THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN by Mark Twain
An all-time classic. Funny, sad and perceptive. Huck is the 19th century Holden Caulfield. The people that wish to ban this book due to the use of the word "nigger" are people that should never have any modicum of power over anyone.
ALICE IN WONDERLAND by Lewis Carroll
What a long strange trip it's been.
AND LADIES OF THE CLUB by Helen Hoover Santmeyer
It took author Santmeyer 50 years to compete this massive novel (1400 pages!). It follows the lives of several women in Wayesboro, Ohio post-Civil War who begin a study club. Published in 1982 by the Ohio State Press ALOTC only sold a few hundred copies during the first two years. Then, a filmmaker begin to inquire about purchasing the rights to make a mini-series and the book began to get publicity and in 1984, it was chosen to be a main selection for the Book-of-the-Month Club and became the best-selling novel that year. Santmeyer by that time was living in a nursing home.
FAIRY TALES by Hans Christian Andersen
Includes: The Emperor's New Clothes; The Little Match Girl, The Little Mermaid; The Princess and the Pea; The Red Shoes; The Snow Queen; Thumbelina; The Ugly Duckling.
THE FRIENDLY PERSUASION by Jessamyn West
A great novel about pacifist Quakers in southern Indiana during the American Civil War. Made into the classic Hollywood movie starring Gary Cooper and Dorothy McGuire.
GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN by James Baldwin
The ground-breaking semi-autobiographical novel by Baldwin that examines racism and the effect of the Christian church on American blacks.
THE GUNS OF THE SOUTH by Harry Turtledove
Robert E. Lee is offered the chance to purchase AK-47s after the battle of Gettysburg. A fun alternate history novel.
THE HITCH-HIKERS GUIDE TO THE GALAXY by Douglas Adams
No explanation necessary. If you've read, you know. If you haven't read, shame on you.
THE INVISIBLE MAN by H. G. Wells
ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU by H.G. Wells
Two all-time classics by Mr. Wells.
THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE by Richard Condon
One of the most paranoid and disturbing novels ever written. If you only know this story from the most recent Hollywood movie version starring Denzel Washington, then you have no idea how great this story is. If you insist on watching it as a movie, then the 1962 version starring Frank Sinatra, Janet Leight and Angela Lansbury is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. You will never look at Angela Lansbury the same ever again.
THE OPTIMIST'S DAUGHTER by Eudora Welty
The 1972 Pulitzer Prize winner.
PRIZZI'S HONOR by Richard Condon
Another twisted dark comic novel by Condon about a mob hit man and hit woman who fall in love and then are hired to kill each other. It's kinda like The Godfather meets The Munsters.
TALES OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC by James Michener
A book of Pulitzer Prize winning short stories that became the basis of the classic Broadway show South Pacific.
THE TIME MACHINE by H.G. Wells
Another Wells classic.
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS by Lewis Carroll
Another strange trip with Mr. Carroll.
THE TRIAL by Franz Kafka
One of the most frustrating and disturbing books ever.
THE WAR OF THE WORLDS by H.G. Wells
No explanation necessary.
An all-time classic. Funny, sad and perceptive. Huck is the 19th century Holden Caulfield. The people that wish to ban this book due to the use of the word "nigger" are people that should never have any modicum of power over anyone.
ALICE IN WONDERLAND by Lewis Carroll
What a long strange trip it's been.
AND LADIES OF THE CLUB by Helen Hoover Santmeyer
It took author Santmeyer 50 years to compete this massive novel (1400 pages!). It follows the lives of several women in Wayesboro, Ohio post-Civil War who begin a study club. Published in 1982 by the Ohio State Press ALOTC only sold a few hundred copies during the first two years. Then, a filmmaker begin to inquire about purchasing the rights to make a mini-series and the book began to get publicity and in 1984, it was chosen to be a main selection for the Book-of-the-Month Club and became the best-selling novel that year. Santmeyer by that time was living in a nursing home.
FAIRY TALES by Hans Christian Andersen
Includes: The Emperor's New Clothes; The Little Match Girl, The Little Mermaid; The Princess and the Pea; The Red Shoes; The Snow Queen; Thumbelina; The Ugly Duckling.
THE FRIENDLY PERSUASION by Jessamyn West
A great novel about pacifist Quakers in southern Indiana during the American Civil War. Made into the classic Hollywood movie starring Gary Cooper and Dorothy McGuire.
GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN by James Baldwin
The ground-breaking semi-autobiographical novel by Baldwin that examines racism and the effect of the Christian church on American blacks.
THE GUNS OF THE SOUTH by Harry Turtledove
Robert E. Lee is offered the chance to purchase AK-47s after the battle of Gettysburg. A fun alternate history novel.
THE HITCH-HIKERS GUIDE TO THE GALAXY by Douglas Adams
No explanation necessary. If you've read, you know. If you haven't read, shame on you.
THE INVISIBLE MAN by H. G. Wells
ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU by H.G. Wells
Two all-time classics by Mr. Wells.
THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE by Richard Condon
One of the most paranoid and disturbing novels ever written. If you only know this story from the most recent Hollywood movie version starring Denzel Washington, then you have no idea how great this story is. If you insist on watching it as a movie, then the 1962 version starring Frank Sinatra, Janet Leight and Angela Lansbury is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. You will never look at Angela Lansbury the same ever again.
THE OPTIMIST'S DAUGHTER by Eudora Welty
The 1972 Pulitzer Prize winner.
PRIZZI'S HONOR by Richard Condon
Another twisted dark comic novel by Condon about a mob hit man and hit woman who fall in love and then are hired to kill each other. It's kinda like The Godfather meets The Munsters.
TALES OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC by James Michener
A book of Pulitzer Prize winning short stories that became the basis of the classic Broadway show South Pacific.
THE TIME MACHINE by H.G. Wells
Another Wells classic.
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS by Lewis Carroll
Another strange trip with Mr. Carroll.
THE TRIAL by Franz Kafka
One of the most frustrating and disturbing books ever.
THE WAR OF THE WORLDS by H.G. Wells
No explanation necessary.
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