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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet: A Novel

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

David Mitchell

Loved, loved, loved this book. It introduced me to a world I knew nothing about, drew me in, fascinated and repelled me, gave me stories within stories.

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Gold Boy, Emerald Girl: Stories

Gold Boy, Emerald Girl

Yiyun Li

The stories in this book are bleak, and yet how do they make me feel some comfort, some dose of humanity?

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The Elegance of the Hedgehog

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Muriel Barbery, Alison Anderson

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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Michael Chabon

This was a book chosen by my book group; I never would have selected it myself. And yet, the narrative swept me along, into a world I never thought I could be interested in...the comic...more »

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The Woman in White (Oxford World's Classics)

The Woman in White

Wilkie Collins, John Sutherland

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Winesburg, Ohio (Signet Classics)

Winesburg, Ohio

Dean Koontz, Irving Howe, Sherwood Anderson

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The Ambassadors (Oxford World's Classics)

The Ambassadors

Henry James, Christopher Butler

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Angle of Repose (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

Angle of Repose

Wallace Stegner, Jackson J. Benson

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Jane Eyre (Readable Classics) (Afrihili Edition)

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Bronte, Wayne Josephson

Was there ever a more romantic story? I thought this when I was 12 and I think it now, many years later.

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Main Street (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics)

Main Street

Sinclair Lewis, Brooke Allen

My very favorite of this genre...I could have been Carol Kennicott at the time.

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Freedom: A Novel

Freedom

Jonathan Franzen

I was intrigued to read this book after seeing the author interviewed in San Francisco, because of his slight curmudgeonly air and keen sense of humor. The book has a strong narrative,...more »

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U.S.A.: The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money (Library of America)

U.S.A.

John Dos Passos

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The Age of Innocence (Barnes & Noble Classics)

The Age of Innocence

Edith Wharton, Maureen Howard

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Room: A Novel

Room

Emma Donoghue

Haunting.

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