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Kafka on the Shore

Kafka on the Shore

Haruki Murakami

Strange and powerful book. I was swept away by Murakami's prose. I feel now I have to read everything he's ever written.

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The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings

The Fellowship of the Ring

J.R.R. Tolkien

All right, all right, I like fantasy. There, I said it. You can stop snickering now. I was surprised at how readable and engaging this is. I pawed through it in a day or two. The story...more »

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Lirael (The Abhorsen Trilogy)

Lirael

Garth Nix

I love this whole trilogy, but Lirael's my favorite. It's easy for me to identify with her melancholic moping at the beginning of the book because she doesn't fit in and can't find a...more »

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Crime and Punishment (Dover Thrift Editions)

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Constance Garnett, Dover Thrift Editions

Dostoyevsky excels at creating tortured, pathologically interesting characters, and Raskolnikov is one of my favorites, maybe beating out even Ivan Karamazov. I think anyone who's ever...more »

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2BR02B

2BR02B

KURT VONNEGUT Jr.

Very short, but it packs a punch. It's hard to say much without giving it away, but it makes you question the value of a human life, and that of a stable, happy environment over liberty...more »

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