Favorite authors/books

Discover a curated list of favorite authors and must-read books. Explore top literary picks and timeless classics for every book lover's collection.

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Faust I & II

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Goethe's most complex and profound work, Faust was the effort of the great poet's entire lifetime. Written over 60 years, it can be read as …
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The Bible According to Mark Twain

by Mark Twain

Compiles letters, essays, diaries, and excerpts about heaven, hell, sinners, and saints
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Four Complete Novels

 

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The English Patient

by Michael Ondaatje

BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The bestselling author of Warlight traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at …
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In the Skin of a Lion

by Michael Ondaatje

Bristling with intelligence and shimmering with romance, this novel tests the boundary between history and myth. Patrick Lewis arrives in Toronto in the 1920s and …
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Prodigal Summer

by Barbara Kingsolver

Barbara Kingsolver's fifth novel is a hymn to wildness that celebrates the prodigal spirit of human nature, and of nature itself. It weaves together three …
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The Three Musketeers

 

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Lady Chatterley's Lover

by D.H. Lawrence

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING THE CROWN’S EMMA CORRIN AND UNBROKEN’S JACK O’CONNELL Lyric and sensual, D.H. Lawrence’s last novel is one …
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Sons and Lovers

by David Herbert Lawrence

D.H. Lawrence's great autobiographical novel is a provocative portrait of an artist torn between love for his possessive mother and desire for two young beautiful …
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The Lord of the Rings

by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Contains The Fellowship of the ring, The Two towers, and The Return of the king, appendices, indexes, and notes on the text.
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The Hobbit, Or, There and Back Again

by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Bilbo Baggins, a respectable, well-to-do hobbit, lives comfortably in his hobbit-hole until the day the wandering wizard Gandalf chooses him to take part in an …
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Out of the Girls' Room and Into the Night

by Thisbe Nissen

In Thisbe Nissen's award-winning debut story collection, characters teeter on the verge of love, of life, of oncoming cataclysms after which Things Will Never Be …
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I, Claudius

by Robert Graves

Considered an idiot because of his physical infirmities, Claudius survived the intrigues and poisonings of the reigns of Augustus, Tiberius, and the Mad Caligula to …
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A Passage to India

by Edward Morgan Forster

Adela Quested arrives in Chandrapore, prepared to meet and marry a city magistrate who exemplifies the narrow-minded, anti-Indian prejudices of the imperial bureaucracy, but an …
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The Lexus and the Olive Tree

by Thomas L. Friedman

From one of our most perceptive commentators and winner of the National Book Award, a comprehensive look at the new world of globalization, the international …
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From Beirut to Jerusalem

by Thomas L. Friedman

Examines Israeli-Palestinian relations, the PLO, Israeli politics, Lebanese factions, news reporting from the Middle East, and other issues of the Middle East.
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ID: 0684717255
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