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Post by Dave on Feb 25, 2008 16:26:47 GMT -5
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Post by RO on Feb 25, 2008 17:13:57 GMT -5
This isn't even a start to my list...
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
Tara Road – Maeve Binchy
Winter Solstice – Rosamunde Pilcher
Lost Horizon – James Hilton
The Yellow Wallpaper and other writings by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Awakening -- Kate Chopin
The Kite Runner -- Khaled Hosseini
My Sister's Keeper -- Jodi Picoult
A Perfect Day - Richard Paul Evans
The Lovely Bones -- Alice Seybold
Memoirs of a Geisha -- Arthur Golden
The Smoke Jumper – Nicholas Evans
The lost boys of Sudan – Mark Bixl
The Double Bind -- Chris Bohjalian
Night -- Elie Wiesel
Glass Castle – Jeannette Walls
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
The Art of Happiness – The Dalai Lama
Anne Frank: the diary of a young girl – Anne Frank
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith
Where the Sidewalk Ends – Shel Silverstein
Complete works of Poetry – Robert Frost
Leaves of Grass – Walt Whitman
Memorize as many poems as you can…
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Post by jules on Feb 25, 2008 23:42:09 GMT -5
Are we including children's books too? Because that's my real passion...
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Post by kittenhart on Feb 26, 2008 1:46:57 GMT -5
I feel like such a nerd. I mostly read non-fiction... okay, okay, I mostly read journal articles...or else Cosmo or other trash magazines, or poems (as this is my attention span).
I usually start a book, then get busy doing something else, then start another book, then can't remember what was going on in the first book....sigh!
I love T.S. Eliot.
I did read a good book during the summer called "The Red Tent" about Dinah from the old testament. This book seemed to hold my attention all day, and I read it all in one day.
I also like the James Herriott vet books, like "It shouldn't happen to a vet" and "All Creatures Great and Small"...hilarious ;D. And each chapter is kindof a story by itself, so you can put it down and pick it up again later....no big time commitment required.
I should make an effort to be more "well read".
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Post by JimB on Feb 26, 2008 9:54:59 GMT -5
Don't read this post, Freck (not that he would be anyway)....
Several books I enjoy immensely, but there are only a few I would qualify as "must reads".
The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis
The Three Musketeers and The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas
There may be more, but I need to go home and look at my bookshelf....
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Post by lumpy on Feb 26, 2008 11:04:28 GMT -5
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Post by cdngurl on Feb 26, 2008 11:41:51 GMT -5
In addition to many of the above mentions, I really loved "A Fine Balance" by Rohinton Mistry.
The author did an amazing job bringing the reader back to mid-70s India... and the ending was a jaw dropper.
a must read..
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Post by rocko on Feb 26, 2008 15:30:46 GMT -5
The Mirror -I wll post the author tonight. It has been handed down through my family and friends read it too. Everyone signs the inside with the date they finish it.
Memoirs of a Geisha-
There is one more...and I can't think of the name at this moment.
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Post by Dave on Feb 29, 2008 10:19:23 GMT -5
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Post by lumpy on Feb 29, 2008 10:26:37 GMT -5
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Post by JimB on Feb 29, 2008 11:05:35 GMT -5
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Post by jules on Feb 29, 2008 11:17:21 GMT -5
This book makes me cry every single damn time. It's wonderful, just like anything by Tomie dePaola, who is a wonderful author, illustrator, and man. He's exactly like a children's book writer ought to be -- a teddy bear!
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Post by lumpy on Feb 29, 2008 12:01:09 GMT -5
Good stuff, Maynard. I think that was the first Fantasy series I ever read. Got my daughter hooked on the genre as well.
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Post by lumpy on Feb 29, 2008 12:32:50 GMT -5
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Post by sheyd on Feb 29, 2008 17:39:55 GMT -5
These are just some I enjoy - not "must reads" - often my reading is of a lighter nature, because it is my escape...
Watership Downs Other Side of the Mountain (Or is it My Side of the Mountain?) Little Fuzzy Fog Magic Trumpeter of Krakow
Little House on the Prairie Series Anne of Green Gables Series All of the DragonRiders of Pern Series by Anne McCaffrey Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordon A Wrinkle in Time Series Harry Potter Series
Authors: Anne McCaffrey Andre Norton Piers Anthony Douglas Adams
(there is so much more I can't even think of it all...)
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