Best novel you have ever read
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Anonymous
| Harry Potter. |
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Man, how can you choose just one?
I really loved The Shipping News by Annie Proulx. I read it one lonely summer spent in a strange town where I knew no one and was doing an internship which had me doing research alone in a cold basement room. Something about the mood I was in -- it just resonated with me. |
Anonymous
definitely best cheese-y beach read (and be assured that I mean this as a compliment, both to the author and the reader) best classic: I should say Pride and Prejudice, but in truth, reader, I prefer my novel of manners/avante garde feminism with a plentiful dollop of overwrought passion: The Age of Innocence |
Anonymous
I first read this book as required reading in the 11th grade. I couldn't put it down. My other favorite is To Kill a Mockingbird. |
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Little Bee
Her Sister's Keeper's Keeper Kite Runner The Color Purple |
Anonymous
| Anna Karenina or Pride and Prejudice |
Anonymous
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So many...
Midnight's Children Remains of the Day Life of Pi English Patient (such poetry) Great Gatsby Atonement Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha One summer I read Mrs. Dalloway and then The Hours - thought it was a great one-two punch. I also loved OWEN MEANY (doesn't it feel as though that is how we should type it?) |
Anonymous
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Another vote for To Kill a Mockingbird.
When I read the last line of Owen Meany, I literally burst into tears. I don't think I fully understood the meaning of that phrase until that moment. Wind Up Bird Chronicle was interesting, too. The skinning scene stayed with me for a long, long time. |
Anonymous
how did it change your life? |
Anonymous
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Angle of Repose by Wallace Stenger
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Anonymous
| Angle of Repose and my recent choice - Cutting for Stone |
Anonymous
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I can't pick just one...so a couple I didn't see/may have missed
Wuthering Heights The Handmaid's Tale Ethan Frome The Inn at Lake Devine, by Elinor Lipman. Chick lit recommended to me by my FATHER. This was extraordinarily strange, but he was so right. The best book I've read lately is Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel. I devoured it, finished it, and then flipped back to page 1 and read it again. It's that good. |
Anonymous
| Not a great literary work but A Secret History by Donna Tartt is an enjoyable summer read. |
Anonymous
| The Silmarillion, by J.R.R. Tolkien |
Anonymous
| American Gods by Neil Gaiman. |