Gabby's bookshelf: read en-US Sun, 12 Jan 2025 03:01:20 -0800 60 Gabby's bookshelf: read 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns & Roses, #1)]]> 24480684
Dragged to a magical kingdom for the murder of a faerie, Feyre discovers that her captor, his face obscured by a jewelled mask, is hiding far more than his piercing green eyes would suggest. Feyre's presence at the court is closely guarded, and as she begins to learn why, her feelings for him turn from hostility to passion and the faerie lands become an even more dangerous place. Feyre must fight to break an ancient curse, or she will lose him forever.]]> 394 Sarah J. Maas Gabby 0 4.29 2015 A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns & Roses, #1)
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average rating: 4.29
book published: 2015
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]]> Between the Acts 46105 224 Virginia Woolf 015611870X Gabby 0 to-read, dissertation-reading 3.64 1941 Between the Acts
author: Virginia Woolf
name: Gabby
average rating: 3.64
book published: 1941
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]]> <![CDATA[The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)]]> 148905 ]]> 375 Virginia Woolf 0156028050 Gabby 0 to-read, dissertation-reading 3.77 1915 The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)
author: Virginia Woolf
name: Gabby
average rating: 3.77
book published: 1915
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]]> We Should All Be Feminists 22738563 We Should All Be Feminists, a personal, eloquently-argued essay—adapted from her much-viewed TEDx talk of the same name—by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the award-winning author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun.

With humor and levity, here Adichie offers readers a unique definition of feminism for the twenty-first century—one rooted in inclusion and awareness. She shines a light not only on blatant discrimination, but also the more insidious, institutional behaviors that marginalize women around the world, in order to help readers of all walks of life better understand the often masked realities of sexual politics. Throughout, she draws extensively on her own experiences—in the U.S., in her native Nigeria, and abroad—offering an artfully nuanced explanation of why the gender divide is harmful for women and men, alike.

Argued in the same observant, witty and clever prose that has made Adichie a bestselling novelist, here is one remarkable author’s exploration of what it means to be a woman today—and an of-the-moment rallying cry for why we should all be feminists.]]> 52 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Gabby 0 books-to-buy 4.42 2012 We Should All Be Feminists
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average rating: 4.42
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]]> <![CDATA[The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)]]> 6080337
Have others survived? Ren's bioartist friend Amanda? Zeb, her eco-fighter stepfather? Her onetime lover, Jimmy? Or the murderous Painballers, survivors of the mutual-elimination Painball prison? Not to mention the shadowy, corrupt policing force of the ruling powers...

Meanwhile, gene-spliced life forms are proliferating: the lion/lamb blends, the Mo'hair sheep with human hair, the pigs with human brain tissue. As Adam One and his intrepid hemp-clad band make their way through this strange new world, Ren and Toby will have to decide on their next move. They can't stay locked away...

By turns dark, tender, violent, thoughtful, and uneasily hilarious, The Year of the Flood is Atwood at her most brilliant and inventive.]]> 431 Margaret Atwood 0385528779 Gabby 0 books-to-buy 4.06 2009 The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)
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average rating: 4.06
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]]> MaddAddam (MaddAddam, #3) 17262203
Told with wit, dizzying imagination, and dark humour, Booker Prize-winning Margaret Atwood’s unpredictable, chilling and hilarious MaddAddam takes us further into a challenging dystopian world and holds up a skewed mirror to our own possible future.]]> 394 Margaret Atwood 0385528787 Gabby 0 books-to-buy 4.00 2013 MaddAddam (MaddAddam, #3)
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average rating: 4.00
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]]> <![CDATA[Are We Smart Enough Know How Smart Animals Are?]]> 35817629 275 Frans de Waal 1783783060 Gabby 0 4.07 2016 Are We Smart Enough Know How Smart Animals Are?
author: Frans de Waal
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average rating: 4.07
book published: 2016
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]]> The Millstone 1292113 172 Margaret Drabble 0140028420 Gabby 0 3.75 1965 The Millstone
author: Margaret Drabble
name: Gabby
average rating: 3.75
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]]> The Edible Woman 133445 Ă  la mode, Marian discovers, is something she literally can't stomach...

The Edible Woman is a funny, engaging novel about emotional cannibalism, men and women, and the desire to be consumed.]]> 310 Margaret Atwood 0385491069 Gabby 0 books-to-buy 3.71 1969 The Edible Woman
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average rating: 3.71
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]]> Bartholomew Fair 786010 208 Suzanne Gossett 0719051509 Gabby 0 3.27 1631 Bartholomew Fair
author: Suzanne Gossett
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average rating: 3.27
book published: 1631
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]]> <![CDATA[The Wartime Kitchen and Garden]]> 21281959 224 Jennifer Davies 0563371927 Gabby 0 dissertation-reading 0.0 The Wartime Kitchen and Garden
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]]> <![CDATA[Henry IV: Parts 1 & 2 (Wordsworth Classics)]]> 21176960 256 William Shakespeare 1840227214 Gabby 0 3.72 1600 Henry IV: Parts 1 & 2 (Wordsworth Classics)
author: William Shakespeare
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]]> Coriolanus 3383624
About the For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.]]> 388 William Shakespeare 0199535809 Gabby 0 3.91 1608 Coriolanus
author: William Shakespeare
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average rating: 3.91
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]]> The Merry Wives of Windsor 11447749
THIS EDITION INCLUDES:
� An illuminating introduction to The Merry Wives of Windsor by award-winning scholar Jonathan Bate
� The play - with clear and authoritative explanatory notes on each page
� A helpful scene-by-scene analysis and key facts about the play
� An introduction to Shakespeare's career and the Elizabethan theatre
� A rich exploration of approaches to staging the play featuring photographs of key productions

The most enjoyable way to understand a Shakespeare play is to see it or participate in it. This unique edition presents a historical overview of The Merry Wives of Windsor in performance, recommends film versions, takes a detailed look at specific productions and includes interviews with two leading directors and an actor � Bill Alexander, Rachel Kavanaugh and Simon Callow - so that we may get a sense of the extraordinary variety of interpretations that are possible, a variety that gives Shakespeare his unique capacity to be reinvented and made 'our contemporary' four centuries after his death.

