Literary Books


Jerusalem Vigil The Zion Legacy: Book OneJerusalem Vigil The Zion Legacy: Book One
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This is the first book in the Zion Legacy Series by Bodie and Brock Thoene. The first series...
Sense and Sensibility (Puffin Classics)Sense and Sensibility (Puffin Classics)
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I just finished reading this book and I have fallen in love with it. Austen is funny and...
Martin ChuzzlewitMartin Chuzzlewit
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Besides "Bleak House", "Martin Chuzzlewit" is easily my...
A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin English Library)A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin English Library)
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This is an extraordinary book!But,it isn't surprising,after all it's Dickens.This book...
Far from the Madding Crowd (Penguin Classics)Far from the Madding Crowd (Penguin Classics)
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This is a fantastic introduction to Hardy's work for those who have not yet plunged into his...


Jude the Obscure (English Library)Jude the Obscure (English Library)
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"Jude the Obscure" is a rare find! Jude Fawley is a kind, decent man who...
The Aspern Papers and The Turn of the ScrewThe Aspern Papers and The Turn of the Screw
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Well these are my two favorite works by Henry James. In both James displays his very neatly...
Daniel Deronda (Penguin Classics)Daniel Deronda (Penguin Classics)
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"Daniel Deronda" was the last novel George Eliot wrote, and it's an appropriate...
Jude the Obscure (Penguin Classics)Jude the Obscure (Penguin Classics)
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If there's one strange habit that's become a subtle part of my life it's that I have...
The Pickwick Papers (Penguin Classics)The Pickwick Papers (Penguin Classics)
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I have absolutely no doubts whatsoever that Charles Dickens, if he lived today, would still...


Lost: A NovelLost: A Novel
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I'll be the first to admit, I generally stay away from authors who are the hottest newest...
The Pilgrimage: A Contemporary Quest for Ancient WisdomThe Pilgrimage: A Contemporary Quest for Ancient Wisdom
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This is a reprint of one of Coelho's first books published previously as "The Diary...
The Bell JarThe Bell Jar
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Sylvia Plath has in many circles been something of the poster child for modern nihilism, almost...
Four Freedoms: A NovelFour Freedoms: A Novel
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John Crowley wrote "Little, Big", in the words of Michael Dirda, book editor of the...
The Plague of Doves: A NovelThe Plague of Doves: A Novel
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there were wonderful tales, but it was difficult to follow the plot and keep track of the...

Fortune's FavoritesFortune's Favorites
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This third installment in the respected series continues the excellence of its predecessors, and...
Something Fresh: A Blandings StorySomething Fresh: A Blandings Story
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I first came across this book in a bookstore when I had about 3 hours to kill. I picked it up...
CorrectionCorrection
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I had read "Wittgenstein's Nephew" and "The Loser" and was prepared to...
Emma (Penguin Classics)Emma (Penguin Classics)
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No one reads a book like Fiona Shaw. No matter what she narrates, her voice weaves a golden...
The Rules of Attraction (Contemporary American Fiction)The Rules of Attraction (Contemporary American Fiction)
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This is a book I`ve read again and again.I find the the way it depicts life on a modern...

In the Skin of a LionIn the Skin of a Lion
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Had to read this book for a Canadian literature class (English 3371) at Mount Royal College in...
The Ice-Shirt (Seven Dreams)The Ice-Shirt (Seven Dreams)
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and "White Sweet Clover": These are a few menu items off of Vollmann's eclectic...
Crossing to SafetyCrossing to Safety
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"We drank, largely and with a recklessness, born of inexperience. We ate, and well, but...
Clea (Alexandria Quartet)Clea (Alexandria Quartet)
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Durrell further explores not only another love for Darley, but what art is and what it ought to...
The PearlThe Pearl
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The novella, midway in length between the novel and the short story, was a popular literary form...

The Road to WellvilleThe Road to Wellville
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I sketch this review of T. C. Boyle's comic masterpiece, THE ROAD TO WELLVILLE, on Monday...
Guys and Dolls: The Stories of Damon RunyonGuys and Dolls: The Stories of Damon Runyon
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Every working class neighborhood produces, if those that I have lived in are indicative, its...
Puck of Pook's Hill (Penguin Classics)Puck of Pook's Hill (Penguin Classics)
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I don't know what the previous "reviewer" was injecting but I suggest he...
A Good Scent from a Strange MountainA Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
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At turns tragic and tender, comic and cosmic, this stirring collection of short stories passes...
Oliver Twist (Oxford Illustrated Dickens)Oliver Twist (Oxford Illustrated Dickens)
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Right off the bat, I've never been a fan of Dickens. To me, there's always been...

