliani shares his past with an illiterate young factory worker -- spinning a remarkable tale of heart-stopping escapes, of loves unrequited and won, of madmen, dwarfs, and mafiosi. But overshadowing all is... more
Book Votes: 3
639
| Leah G. (LeahG) |
The Summer Guest by Justin Cronin
Winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award for his radiant novel in stories, Mary and O’Neil, Justin Cronin has already been hailed as a writer of astonishing gifts. Now Cronin’s new novel, The Summer Guest, fulfills that promise—and more. With a rare combination of emotional insight,... more
Book Votes: 3
640
| Joanne L. (jlustig) |
Boys and Girls Together by William Goldman
William Goldman is famous for his Academy Award-winning screenplays, infamous for the thriller that did for dentists what Psycho did for showers, beloved for his hilarious "hot fairy-tale," and notorious for his candid behind-the-scenes Hollywood chronicles. But long before Butch and... more
Book Votes: 3
641
| Joanne L. (jlustig) |
Middle Passage by Charles Richard Johnson
It is 1830. Rutherford Calhoun, a newly treed slave and irrepressible rogue, is desperate to escape unscrupulous bill collectors and an impending marriage to a priggish schoolteacher. He jumps aboard the first boat leaving New Orleans, the Republic, a slave ship en route to collect members of a... more
Book Votes: 3
642
| Joanne L. (jlustig) |
Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon & Michael Chabon
Grady Tripp is a pot-smoking middle aged novelist who has stalled on a 2611 page opus titled Wonder Boys. His student James Leer is a troubled young writer obsessed by Hollywood suicides and at work on his own first novel. Grady's bizarre editor Terry Crabtree and another student, Hannah... more
Book Votes: 3
643
| Stacy P. |
Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy (Penguin Classics) by Bernard Shaw & ...
In this caustic satire of romantic conventions, Shaw provides a wonderfully original twist on the Don Juan myth. A finely tuned combination of intellectual seriousness and popular comedy, Man and Superman (1905) articulates a recurrent theme in Shaw's writing: the notion that man is the... more
Book Votes: 3
644
| Merrikay B. |
A Buffalo in the House: The True Story of a Man, an Animal, and the American West by ...
Marley and Me meets All Creatures Great and Small, as an ailing but lovable orphan buffalo joins a Santa Fe household.
A sprawling suburban house in Santa Fe is not the kind of home where a buffalo normally roams, but Veryl Goodnight and Roger Brooks are not your ordinary animal lovers. Over... more
Book Votes: 3
645
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Lunch Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets) by Frank O'Hara
Important poems by the late New York poet published in The New American Poetry, Evergreen Review, Floating Bear and stranger places.
Often this poet, strolling through the noisy splintered glare of a Manhattan noon, has paused at a sample Olivetti to type up thirty or forty lines of... more
Book Votes: 3
646
| Joanne L. (jlustig) |
The Innocent by Ian McEwan
The setting is Berlin. Into this divided city, wrenched between East and West, between past and present; comes twenty-five-year-old Leonard Marnham, assigned to a British-American surveillance team.
Though only a pawn in an international plot that is never fully revealed to him, Leonard... more
Book Votes: 3
647
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Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming Domesticity from a Consumer Culture by Shannon Hayes
Mother Nature has shown her hand. Faced with climate change, dwindling resources, and species extinctions, most Americans understand the fundamental steps necessary to solve our global crises-drive less, consume less, increase self-reliance, buy locally, eat locally, rebuild our local... more
Book Votes: 3
648
| Wendy R. (wendybird) |
The Good Soldier Svejk : and His Fortunes in the World War by Jaroslav Hasek & Ce...
In The Good Soldier Svejk, celebrated Czech writer and anarchist Jaroslav Hasek combined dazzling wordplay and piercing satire in a hilariously subversive depiction of the futility of war.
Good-natured and garrulous, Svejk becomes the Austrian army’s most loyal Czech soldier when he is... more
Book Votes: 3
649
| Shreya - |
The Zahir: A Novel of Obsession (P.S.) by Paulo Coelho & Margaret Jull Costa (Tra...
The narrator of The Zahir is a bestselling novelist who lives in Paris and enjoys all the privileges money and celebrity bring. His wife of ten years, Esther, is a war correspondent who has disappeared along with a friend, Mikhail, who may or may not be her lover.
Was Esther kidnapped,... more
Book Votes: 3
650
| Beth A. (cachebether) |
The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes
Hailed as a masterpiece since its publication in 1962, The Death of Artemio Cruz is Carlos Fuentes's haunting voyage into the soul of modern Mexico. Its acknowledged place in Latin American fiction and its appeal to a fresh generation of readers have warranted this new translation by Alfred... more
Book Votes: 3
651
| Jim W. (jimwillisca) |
My Losing Season (Alex Awards (Awards)) by Pat Conroy
PAT CONROY–AMERICA’S MOST BELOVED STORYTELLER -- IS BACK!“I was born to be a point guard, but not a very good one. . . .There was a time in my life when I walked through the world known to myself and others as an athlete. It was part of my own definition of who I was and... more
Book Votes: 3
652
| Erik D. (legendkeeper) |
Lilith by George Macdonald
George MacDonald (1824-1905) was a Scottish author, teacher, and, briefly, clergyman, whose theology was too personal and idiosyncratic for him to remain on the pulpit for very long, but whose imagination led him to write two of the most important visionary novels of the 19th century,... more
Book Votes: 3
653
| Kristina T. (gracekissed) |
Follow the River by James Alexander Thom
Mary Ingles was twenty-three, married, and pregnant, when Shawnee Indians invaded her peaceful Virginia settlement, killed the men and women, then took her captive. For months, she lived with them, unbroken, until she escaped, and followed a thousand mile trail to freedom--an extraordinary story... more
Book Votes: 3
654
| Kristina B. (kristimb) |
Blink of an Eye by Ted Dekker
Seth Borders has one of the world's highest IQs. Now he's suddenly struck by an incredible power, the ability to see multiple potential futures. Then Seth stumbles upon Miriam, a beautiful Saudi Arabian princess who has fled her veiled existence to escape a forced marriage. Cultures... more
Book Votes: 3
655
| Cheri M. (cmurphy712) |
Beautiful Disaster (Beautiful, Bk 1) by Jamie McGuire
The new Abby Abernathy is a good girl. She doesn’t drink or swear, and she has the appropriate number of cardigans in her wardrobe. Abby believes she has enough distance from the darkness of her past, but when she arrives at college with her best friend, her path to a new beginning is... more
Book Votes: 3
656
| Christina B. (sincerelyimogen) |
Bared to You (Crossfire, Bk 1) by Sylvia Day
Our journey began in fire...
Gideon Cross came into my life like lightning in the darkness -- beautiful and brilliant, jagged and white-hot. I was drawn to him as I'd never been to anything or anyone in my life. I craved his touch like a drug, even knowing it would weaken me. I was... more
Book Votes: 3
657
| Amber M. (amber681) |
Glass (Crank, Bk 2) by Ellen Hopkins
Crank. Glass. Ice. Crystal. Whatever you call it, it's all the same: a monster. And once it's got hold of you, this monster will never let you go.
Kristina thinks she can control it. Now with a baby to care for, she's determined to be the one deciding when and how much, the one... more
Book Votes: 3
658
| Amber M. (amber681) |
Crank (Crank, Bk 1) by Ellen Hopkins
Kristina Georgia Snow is the perfect daughter: gifted high school junior, quiet, never any trouble. But on a trip to visit her absentee father, Kristina disappears and Bree takes her place. Bree is the exact opposite of Kristina -- she's fearless.
Through a boy, Bree meets the monster:... more
Book Votes: 3
659
| Amber M. (amber681) |
Fallout (Crank, Bk 3) by Ellen Hopkins
FALLOUT is the highly anticipated final chapter in the CRANK trilogy from #1 New York Times bestselling author Ellen Hopkins. It moves from the story of Kristina Snow, who became addicted to crystal meth (aka crank, "the monster") in Crank, and whose story continued with Glass, to the next... more
Book Votes: 3
660
| Chelsea C. (cjclarkc) |
Odd Hours (Odd Thomas, Bk 4) by Dean Koontz
The legend began in the obscure little town of Pico Mundo. A fry cook named Odd was rumored to have the extraordinary ability to communicate with the dead. Through tragedy and triumph, exhilaration and heartbreak, word of Odd Thomas's gifts filtered far beyond Pico Mundo, attracting... more
Book Votes: 3
661
| Chelsea C. (cjclarkc) |
Mindhunter : Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit by John E. Douglas & Mark O...