Ideal for students, theatre-goers, actors and general readers, the RSC Shakespeare plays offer an accessible and contemporary approach to reading and rediscovering Shakespeare's works for the twenty-first century.]]> 192 William Shakespeare 0230284116 Gabby 0 3.73 1597 The Merry Wives of Windsor
author: William Shakespeare
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]]> <![CDATA[Masque of Blacknesse. Masque of Beauty.]]> 14492711 44 Ben Jonson 1849021139 Gabby 3 3.19 1608 Masque of Blacknesse. Masque of Beauty.
author: Ben Jonson
name: Gabby
average rating: 3.19
book published: 1608
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories]]> 276750 149 Angela Carter 0099588110 Gabby 0 to-read, lent-to-a-friend 3.79 1979 The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
author: Angela Carter
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average rating: 3.79
book published: 1979
rating: 0
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]]> The Sound and the Fury 10975 366 William Faulkner Gabby 3 3.86 1929 The Sound and the Fury
author: William Faulkner
name: Gabby
average rating: 3.86
book published: 1929
rating: 3
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]]> The Millstone 105021 192 Margaret Drabble 0156006197 Gabby 3 3.87 1965 The Millstone
author: Margaret Drabble
name: Gabby
average rating: 3.87
book published: 1965
rating: 3
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]]> The Bell Jar 6514 294 Sylvia Plath 0571268862 Gabby 4 to-read, books-to-buy 4.05 1963 The Bell Jar
author: Sylvia Plath
name: Gabby
average rating: 4.05
book published: 1963
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Noughts & Crosses (Noughts & Crosses, #1)]]> 714902
Sephy is a Cross -- a member of the dark-skinned ruling class. Callum is a Nought -- a “colourless� member of the underclass who were once slaves to the Crosses. The two have been friends since early childhood, but that’s as far as it can go. In their world, Noughts and Crosses simply don’t mix. Against a background of prejudice and distrust, intensely highlighted by violent terrorist activity, a romance builds between Sephy and Callum -- a romance that is to lead both of them into terrible danger. Can they possibly find a way to be together?]]> 479 Malorie Blackman 0552555703 Gabby 0 to-read 4.19 2001 Noughts & Crosses (Noughts & Crosses, #1)
author: Malorie Blackman
name: Gabby
average rating: 4.19
book published: 2001
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]]> The Power 29751398 The Power the world is a recognizable place: There's a rich Nigerian boy who lounges around the family pool; a foster kid whose religious parents hide their true nature; an ambitious American politician; and a tough London girl from a tricky family. But then a vital new force takes root and flourishes, causing their lives to converge with devastating effect. Teenage girls now have immense physical power: They can cause agonizing pain and even death. With this small twist of nature, the world drastically resets.]]> 341 Naomi Alderman 0670919985 Gabby 0 to-read 3.75 2016 The Power
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average rating: 3.75
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]]> A Midsummer Nights Dream 4996951 William Shakespeare Gabby 3 3.84 1595 A Midsummer Nights Dream
author: William Shakespeare
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average rating: 3.84
book published: 1595
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself]]> 10127008
The relentless pursuit of high self-esteem has become a virtual religion—and a tyrannical one at that. Our ultracompetitive culture tells us we need to be constantly above average to feel good about ourselves, but there is always someone more attractive, successful, or intelligent than we are. And even when we do manage to grab hold of high self-esteem for a brief moment, we can't seem to keep it. Our sense of self-worth goes up and down like a ping-pong ball, rising and falling in lockstep with our latest success or failure.

Fortunately, there is an alternative to self-esteem that many experts believe is a better and more effective path to happiness: self-compassion. The research of Dr. Kristin Neff and other leading psychologists indicates that people who are compassionate toward their failings and imperfections experience greater well-being than those who repeatedly judge themselves. The feelings of security and self-worth provided by self-compassion are also highly stable, kicking in precisely when self-esteem falls down. This book powerfully demonstrates why it's so important to be self-compassionate and give yourself the same caring support you'd give to a good friend.

This groundbreaking work will show you how to let go of debilitating self-criticism and finally learn to be kind to yourself. Using solid empirical research, personal stories, practical exercises, and humor, Dr. Neff—the world's foremost expert on self-compassion—explains how to heal destructive emotional patterns so that you can be healthier, happier, and more effective. Engaging, highly readable, and eminently accessible, this book has the power to change your life.]]> 320 Kristin Neff 0061733512 Gabby 4 4.11 2011 Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself
author: Kristin Neff
name: Gabby
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2011
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Sane New World: Taming The Mind]]> 17984032 256 Ruby Wax 1444755749 Gabby 2 3.68 2013 Sane New World: Taming The Mind
author: Ruby Wax
name: Gabby
average rating: 3.68
book published: 2013
rating: 2
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]]> Jacob's Room 225396 Jacob's Room is the story of a sensitive young man named Jacob Flanders. The life story, character and friends of Jacob are presented in a series for separate scenes and moments from his childhood, through college at Cambridge, love affairs in London, and travels in Greece, to his death in the war. Jacob's Room established Virginia Woolf's reputation as a highly poetic and symbolic writer who places emphasis not on plot or action but on the psychological realm of occupied by her characters.]]> 352 Virginia Woolf 039392632X Gabby 3 3.54 1922 Jacob's Room
author: Virginia Woolf
name: Gabby
average rating: 3.54
book published: 1922
rating: 3
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]]> The Years 18852 The Years is a savage indictment of British society at the turn of the century, edited with an introduction and notes by Jeri Johnson in Penguin Modern Classics.