The Old Curiosity Shop (Oxford World's Classics)The Old Curiosity Shop (Oxford World's Classics)
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(I should note I read this novel without the benefit of the Penguin or World's Classics...
The Odd Women (Oxford World's Classics)The Odd Women (Oxford World's Classics)
Best Price: $7.20
This is a lesser-known classic that deserves more recognition that it gets. It is a novel about...
Tess of the D'UrbervillesTess of the D'Urbervilles
My review is based on the Oxford Classics Edition. Thomas Hardy seems to have been interested...
Romola (Oxford World's Classics)Romola (Oxford World's Classics)
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When one starts reading a Victorian novelist, one prepares before hand to face a certain amount...
Twenty Years After (Oxford World's Classics)Twenty Years After (Oxford World's Classics)
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It is twenty years after the first Musketeers saga and Athos, Aramis, Porthos and d'Artagnan...

The Black Tulip (Oxford World's Classics)The Black Tulip (Oxford World's Classics)
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While The Black Tulip lacks the swashbuckling, derring-do adventures of the other Dumas novels I...
A Girl of the Limberlost (Library of Indiana Classics)A Girl of the Limberlost (Library of Indiana Classics)
Best Price: $17.47
A Girl of The Limberlost is about a girl who at the beginning of the book is about 16 and at the...
Michael O'Halloran (Library of Indiana Classics)Michael O'Halloran (Library of Indiana Classics)
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I loved this story! I read it first when I was 17 or so and had already read many of the...
The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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I re-read this book, after originally reading it in Jr. high school. Huck and Jim go with the...
Scarlet FeatherScarlet Feather
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With a lilt to her voice and astutely paced phrasing Caroline Winterson reads the latest from...

Drop CityDrop City
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I've invested in this book for the last 3 weeks and I really started to succumb to their...
Fragrant HarborFragrant Harbor
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Fragrant Harbour by John Lanchester is a novel that is hard to praise too highly. Set in Hong...
The End of the Affair (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)The End of the Affair (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
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I wish it were possible to read certain books for the first time without knowing how they will...
Tess of the d'UrbervillesTess of the d'Urbervilles
My favorite book of classic literature, Tess had me crying and begging for more. Hardy unfolds...
Too Far AfieldToo Far Afield
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The way to get the most out of this novel is to be both well-versed in German literature...

Blindness (Movie Tie-In)Blindness (Movie Tie-In)
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"Some will die sooner if we go there, said the first blind man, Anyone who is going to die...
Emma (Oxford World's Classics)Emma (Oxford World's Classics)
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Emma is basically a darling snob. She has a kind, loving heart, and really wants to do good, but...
Bleak House (Penguin Audiobooks)Bleak House (Penguin Audiobooks)
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Ananchronistic terminology, a foreign society & culture, and intervening years conspire...
Mansfield Park (Penguin Classics)Mansfield Park (Penguin Classics)
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This book was a major disapointment. I had never read a Jane Austen novel before I read this...
Sense and Sensibility - Audio BookSense and Sensibility - Audio Book
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I read (heard--on audiocassette) this book after seeing the film. I loved them both. Jane...

The Pilgrim's Progress (Penguin Audiobooks)The Pilgrim's Progress (Penguin Audiobooks)
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David Suchet did an excellent job reading for all the characters! Christian was wonderfully...
Dressing Up for the CarnivalDressing Up for the Carnival
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It's hard to describe the effect of these stories -- perhaps mindbending would be as close...
DesperationDesperation
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Stephen King has a standard formula that has made him one of the best selling authors of all...
Out to Canaan (The Mitford Years, Book 4)Out to Canaan (The Mitford Years, Book 4)
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I stumbled upon book two, "A Light in the Window" while browsing at a book...
Queer: A NovelQueer: A Novel
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A book of unreciprocated feelings, and longings amplified by withdrawel and junk sickness. This...

In the Country of Last ThingsIn the Country of Last Things
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Paul Auster presents us with yet another must-read. This novella takes place in an unnamed city...
Sharpe's Eagle: Richard Sharpe and the Talavera Campaign, July 1809Sharpe's Eagle: Richard Sharpe and the Talavera Campaign, July 1809
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Set around the Talevera campaign of July 1809, this first installment in the Sharpe saga deploys...
Bel-Ami (Penguin Classics)Bel-Ami (Penguin Classics)
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Georges Duroy is working as a railway clerk, earning a miserable 1,500 francs a year and...
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (Penguin Classics)The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (Penguin Classics)
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After Herman Melville's tales of mountainous waves, disease, apparitions, murders, suicides,...
Arms and the Man (Shaw Library)Arms and the Man (Shaw Library)
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George Bernard Shaw takes the title for this play from the opening life of Virgil's epic...

Shepherds Abiding/Esther's Gift/Mitford Snowmen (The Mitford Years #8) (Mitford Christmas)Shepherds Abiding/Esther's Gift/Mitford Snowmen (The Mitford Years #8) (Mitford Christmas)
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EVERY CHRISTMAS EVE SINCE 2005 WHEN THIS BOOK WAS RELEASED, I HAVE LISTENED TO THE WONDERFUL...
Ethan Frome: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)Ethan Frome: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
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Edith Wharton filled her novels with a feeling of ruin, passion and restriction. People can fall...
Last Night at the LobsterLast Night at the Lobster
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I'm one of those people who believes a story lives or dies by its characters. If you...
LotteryLottery
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I picked up the CD at the library. I listened to it twice and then checked it out for 2 weeks...
He Who Fears the Wolf (Inspector Sejer Mysteries)He Who Fears the Wolf (Inspector Sejer Mysteries)
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I am not a regular reader of mysteries, but my wife has encouraged me to read a number of...

