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[quote=Anonymous]Here are my comments for what they are worth, lol:

Read and Agree:
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl 
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
100 Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Trial, Franz Kafka
Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier

I should probably read:
Catch-22, Joseph Heller
1984, George Orwell
The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley (My husband loves this book)
Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie (My husband also loves this book)
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
Beloved, Toni Morrison
Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
Dracula, Bram Stoker
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath

Read and didn't really care for (but probably because I was forced to read in school):
Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
Lord of the Flies, William Golding
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray

Didn't Read, No opinion: 
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 ¾, Sue Townsend
Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
The Code of the Woosters, PG Wodehouse
Middlemarch, George Eliot
The Secret History, Donna Tartt
Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
Dune, Frank Herbert
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Philip K Dick
The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler
Dangerous Liaisons, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
The Leopard, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa[/quote]

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