My Favorite Books (In No Particular Order)

Explore my favorite books in no particular order! Discover a diverse range of titles and find your next great read.

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A Fine Balance

 

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Siddhartha

by Hermann Hesse

A moral allegory, set in ancient India, about one soul's quest for the ultimate answer to the enigma of man's role in this world. The 

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Roots

by Alex Haley

It begins with a birth in 1750, in an African village; it ends seven generations later at the Arkansas funeral of a black professor whose 

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Interpreter of Maladies

by Jhumpa Lahiri

Navigating between the Indian traditions they've inherited and a baffling new world, the characters in Lahiri's elegant, touching stories seek love beyond the barriers of 

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The God of Small Things

by Arundhati Roy

Set against a background of political turbulence in Kerala, this is the story of twins Esthappen and Rahel who try to craft a childhood for 

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The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

Set in the period between the world wars, this novel tells of two sisters, their trials, and their survival.
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The Power of One

by Bryce Courtenay

“The Power of One has everything: suspense, the exotic, violence; mysticism, psychology and magic; schoolboy adventures, drama.” –The New York Times “Unabashedly uplifting . . 

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A House for Mr. Biswas

by V. S. Naipaul

From the Nobel Prize-winning author: an unforgettable comedy of manners inspired by the author's father that has been hailed as one of the twentieth century's 

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Guns, Germs, and Steel

by Jared M. Diamond

The fates of human societies.
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The Catcher in the Rye

by J.D. Salinger

Anyone who has read J. D. Salinger's New Yorker stories - particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughing Man, and 

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Ordinary People

by Judith Guest

One of the great bestseller of our time: the novel that inspired Robert Redford’s Oscar-winning film starring Donald Sutherland and Mary Tyler Moore In Ordinary 

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