The Mysterious Flame of Queen LoanaThe Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
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to one another. To live is to remember and to remember is to live. To die is to forget and to...
The Grapes of Wrath (20th Century Classics)The Grapes of Wrath (20th Century Classics)
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"The Grapes of Wrath," written in 1939 by John Steinbeck, is a book about the...
The House of Mirth (Twentieth-Century Classics)The House of Mirth (Twentieth-Century Classics)
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this is my favorite book. absolute favorite. it's not unusual for me to get caught up in a...
Heart of Darkness (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)Heart of Darkness (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
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'Heart of Darkness', the tale of a European seaman journeying up an African river, is a...
Ethan Frome (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)Ethan Frome (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
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If you've read other Wharton works, you suspect her denouement in a case of forbidden love,...

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Twentieth-Century Classics)A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Twentieth-Century Classics)
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A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man, by James Joyce, is about growing up Irish Catholic in...
The Moon Is DownThe Moon Is Down
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In 1941, John Steinbeck met with officials of the Foreign Information Service in Washington D.C....
SpidertownSpidertown
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I discovered Abraham Rodriguez when I read a great short story of his in the equally great...
SeguSegu
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Most of the non-African world is at least slightly familiar with the story of the slave trade ....
The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
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Although this has the reputation of an antique, buy it immediately. Stephen King never wrote...

Small Wonder: EssaysSmall Wonder: Essays
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Barbara Kingsolver, a biology graduate and author, ends her first story in "Small...
Seraph on the SuwaneeSeraph on the Suwanee
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Zora Neale Hurston never fails. SERAPH ON THE SUWANEE, Hurston's lengthiest novel, portrays...
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and WeptBy the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
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With each book I read by Paulo Coelho, I come to admire his works of wisdom, of love and of...
The Zahir: A Novel of ObsessionThe Zahir: A Novel of Obsession
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Zahir, as the title says is in fact a novel of obsession. Obsession of a best selling author...
The Sheltering Sky (P.S.)The Sheltering Sky (P.S.)
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Upon reflection after reading The Sheltering Sky, I found the eccentricity of the characters,...

The Adventures of Maqroll: Four NovellasThe Adventures of Maqroll: Four Novellas
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I discovered the Adventures of Maqroll on the discount table outside my neighborhood bookstore. ...
Someone to Watch Over Me: StoriesSomeone to Watch Over Me: Stories
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Richard Bausch in these stories--of an older men with younger women, of a woman recovering from...
The Crying of Lot 49The Crying of Lot 49
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The Crying of Lot 49 is an amazingly rich and complex work, especially when you consider its...
The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A NovelThe Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel
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... and the vertigo that might accompany it. The fear of falling. Tereza saw "book...
Island of the Sequined Love Nun CDIsland of the Sequined Love Nun CD
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Take a wonderfully crazed excursion into the demented heart of a tropical paradise?a world of...

Oliver Twist (Oxford Illustrated Dickens)Oliver Twist (Oxford Illustrated Dickens)
Best Price: $19.95
Right off the bat, I've never been a fan of Dickens. To me, there's always been...
The Old Curiosity Shop (Oxford World's Classics)The Old Curiosity Shop (Oxford World's Classics)
Best Price: $4.95
(I should note I read this novel without the benefit of the Penguin or World's Classics...
The Odd Women (Oxford World's Classics)The Odd Women (Oxford World's Classics)
Best Price: $7.20
This is a lesser-known classic that deserves more recognition that it gets. It is a novel about...
Tess of the D'UrbervillesTess of the D'Urbervilles
My review is based on the Oxford Classics Edition. Thomas Hardy seems to have been interested...
Romola (Oxford World's Classics)Romola (Oxford World's Classics)
Best Price: $13.91
When one starts reading a Victorian novelist, one prepares before hand to face a certain amount...

Twenty Years After (Oxford World's Classics)Twenty Years After (Oxford World's Classics)
Best Price: $6.79
It is twenty years after the first Musketeers saga and Athos, Aramis, Porthos and d'Artagnan...
The Black Tulip (Oxford World's Classics)The Black Tulip (Oxford World's Classics)
Best Price: $14.98
While The Black Tulip lacks the swashbuckling, derring-do adventures of the other Dumas novels I...
A Girl of the Limberlost (Library of Indiana Classics)A Girl of the Limberlost (Library of Indiana Classics)
Best Price: $17.47
A Girl of The Limberlost is about a girl who at the beginning of the book is about 16 and at the...
Michael O'Halloran (Library of Indiana Classics)Michael O'Halloran (Library of Indiana Classics)
Best Price: $12.44
I loved this story! I read it first when I was 17 or so and had already read many of the...
 
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