The Years is the story of three generations of the Pargiter family - their intimacies and estrangements, anxieties and triumphs - mapped out against the bustling rhythms of London's streets during the first decades of the twentieth century. Growing up in a typically Victorian household, the Pargiter children must learn to find their footing in an alternative world, where the rules of etiquette have shifted from the drawing-room to the air-raid shelter. A work of fluid and dazzling lucidity, The Years eschews a simple line of development in favour of a varied and constantly changing style, emphasises the radical discontinuity of personal experiences and historical events. Virginia Woolf's penultimate novel celebrates the resilience of the individual self and, in her dazzlingly fluid and distinctive voice, she confidently paints a broad canvas across time, generation and class.]]> 444 Virginia Woolf 0141185325 Gabby 0 to-read, dissertation-reading 3.77 1937 The Years
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]]> Orlando 18839 Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolf's close friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West. Spanning three centuries, the novel opens as Orlando, a young nobleman in Elizabeth's England, awaits a visit from the Queen and traces his experience with first love as England under James I lies locked in the embrace of the Great Frost. At the midpoint of the novel, Orlando, now an ambassador in Constantinople, awakes to find that he is now a woman, and the novel indulges in farce and irony to consider the roles of women in the 18th and 19th centuries. As the novel ends in 1928, a year consonant with full suffrage for women. Orlando, now a wife and mother, stands poised at the brink of a future that holds new hope and promise for women.]]> 336 Virginia Woolf 0141184272 Gabby 0 to-read, dissertation-reading 3.88 1928 Orlando
author: Virginia Woolf
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average rating: 3.88
book published: 1928
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]]> <![CDATA[The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume One: 1915-1919]]> 18518 512 Virginia Woolf 0156260360 Gabby 0 to-read, dissertation-reading 4.33 1977 The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume One: 1915-1919
author: Virginia Woolf
name: Gabby
average rating: 4.33
book published: 1977
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]]> Night and Day 116056 496 Virginia Woolf 0140185682 Gabby 0 to-read, dissertation-reading 3.77 1919 Night and Day
author: Virginia Woolf
name: Gabby
average rating: 3.77
book published: 1919
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]]> The Notebook 392848
Did You Know?---

The Notebook was only the third novel in recent history to spend over a year as a hardcover best-seller?
One of the poems by Walt Whitman quoted in the novel is entitled "To a Common Prostitute?"
The title for the novel was chosen by Theresa Park, Nicholas's agent?]]> 221 Nicholas Sparks 0751538914 Gabby 3 3.84 1996 The Notebook
author: Nicholas Sparks
name: Gabby
average rating: 3.84
book published: 1996
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas]]> 4586163
Bruno's friendship with Shmuel will take him from innocence to revelation. And in exploring what he is unwittingly a part of, he will inevitably become subsumed by the terrible process.]]> 216 John Boyne 1862305277 Gabby 3 4.01 2006 The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
author: John Boyne
name: Gabby
average rating: 4.01
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]]> Dracula 893791 An alternate cover edition can be found here, here, here , here and here.

â€Alone with the dead! I dare not go out, for I can hear the low howl of the wolf through the broken windowâ€�

When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the purchase of a London house, he makes horrifying discoveries about his client and his castle. Soon afterwards, a number of disturbing incidents unfold in England: an unmanned ship is wrecked at Whitby; strange puncture marks appear on a young woman’s neck; and the inmate of a lunatic asylum raves about the imminent arrival of his â€Masterâ€�. In the ensuing battle of wits between the sinister Count Dracula and a determined group of adversaries, Bram Stoker created a masterpiece of the horror genre, probing deeply into questions of human identity and sanity, and illuminating dark corners of Victorian sexuality and desire.]]> 327 Bram Stoker Gabby 3 3.82 1897 Dracula
author: Bram Stoker
name: Gabby
average rating: 3.82
book published: 1897
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[The Call of the Wild / White Fang]]> 1050430 Altnernate cover edition can be found here.

"The Call of the Wild tells the story of Buck, a domestic dog who is kidnapped from his home in California and forced to pull sleds in the Arctic wasteland. White Fang, by contrast, is the tale of a crossbreed who is three-quarters wolf and a quarter dog, and who must endure considerable suffering in the wilderness before being tamed by an American and taken to live in California.

Extraordinary both for the vividness of their descriptions and the success with which they imagine life from a non-human perspective, Jack London's classics of children’s literature are two of the greatest and most popular animal stories ever written.

This beautiful Macmillan Collector’s Library edition of The Call of the Wild & White Fang features an afterword by Sam Gilpin.

Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much-loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure."]]> 230 Jack London 1853260266 Gabby 3 4.12 1906 The Call of the Wild / White Fang
author: Jack London
name: Gabby
average rating: 4.12
book published: 1906
rating: 3
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]]> Look We Have Coming to Dover! 2324618 64 Daljit Nagra 0571231225 Gabby 0 to-read 3.49 2007 Look We Have Coming to Dover!
author: Daljit Nagra
name: Gabby
average rating: 3.49
book published: 2007
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]]> The Good Immigrant 28668534
Or be told that, as an actress, the part you’re most fitted to play is â€wife of a terroristâ€�? How does it feel to have words from your native language misused, misappropriated and used aggressively towards you? How does it feel to hear a child of colour say in a classroom that stories can only be about white people? How does it feel to go â€homeâ€� to India when your home is really London? What is it like to feel you always have to be an ambassador for your race? How does it feel to always tick â€Otherâ€�?

