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<?=$who;?> Recommend Your Favorite Books To Me! :) What is this list? This is a list for other members to add their absolute most favorite books they've ever read to me! I am an eccentric reader, and I do favor odd subject matter books, old books with weird leanings and the like but I'm opening and cu Edit
List created by hingram77 on Jul 5, 2023
List Votes: 4 Books: 25 Contributors: 7 Watchers: 4 List Type: Open
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BlackPanther
Carol K. (BlackPanther)
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Margaret Mitchell's epic novel of love and war won the Pulitzer Prize and went on to give rise to two authorized sequels and one of the most popular and celebrated movies of all time. Many novels have been written about the Civil War and its aftermath. None take us into the burning fields...  more

Book Votes: 4
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BlackPanther
Carol K. (BlackPanther)
The Stand by Stephen King
Arguably the greatest horror novel ever written by the greatest horror novelist, this is a true Modern Classic that was first published in 1978, and then re-published in 1990, complete and unabridged, with 150,000 words cut from the first edition restored, and now accompanied by unusual and...  more

Book Votes: 2
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BlackPanther
Carol K. (BlackPanther)
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Charlotte Bronte's impassioned novel is the love story of Jane Eyre, a plain yet spirited governess, and her employer, the arrogant, brooding Mr. Rochester. Published in 1847, under the pseudonym of Currer Bell, the book heralded a new kind of heroine -- one whose virtuous integrity, keen...  more

Book Votes: 2
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BlackPanther
Carol K. (BlackPanther)
Watchers by Dean Koontz
From a top-secret government laboratory come two genetically altered life forms. One is a magnificent dog of astonishing intelligence. The other, a hybrid monster of a brutally violent nature. And both are on the loose...

Book Votes: 2
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BlackPanther
Carol K. (BlackPanther)
Shogun by James Clavell
Volume II edition only.  Shogun is a very large novel, and this particular publisher split the book into two volumes.  This ISBN is for Volume II only.  

Book Votes: 1
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lovejaneeyre
VALERIE L. (lovejaneeyre)
Around the World in 80 Days (World's Best Reading) by Jules Verne & Joseph Ciardi...
In 1872, English gentleman Phileas Fogg has many adventures as he tries to win a bet that he can travel around the world in eighty days.

Book Votes: 1
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BlackPanther
Carol K. (BlackPanther)
Bridge of Birds : A Novel of an Ancient China That Never Was by Barry Hughart
When the children of his village were struck with a mysterious illness, Number Ten Ox found master Li Kao. Together they set out to find the Great Root of Power, the only possible cure, and together they discover adventure and legend, and the power of belief....

Book Votes: 0
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BlackPanther
Carol K. (BlackPanther)
The Summer of '42 by Herman Raucher
In everyone's life there is a summer of '42. In that particular summer Hermie was fifteen, wildly obsessed with sex, deeply and passionately in love with an "older woman" of twenty-two. Summer of '42 is the story of Hermie and the lovely Dorothy, of Hermie's frantic efforts to become a man, and...  more

Book Votes: 0
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BlackPanther
Carol K. (BlackPanther)
Open Season by Linda Howard
Be careful what you wish for.... On her thirty-fourth birthday, Daisy Minor decides to make over her entire life. The small-town librarian has had it with her boring clothes, her ordinary looks, and nearly a decade without so much as a date. It's time to get a life -- and a sex life. The...  more

Book Votes: 0
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BlackPanther
Carol K. (BlackPanther)
Lady of Hay by Barbara Erskine
In London, journalist Jo Clifford is planning to debunk past-life regression in a hard-hitting magazine piece. But her scepticism is shaken when she undergoes hypnosis and finds herself reliving the experiences of Matilda, Lady of Hay, a noblewoman during the reign of King John. As she learns...  more

Book Votes: 0
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BlackPanther
Carol K. (BlackPanther)
King of the Wind: The Story of the Godolphin Arabian by Marguerite Henry & Wesley...
The Sultan has called for six of the best horses in the kingdom to be given to the King of France!  Agba, the mute horseboy, just knew that his horse Sham would be chosen.  Sham was the King of the Wind!  But neither Agba nor Sham knew what was in store for them.  When a...  more

Book Votes: 0
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BlackPanther
Carol K. (BlackPanther)
Plague Dogs by Richard Adams
"Thousands and thousands of people will love this book!"THE BOSTON GLOBEA lyrical, engrossing tale, by the author of WATERSHIP DOWN, Richard Adams creates a lyrical and engrossing tale, a remarkable journey into the hearts and minds of two canine heroes, Snitter and Rowf, fugitives from the...  more

Book Votes: 0
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BlackPanther
Carol K. (BlackPanther)
All Around the Year: Holidays and Celebrations in American Life by Jack Santino
Whether they're decorating Easter trees or celebrating Wagner's birthday by playing recordings of his Ring cycle operas and incinerating a model of Valhalla on an outdoor barbecue to the closing strains of "Gotterdämerung," Americans know both how to create and how to...  more

Book Votes: 0
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lovejaneeyre
VALERIE L. (lovejaneeyre)
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Pearl Buck?s 1931 Pulitzer Prize?winning classic about the rise and fall of Chinese villagers before World War I comes to life in this evocative graphic novel by New York Times bestselling author Nick Bertozzi. In The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck paints an indelible portrait of China in the 1920s,...  more

Book Votes: 0
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kathyk
kathyk
Night (Night, Bk 1) by Elie Wiesel & Marion Wiesel (Translator)
Born in the town of Sighet, Transylvania, Elie Wiesel was a teenager when he and his family were taken from their home in 1944 to the Auschwitz concentration camps, and then to Buchenwald. Night is the terrifying record of Elie Wiesel's memories of the death of his family, the death of his...  more