During his twenty-five year career with the Investigative Support Unit, Special Agent John Douglas became a legendary figure in law enforcement, pursuing some of the most notorious and sadistic serial killers of our time: the man who hunted prostitutes for sport in the woods of Alaska, the ... more
Book Votes: 3
662
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The Plays of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov & Paul Schmidt (Translator)
These critically hailed translations of The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters and the other Chekhov plays are the only ones in English by a Russian-language scholar who is also a veteran Chekhovian actor.
Without compromising the spirit of the text, Paul Schmidt accurately translates... more
Book Votes: 3
663
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Denise S. (Dargent) - |
The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker & Marion Meade (Editor)
The second revision in sixty years, this sublime collection ranges over the verse, stories, essays, and journalism of one of the twentieth century's most quotable authors.
For this new twenty-first-century edition, devoted admirers can be sure to find their favorite verse and stories. But... more
Book Votes: 3
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Watchers by Dean Koontz
From a top-secret government laboratory come two genetically altered life forms. One is a magnificent dog of astonishing intelligence. The other, a hybrid monster of a brutally violent nature. And both are on the loose...
Book Votes: 3
665
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Denise S. (Dargent) - |
The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor
The stunning new novel from highly acclaimed author William Trevor is a brilliant, subtle, and moving story of love, guilt, and forgiveness. The Gault family leads a life of privilege in early 1920s Ireland, but the threat of violence leads the parents of nine-year-old Lucy to decide to leave... more
Book Votes: 3
667
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The Zombie Survival Guide : Complete Protection from the Living Dead by Max Brooks
The Zombie Survival Guide is your key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking you right now. Fully illustrated and exhaustively comprehensive, this book covers everything you need to know, including how to understand zombie physiology and behavior, the most effective defense... more
Book Votes: 3
668
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Swan Song by Robert McCammon
An ancient evil roams the desolate landscape of an America ravaged by nuclear war. He is the Man with the Scarlet Eye, a malevolent force that feeds on the dark desires of the countless followers he has gathered into his service. His only desire is to find a special child named Swan -- and... more
Book Votes: 3
669
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Denise S. (Dargent) - |
Austerlitz by Winfried Georg Sebald & Anthea Bell (Translator)
Austerlitz, the internationally acclaimed masterpiece by “one of the most gripping writers imaginable” (The New York Review of Books), is the story of a man’s search for the answer to his life’s central riddle. A small child when he comes to England on a Kindertransport... more
Book Votes: 3
670
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Denise S. (Dargent) - |
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev & George Reavey (Translator)
FATHERS AND SONS was the most closely studied of Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev's works in the Soviet high school curriculum. An inadvertent political agenda favorite, juxtaposing two generations, "the fathers," or the fading aristocracy, and "the sons," or the new fresh blood... more
Book Votes: 3
671
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Denise S. (Dargent) - |
A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz
Tragic, comic, and utterly honest, this extraordinary memoir is at once a great family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of a nation and lived through its turbulent history. It is the story of a boy growing up in the war-torn Jerusalem of the forties and... more
Book Votes: 3
672
| Carol F. (cactusflowerwomen) |
The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough
FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF JOHN ADAMSAt the end of the last century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families striving for a piece of the nation's burgeoning industrial prosperity. In the mountains above Johnstown, an old... more
Book Votes: 3
673
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The Witching Hour (Mayfair Witches, Bk 1) by Anne Rice
The first in the Mayfair Witches series, The Witching Hour introduces the fictional Mayfair family of New Orleans, generations of male and female witches. This tight-knit and deeply connected family, where a death of one strengthens the others with his/her knowledge. One Mayfair witch per... more
Book Votes: 3
674
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Just Like Jesus: Learning to Have a Heart Like His (The Bestseller Collection) by Max...
In his best-selling book Just Like Jesus, Max Lucado explains that God loves you just the way you are . . . but He refuses to leave you that way. Why? Because our ultimate goal should be a life that is just like Jesus. And with determination, faith, and God's help, we can all change for the... more
Book Votes: 3
675
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Neverwhere (London Below, The World of Neverwhere, Bk 1) by Neil Gaiman
Under the streets of London there's a place most people could never even dream of. A city of monsters and saints, murderers and angels, knights in armour and pale girls in black velvet. This is the city of the people who have fallen between the cracks.
Richard Mayhew, a young businessman,... more
Book Votes: 3
676
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Looking for Alaska by John Green
Miles "Pudge" Halter is abandoning his safe-okay, boring-life. Fascinated by the last words of famous people, Pudge leaves for boarding school to seek what a dying Rabelais called the "Great Perhaps."
Pudge becomes encircled by friends whose lives are everything but safe... more
Book Votes: 3
677
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Denise S. (Dargent) - |
Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
A Major Literary Event: a brilliant new translation of Thomas Mann's first great novel, one of the two for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1929.Buddenbrooks, first published in Germany in 1900, when Mann was only twenty-five, has become a classic of modem literature -- the... more
Book Votes: 3
678
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Denise S. (Dargent) - |
Amerika: The Man Who Disappeared: The New Translation by Michael Hofmann by Franz Kaf...
Michael Hofmann's superb new translation of Franz Kafka's epic work. Franz Kafka's Amerika (The Man Who Disappeared) at last has the translator it deserves. Michael Hofmann's startlingly visceral and immediate translation revives Kafka's great comedy, and captures a new Kafka, free from Prague... more
Book Votes: 3
679
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And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, 20th-Anniversary Edi...
By the time Rock Hudson's death in 1985 alerted all America to the danger of the AIDS epidemic, the disease had spread across the nation, killing thousands of people and emerging as the greatest health crisis of the 20th century. America faced a troubling question: What happened? How was this... more
Book Votes: 3
680
| KaeLee N. (soraidh) |
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Released from prison, Shadow finds his world turned upside down. His wife has been killed; a mysterious stranger offers him a job. But Mr. Wednesday, who knows more about Shadow than is possible, warns that a storm is coming -- a battle for the very soul of America . . . and they are in its... more
Book Votes: 3
681
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Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
Ruth Jefferson is a labor and delivery nurse at a Connecticut hospital with more than twenty years' experience. During her shift, Ruth begins a routine checkup on a newborn, only to be told a few minutes later that she's been reassigned to another patient. The parents are white... more
Book Votes: 3
682
| Jim T. (jimt) |
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky & Constance Garnett (Translator)
A desperate young man plans the perfect crime -- the murder of a despicable pawnbroker, an old women no one loves and no one will mourn. Is it not just, he reasons, for a man of genius to commit such a crime, to transgress moral law -- if it will ultimately benefit humanity? So begins one of the... more
Book Votes: 3
683
| Jim T. (jimt) |
Night (Night, Bk 1) by Elie Wiesel & Marion Wiesel (Translator)
Born in the town of Sighet, Transylvania, Elie Wiesel was a teenager when he and his family were taken from their home in 1944 to the Auschwitz concentration camps, and then to Buchenwald. Night is the terrifying record of Elie Wiesel's memories of the death of his family, the death of his... more
Book Votes: 3
684
| Ronnie G. (frenchgiant) |
The Children's Hospital by Chris Adrian
A hospital is preserved, afloat, after the Earth is flooded beneath seven miles of water. Inside, assailed by mysterious forces, doctors and patients are left to remember the world they've lost and to imagine one to come. At the center, Jemma Claflin, a medical student, finds herself gifted with... more
Book Votes: 2
685
| Vera M. (bepa-jean) |
In the Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami
From postmodern Renaissance man Ryu Murakami, master of the psychothriller and director of Tokyo Decadence, comes this hair-raising roller-coaster ride through the nefarious neon-lit world of Tokyo’s sex industry. In the Miso Soup tells of Frank, an overweight American tourist who has... more
Book Votes: 2
686
| Leah G. (LeahG) |
The Ladies' Man by Elinor Lipman
From the author of the bestselling The Inn at Lake Devine and Isabel's Bed comes this delicious novel about a woman jilted at the altar and a man who has the audacity to show up and apologize - thirty years later.