Bringing together 21 exciting black, Asian and minority ethnic voices emerging in Britain today, The Good Immigrant explores why immigrants come to the UK, why they stay and what it means to be â€otherâ€� in a country that doesn’t seem to want you, doesn’t truly accept you â€� however many generations you’ve been here â€� but still needs you for its diversity monitoring forms.

Inspired by discussion around why society appears to deem people of colour as bad immigrants � job stealers, benefit scroungers, undeserving refugees � until, by winning Olympic races or baking good cakes, or being conscientious doctors, they cross over and become good immigrants, editor Nikesh Shukla has compiled a collection of essays that are poignant, challenging, angry, humorous, heartbreaking, polemic, weary and � most importantly � real.]]> 272 Nikesh Shukla 178352295X Gabby 4 4.31 2016 The Good Immigrant
author: Nikesh Shukla
name: Gabby
average rating: 4.31
book published: 2016
rating: 4
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]]> Goodnight Moon 32929
In this classic of children's literature, beloved by generations of readers and listeners, the quiet poetry of the words and the gentle, lulling illustrations combine to make a perfect book for the end of the day.]]> 32 Margaret Wise Brown 0060775858 Gabby 0 to-read, books-to-buy 4.31 1947 Goodnight Moon
author: Margaret Wise Brown
name: Gabby
average rating: 4.31
book published: 1947
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]]> A Thousand Splendid Suns 128029
With the passing of time comes Taliban rule over Afghanistan, the streets of Kabul loud with the sound of gunfire and bombs, life a desperate struggle against starvation, brutality and fear, the women's endurance tested beyond their worst imaginings. Yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways, lead them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with a startling heroism. In the end it is love that triumphs over death and destruction.

A Thousand Splendid Suns is a portrait of a wounded country and a story of family and friendship, of an unforgiving time, an unlikely bond, and an indestructible love.]]> 372 Khaled Hosseini 1594489505 Gabby 0 to-read, books-to-buy 4.44 2007 A Thousand Splendid Suns
author: Khaled Hosseini
name: Gabby
average rating: 4.44
book published: 2007
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]]> The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 24583
Unlike his brother Sid, Tom receives "lickings" from his Aunt Polly; ever the mischief-maker, would rather play hooky than attend school and often sneaks out his bedroom window at night to adventure with his friend, Huckleberry Finn ­ the town's social outcast. Tom, despite his dread of schooling, is extremely clever and would normally get away with his pranks if Sid were not such a "tattle-tale."

As punishment for skipping school to go swimming, Aunt Polly assigns Tom the chore of whitewashing the fence surrounding the house. In a brilliant scheme, Tom is able to con the neighborhood boys into completing the chore for him, managing to convince them of the joys of whitewashing. At school, Tom is equally as flamboyant, and attracts attention by chasing other boys, yelling, and running around. With his usual antics, Tom attempts to catch the eye of Becky Thatcher, a new girl in town, and persuades her to get "engaged" by kissing him. But their romance collapses when she learns Tom has been "engaged" previously to Amy Lawrence. Shortly after Becky shuns him, he accompanies Huckleberry Finn to the graveyard at night, where they witness the murder of Dr. Robinson.

Excerpt:
"TOM!"
No answer.
"TOM!"
No answer.
"What's gone with that boy,  I wonder? You TOM!"
No answer.
The old lady pulled her spectacles down and looked over them about the room; then she put them up and looked out under them. She seldom or never looked through them for so small a thing as a boy; they were her state pair, the pride of her heart, and were built for "style," not service—she could have seen through a pair of stove-lids just as well. She looked perplexed for a moment, and then said, not fiercely, but still loud enough for the furniture to hear:
"Well, I lay if I get hold of you I'll�"
She did not finish, for by this time she was bending down and punching under the bed with the broom, and so she needed breath to punctuate the punches with. She resurrected nothing but the cat.
"I never did see the beat of that boy!"]]> 244 Mark Twain Gabby 0 to-read, books-to-buy 3.92 1876 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
author: Mark Twain
name: Gabby
average rating: 3.92
book published: 1876
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]]> One Hundred Years of Solitude 320 417 Gabriel García Márquez Gabby 0 to-read, books-to-buy 4.10 1967 One Hundred Years of Solitude
author: Gabriel García Márquez
name: Gabby
average rating: 4.10
book published: 1967
rating: 0
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]]> Where the Wild Things Are 19543 38 Maurice Sendak 0099408392 Gabby 0 to-read, books-to-buy 4.25 1963 Where the Wild Things Are
author: Maurice Sendak
name: Gabby
average rating: 4.25
book published: 1963
rating: 0
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]]> Where the Sidewalk Ends 30119 Come in... for where the sidewalk ends, Shel Silverstein's world begins.

Shel Silverstein, the New York Times bestselling author of The Giving Tree, A Light in the Attic, Falling Up, and Every Thing On It, has created a poetry collection that is outrageously funny and deeply profound.

You'll meet a boy who turns into a TV set, and a girl who eats a whale. The Unicorn and the Bloath live there, and so does Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout who will not take the garbage out. It is a place where you wash your shadow and plant diamond gardens, a place where shoes fly, sisters are auctioned off, and crocodiles go to the dentist.

