My desert island books part 9

Discover the ultimate desert island reads in 'My Desert Island Books Part 9'—curated must-reads for survival, inspiration, and endless adventure. Essential picks for book lovers!

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Women and Men

by Joseph McElroy

Beginning in childbirth and entered like a multiple dwelling in motion, Women and Men embraces and anatomizes the 1970s in New York--from experiments in the …
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Kristin Lavransdatter

by Sigrid Undset

A Nobel prize winner in 1928, this trilogy deals with the life of a Scandinavian woman in the fourteenth century
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Her Blue Body Everything We Know

by Alice Walker

Walker brings a woman's wisdom to bear on love, life's unavoidable tragedies, blacks' struggle for equality and justice, and a world committing eco-suicide.
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The Man Without Qualities, Vol. 1

by Robert Musil

Set in Vienna on the eve of World War I, this great novel of ideas tells the story of Ulrich, ex-soldier and scientist, seducer and …
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The Man Without Qualities, Vol. 2

by Robert Musil

"Musil belongs in the company of Joyce, Proust, Kafka, and Svevo. . . . (This translation) is a literay and intellectual event of singular importance."--New …
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The Golden Notebook

by Doris Lessing

Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. In one, with a black cover, she reviews the African …
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A Bright Shining Lie

by Neil Sheehan

One of the most acclaimed books of our time—the definitive Vietnam War exposé and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. …
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Seven pillars of wisdom

 

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Parable of the Sower

by Octavia E. Butler

In California in the year 2025, a small community is overrun by desperate scavengers, as an eighteen-year-old African American woman sets off on foot on …
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Parable of the Talents

by Octavia E. Butler

"Enthralling...compelling and truly original." - Denver Post Lauren Olamina's love is divided among her young daughter, her community, and the revelation that led Lauren to …
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The Complete Aubrey/Maturin Novels

by Patrick O'Brian

This set collects all twenty-one of Patrick O'Brian's seafaring novels about the Royal Navy involving Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin.