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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So I was raiding my parents' John Updike and James Baldwin at age 12.  I will not suggest those, although my mother did an admirable job restraining herself when she found me reading them.

But how about:

Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises

Steinback:  The Pearl, others

Hilton: Lost Horizon

Crane: The Red Badge of Courage

London: The Call of the Wild

Evelyn Waugh: Scoop, Brideshead Revisited

Graham Greene: Travels With My Aunt

Buck: The Good Earth

Pynchon: The Crying of Lot 49

Marquez:  100 Years of Solitude

Salinger:  Catcher in the Rye

Huxley: Brave New World

Orwell: 1984

Barrie: Peter Pan

Kipling: The Jungle Books, Kim

McCullers:  The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The Member of the Wedding

Fitzgerald:  The Great Gatsby

West: Day of the Locust

Forster: A Passage to India

Nabokov: Pnin

Tarkington: The Magnificent Ambersons

Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man

Griffin: Black Like Me

Adams: Watership Down

Card: Ender's Game

Thomas: A Child's Christmas in Wales

Hammet: The Thin Man

Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles, others

Dumas:  The Count of Monte Christo, The Three Musketeers

Hugo: The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Verne: Around the World in 80 Days, others

Anonymous:  A Thousand and One Nights

Shelley: Frankenstein

White:  The Once and Future King

Wells:  Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Invisible Man

Stevenson: Treasure Island, Kidnapped

If she hasn't read Herge's entire Tintin oeuvre, she must.

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Thank you.She's only read Treasure Island from this list.[/quote]

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