Shel Silverstein's masterful collection of poems and drawings stretches the bounds of imagination and will be cherished by readers of all ages.]]> 176 Shel Silverstein 0060513039 Gabby 0 to-read, books-to-buy 4.34 1974 Where the Sidewalk Ends
author: Shel Silverstein
name: Gabby
average rating: 4.34
book published: 1974
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]]> The Grapes of Wrath 18114322
First published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads—driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots evolves a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, elemental yet plainspoken, tragic but ultimately stirring in its human dignity. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man’s fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman’s stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. At once a naturalistic epic, captivity narrative, road novel, and transcendental gospel, Steinbeck’s powerful landmark novel is perhaps the most American of American Classics.]]> 496 John Steinbeck 067001690X Gabby 0 to-read, books-to-buy 4.06 1939 The Grapes of Wrath
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]]> The Outsiders 231804 The Outsiders is about two weeks in the life of a 14-year-old boy. The novel tells the story of Ponyboy Curtis and his struggles with right and wrong in a society in which he believes that he is an outsider. According to Ponyboy, there are two kinds of people in the world: greasers and socs. A soc (short for "social") has money, can get away with just about anything, and has an attitude longer than a limousine. A greaser, on the other hand, always lives on the outside and needs to watch his back. Ponyboy is a greaser, and he's always been proud of it, even willing to rumble against a gang of socs for the sake of his fellow greasers--until one terrible night when his friend Johnny kills a soc. The murder gets under Ponyboy's skin, causing his bifurcated world to crumble and teaching him that pain feels the same whether a soc or a greaser.

Librarian note: This record is for one of the three editions published with different covers and with ISBN 0-140-38572-X / 978-0-14-038572-4. The records are for the 1988 cover (this record), the 1995 cover, and the 2008 cover which is also the current in-print cover.]]> 208 S.E. Hinton 0670532576 Gabby 0 to-read, books-to-buy 4.13 1967 The Outsiders
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]]> The Color Purple 11486
Then her husband's lover, a flamboyant blues singer, barreled into her world and gave Celie the courage to ask for more - to laugh, to play, and finally - to love.]]> 295 Alice Walker Gabby 0 to-read, books-to-buy 4.22 1982 The Color Purple
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]]> The Alchemist 865 197 Paulo Coelho 0061122416 Gabby 0 to-read, books-to-buy 3.85 1988 The Alchemist
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]]> Fahrenheit 451 4381 158 Ray Bradbury 0307347974 Gabby 0 to-read, books-to-buy 3.96 1953 Fahrenheit 451
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]]> The Giver (The Giver, #1) 3636 208 Lois Lowry 0385732554 Gabby 0 to-read, books-to-buy 4.12 1993 The Giver (The Giver, #1)
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]]> The Giving Tree 370493
So begins a story of unforgettable perception, beautifully written and illustrated by the gifted and versatile Shel Silverstein.

Every day the boy would come to the tree to eat her apples, swing from her branches, or slide down her trunk...and the tree was happy. But as the boy grew older he began to want more from the tree, and the tree gave and gave and gave.

This is a tender story, touched with sadness, aglow with consolation. Shel Silverstein has created a moving parable for readers of all ages that offers an affecting interpretation of the gift of giving and a serene acceptance of another's capacity to love in return.]]> 64 Shel Silverstein 0060256656 Gabby 0 to-read, books-to-buy 4.38 1964 The Giving Tree
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]]> The Book Thief 19063 Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here

It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will be busier still.

By her brother's graveside, Liesel's life is changed when she picks up a single object, partially hidden in the snow. It is The Gravedigger's Handbook, left behind there by accident, and it is her first act of book thievery. So begins a love affair with books and words, as Liesel, with the help of her accordian-playing foster father, learns to read. Soon she is stealing books from Nazi book-burnings, the mayor's wife's library, wherever there are books to be found.

But these are dangerous times. When Liesel's foster family hides a Jew in their basement, Liesel's world is both opened up, and closed down.

In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time.

(Note: this title was not published as YA fiction)]]> 592 Markus Zusak Gabby 0 to-read 4.38 2005 The Book Thief
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]]> The Catcher in the Rye 5107 It's Christmas time and Holden Caulfield has just been expelled from yet another school...

Fleeing the crooks at Pencey Prep, he pinballs around New York City seeking solace in fleeting encounters—shooting the bull with strangers in dive hotels, wandering alone round Central Park, getting beaten up by pimps and cut down by erstwhile girlfriends. The city is beautiful and terrible, in all its neon loneliness and seedy glamour, its mingled sense of possibility and emptiness. Holden passes through it like a ghost, thinking always of his kid sister Phoebe, the only person who really understands him, and his determination to escape the phonies and find a life of true meaning.

The Catcher in the Rye is an all-time classic in coming-of-age literature- an elegy to teenage alienation, capturing the deeply human need for connection and the bewildering sense of loss as we leave childhood behind.

J.D. Salinger's (1919�2010) classic novel of teenage angst and rebellion was first published in 1951. The novel was included on Time's 2005 list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923. It was named by Modern Library and its readers as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. It has been frequently challenged in the court for its liberal use of profanity and portrayal of sexuality and in the 1950's and 60's it was the novel that every teenage boy wants to read.]]> 277 J.D. Salinger 0316769177 Gabby 0 to-read, books-to-buy 3.81 1951 The Catcher in the Rye
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]]> East, West 9868 224 Salman Rushdie 0099533014 Gabby 0 to-read, books-to-buy 3.57 1994 East, West
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]]> Midnight’s Children 14836 An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.

Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the very moment of India’s independence. Greeted by fireworks displays, cheering crowds, and Prime Minister Nehru himself, Saleem grows up to learn the ominous consequences of this coincidence. His every act is mirrored and magnified in events that sway the course of national affairs; his health and well-being are inextricably bound to those of his nation; his life is inseparable, at times indistinguishable, from the history of his country. Perhaps most remarkable are the telepathic powers linking him with India’s 1,000 other “midnight’s children,� all born in that initial hour and endowed with magical gifts.