When the bell rings at the door of Adele Dobbin, the jilted bride, in walks... more
Book Votes: 2
687
| Joanne L. (jlustig) |
The Town and the City (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jack Kerouac
'It is the sum of myself, as far as the written word can go' - Kerouac on "The Town and the City". Kerouac's debut novel is a great coming of age story which can be read as the essential prelude to his later classics. Inspired by grief over his father's death and gripped by determination to... more
Book Votes: 2
689
| Darcie C. |
Big Chief Elizabeth : The Adventures and Fate of the First English Colonists in Ameri...
Big Chief Elizabeth is the swashbuckling story of the extraordinary attempts by English adventurers to claim, divide, and colonize what would be the biggest jewel in Queen Elizabeth's crown: North America. From Richard Hore's 1536 journey to the ill-fated Sir Humfrey Gilbert's... more
Book Votes: 2
690
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Last Year at Marienbad by Alain Robbe-Grillet
A quintessential work of 1960s European art cinema, L'Année dernière à Marienbad (Last Year in Marienbad, 1961) was a collaboration between director Alain Resnais and 'New Novel" enfant terrible Alain Robbe-Grillet. Three people, known only by their initials,... more
Book Votes: 2
691
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The Street by Ann Petry
THE STREET tells the poignant, often heartbreaking story of Lutie Johnson, a young black woman, and her spirited struggle to raise her son amid the violence, poverty, and racial dissonance of Harlem in the late 1940s. Originally published in 1946 and hailed by critics as a masterwork, The... more
Book Votes: 2
692
| Shirl P. (happiness) |
A Fortunate Life by A. B. Facey & Robert Juniper
An amazing true story covering the extraordinary life of an orphan growing up in the Austrailian outback. This is a story of courage, hardship, humor and the strength of the human spirit. One of those rare books that you start reading, and then end up pacing yourself because you don't... more
Book Votes: 2
693
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If You Could See Me Now (aka A Silver Lining) by Cecelia Ahern
In her third novel, bestselling author Cecelia Ahern introduces us to two sisters at odds with each other. Elizabeth’s life is an organized mess. The organized part is all due to her own efforts. The mess is entirely due to her sister, Saoirse, whose personal problems leave Elizabeth... more
Book Votes: 2
694
| Caroline |
The Foreigner by Larry Shue
The scene is a fishing lodge in rural Georgia often visited by "Froggy" LeSeuer, a British demolition expert who occasionally runs training sessions at a nearby army base. This time "Froggy" has brought along a friend, a pathologically shy young man named Charlie who is... more
Book Votes: 2
695
| Kimberly B. |
The Joy of Work: Dilbert's Guide to Finding Happiness at the Expense of Your Co-Work...
"I cried because I did not have an office with a door, until I met a man who had no cubicle."
Dilbert
A message from Scott Adams:
I think the next wave of office design will focus on eliminating the only remaining obstacle to office productivity: your happiness. Happiness... more
Book Votes: 2
696
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Cheryl (pagebypage) - |
Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India by William Dalrymple
From the author of The Last Mughal (“A compulsively readable masterpiece”?The New York Review of Books), a mesmerizing book that explores how traditional religions are observed in today’s India, revealing ways of life that we might otherwise never have known.A middle-class... more
Book Votes: 2
697
| Christina B. (stina117) |
Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain by Portia de Rossi
“I didn’t decide to become anorexic. It snuck up on me disguised as a healthy diet, a professional attitude. Being as thin as possible was a way to make the job of being an actress easier . . .”
Portia de Rossi weighed only 82 pounds when she collapsed on the set of the... more
Book Votes: 2
698
| Catherine H. (bibliobsessed) |
Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir by Paul Monette
This "tender and lyrical" memoir (New York Times Book Review) remains one of the most compelling documents of the AIDS era-"searing, shattering, ultimately hope inspiring account of a great love story" (San Francisco Examiner). A National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and the winner of the... more
Book Votes: 2
699
| Cheri M. (cmurphy712) |
Ride the Wind by Lucia St Clair Robson
the Story of Cynthia Ann Parker and the Last Days of the Comanche. In 1836, when she was nine years old, Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped by Comanche Indians. This is the story of how she grew up with them, mastered their ways, married one of their leaders, and became, in every way, a Comanche... more
Book Votes: 2
700
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Cheryl (pagebypage) - |
The Submission by Amy Waldman
Ten years after 9/11, a dazzling, kaleidoscopic novel re-imagines its aftermath
A jury gathers in Manhattan to select a memorial for the victims of a devastating terrorist attack. Their fraught deliberations complete, the jurors open the envelope containing the anonymous winner’s... more
Book Votes: 2
701
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Doctors by Erich Segal
Writing with all the passion of Love Story and power of The Class, Erich Segal sweeps us into the lives of the Harvard Medical School's class of 1962. His stunning novel reveals the making of doctors--what makes them tick, scheme, hurt . . . and love. From the crucible of... more
Book Votes: 2
702
| Erik D. (legendkeeper) |
The Silver Hand (Song of Albion, Bk 2) by Stephen R. Lawhead
The great king, Meldryn Mawr, is dead, and his kingdom lies in ruins. Treachery and brutality rule the land, and Albion is the scene of an epic struggle for the throne. Lewis Gillies returns as Llew, seeking the true meaning behind a mysterious prophecy--the making of a true king and the... more
Book Votes: 2
703
| Erik D. (legendkeeper) |
Mysteries of the Middle Ages: And the Beginning of the Modern World by Thomas Cahill
The inimitable Thomas Cahill turns his eye on the dawn of the modern Western world in this intelligent, beautifully written exploration of medieval Europe, the fifth book in his acclaimed Hinges of History series.After the long period of cultural decline known as the Dark Ages, Europe... more
Book Votes: 2
704
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Cheryl (pagebypage) - |
The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World by Er...
Part foreign affairs discourse, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide, The Geography of Bliss takes the reader from America to Iceland to India in search of happiness, or, in the crabby author's case, moments of "un-unhappiness." The book uses a beguiling mixture of travel,... more
Book Votes: 2
705
| Brittany R. (publicenemysgt) |
Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Bk 1) by Laurell K. Hamilton
“My name is Anita Blake. Vampires call me “The Executioner”. What I call them isn’t repeatable.
