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dalpaengee January 16 2011, 21:45:17 UTC
Some of these may not be your style of books, but I'm telling you anyway! I will put stars by must-reads (according to me!).

So I already told you that The Book of Lost Things was good. Also, though:
*The Book of Salt (Monique Truong) - really good omg
The Yellow Wallpaper (Charlotte Perkins Gilman) - this is a short story but SO GOOD we read it in high school >.>
*The House of Spirits (Isabelle Allende) - ONE OF MY ALL-TIME FAVORITES
Eva Moves the Furniture (Margot Livesey) - i read this SO LONG AGO but i liked it way back then? (but who knows about my judgement back then...)
1984 (George Orwell) - if you have never read this i will cry
*His Dark Materials (Philip Pullman) - will also cry....
The Hundred Secret Senses (Amy Tan) - amy tan is good in general, i read this a few years ago, thumbs up
*To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee) - instead of crying, i'll just murder you

And here are some suggestions I've been given by friends, but haven't tried yet:
A Game of Thrones (George R. R. Martin)
A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving) - actually I've heard all of his books are really really good
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy) - one of mom's all-time favorites
East of Eden (John Steinbeck) - another of mom's, but my other friend really likes Steinbeck too
Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell) - my sister was OBSESSED
Slaughterhouse Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
The Historian (Elizabeth Kostova) - about Dracula!
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy) - mom likes russian lit lol

And other books I have wanted to read/will read eventually:
Invisible Cities (Italo Calvino)
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
The Stranger (Albert Camus)
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Haruki Murakami)
White Oleander (Janet Fitch)

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