This novel is at once a fascinating family saga and an astonishing evocation of a vast land and its people–a brilliant incarnation of the universal human comedy. Twenty-five years after its publication, Midnight� s Children stands apart as both an epochal work of fiction and a brilliant performance by one of the great literary voices of our time.]]> 647 Salman Rushdie 0099578514 Gabby 0 to-read, books-to-buy 3.98 1981 Midnight’s Children
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]]> The Lives of Animals 6197
Costello's son, a physics professor, admires her literary achievements, but dreads his mother's lecturing on animal rights at the college where he teaches. His colleagues resist her argument that human reason is overrated and that the inability to reason does not diminish the value of life; his wife denounces his mother's vegetarianism as a form of moral superiority.

At the dinner that follows her first lecture, the guests confront Costello with a range of sympathetic and skeptical reactions to issues of animal rights, touching on broad philosophical, anthropological, and religious perspectives. Painfully for her son, Elizabeth Costello seems offensive and flaky, but—dare he admit it?—strangely on target.

Here the internationally renowned writer J. M. Coetzee uses fiction to present a powerfully moving discussion of animal rights in all their complexity. He draws us into Elizabeth Costello's own sense of mortality, her compassion for animals, and her alienation from humans, even from her own family. In his fable, presented as a Tanner Lecture sponsored by the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, Coetzee immerses us in a drama reflecting the real-life situation at hand: a writer delivering a lecture on an emotionally charged issue at a prestigious university. Literature, philosophy, performance, and deep human conviction—Coetzee brings all these elements into play.

As in the story of Elizabeth Costello, the Tanner Lecture is followed by responses treating the reader to a variety of perspectives, delivered by leading thinkers in different fields. Coetzee's text is accompanied by an introduction by political philosopher Amy Gutmann and responsive essays by religion scholar Wendy Doniger, primatologist Barbara Smuts, literary theorist Marjorie Garber, and moral philosopher Peter Singer, author of Animal Liberation. Together the lecture-fable and the essays explore the palpable social consequences of uncompromising moral conflict and confrontation.]]> 136 J.M. Coetzee 069107089X Gabby 0 to-read, books-to-buy 3.70 1999 The Lives of Animals
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]]> Foe 525544
In 1720 the eminent man of letters Daniel Foe is approached by Susan Barton, lately a castaway on a desert island. She wants him to tell her story, and that of the enigmatic man who has become her rescuer, companion, master, and sometimes lover: Cruso. Cruso is dead, and his manservant, Friday, is incapable of speech. As she tries to relate the truth about him, the ambitious Barton cannot help turning Cruso into her invention. For as narrated by Foe—as by Coetzee himself—the stories we thought we knew acquire depths that are at once treacherous, elegant, and unexpectedly moving.]]> 157 J.M. Coetzee Gabby 0 to-read, books-to-buy 3.44 1986 Foe
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]]> <![CDATA[The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman]]> 198483 A satirical tale of magic and sex, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman is a dazzling quest for truth, love and identity.]]> 221 Angela Carter 0140235191 Gabby 0 to-read, books-to-buy 3.78 1972 The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
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]]> Bluebeard 10500011 'Curiosity is the most fleeting of pleasures; the moment is satisfied, it ceases to exist and it always proves very, very expensive.'

Angela Carter's playful and subversive retellings of Charles Perrault's classic fairy tales conjure up a world of resourceful women, black-hearted villains, wily animals and incredible transformations. In these seven stories, bristling with frank, earthy humour and gothic imagination, nothing is as it seems.

This book includes Bluebeard, Little Red Riding Hood, Puss in Boots, The Sleeping Beauty of the Wood, Cinderella: or, The Glass Slipper, Ricky with the Tuft and The Foolish Wishes.]]> 64 Angela Carter 0141195886 Gabby 0 to-read, books-to-buy 3.57 2011 Bluebeard
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]]> The Company of Wolves 16046989 200 Angela Carter Gabby 0 to-read, books-to-buy 3.82 1981 The Company of Wolves
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]]> Shadow Dance 324401 182 Angela Carter 1860490417 Gabby 0 to-read, books-to-buy 3.74 1966 Shadow Dance
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]]> <![CDATA[Wayward Girls and Wicked Women]]> 922755 nice.]]> 339 Angela Carter 0860685799 Gabby 0 to-read, books-to-buy 3.79 1986 Wayward Girls and Wicked Women
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]]> <![CDATA[The Sadeian Woman: And the Ideology of Pornography]]> 276751 154 Angela Carter 0140298614 Gabby 0 to-read, books-to-buy 4.06 1979 The Sadeian Woman: And the Ideology of Pornography
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]]> Heroes and Villains 81034
Rational civilization rests with the Professors in their steel and concrete villages; marauding tribes of Barbarians roam the surrounding jungles; mutilated Out People inhabit the burnt scars of cities.

But Marianne, a Professor's daughter, is carried away into the jungle--a grotesque vegetable paradise--where she will become the captive bride of Jewel, the proud and beautiful Barbarian. There she will witness the savage rituals of the snake worshippers, indulge her voluptuous, virginal fantasies, taste the forbidden fruit of chaos...

Erotic, exotic, and bizarre, HEROES AND VILLAINS is a post-apocalyptic romance, a gripping adventure story, a colourful embroidery of religion and magic and, not least, a dispassionate vision of life beyond our brave nuclear world.]]> 160 Angela Carter 0140234640 Gabby 0 to-read, books-to-buy 3.59 1969 Heroes and Villains
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]]> Saints and Strangers 81035 An alternate cover edition can be found here.