Ever since the Supreme Court granted the undead equal rights, most people think vampires are just ordinary folks with fangs. I know better. I’ve seen their victims. I... more
Book Votes: 2
706
| Chelsea C. (cjclarkc) |
Odd Hours (Odd Thomas, Bk 4) by Dean Koontz
The latest Odd Thomas thriller from the master storyteller. A mystery in Magic Beach, California has lured Odd to the small town by the ocean ' but is it the call of the deep or the cry of the desperate--Odd Thomas knows more about the mysteries of the universe than the rest of us. He can... more
Book Votes: 2
707
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Denise S. (Dargent) - |
Yentl the Yeshiva boy by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Recognizing that Yentyl seems to have the soul and disposition of a man, her father studies the Torah and other holy books with her. When he dies, Yentyl feels that she no longer has a reason to remain in the village, and so, late one night, she cuts off her hair, dresses as a young man, and... more
Book Votes: 2
708
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Denise S. (Dargent) - |
Bloody Mary by Carolly Erickson
Here is the tragic, stormy life of Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon. Her story is a chronicle of courage and faith, betrayal and treachery-set amidst the splendor, pageantry, squalor, and intrigue of sixteenth-century Europe.The history of Mary Tudor is an improbable... more
Book Votes: 2
709
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Denise S. (Dargent) - |
The Eye in the Door (Regeneration Trilogy, Bk 2) by Pat Barker
The Eye in the Door is the second installation of Pat Barker's acclaimed and haunting historical fiction trilogy about British soldiers traumatized by World War I trench warfare and the methods used by psychiatrist William Rivers to treat them. As with the other two, the book was recognized... more
Book Votes: 2
710
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Denise S. (Dargent) - |
Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata & Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator)
With a restraint that barely conceals the ferocity of his characters' passions, one of Japan's great postwar novelists tells the luminous story of Kikuji and the tea party he attends with Mrs. Ota, the rival of his dead father's mistress. A tale of desire, regret, and sensual... more
Book Votes: 2
711
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Denise S. (Dargent) - |
Panther in the Basement (Harvest in Translation) by Amos Oz
From “a great and true voice of our time” (Washington Post Book World), comes this story of Proffy, a twelve-year-old living in Palestine in 1947. When Proffy befriends a member of the occupying British forces who shares his love of language and the Bible, he is accused of treason by... more
Book Votes: 2
712
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Denise S. (Dargent) - |
Touch the Water, Touch the Wind by Amos Oz
Oz has crafted an intricate tale of people constantly seeking escape from a hostile world, an escape symbolized on its highest level by the watchmaker Pomeranz, a mathematician and musician. By the power of his music, he causes the arid earth to turn into a moist womb that receives him and his... more
Book Votes: 2
713
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Denise S. (Dargent) - |
To Know a Woman by Amos Oz
As an Israeli secret service agent, Yoel Ravid’s ability to sense the truth made him invaluable. Now widowed and retired, he lives with his mother, his mother-in-law, his daughter, and the haunting memory of his wife. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Translated by Nicholas de... more
Book Votes: 2
714
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Denise S. (Dargent) - |
Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence & Charles L. Ross
D.H. Lawrence's magnificent exploration of human sexuality in the days surrounding World War I. "Let us hesitate no longer to announce that the sensual passions and mysteries are equally sacred with the spiritual mysteries and passions," wrote D.H. Lawrence in WOMEN IN LOVE, a masterpiece that... more
Book Votes: 2
715
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Denise S. (Dargent) - |
Lives of Girls and Women : A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries) by Alice Munro
The only novel from Alice Munro-award-winning author of The Love of a Good Woman--is an insightful, honest book, "autobiographical in form but not in fact," that chronicles a young girl's growing up in rural Ontario in the 1940's.Del Jordan lives out at the end of the Flats Road on her father's... more
Book Votes: 2
716
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Denise S. (Dargent) - |
The Bell (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Iris Murdoch
A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an order of sequestered nuns. A new bell is being installed when suddenly the old bell, a legendary symbol of religion and magic, is rediscovered. And then things begin to change. Meanwhile the wise old Abbess... more
Book Votes: 2
717
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Denise S. (Dargent) - |
Messenger (Giver, Bk 3) by Lois Lowry
For the past six years, Matty has lived in Village and flourished under the guidance of Seer, a blind man, known for his special sight. Village was a place that welcomed newcomers, but something sinister has seeped into Village and the people have voted to close it to outsiders. Matty has been... more
Book Votes: 2
718
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Denise S. (Dargent) - |
Son (Giver, Bk 4) by Lois Lowry
Son is the long-awaited and compelling conclusion to The Giver Quartet, a true sequel to Lowry's Caldecott Medal-winning The Giver. Told in three separate storylines, Son ties the first three books of The Giver Quartet together -- The Giver, Gathering Blue, and Messenger -- into one... more
Book Votes: 2
719
| Tracy H. (TBBooks07) |
Sleepers by Lorenzo Carcaterra
This is the true story of four young boys. Four lifelong friends. Intelligent, fun-loving, wise beyond their years, they are inseparable. Their potential is unlimited, but they are content to live within the closed world of New York City's Hell's... more
Book Votes: 2
720
| Kt L. (shagschain) |
I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced by Nujood Ali & Delphine Minoui
“I’m a simple village girl who has always obeyed the orders of my father and brothers. Since forever, I have learned to say yes to everything. Today I have decided to say no.” Forced by her father to marry a man three times her age, young Nujood Ali was sent away from her... more
Book Votes: 2
721
|
oddpelican - |
Jesus Freaks: Stories of Those Who Stood for Jesus by DC Talk
This Gold Medallion-nominated book opens the eyes of a new generation to the persecution of Christians around the world. Offering stories of martyrs past and present, it's a wake-up call to prayer and to lives of unashamed faith.
The book was written especially for teenagers, with:
-A hip... more
Book Votes: 2
722
| Carol F. (cactusflowerwomen) |
Long Knife by James Alexander Thom
Two centuries ago, with the support of the young Revolutionary government, George Robers Clark led a small but fierce army west from Virigina to conquer all the territory between the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. Here is the adventure, the romance, the struggle, and the betrayal of his life. Rich... more
Book Votes: 2
723
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oddpelican - |
The 5th Wave (5th Wave, Bk 1) by Rick Yancey
After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. After the 2nd, only the lucky escape. And after the 3rd, only the unlucky survive. After the 4th wave, only one rule applies: trust no one.
Now, it's the dawn of the 5th wave, and on a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from Them. The beings... more
Book Votes: 2
724
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oddpelican - |
The Mummy or Ramses the Damned by Anne Rice
An archaeologist has just unearthed the find of his career, the tomb of Ramses II. The door to the tomb is lettered with a curse, the mummy of the king who claimed to be immortal lies shriveled inside. The archaeologist dies and the treasures are shipped to his daughter Julie in England, who... more
Book Votes: 2
725
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oddpelican - |
Horns by Joe Hill
Ignatius Perrish spent the night drunk and doing terrible things. He woke up the next morning with one hell of a hangover, a raging headache ...and a pair of horns growing from his temples. Once, Ig lived the life of the blessed: born into privilege, the second son of a renowned American... more
Book Votes: 2
726
|
Ginger C. (1ging) - |
The Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks
When fourteen children from the small town of Sam Dent are lost in a tragic accident, its citizens are confronted with one of life’s most difficult and disturbing questions: When the worst happens, whom do you blame, and how do you cope?
Masterfully written, it is a large-hearted... more
Book Votes: 2
727
| Karen W. (ReadswhenIcan) |
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
Bob Arctor is a dealer of the lethally addictive drug Substance D. Fred is the police agent assigned to tail and eventually bust him. To do so, Fred takes on the identity of a drug dealer named Bob Arctor. And since Substance D--which Arctor takes in massive doses--gradually splits the user's... more
Book Votes: 2
728
| Kaarla V. (hestia74) |
Travels with My Aunt (Twentieth Century Classics) by Graham Greene
In this wickedly funny book, poor stick-in-the-mud Henry Pulling gets talked into accompanying his repobate Aunt Augusta on a questionable journey. The unlikely duo find themselves, in the course of the novel, in Brighton, aboard the Orient Express, on a boat from Buenos Aires to Asuncion -- and... more
Book Votes: 2
729
| Katie C. (crusenberryk) |
The Pursuit of Happyness by Chris Gardner
A triumphant, modern-day Horatio Alger story—based on the life that inspired the major motion picture—The Pursuit of Happyness is a memoir that will have you rooting for the underdog as it stirs you to pursue your own dreams. Abandoned by his own father and left to the vicious rage... more
Book Votes: 2
730
| Marie N. (pottergal) |
Good in Bed (Cannie Shapiro, Bk 1) by Jennifer Weiner
For twenty-eight years, things have been tripping along nicely for Cannie Shapiro. Sure, her mother has come charging out of the closet, and her father has long since dropped out of her world. But she loves her friends, her rat terrier, Nifkin, and her job as pop culture reporter for The... more
Book Votes: 2
731
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Linda T. (snigglefitz) - |
The Haj by Leon Uris
Leon Uris retums to the land of his acclaimed best-seller Exodus for an epic story of hate and love, vengeance and forgiveness and forgiveness. The Middle East is the powerful setting for this sweeping tale of a land where revenge is sacred... more
Book Votes: 2
732
|
Jake (neverender) - |
My Ishmael (Ishmael, Bk 3) by Daniel Quinn
Daniel Quinn's Ishmael is a bestseller and a testament for a burgeoning spiritual movement. Now Quinn presents an extraordinary sequel, a companion novel so startlingly original that even Ishmael's most faithful readers will not predict its outcome....
When Ishmael places... more
Book Votes: 2
733
| Taisiz M. (tmunoz) |
Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
Two misfits. One extraordinary love.
Eleanor... Red hair, wrong clothes. Standing behind him until he turns his head. Lying beside him until he wakes up. Making everyone else seem drabber and flatter and never good enough...Eleanor.
Park... He knows she'll love a song before he plays... more
Book Votes: 2
734
| Carmen T. |
For One More Day by Mitch Albom
The story of a mother and a son, and a relationship that lasts a lifetime and beyond. It explores the question: What would you do if you could spend one more day with a lost loved one?
As a child, Charley Benetto is told by his father, "You can be a mama's boy or you can be a... more
Book Votes: 2
735
|
Sally W. (MustangSally) - |
A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr
A young Boston trial lawyer is drawn into a case involving two industrial chemical plants and a cluster of childhood leukemia victims that is to encompass nine difficult years and bring him to near bankruptcy.
