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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can’t answer this question! It depends too much on genre, mood, age I read it and if it held up on subsequent reads (or not, but I still have some affection for it), etc!

What kinds of books do you like??[/quote]

I have to agree with this!! Personally, I will always say Pride and Prejudice followed by the controversial Gone with the Wind, both of which I read in middle school. Still love Austen for her insights into societal expectations on women and moving within those confines and sorry, still love GWTW for the amazing characters and story that you can almost see in front of you. I haven't reread GWTW in the past 15 years, but I am sure there would be more problematic aspects that I didn't notice. Obviously it was a book of its time, not sure how people will continue to look at that in the future.

More recent reads that I love are Emily St. John Mandel books which are definitely a certain taste, Marilynne Robinson books which are very dense and contemplative, Americanah and the Neapolitan Novels.[/quote]

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