My favorite books fiction and non-fiction
Discover my top picks in fiction and non-fiction books! Explore must-read favorites, from captivating novels to insightful non-fiction, in this curated list of page-turners.
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The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle (rack)
by Avi
A 1991 Newbery Honor Book designation tops the list of awards and honors bestowed upon this spellbinding tale of intrigue and murder on the high ā¦
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My Ćntonia
by Willa Cather
The reminiscences of a New York lawyer, Jim Burden, about his boyhood in Nebraska, particularly a young Bohemian girl named Antonia Shimerda, are set against ā¦
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One Thousand White Women
by Jim Fergus
Based on an actual historical event but told through fictional diaries, this is the story of May Doddāa remarkable woman who, in 1875, travels through ā¦
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The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown
Murder in the Louvre is tied to a mind bending clue in the works of Da Vinci.
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The Little House Collection Box Set (Full Color)
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Set during the pioneer days of the late 1800s and early 1900s, Laura Ingalls Wilder's books chronicle her life growing up on the Western frontier. ā¦
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Our Kind
by Marvin Harris
Writing with the same wit, humor, and style of his earlier bestsellers, noted anthropologist Marvin Harris traces our roots and views our destiny.
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Ota Benga
by Phillips Verner Bradford
Describes how, in 1906, a missionary in Africa brought Benga to the United States and placed him on display at the World's Fair
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Middlesex
by Jeffrey Eugenides
Three generations of a Greek American family find themselves plagued by a mutant gene which causes bizarre side effects in the family's teenage girls.
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The Historian
by Elizabeth Kostova
Discovering a medieval book and a cache of letters, a motherless American girl becomes the latest in a series of historians, including her late father, ā¦
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The Shadow of the Wind
by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The New York Times bestseller āThe Shadow of the Wind is ultimately a love letter to literature, intended for readers as passionate about storytelling as ā¦
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The Lord of the Rings
by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Three-volume boxed set edition lavishly illustrated in full color by Alan LeeOne Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to ā¦
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Lucy
by Donald Johanson
"How our oldest human ancestor was discovered--and who she was"--Cover.
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A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingwayās classic novel of love during wartime. Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel to emerge ā¦
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Vikings
by William F. Fitzhugh
Replete with color photographs, drawings, and maps of Viking sites, artifacts, and landscapes, this book celebrates and explores the Viking saga from the combined perspectives ā¦
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The Saga of the Volsungs
by Jesse L. Byock
One of the great books of world literature--an unforgettable tale of jealousy, unrequited love, greed, and vengeance. Based on Viking Age poems and composed in ā¦
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The Princess Bride
by William Goldman
Now a cult classic, this story of pirates, evil princes, sorcerers, and, most importantly, true love is handsomely repackaged in a commemorative 25th anniversary hardcover. ā¦
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Njal's Saga
by Robert Cook
Written in the thirteenth century, Njal's Saga is a story that explores perennial human problems-from failed marriages to divided loyalties, from the law's inability to ā¦
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
by Dave Eggers
NATIONAL BESTSELLER ā¢ PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST ā¢ A "A beautifully ragged, laugh-out-loud funny and utterly unforgettable book" (San Francisco Chronicle) that redefines both family and ā¦
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The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanizedāand sometimes outragedāmillions of readers. One of The Atlanticās Great American Novels of the ā¦
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The Shining
by Stephen King
Jack Torrance sees his stint as winter caretaker of a Colorado hotel as a way back from failure, his wife sees it as a chance ā¦
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Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
Folger's Shakespeare Library presents these definitive editions of Shakespeare's classic tragedies, featuring scene-by-scene plot summaries, full explanatory notes, and much more. Original. (Plays/Drama)