This is the true story of an epic courtroom showdown. Two of the nation's largest... more
Book Votes: 2
736
| Joan S. (Yoni) |
Kafka on the Shore (Vintage International) by Haruki Murakami & Philip Gabriel (T...
With Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami gives us a novel every bit as ambitious and expansive as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, which has been acclaimed both here and around the world for its uncommon ambition and achievement, and whose still-growing popularity suggests that it will be read and... more
Book Votes: 2
737
| Nanette N. (nanutter) |
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Everyone in Shaker Heights was talking about it that summer... how Isabelle, the last of the Richardson children, had finally gone around the bend and burned the house down. In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is meticulously planned. From the layout of the... more
Book Votes: 2
738
|
Alyssa T. - |
The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty
"My darling Cecilia, if you’re reading this, then I’ve died"... Imagine that your husband wrote you a letter, to be opened after his death. Imagine, too, that the letter contains his deepest, darkest secret. Something with the potential to destroy not just the life you... more
Book Votes: 2
739
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Gina P. (gina07) - |
13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher
You can't stop the future. You can't rewind the past. The only way to learn the secret . . . is to press play.
Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a strange package with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers several cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker --... more
Book Votes: 2
740
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Gina P. (gina07) - |
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
Clay Jenkins returns home from school to find a mysterious box with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers 13 cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker—his classmate and crush—who committed suicide two weeks earlier.
On tape, Hannah explains that there are thirteen... more
Book Votes: 2
741
| Jim T. (jimt) |
Far from the Madding Crowd (Signet Classics) by Thomas Hardy
Graced with the splendid illustrations executed by Helen Paterson for the first edition of the novel, this special Collector's Edition of Far from the Madding Crowd also features handwritten letters and drawings by Hardy, as well as rare and intimate portraits of the author and his first wife,... more
Book Votes: 2
742
| Jim T. (jimt) |
The Big Rock Candy Mountain by Wallace Stegner
The novel that confirmed Wallace Stegner's position as an important American writer is based on his own family history. Bo and Elsa Mason and their two sons set out to conquer the West, pursuing the American dream of wealth and success -- the Big Rock Candy Mountain.
Book Votes: 2
743
| Jim T. (jimt) |
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat : And Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
In his most extraordinary book, "one of the great clinical writers of the 20th century" (The New York Times) recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders. Oliver Sacks's The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the... more
Book Votes: 2
744
| Jim T. (jimt) |
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin...
Out of the depths of the Depression comes an irresistible story about beating the odds and finding hope in the most desperate of times -- the improbable, intimate account of how nine working-class boys from the American West showed the world at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin what true grit really... more
Book Votes: 2
745
| Jim T. (jimt) |
The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
One of the most quotable of twentieth-century authors, Dorothy Parker has attained a wide-ranging and enthusiastic following.
This revised and enlarged edition, with an introduction by Brendan Gill, comprises the original 1944 Portable, as selected and arranged by Dorothy Parker herself and... more
Book Votes: 2
746
| Ronnie G. (frenchgiant) |
Memoir From Antproof Case by Mark Helprin
An old American who lives in Brazil is writing his memoirs. An English teacher at the naval academy, he is married to a woman young enough to be his daughter and has a little son whom he loves. He sits in a mountain garden in Niter�i, overlooking the ocean. As he reminisces and writes, placing... more
Book Votes: 1
747
| Joanne L. (jlustig) |
Raven's Exile: A Season on the Green River by Ellen Meloy
More than a century after John Wesley Powell launched his boat on the Green River, Ellen Meloy spent eight years of seasonal floats through Utah's Desolation Canyon with her husband, a federal river manager. She came to know the history and natural history of this place well enough to call it... more
Book Votes: 1
748
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Elizabeth B. (Cattriona) - |
The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima & Meredith Weatherby (Translator) & Yoshi...
Set in a remote fishing village in Japan, The Sound of Waves is a timeless story of first love. It tells of Shinji, a young fisherman, and Hatsue, the beautiful daughter of the wealthiest man in the village. Shinji is entranced at the sight of Hatsue in the twilight on the beach, upon her return... more
Book Votes: 1
749
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Kristin K. (escapeartistk) - |
Savages (Vintage Departures) by Joe Kane
Savages is a firsthand account, by turn hilarious, heartbreaking, and thrilling, of a small band of Amazonian warriors and their battle to preserve their way of life. Includes eight pages of photos.
Book Votes: 1
750
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Laurie H. (coolelle) - |
The Erasers by A. Robbe-Grillet
Alain Robbe-Grillet is internationally hailed as the chief spokesman for the noveau roman (new novel) and one of the great novelists of the twentieth century. The Erasers, his first novel, reads like a detective story but is primarily concerned with weaving and then probing a complete mixture of... more
Book Votes: 1
751
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Laurie H. (coolelle) - |
Hiroshima Mon Amour by Marguerite Duras & Marguerite Duras & Marguerite Duras
Jacket description/back: One of the most influential works in the history of cinema, Alain Renais's Hiroshima Mon Amour gathered international acclaim upon its release in 1959 and was awarded the International Critics' Prize at the Cannes Film festival and the New York Film Critics' Award.... more
Book Votes: 1
752
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Laurie H. (coolelle) - |
Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror by John Ashbery
'Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror'was the first of John Ashbery's books to be published in Britain by Carcanet, and this is its third printing. Since it originally appeared here in 1977, three further collections have followed: 'As We Know', 'Shadow Train' and 'A Wave'. 'Self Portrait in a... more
Book Votes: 1
753
|
Cheryl (pagebypage) - |
Refiner's Fire by Mark Helprin
Marshall Pearl is orphaned at birth on an immigrant ship off the coast of Palestine in 1947, then brought to americanca. His experiences take him from the Hudson River Valley, to Harvard, to sea on a British merchant ship, then finally back to his birthplace, where he serves as an Israeli... more
Book Votes: 1
754
| Shirl P. (happiness) |
To Catch an Angel: Adventures in the World I Cannot See by Robert Russell
This book was one of the most inspiring books of my youth. I would recommend it highly. It is the autobigraphical look at a man blinded in his youth. I recall it as brutally honest, with Mr. Russel giving an open and often times humorous assesment of life after sight.
Book Votes: 1
755
| Shirl P. (happiness) |
Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven by Susan Jane Gilman
They were young, brilliant, and ambitious. They set out to conquer the world. Instead, the world conquered them.
Bestselling author Susan Jane Gilman's riveting new memoir is a hilarious and haunting true adventure. It's filled with the memorable characters, psychological insights,... more
Book Votes: 1
756
|
T.C. Robson - |
The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie
Hugh Laurie concocts an uproarious cocktail of comic zingers and over-the-top action in this "ripping spoof of the spy genre" (Vanity Fair) -- the irresistible tale of a former Scots Guard-turned-hired gun, a freelance soldier of fortune who also happens to be one heck of a nice guy.Cold-blooded... more
Book Votes: 1
757
|
Phyllis E. - |
With Malice Toward None : The Life of Abraham Lincoln by Stephen B. Oates
A masterful biography of Lincoln that follows his bitter struggle with poverty, his self-made success in business and law, his early disappointing political career, and his leadership as President during one of America's most tumultuous periods.
Book Votes: 1
758
| Catherine H. (bibliobsessed) |
Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story (Perennial Classics) by Paul Monette
The critically and popularly acclaimed coming of age/coming out story from the author of Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir. "Witty as it is anguished and as full of understanding as of anger, this is Monette's best book."--Booklist
Book Votes: 1
759
| Michelle Q. (mquattlebaum) |
The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's Education by Craig M. Mullaney
A West Point grad, Rhodes scholar, and Army Ranger recounts his unparalleled education in the art of war and reckons with the hard wisdom that only battle itself can bestow.
Book Votes: 1
760
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Nicola W. (Wellnico) - |
I'm Off Then: Losing and Finding Myself on the Camino de Santiago by Hape Kerkeling
I'm Off Then has sold more than three million copies in Germany and has been translated into eleven languages. The number of pilgrims along the Camino has increased by 20 percent since the book was published. Hape Kerkeling's spiritual journey has struck a chord.Overweight, overworked, and... more
Book Votes: 1
761
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Cheryl (pagebypage) - |
The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet by Reif Larsen
A brilliant, boundary-leaping debut novel tracing twelve-year-old genius map maker T.S.Spivet's attempts to understand the ways of the world.