Black Venus (also published as Saints and Strangers), is an anthology of short fiction. Angela Carter takes real people and literary legends - most often women - who have been mythologized or marginalized and recasts them in a new light. In a style that is sensual, cerebral, almost hypnotic, "The Fall River Axe-Murders" portrays the last hours before Lizzie Borden's infamous act: the sweltering heat, the weight of flannel and corsets, the clanging of the factory bells, the food reheated and reserved despite the lack of adequate refrigeration, the house "full of locked doors that open only into other rooms with other locked doors." In "Our Lady of the Massacre" the no-nonsense voice of an eighteenth-century prostitute/runaway slave questions who is civilized - the Indians or the white men? "Black Venus" gives voice to Charles Baudelaire's Creole mistress, Jeanne Duval: "you could say, not so much that Jeanne did not understand the lapidary, troubled serenity of her lover's poetry but, that it was a perpetual affront to her. He recited it to her by the hour and she ached, raged and chafed under it because his eloquence denied her language." "The Kiss" takes the traditional story of Tamburlaine's wife and gives it a new and refreshing ending. Sometimes disquieting, sometimes funny, always thought-provoking, Angela Carter's stories offer a feminist revision of images that lie deep in the public psyche.]]> 126 Angela Carter 014008973X Gabby 0 to-read, books-to-buy 3.92 1985 Saints and Strangers
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]]> The Passion of New Eve 581720
New York has become the City of Dreadful Night where dissolute Leilah performs a dance of chaos for Evelyn. But this young Englishman's fate lies in the arid desert, where a many-breasted fertility goddess will wield her scalpel to transform him into the new Eve.]]> 187 Angela Carter 0860683419 Gabby 0 to-read, books-to-buy 3.68 1977 The Passion of New Eve
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]]> Nights at the Circus 653651
Courted by the Prince of Wales and painted by Toulouse-Lautrec, she is an aerialiste extraordinaire and star of Colonel Kearney's circus. She is also part woman, part swan. Jack Walser, an American journalist, is on a quest to discover the truth behind her identity. Dazzled by his love for her, and desperate for the scoop of a lifetime, Walser has no choice but to join the circus on its magical tour through turn-of-the-nineteenth-century London, St Petersburg and Siberia.]]> 295 Angela Carter 0140077030 Gabby 0 to-read, books-to-buy 3.91 1984 Nights at the Circus
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]]> The Blind Assassin 78433 The Blind Assassin is a richly layered and uniquely rewarding experience.

It opens with these simple, resonant words: "Ten days after the war ended, my sister drove a car off the bridge." They are spoken by Iris, whose terse account of her sister Laura's death in 1945 is followed by an inquest report proclaiming the death accidental. But just as the reader expects to settle into Laura's story, Atwood introduces a novel-within-a-novel. Entitled The Blind Assassin, it is a science fiction story told by two unnamed lovers who meet in dingy backstreet rooms. When we return to Iris, it is through a 1947 newspaper article announcing the discovery of a sailboat carrying the dead body of her husband, a distinguished industrialist.

For the past twenty-five years, Margaret Atwood has written works of striking originality and imagination. In The Blind Assassin, she stretches the limits of her accomplishments as never before, creating a novel that is entertaining and profoundly serious. The Blind Assassin proves once again that Atwood is one of the most talented, daring, and exciting writers of our time. Like The Handmaid's Tale, it is destined to become a classic.]]> 637 Margaret Atwood Gabby 0 to-read, books-to-buy 3.96 2000 The Blind Assassin
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]]> Hag-Seed 28588073
Eventually he takes a job teaching Literacy Through Theatre to the prisoners at the nearby Burgess Correctional Institution, and is making a modest success of it when an auspicious star places his enemies within his reach. With the help of their own interpretations, digital effects, and the talents of a professional actress and choreographer, the Burgess Correctional Players prepare to video their Tempest. Not surprisingly, they view Caliban as the character with whom they have the most in common. However, Felix has another twist in mind, and his enemies are about to find themselves taking part in an interactive and illusion-ridden version of The Tempest that will change their lives forever. But how will Felix deal with his invisible Miranda’s decision to take a part in the play?]]> 301 Margaret Atwood 0804141290 Gabby 0 to-read, books-to-buy 3.77 2016 Hag-Seed
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]]> Stone Mattress: Nine Tales 22642472 A recently widowed fantasy writer is guided through a stormy winter evening by the voice of her late husband. An elderly lady with Charles Bonnet syndrome comes to terms with the little people she keeps seeing, while a newly formed populist group gathers to burn down her retirement residence. A woman born with a genetic abnormality is mistaken for a vampire, and a crime committed long ago is revenged in the Arctic via a 1.9 billion-year-old stromatolite.

In these nine tales, Margaret Atwood ventures into the shadowland earlier explored by fabulists and concoctors of dark yarns such as Robert Louis Stevenson, Daphne du Maurier and Arthur Conan Doyle - and also by herself, in her award-winning novel Alias Grace. In Stone Mattress, Margaret Atwood is at the top of her darkly humorous and seriously playful game.]]> 273 Margaret Atwood 0385539126 Gabby 0 to-read, books-to-buy 3.89 2014 Stone Mattress: Nine Tales
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]]> Alias Grace 72579
An up-and-coming expert in the burgeoning field of mental illness is engaged by a group of reformers and spiritualists who seek a pardon for Grace. He listens to her story while bringing her closer and closer to the day she cannot remember. What will he find in attempting to unlock her memories?

