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30-year-old woman in Chicago, IL, United States
Seeking a man, 25 to 35
Cannery Row: (Centennial Edition)

Cannery Row

John Steinbeck

Oh! One of my all-time favorites. I used to keep this and Sweet Thursday on my nightstand for when I needed to read something wonderful. The frog hunting chapter is hands down one of my...more »

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Infinite Jest

Infinite Jest

David Foster Wallace

It may be trite to add IJ to this list, but it's entirely unavoidable. I think this is one of those books that you imprint with the time/place you first read it. Chicago, summer 2010, I was...more »

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Blindness (Movie Tie-In)

Blindness

Jose Saramago

I'm looking at the cover Alikewise has for this book and wondering how they could ever have turned this book into a movie. How did that even work? Wait, don't tell me: I don't want to ruin...more »

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Sweet Thursday (Penguin Classics)

Sweet Thursday

John Steinbeck, Robert DeMott

Doc and Suzy: awww. The only sequel I've read that might actually be better than the original (although it's a tough call), this book just makes me so happy.

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Carry On, Jeeves (A Jeeves and Bertie Novel)

Carry On, Jeeves

P. G. Wodehouse

I wish I could add all of P. G. Wodehouse to this list. There's nothing he wrote that I won't read (even the stuff about golf). Wodehouse is my ultimate beach read--which should not be...more »

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Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

Ex Libris

Anne Fadiman

The essay in which she and her husband, after years of marriage, decide to merge their libraries is the most charming/true piece I've read in ages. Despite not being an essay kind of...more »

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Ulysses

Ulysses

James Joyce

I admit it: I started Ulysses primarily for the bragging rights. And maybe I have literary Stockholm syndrome, but I actually ended up enjoying it. The beginning was a slog, and I fully...more »

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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

Anne Fadiman

Not my usual fare, but the writing is indisputably brilliant: the author does an extraordinary job of illustrating the complexity of the situation. Fadiman is absolutely at the top of my...more »

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The Kindly Ones

The Kindly Ones

Jonathan Littell, Charlotte Mandell

Easily the creepiest book I've read in years; I can't stop talking about it. I avoid Holocaust books like the plague--really, what can be said that hasn't already been written?--but rave...more »

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Swann's Way

Swann's Way

Marcel, C. K. (Charles Kenneth) Scott-Moncrieff

I've only read the first two volumes of the series, but wow, never has a complete lack of action been so enjoyable. It won't ever make my top ten, but I'm quite glad to have tackled it and...more »

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