When twelve-year-old genius cartographer T.S. Spivet receives an unexpected phone call from the Smithsonian announcing he has won the prestigious... more
Book Votes: 1
762
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Tracy F. (golfergurl) - |
The Class by Erich Segal
From world-renowed author Erich Segal comes a powerful and moving saga of five extraordinary members of the Harvard class of 1958 and the women with whom their lives are intertwined. Their explosive story begins in a time of innocence and... more
Book Votes: 1
763
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Tony T. (tonysbooks) - |
First Blood (First Blood, Bk 1) by David Morrell
A HERO...AN ICON...
First came the man: a young wanderer in a fatigue coat and long hair. Then came the legend, as John Rambo sprang from the pages of FIRST BLOOD to take his place in the American cultural landscape. This remarkable novel pits a young Vietnam veteran against a small-town cop... more
Book Votes: 1
764
| Karen L. (kittycat176) |
Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott
"Once upon a time, I didn't know how lucky I was."
When Alice was ten, Ray took her away from her family, her friends -- her life. She learned to give up all power, to endure all pain. She waited for the nightmare to be over.
Now Alice is fifteen and Ray still has her,... more
Book Votes: 1
765
| Erik D. (legendkeeper) |
The Endless Knot: (Song of Albion, Bk 3) by Stephen R. Lawhead
Fires rage in Albion: strange, hidden fires, dark-flamed, invisible to the eye. Llew Silver Hand is High King of Albion, but now the Brazen Man has defied his sovereignty and Llew must journey to the Foul Land to redeem his greatest treasure. The last battle begins, and the myths, passions, and... more
Book Votes: 1
766
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Cheryl (pagebypage) - |
The Voyage : A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries) by Philip Caputo
In the tradition of great seafaring adventures, The Voyage is an intricately plotted, superbly detailed, and gripping story of adventure and courage. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Philip Caputo has written a timeless novel about the dangerous reverberating effects of long held family secrets.On... more
Book Votes: 1
767
| Kathy F. |
Alice I Have Been by Melanie Benjamin
A young girl whose bright spirit sent her on an unforgettable trip down the rabbit hole, and the grown woman whose story is no less enthralling... Alice Liddell Hargreaves’s life has been a richly woven tapestry. As a young woman, wife, mother, and widow, she’s experienced intense... more
Book Votes: 1
768
| rachel-renee |
Dr.Atkin's New Diet Revolution, Revised by Robert C. Atkins
This new edition contains the basic diet and is enhanced by new explanations of the underlying theories. There are seven new chapters.
Book Votes: 1
769
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Cheryl (pagebypage) - |
Lying Awake by Mark Salzman
Mark Salzman's Lying Awake is a finely wrought gem that plumbs the depths of one woman's soul, and in so doing raises salient questions about the power-and price-of faith.Sister John's cloistered life of peace and prayer has been electrified by ever more frequent visions of God's radiance,... more
Book Votes: 1
770
| Amber M. (amber681) |
His Bright Light : The Story of Nick Traina by Danielle Steel
"This is the story of an extraordinary boy with a brilliant mind, a heart of gold, and a tortured soul. It is the story of an illness, a fight to live, and a race against death."I want to share the story, and the pain, the courage, the love, and what I learned in living through it. I want Nick's... more
Book Votes: 1
771
| Brittany R. (publicenemysgt) |
A Kiss of Shadows (Meredith Gentry, Bk 1) by Laurell K. Hamilton
All it would take was my true name being mentioned after dark, and it would float back to my aunt.
She was the Queen of Air and Darkness, and that meant that anything said in the dark was hers to hear, eventually. The fact that spotting the missing Elven American Princess had become more... more
Book Votes: 1
772
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Denise S. (Dargent) - |
Confessions of a Mask (Peter Owen Modern Classics) by Yukio Mishima
One of the classics of modern Japanese fiction. Confessions of a Mask is the story of an adolescent who must learn to live with the painful fact that he is unlike other young men. Mishima's protagonist discovers that he is becoming a homosexual in polite, post-war Japan. To survive, he must... more
Book Votes: 1
773
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Denise S. (Dargent) - |
The Three Sisters (Plays by Anton Chekhov) by Anton Chekhov
One of the four major plays that Chekhov wrote at the end of his life. The play was specifically written for the Moscow Art Theatre and was first directed by the legendary Constantin Stanisklavski. Since its debut, the play remained a perennial favourite of actors and audiences internationally.
Book Votes: 1
774
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Denise S. (Dargent) - |
A Sport of Nature by Nadine Gordimer
After being abandoned by her mother, Hillela was pushed onto relatives where she was taught social graces. But when she betrayed her position as surrogate daughter, she was cast adrift. Later she fell into a heroic role in the overthrow of apartheid.
Book Votes: 1
775
|
oddpelican - |
Creature by John Saul
A powerful high-tech company. A postcard-pretty company town. Families. Children. Sunshine. Happiness. A high school football team that never-ever loses. And something else. Something horrible ... Now, there is a new family in town. A... more
Book Votes: 1
776
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Denise S. (Dargent) - |
Selected Poems (Penguin Classics) by Anna Akhmatova
Contains over 170 lyric poems, Requiem and A Poem without a Hero. The translation by the distinguished translator Walter Arndt succeeds in reproducing the exact prosodic lineaments of the original while maintaining accuracy.
Book Votes: 1
777
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oddpelican - |
Midnight by Dean R. Koontz
A wealthy tech entrepreneur, intending to create superhumans by infecting them with nanotech to assist their physical and mental abilities, picks a California town as his secret pilot project, but things go terribly wrong. The citizens of Moonlight Cove, California, are changing, growing... more
Book Votes: 1
778
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Denise S. (Dargent) - |
Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England by Alison Weir
Isabella arrived in London in 1308, the spirited twelve-year-old daughter of King Philip IV of France. Her marriage to the heir to England’s throne was designed to heal old political wounds between the two countries, and in the years that followed, she would become an important figure, a... more
Book Votes: 1
779
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oddpelican - |
Monster by A. Lee Martinez
Meet Monster. Meet Judy. Two humans who don't like each other much, but together must fight dragons, fire-breathing felines, trolls, Inuit walrus dogs, and a crazy cat lady -- for the future of the universe.Monster runs a pest control agency. He's overworked and has domestic troubles -- like... more
Book Votes: 1
780
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Denise S. (Dargent) - |
Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov
Set at the beginning of the nineteenth century, before the ideal of industrious modern man, when idleness was still looked upon by Russia's serf-owning rural gentry as a plausible and worthy goal, there was Oblomov.Indolent, inattentive, incurious, given to daydreaming and... more
Book Votes: 1
782
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Denise S. (Dargent) - |
Z by Vassilis Vassilikos
When the great Greek pacifist leader Gregory Lambrakis was slain in Salonika 400,000 men and women mourning in silence followed his body to the grave. For months after the murder, on walls all over Greece there appeared the letter "Z" for zei, He Lives!
Vassilikos has dared to expose the story... more
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783
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Denise S. (Dargent) - |
Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, Bk 2) by Hilary Mantel
BRING UP THE BODIES is the story of one of the most terrifying, mystifying and frightening moments of history: the destruction of Anne Boleyn. Continuing what began in the Man Booker Prize-winning WOLF HALL, we return to the court of Henry VIII, to witness the irresistible rise of Thomas... more
Book Votes: 1
784
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The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our H...
In this account, a journalist traces the course of yellow fever, stopping in 1878 Memphis to "vividly [evoke] the Faulkner-meets-'Dawn of the Dead' horrors," -- and moving on to today's strain of the killer virus.
Over the course of history, yellow fever has paralyzed... more
Book Votes: 1
785
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Library of Souls (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, Bk 3) by Ransom Riggs
A boy with extraordinary power. An army of deadly monsters. An epic battle for the future of peculiardom. As the story opens, sixteen-year-old Jacob discovers a powerful new ability, and soon he's diving through history to rescue his peculiar companions from a heavily guarded fortress.... more
Book Votes: 1
786
| Katie C. (crusenberryk) |
Poetry 180 : A Turning Back to Poetry by Billy Collins (Editor)
A dazzling new anthology of 180 contemporary poems, selected and introduced by America’s Poet Laureate, Billy Collins.
