My Favorite 15 Books in No Particular Order.....

Discover my top 15 favorite books across various genres—fiction, non-fiction, and more—curated for passionate readers seeking inspiration and great reads.

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The Bone People

by Keri Hulme

Kerewin, a part-Maori painter living in self-exile, is drawn out of her isolation by a mute boy who is cast up on a beach, the …
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Go tell it on the mountain : [a novel]

by James Baldwin

This novel of Black life in America is written with an impartial attitude
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The Bluest Eye

by Toni Morrison

From Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison comes the story of a young black girl who longs to be like the blond, blue-eyed children that America loves-a …
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Jude the Obscure

by Thomas Hardy

"I’m an outsider to the end of my days!" Jude Fawley’s hopes of a university education are lost when he is trapped into marrying the …
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The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century is the story of a family of Southern aristocrats on the brink …
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Absalom, Absalom!

by William Faulkner

NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • Family drama and the legacy of slavery haunt this epic tale of an enigmatic stranger in Jefferson, Mississippi—from one of the …
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The Idiot

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky’s classic tale of one man’s pure innocence in the face of a society obsessed with power, money, and manipulation The twenty-six-year-old Prince Myshkin, …
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Bastard Out of Carolina

by Dorothy Allison

Ruth Ann Boatwright, a South Carolina bastard, tells her life with her family and the emotional and physical violence she experiences.
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Sometimes a Great Notion

by Ken Kesey

Story of the Stamper family and their struggles in the Oregon timber country.
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Foundation

by Isaac Asimov

The first novel in Isaac Asimov’s classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series THE EPIC SAGA THAT INSPIRED THE APPLE TV+ SERIES FOUNDATION • Nominated as …
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Blindness

by José Saramago

A stunningly powerful novel of man's will to survive against all odds, by the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature. "This is a …
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The Jungle

by Upton Sinclair

The uncut version of Upton Sinclair's classic 1906 novel about the shocking working conditions endured by immigrants in early twentieth-century Chicago stockyards and packinghouses.
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The Dispossessed

by Ursula K. Le Guin

Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. he will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down the walls of hatred that …