Best novel you have ever read
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| I wish I could order owen meaney on my kindle. Unavailable. Oh well. |
Anonymous
Too many of these are not on kindle  How do we complain? 
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Anonymous
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Because of this thread today I ordered:
Handmaid's Tale Kite Runner Red Tent Toilers of the Sea Hi Majesty's Dragon I hope Winter's Tale is available soon! (Kindle) |
Anonymous
This is my favorite too! |
Anonymous
| The Glass Castle (Walls) |
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Two of my faves:
Sozaboy by Ken Saro-Wiwa Amazing, about the Biafran war in Nigeria and told from the perspective of a naive conscript The brief wonderous life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz So funny and poignant And anything by Edwige Danticat I also loved A Fine Balance which has been mentioned a lot |
Anonymous
| OMG loving Temeraire book 1! |
Anonymous
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Brother's Karamazoz.
I also love Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto |
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This is a great thread. I compiled the list of the books mentioned here and posted on the homepage. The list is ordered by number of recommendations, I wasn't not counting just mere mentions or quoted text. I looked up some of the books online to get the titles and authors' names spelling correctly. The best couple hours I spent on the computer lately. Thank you all for the recommendations!
http://www.dcurbanmom.com/weblog/2011/07/29/dcum_books |
Anonymous
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Anything by Alice Munro.
In the Skin of the Lion, by Michael Ondaatje |
Anonymous
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Angle of Repose and Crossing to Safety -- wallace stegner - beautiful and inciteful writing about relationships
Brideshead Revisited the John Galsworthy novels - the Forsythe Saga - top notch soap opera for all of you Jane Austen fans The Kite Runner is the best audiobook ever - read by the author. I sat in the car and sobbed at the last part. |
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Yet another vote for Grapes of Wrath. I can still remember where I was when I finished it and how the final scene left me breathless and still and on the verge of tears. Beautiful, heartbreaking. And that was 20 years ago!
Also, it's certainly not great literature, but one novel that still haunts me years later is "We Need to Talk About Kevin" by Lionel Shriver. I know they have now made it into a movie, but please try the book--I think of it more often than almost anything I've read, especially now that I am a mother myself (not that my child is like Kevin!). It's really devastating in its dramatic tension. |
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As a child: Anne of Green Gables series, Little House on the Prairie books, Hobbit, The Great Brain series
As a college student: The Bluest Eye, The Color Purple, Emma, Pride and Prejudice, Approaching Middle Age: Anne of Green Gables, Hunger Games series, Harry Potter series, Remains of the Day, and more non-fiction books |
Anonymous
| A Prayer for Owen Meany!!! I remember the time and place I finished it...need to read it again. |
Anonymous
| A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin. Beautiful. |