Inspired by Billy Collins’s poem-a-day program with the Library of Congress, Poetry 180 is the perfect anthology for readers who appreciate engaging, thoughtful... more
Book Votes: 1
787
| Katie C. (crusenberryk) |
180 More : Extraordinary Poems for Every Day by Billy Collins (Editor)
Come full circle with 180 new, exciting poems selected and introduced by Billy Collins.
Inspired by Billy Collins’s poem-a-day program for American high schools that he began through the Library of Congress, the original Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry was a gathering of... more
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788
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oddpelican - |
Till Armageddon: A Perspective on Suffering by Billy Graham
From the preface: "In Till Armageddon I attempt to show something of what the future life is going to be like. In so doing we are going to see how the glory which lies ahead is far greater than any sufferings we might endure here.
"But in the meantime -- Till Armageddon -- you and... more
Book Votes: 1
789
| Carol F. (cactusflowerwomen) |
The Children of First Man by James Alexander Thom
Three hundred years before Columbus, a Welsh Prince named Madoc -- an invincible blond giant of a man -- crossed the Atlantic with a fleet of wooden boats to plant a colony in the paradise he called Iarghal. Four countless generations, Prince Madoc's blue-eyed descendants migrated along the... more
Book Votes: 1
790
| Carol F. (cactusflowerwomen) |
East of the Sun by Julia Gregson
As the Kaisar-i-Hind weighs anchor for Bombay in the autumn of 1928, its passengers ponder their fate in a distant land. They are part of the "Fishing Fleet" — the name given to the legions of Englishwomen who sail to India each year in search of husbands, heedless of the life... more
Book Votes: 1
791
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The Infinite Sea (5th Wave, Bk 2) by Rick Yancey
How do you rid the Earth of seven billion humans? Rid the humans of their humanity.
Surviving the first four waves was nearly impossible. Now Cassie Sullivan finds herself in a new world, a world in which the fundamental trust that binds us together is gone. As the 5th Wave rolls across the... more
Book Votes: 1
792
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oddpelican - |
Agenda 21 by Glenn Beck & Harriet Parke
?I was just a baby when we were relocated and I don?t remember much. Everybody has that black hole at the beginning of their life. That time you can?t remember. Your first step. Your first taste of table food. My real memories begin in our assigned living area in Compound 14.? Just a generation... more
Book Votes: 1
793
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oddpelican - |
The Talisman by Stephen King & Peter Straub
On a brisk autumn day, a thirteen-year-old boy stands on the shores of the gray Atlantic, near a silent amusement park and a fading ocean resort called the Alhambra. The past has driven Jack Sawyer here: his father is gone, his mother is dying, and the world no longer makes sense. But for Jack... more
Book Votes: 1
794
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Where the Lilies Bloom by Vera Cleaver & Bill Cleaver
Meet Mary Call an irrepressible 14-year-old who has what it takes to get along in this world-spunk! When Mary Call vows to hold her orphaned family together, and to keep her dreamy sister from marrying a "villain," she becomes one of the most enterprising, tough, courageous, and unforgettable... more
Book Votes: 1
795
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Into the Forest by Jean Hegland
Set in the near-future, Into the Forest is a powerfully imagined novel that focuses on the relationship between two teenage sisters living alone in their Northern California forest home.Over 30 miles from the nearest town, and several miles away from their nearest neighbor, Nell and Eva struggle... more
Book Votes: 1
796
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Where I Am: Heaven, Eternity, and Our Life Beyond by Billy Graham
The Final Chapter From Billy Graham While his earthly vision dims, the glory of heaven is illuminated as Billy Graham, the beloved evangelist, shares from his past, and his present, the reality of eternity.� Although Billy Graham may no longer preach from the stadiums of the world, in this book... more
Book Votes: 1
797
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R E K. (bigstone) - |
Rickshaw Boy: A Novel by She Lao
A beautiful new translation of beloved Chinese author Lao She's masterpiece of social realism, about the misadventures of a poor Beijing rickshaw driver First published in China in 1937, Rickshaw Boy is the story of Xiangzi, an honest and serious country boy who works as a rickshaw puller in... more
Book Votes: 1
798
| Kaarla V. (hestia74) |
13 Ways of Looking at the Novel by Jane Smiley
Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling novelist Jane Smiley celebrates the novel–and takes us on an exhilarating tour through one hundred of them–in this seductive and immensely rewarding literary tribute.In her inimitable style–exuberant, candid, opinionated–Smiley... more
Book Votes: 1
799
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Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan
An award-winning memoir and instant New York Times bestseller that goes far beyond its riveting medical mystery, Brain on Fire is the powerful account of one woman’s struggle to recapture her identity.
When twenty-four-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a... more
Book Votes: 1
800
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oddpelican - |
The Institute by Stephen King
In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis's parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own,... more
Book Votes: 1
801
| Kaarla V. (hestia74) |
Pere Goriot (Signet Classics) by Honore de Balzac
A masterful study of a father whose sacrifices for his daughters have become a compulsion, this novel marks Balzac's "real entr?e" into La Com?die Humaine, his series of almost one hundred novels and short stories meant to depict "the whole pell-mell of civilization."
Book Votes: 1
802
| Cynthia V. (cynval) |
Sepulchre (Languedoc, Bk 2) by Kate Mosse
In 1891, young Leonie Vernier arrives at the home of a young, willowy, and beautiful aunt in southwest France. Villagers claim that Leonie's late uncle died after summoning a demon from the old Visigoth sepulchre on its grounds.
More than a century later an American graduate... more
Book Votes: 1
803
| Cheryl K. (dogluver) |
Lad: A Dog by Albert Payson Terhune
Lad: A Dog is a 1919 novel written by Albert Payson Terhune, loosely based on the life of Terhune's real-life rough collie, Lad. Born in 1902, the real-life Lad was an unregistered collie of unknown lineage. Through Lad's adventures, Terhune expresses his views on parenting, obtaining perfect... more
Book Votes: 1
804
| Annette S. (annette-s) |
Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah
Born in 1937 in a port city a thousand miles north of Shanghai, Adeline Yen Mah was the youngest child of an affluent Chinese family who enjoyed rare privileges during a time of political and cultural upheaval. But wealth and position could not shield Adeline from a childhood of appalling... more
Book Votes: 1
805
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Denise S. (Dargent) - |
The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, Bk 6) by Raymond Chandler
Marlowe befriends a down on his luck war veteran with the scars to prove it. Then he finds out that Terry Lennox has a very wealthy nymphomaniac wife, who he's divorced and re-married and who ends up dead. and now Lennox is on the lam and the cops and a crazy gangster are after Marlowe.
Book Votes: 1
806
| Marie N. (pottergal) |
Mallory's Oracle (Kathleen Mallory, Bk 1) by Carol O'Connell
Sgt. Kathleen Mallory, a computer hacker for the NYPD, started life as a wild child on New York City's streets. She was adopted by police detective Louis Markowitz and his wife, Helen, but the happy years with them have merely laid a civilized veneer over what is still a semi-savage product... more
Book Votes: 1
807
| Ruth D. |
Chosen by a Horse by Susan Richards
The horse Susan Richards chose for rescue wouldn’t be corralled into her waiting trailer. Instead Lay Me Down, a former racehorse with a foal close on her heels, walked right up that ramp and into Susan’s life. This gentle creature—malnourished, plagued by pneumonia and an eye... more
Book Votes: 1
808
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Sally W. (MustangSally) - |
The Crimson Chalice (Crimson Chalice, Bk 1) by Victor Canning
The Crimson Chalice trilogy, first published between 1976 and 1978, is Victor Canning's classic retelling of the story of King Arthur. It begins with the story of his parents, Tia and Baradoc. Canning weaves elements of the Grail myth into a Fifth century setting; a Britain abandoned by the... more
Book Votes: 1
809
Book Votes: 1
810
| Jayne M. (denreads) |
The Angel's Game (Cemetery of Forgotten Books, Bk 2) by Carlos Ruiz Zafon & Lucia...
"The whole of Barcelona stretched out at my feet and I wanted to believe that, when I opened those windows, its streets would whisper stories to me, secrets I could capture on paper and narrate to whomever cared to listen..."