Book Votes: 0
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kathyk
kathyk
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
In PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, Austen calls on her sharp observations of vanity, venality, pomposity, and downright nuttiness in a story about a respectable but far from wealthy family full of daughters--girls who desperately need to find husbands if they are to have any kind of economic security....  more

Book Votes: 0
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bookshelftreasures
Tina B. (bookshelftreasures) -
Home Front by Kristin Hannah
  In her bestselling novels Kristin Hannah has plumbed the depths of friendship, the loyalty of sisters, and the secrets mothers keep. Now, in her most emotionally powerful story yet, she explores the intimate landscape of a troubled marriage with this provocative and timely portrait of...  more

Book Votes: 0
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Tina B. (bookshelftreasures) -
A Woman of Substance (Emma Harte, Bk 1) by Barbara Taylor Bradford
Every generation has a woman for whom the world is not big enough... Emma Harte was that kind of woman. From the moment you meet her, in a private jet en route to the skyscraping Manhattan headquarters of Harte Enterprises, you will be held inescapably in her spell. Born to an impoverished...  more

Book Votes: 0
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Debbie H. (DebbieH) - ,
These is My Words by Nancy Turner
In a compelling fiction debut, Nancy E. Turner's unforgettable These Is My Words melds the sweeping adventures and dramatic landscapes of Lonesome Dove with the heartfelt emotional saga of Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All. Inspired by the author's original family memoirs, this...  more

Book Votes: 0
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mistyks
Terry V. (mistyks)
Having Our Say by Sarah L. Delany & A. Elizabeth Delany & Amy Hill Hearth
Warm, feisty, and intelligent, the Delany sisters speak their mind in a book that is at once a vital historical record and a moving portrait of two remarkable women who continued to love, laugh, and embrace life after over a hundred years of living side by side. Their sharp memories show us...  more

Book Votes: 0
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mistyks
Terry V. (mistyks)
The Phantom Tollbooth by Unknown Author
No description available.

Book Votes: 0
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mistyks
Terry V. (mistyks)
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
In the opening pages of Jamie Ford's stunning debut novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Henry Lee comes upon a crowd gathered outside the Panama Hotel, once the gateway to Seattle's Japantown. It has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has made an incredible discovery:...  more

Book Votes: 0
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mistyks
Terry V. (mistyks)
West With the Night by Beryl Markham
West with the Night is the story of Beryl Markham--aviator, racehorse trainer, beauty--and her life in the Kenya of the 1920s and '30s.

Book Votes: 0
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kathyk
kathyk
The Diary of a Young Girl (Definitive Edition) by Anne Frank & Otto H. Frank (Edi...
Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl is among the most enduring documents of the twentieth century. Since its publication in 1947, it has been read by tens of millions of people all over the world. It remains a beloved and deeply admired testament to the indestructible nature of the human...  more

Book Votes: 0
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dab1
Deborah B. (dab1) - ,
Shades Of Twilight by Linda Howard
Dear Listener,Shades of Twilight is the story of Roanna Davenport, who grows up in a wealthy southern family but never quite fits in. She isn?t pretty or popular, and she has a real talent for saying the wrong thing at precisely the wrong moment. She?s in love with a distant cousin, Webb...  more

Book Votes: 0

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Comment added 7/19/23 by Deborah B. (dab1) - , :
Shades of Twilight by Linda Howard. This is when I discovered Linda Howard Roanna Davenport was raised a wealthy orphan on her grandmother's magnificent Alabama estate, Davencourt, where she had a passion for horses, a genius for trouble, and a deep love

Comment added 7/11/23 by Terry V. (mistyks):
If, and when, you get to The Phantom Tollbooth try to get the 50th anniversary edition. The extra content is worth it!

Comment added 7/6/23 by Tina B. (bookshelftreasures) - :
Homefront by: Kristin Hannah This one made me cry. That doesn't happen very often.

Comment added 7/6/23 by Tina B. (bookshelftreasures) - :
A Woman of Substance by: Barbara Taylor Bradford

Comment added 7/6/23 by VALERIE L. (lovejaneeyre):
I added one book to the list today, Around the World in 80 Days. Yesterday I made a comment with 4 books but I forgot how to add book. I see someone added them to the list. I have the hang of it now.

Comment added 7/5/23 by Bret H. (Advertisement) - , :
"Bridge of Birds - a Novel of an Ancient China that Never Was" by Barry Hughart (and the two sequals - Story of the Stone and Eight Skilled Gentlemen)

Comment added 7/5/23 by rjvagabond:
-Bill Bryson, a fav author and love just about all his books -Summer of '42 by Herman Raucher: Fav coming-of-age -Open Season by Linda Howard: A fav romance with one of the best laugh-out-loud scenes ever

Comment added 7/5/23 by rjvagabond:
-Lady of Hay, by Barbara Erskine:Favorite historical,in Top 10 all-time favorites -The Stand by Stephen King: A favorite horror -Midnight is a Lonely Place by Barbara Erskine: Favorite ghost story -King of the Wind by Margueritte Henry:Fav child/YA book

Comment added 7/5/23 by VALERIE L. (lovejaneeyre):
A few favorites: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, Jane is like Cinderella or Harry Potter, orphans Watchers by Dean Koontz The Stand by Stephen King Shogun by James Clavell last 2 books are big with lots of pages! Hope you find some new favorites

Comment added 7/5/23 by Robin G. (catlingmex) - , :
One of my favorite books of all time is "All Around the Year: Holidays and Celebrations in American Life" by Jack Santino. It's the book that got me thinking about and delving into the fascinating history, sociology, and folklore of all kinds of holidays.