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Hi Carol,
The Human Comedy is by William Saroyan. That's what it says on our list. However, to double check I looked through all the posts when we were making up the list but I couldn't find who suggested it.
The Human Comedy is by William Saroyan. That's what it says on our list. However, to double check I looked through all the posts when we were making up the list but I couldn't find who suggested it.
Christine wrote: "Hi Carol,The Human Comedy is by William Saroyan. That's what it says on our list. However, to double check I looked through all the posts when we were making up the list but I couldn't find who s..."
Great, thanks!
Finished the Tenant of Wildfell Hall. I liked it the best of the Bronte sisters. Now I'm ready to move on.
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriveromg!2 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
3 Mossflower by Brian Jacques
4 The New Jim Crowe Laws by Michelle Alexander
5
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseinisorry, did not like it6 Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
7 Middlemarch by George Elliot
8 The Discworld Series by Terry Pratchett
9 The Collected Works by E.E. Cummings
10
The Thirteenth Tale by Dianne Setterfieldenjoyed11
The Book Thief by Markus Zusakokay12 I am the Messenger by Markus Zusak
13 A Bell for Adano by John Hersey
14
East of Eden by John SteinbeckOne of my favorite books!15 Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
16 A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
17 The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
18 Tess of the D'Urbavilles by Thomas Hardy
19 The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
20
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky21 The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
22 The Shining by Stephen King
23 The Shack by W. Young
24 The Last Man by Mary Shelley
25 Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov
26 My First White Friend by Patricia Raybon
27 Persuasion by Jane Austen
28 The Fault In Our Stars by John Green
29 Very Bad Men by Harry Dolan
30
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury31 Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
32
Watership Down by Richard Adams33 Night by Elie Wiesel
34
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe35 The Stand by Stephen King
36
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens37
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens38 Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
39 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
40 For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
41 War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
42 Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
43
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte44
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffeneger45 Invasion of the Body Snatchers by Jack Finney
46 The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
47 The Hyperion Series by Dan Simmons
48 The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
49 Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
50 Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
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The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway52 Descartes Bones by Russell Shorto
53 The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
54 The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
55 A Separate Peace by John Knowles
56 The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
57 Looking for Alaska by John Green
58 12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
59 Dove by Robin Lee Graham
60 Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
61 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
62
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald63 The Power of One by Bryce Courtney
64 A Testament of Youth by Vera Britain
65 Burr by Gore Vidal
66 The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
67 Pet Cemetary by Stephen King
68 Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
69 American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis
70 The Human Comedy by William Saroyan
71 Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
72 The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
73 The Discovery of Heaven by Harry Mulisch
74 The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow by Rita Leganski
75 My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult (seriously?)
76 Emma by Jane Austen
77 Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
78 Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
79 The Forgotten Seamstress by Liz Trenow
80 Freedom from the Known by J. Krishnamurti
81 Foam of the Daze by Boris Vian
82 A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
83 The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
84
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larssonone and done85
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Pirsig86 Moon and Sixpense by W. Somerset Maugham
87
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides88 Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
89 Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind
90 How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn
91 Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
92 The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
93 Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini
94 The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine
95 The Faiths of the Founding Fathers by David L. Holmes
96 The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
97 The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope
98 Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
99 The Marid Audran Sequence by George Alec Effinger
100 When the Sacred Gin Mill Closes by Lawrence Block