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Books that everyone should read at least once
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items Explore the essence of humanity through the pages of my curated collection.
Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, "To Kill A Mockingbird" takes readers to the roots of human behavior - to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humor and pathos. Now with over 18 million copies in print and tran...
To Kill a Mockingbird a book by Harper Lee
Harry Potter thinks he is an ordinary boy - until he is rescued by an owl, taken to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, learns to play Quidditch and does battle in a deadly duel. The Reason ... HARRY POTTER IS A WIZARD!
Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone a book by J K Rowling and Matthew Fitt
Pride and Prejudice is a novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story takes place in the fictional town of Meryton, England, in the late 18th century. The novel follows the life of Elizabeth Bennet, a witty and independent-minded young wo...
Pride and Prejudice a book by Jane Austen, Vivien Jones, and Tony Tanner
In 1942, with the Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding. For the next two years, until their whereabouts were betrayed to the Gestapo, the Franks and another family l...
The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition a book by Anne Frank, Otto H. Frank, Otto M. Frank, et al.
A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned...
Animal Farm: 75th Anniversary Edition (Anniversary) a book by George Orwell, Russell Baker, and Tea Obreht
The Little Prince is a short story of a man who crash lands his plane in a remote part of the desert. The man meets a little fellow, The Little Prince, who regales him with his tales of his travels around the universe. This was a short book that carr...
The Little Prince a book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
George Orwell's 1984 is a grim read that tells of a future in which something has gone horribly wrong in society resulting the extreme oppression of the citizens of at least one super state. It might be most famous for exploring the idea of technolog...
1984: 75th Anniversary a book by George Orwell, Sandra Newman, and Dolen Perkins-Valdez
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. This exemplary novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for th...
The Great Gatsby a book by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Catcher in the Rye is a 1951 novel by J. D. Salinger. A classic novel originally published for adults, it has since become popular with adolescent readers for its themes of teenage angst and alienation. It has been translated into almost all of t...
The Catcher in the Rye a book by J. D. Salinger
One of the greatest trilogies of all time and certainly the measuring stick to which all subsequent fantasy-style writing is compared, The Lord of the Rings trilogy still stands at the top of the stack.
The Lord of the Rings Deluxe Edition a book by J. R. R. Tolkien
In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare creates a violent world, in which two young people fall in love. It is not simply that their families disapprove; the Montagues and the Capulets are engaged in a blood feud. In this death-filled setting, the movement ...
Romeo and Juliet a book by William Shakespeare, Barbara a. Mowat, and Paul Werstine
"I have read a few huge books in my life. Some are a struggle to get through and others are so captivating they read easier than a 300 page novel. Gone With The Wind falls in the "captivating" category. At no point was I bored with the story or wonde...
Gone with the Wind a book by Margaret Mitchell