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Jun 18, 2015 01:42PM
Oh, I've just remembered Chronicle of a Death Foretold. That needs to be in my list somewhere. But I don't know which book to take off it!
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Gill: I too loved reading that book. There are many episodes in the novella which are very memorable.
1.Something Witchy This Way Comes2.Wait for You
3.White Hot Kiss
4.Lovely Vicious
5.Playing for Keeps
6.Captured
7.Bound
8.Prince of Wolves
9.Beautiful Disaster
10.Angelfall
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1. Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
2. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
3. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
4. An Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray (poem)
5. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
6. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
7. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
8. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
9. Riders to the Sea by J.M. Synge (play)
10. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
11. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
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I also feel like The Great Gatsby should be there on the strength of the writing alone, but I can't think of anything to take off for it.
It's too difficult to choose isn't it Greg. I didn't include Gatsby in my list, but it's definitely a book that meant a lot to me and I think worthy of being in greatest book lists.
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I do think you'll like it Alice - it has everything: beautiful language, deeply affecting, and gripping from beginning to end.
Thanks for the reassurance Greg! I'm looking forward to reading it :)
My top 10 as of right now (in no particular order)1.) A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
2.)The Secret Garden also by Frances Hodgson Burnett
3.) Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
4.) The Journal of Hélène Berr by Hélène Berr
5.) Henna House by Nomi Eve
6.) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
7.) Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
8.) The Giver also by Lois Lowry
9.) Dracula by Bram Stoker
10.) Maus by Art Spiegelman
It's hard to narrow it down to ten. Here is my list subject to change at any time:1. The Lord of the Rings
2.Watership Down
3.[Childhood's End
4.David Copperfield
5.The Secret Garden
6.East of Eden
7.The Road
8.The Tell-Tale Heart
9.Fahrenheit 451
10.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Ruth wrote: "It's hard to narrow it down to ten. Here is my list subject to change at any time:1. The Lord of the Rings
2.Watership Down
3.[Childhood's End|414999]
4..."
Ruth, I have several of the same books on my list so I look forward to trying the ones I haven't read before (such as The Road)!
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