In an abandoned mansion at the heart of Barcelona, a... more
Book Votes: 1
811
| Joan S. (Yoni) |
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann
A grand mystery reaching back centuries. A sensational disappearance that made headlines around the world. A quest for truth that leads to death, madness or disappearance for those who seek to solve it. The Lost City of Z is a blockbuster adventure narrative about what lies beneath the... more
Book Votes: 1
812
| KaeLee N. (soraidh) |
Feed (Newsflesh, Bk 1) by Mira Grant
Urban fantasist Seanan McGuire picks up a new pen name for this gripping, thrilling, and brutal depiction of a postapocalyptic 2039.
Twin bloggers Georgia and Shaun Mason and their colleague Buffy are thrilled when Sen. Peter Ryman, the first presidential candidate to come of age since... more
Book Votes: 1
813
| KaeLee N. (soraidh) |
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore
The birth of Jesus has been well chronicled, as have his glorious teachings, acts, and divine sacrifice after his thirtieth birthday. But no one knows about the early life of the Son of God, the missing years -- except Biff, the Messiah's best bud, who has been resurrected to tell the story... more
Book Votes: 1
814
|
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The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman
The debut of a stunning new voice in fiction� a novel both heartbreaking and transcendent
After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a day�s journey from the coast. To this isolated... more
Book Votes: 1
815
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Alyssa T. - |
All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda
The disappearances of two young women -- a decade apart -- told in reverse.
It’s been ten years since Nicolette Farrell left her rural hometown after her best friend, Corinne, disappeared from Cooley Ridge without a trace. Back again to tie up loose ends and care for her ailing father,... more
Book Votes: 1
816
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Gina P. (gina07) - |
Becoming by Michelle Obama
An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States.
In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America—the first... more
Book Votes: 1
817
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Holly D. - |
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie Bucket, Bk 1) by Roald Dahl
The adventures of four nasty children and our hero, with Mr. Willy Wonka and his world-famous candy plant.
Book Votes: 1
818
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Holly D. - |
A Princess of Mars (Barsoom / John Carter of Mars, Bk 1) by Edgar Rice Burroughs
A Princess of Mars is an Edgar Rice Burroughs science fiction novel, the first of his famous Barsoom series. John Carter is prospecting in Arizona when he finds himself on the run from Apaches. He hides in a cave and is mysteriously transported to Mars! There he meets the... more
Book Votes: 1
819
| Jim T. (jimt) |
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
Willa Cather’s story of the missionary priest Father Jean Marie Latour and his work of faith in the wilderness of the Southwest is told with a spare but sensuous directness and profound artistry. When Latour arrives in 1851 in the territory of New Mexico, newly acquired by the United... more
Book Votes: 1
820
| Jim T. (jimt) |
Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski
In what is widely hailed as the best of his many novels, Charles Bukowski details the long, lonely years of his own hardscrabble youth in the raw voice of alter ego Henry Chinaski. From a harrowingly cheerless childhood in Germany through acne-riddled high school years and his adolescent... more
Book Votes: 1
821
| Jim T. (jimt) |
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Masterfully crafted, Treasure Island is a stunning yarn of piracy on the fiery tropic seas -- an unforgettable tale of treachery that embroils a host of legendary swashbucklers, from honest young Jim Hawkins to sinister, two-timing Israel Hands, to evil incarnate, blind Pew. But above all,... more
Book Votes: 1
823
| Jim T. (jimt) |
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor
The collection that established O’Connor’s reputation as one of the american masters of the short story. The volume contains the celebrated title story, a tale of the murderous fugitive The Misfit, as well as “The Displaced Person” and eight other stories.
Good man is... more
Book Votes: 1
824
| Jim T. (jimt) |
The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories by Marina Keegan
An affecting and hope-filled posthumous collection of essays and stories from the talented young Yale graduate whose title essay captured the world’s attention in 2012 and turned her into an icon for her generation.
Marina Keegan's star was on the rise when she graduated magna cum... more
Book Votes: 1
825
| Jim T. (jimt) |
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli & Daniel Donno (Translator)
Here is the world's most famous master plan for seizing and holding power. Astonishing in its candor The Prince even today remains a disturbingly realistic and prophetic work on what it takes to be a prince... a king... a president. When, in 1512, Machiavelli was... more
Book Votes: 1
826
| Jim T. (jimt) |
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
This fiercely comic tale stands in marked contrast to its genial predecessor, The Pickwick Papers. Set against London's seedy back street slums, Oliver Twist is the saga of a workhouse orphan captured and thrust into a thieves' den, where... more
Book Votes: 1
827
| Jim T. (jimt) |
The Call Of The Wild (Scholastic Classics) by Jack London
The Call of the Wild is a short adventure novel by Jack London published in 1903 and set in Yukon, Canada during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, when strong sled dogs were in high demand. The central character of the novel is a dog named Buck. The story opens at a ranch in Santa Clara Valley,... more
Book Votes: 1
828
| Jim T. (jimt) |
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson
Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Georgia to Maine. The AT offers an astonishing landscape of silent forests and sparkling lakes--and to a writer with... more
Book Votes: 1
829
| Jim T. (jimt) |
Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
The most popular of C. S. Lewis' works of nonfiction, Mere Christianity brings together Lewis' legendary broadcast talks of the war years, talks in which he set out simply to “explain and defend the belief that has been common to nearly all Christians at all times.” Rejecting the... more
Book Votes: 1
830
| Jim T. (jimt) |
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two... more
Book Votes: 1
831
| Jim T. (jimt) |
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
In Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending.
Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable.... more
Book Votes: 1
832
| Jim T. (jimt) |
The Last Unicorn: A Search for One of Earth's Rarest Creatures by William deBuys
An award-winning author's stirring quest to find and understand an elusive and exceptionally rare species in the heart of Southeast Asia's jungles.
In 1992, in a remote mountain range, a team of scientists discovered the remains of an unusual animal with beautiful long horns. It turned out to... more
Book Votes: 1
833
| Larissa G. (arctic-volcano) |
11/22/63 by Stephen King
On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? Stephen King’s heart-stoppingly dramatic new novel is about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassination -- a thousand page tour de... more
Book Votes: 1
834
| Alain C. (achinca) |
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
"Anthony Burgess reads chapters of his novel A Clockwork Orange with hair-raising drive and energy. Although it is a fantasy set in an Orwellian future, this is anything but a bedtime story." -The New York TimesTold by the central character, Alex, this brilliant, hilarious, and disturbing novel... more
Book Votes: 1
835
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The Great Disappearance: 31 Ways to be Rapture Ready by Dr. David Jeremiah
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Book Votes: 0
836
| Holly F. (warmfuzzies) |
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink
Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink?s landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina and suspense-filled portrayal of the quest for truth and justice.
In the tradition of the best investigative journalism and the finest writing on medicine,... more
Book Votes: 0
837
| Holly F. (warmfuzzies) |
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, Bk 1) by Kim Mi...
The hardscrabble folks of Troublesome Creek have to scrap for everything... everything except books, that is. Thanks to Roosevelt's Kentucky Pack Horse Library Project, Troublesome's got its very own traveling librarian, Cussy Mary Carter. Cussy's not only a book woman, however,... more
Book Votes: 0
838
| Holly F. (warmfuzzies) |
What Is a Girl Worth?: My Story of Breaking the Silence and Exposing the Truth about ...
Recipient of Sports Illustrated?s Inspiration of the Year Award and one of Time?s 100 Most Influential People (2018)
?Who is going to tell these little girls that what was done to them matters? That they are seen and valued, that they are not alone and they are not unprotected??
Rachael... more
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839
| Holly F. (warmfuzzies) |
Stranger in the Lake by Kimberly Belle
When Charlotte married the wealthy widower Paul, it caused a ripple of gossip in their small lakeside town. They have a charmed life together, despite the cruel whispers about her humble past and his first marriage. But everything starts to unravel when she discovers a young woman’s body... more
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840
| Holly F. (warmfuzzies) |
The Mountain Between Us (Movie Tie-In): A Novel by Charles Martin
Soon to be a major motion picture starring Kate Winslet and Idris Elba. An atmospheric, suspenseful and gripping story of two people finding love while fighting to survive.
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When a blizzard strands them in Salt Lake City, two strangers agree to charter a plane together, hoping to return home;... more
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841
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In The Grip Of Grace by Max Lucado
Can anything separate us from God's love? Does He really love us, no matter what? How does He feel about me when I snap at anything that moves? When I've failed as a parent? When my thoughts are gutter-level? When my tongue is sharp? Have I drifted too far? Waited too long? Slipped too much? The... more
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