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I'm glad someone made me read this book
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items Books that are worth reading at least once!
This is a novel that I have read countless times over the years and it never fails to connect with me on some level with every reading.
To Kill a Mockingbird a book by Harper Lee
This is an amazing and moving novel. So much so that tasks, appointments, and everything else in my life were put on hold while I read, laughed, cried, celebrated, hurt, and felt healed. Some friends once told me about a spiritual teacher who would o...
The Help a book by Kathryn Stockett
This book reminds me- "that life is a game". It is what it is. The game is how we play it:
we add our beliefs - thoughts - feelings - choices. We 'add' meaning to "what is".
The Stranger a book by Albert Camus
This book is an absolute treasure.
The Little Prince a book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
I just watched an interview with Stephen Fry and he mentioned this book. Read it a long long time ago. Read it for highschool already I think. Remember being shocked and amazed. Scary, funny, dark and wonderful at the same time. Un-be-lievable. And I...
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest a book by Ken Kesey, Robert Faggen, and Robert Faggen
At the age of twelve, Jonas, a young boy from a seemingly utopian, futuristic world, is singled out to receive special training from The Giver, who alone holds the memories of the true joys and pain of life.
The Giver a book by Lois Lowry
THE HUNGER GAMES is a fantastic, breathless and somewhat brutal read that once you start you simply can’t put down again.
The Hunger Games (Hunger Games, Book One): Volume 1 a book by Suzanne Collins
This is a lovely book. It’s beautifully written, it’s funny, it’s filled with characters who feel full and real and different from one another , and it truly is the best love story ever told.
Pride and Prejudice a book by Jane Austen, Vivien Jones, and Tony Tanner
This is one of the best novels I read about the American dream. The prose is perfect in every way, and this novel's ending is one of the best endings I have ever read.
The Great Gatsby a book by F. Scott Fitzgerald
I'm gonna ask myself a mandatory question and say nothing more.
Why the fuck had I not read this book before?
1984: 75th Anniversary a book by George Orwell, Sandra Newman, and Dolen Perkins-Valdez
I would recommend Anne Frank – The Diary of a Young Girl to absolutely everyone, for I believe that it holds some truth or enlightenment for everyone.
The Diary of a Young Girl a book by Anne Frank
Lord of the Flies is one of the most disturbing books I've ever read. It was required high school reading and since then, I've read it four more times. It is as disturbing now as it was then. Using a group of innocent schoolboys stranded on an island...
Lord of the Flies a book by William Golding, Lois Lowry, Jennifer Buehler, et al.
The Alchemist is a novel that will not appeal to everybody. Not everyone will identify with Santiago. We all have dreams, and are praying for somebody to tell us they can come true. The novel skillfully combines words of wisdom, philosophy, and simpl...
The Alchemist a book by Paulo Coelho
In the spirit of A Little Princess, this story recognises the characteristics we must prize most as human beings. The book follows contrary Mary Lennox as she learns a very important lesson from a very secret garden.
The Secret Garden: Special Edition with Tasha Tudor Art and Bonus Materials a book by Frances Hodgson Burnett and Tasha Tudor
One of the things that I found to be most powerful was the way the narrator changed his view of others after becoming more intelligent and the way others changed their attitude towards him.
I believe this should be read by everybody. Highly recomme...
Flowers for Algernon a book by Daniel Keyes
I remember thinking that here was a master storyteller. Not only able to create complex characters, but able to take the reader deeply inside a character’s mind. Best of all, I remember that I would stop reading periodically and think; not a mindless...
Crime and Punishment a book by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky, et al.