Captivating and disturbing, Alias Grace showcases best-selling, Booker Prize-winning author Margaret Atwood at the peak of her powers.]]> 468 Margaret Atwood 0385475713 Gabby 0 to-read, books-to-buy 4.08 1996 Alias Grace
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]]> <![CDATA[I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)]]> 13214
Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide.

Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.� At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age—and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns that love for herself, the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors (“I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare�) will allow her to be free instead of imprisoned.

Poetic and powerful, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings will touch hearts and change minds for as long as people read.]]> 289 Maya Angelou 0553279378 Gabby 4 4.30 1969 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
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]]> A Christmas Carol 5326
Introduction and Afterword by Joe Wheeler
To bitter, miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, Christmas is just another day. But all that changes when the ghost of his long-dead business partner appears, warning Scrooge to change his ways before it's too late.

Part of the Focus on the Family Great Stories collection, this abridged edition features an in-depth introduction and discussion questions by Joe Wheeler to provide greater understanding for today's reader. "A Christmas Carol" captures the heart of the holidays like no other novel.]]> 184 Charles Dickens 1561797464 Gabby 4 4.06 1843 A Christmas Carol
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]]> The Secret Garden 2998
Mary Lennox, a spoiled, ill-tempered, and unhealthy child, comes to live with her reclusive uncle in Misselthwaite Manor on England’s Yorkshire moors after the death of her parents. There she meets a hearty housekeeper and her spirited brother, a dour gardener, a cheerful robin, and her wilful, hysterical, and sickly cousin, Master Colin, whose wails she hears echoing through the house at night.

With the help of the robin, Mary finds the door to a secret garden, neglected and hidden for years. When she decides to restore the garden in secret, the story becomes a charming journey into the places of the heart, where faith restores health, flowers refresh the spirit, and the magic of the garden, coming to life anew, brings health to Colin and happiness to Mary.]]> 331 Frances Hodgson Burnett 0517189607 Gabby 4 4.16 1911 The Secret Garden
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]]> The Picture of Dorian Gray 5297 272 Oscar Wilde Gabby 3 4.13 1890 The Picture of Dorian Gray
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]]> Lord of the Flies 7624 182 William Golding 0140283331 Gabby 4 3.70 1954 Lord of the Flies
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]]> Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 51496 139 Robert Louis Stevenson 0451528956 Gabby 4 3.84 1886 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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]]> A Clockwork Orange 227463 A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil, and the meaning of human freedom. And when the state undertakes to reform Alex to "redeem" him, the novel asks, "At what cost?"

This edition includes the controversial last chapter not published in the first edition and Burgess's introduction "A Clockwork Orange Resucked."]]> 192 Anthony Burgess Gabby 0 to-read 3.98 1962 A Clockwork Orange
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]]> a_harlots_progress 875826 288 David Dabydeen 0099288729 Gabby 0 to-read 3.20 1999 a_harlots_progress
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]]> Gulliver’s Travels 7733 A wickedly clever satire uses comic inversions to offer telling insights into the nature of man and society. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.

Gulliver's Travels describes the four voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon. In Lilliput he discovers a world in miniature; towering over the people and their city, he is able to view their society from the viewpoint of a god. However, in Brobdingnag, a land of giants, tiny Gulliver himself comes under observation, exhibited as a curiosity at markets and fairs. In Laputa, a flying island, he encounters a society of speculators and projectors who have lost all grip on everyday reality; while they plan and calculate, their country lies in ruins. Gulliver's final voyage takes him to the land of the Houyhnhnms, gentle horses whom he quickly comes to admire - in contrast to the Yahoos, filthy bestial creatures who bear a disturbing resemblance to humans. This text, based on the first edition of 1726, reproduces all the original illustrations and includes an introduction by Robert Demaria, Jr, which discusses the ways Gulliver's Travels has been interpreted since its first publication. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was born in Dublin.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.]]> 306 Jonathan Swift 0141439491 Gabby 4 3.59 1726 Gulliver’s Travels
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]]> Robinson Crusoe 2932 320 Daniel Defoe Gabby 0 to-read 3.69 1719 Robinson Crusoe
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]]> A Midsummer Night’s Dream 1622 298 William Shakespeare 0743477545 Gabby 4 3.95 1595 A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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]]> Dubliners 11012 I regret to see that my book has turned out un fiasco solenne.' James Joyce's disillusion with the publication of Dubliners in 1914 was the result of ten years battling with publishers, resisting their demands to remove swear words, real place names and much else, including two entire stories. Although only 24 when he signed his first publishing contract for the book, Joyce already knew its worth: to alter it in any way would 'retard the course of civilisation in Ireland'.

Joyce's aim was to tell the truth � to create a work of art that would reflect life in Ireland at the turn of the last century and by rejecting euphemism, reveal to the Irish the unromantic reality the recognition of which would lead to the spiritual liberation of the country.

Each of the fifteen stories offers a glimpse of the lives of ordinary Dubliners � a death, an encounter, an opportunity not taken, a memory rekindled � and collectively they paint a portrait of a nation.]]> 352 James Joyce Gabby 0 to-read 3.86 1914 Dubliners
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]]> <![CDATA[A View from the Bridge: A Play in Two Acts]]> 847168 Arthur Miller's play A View from the Bridge is a tragic masterpiece of the inexorable unravelling of a man, set in a close-knit Italian-American community in 1950s New York.

Eddie Carbone is a longshoreman and a straightforward man, with a strong sense of decency and of honour. For Eddie, it's a privilege to take in his wife's cousins, Marco and Rodolpho, straight off the boat from Italy. But, as his niece Catherine begins to fall for one of them, it's clear that it's not just, as Eddie claims, that he's too strange, too sissy, too careless for her, but that something bigger, deeper is wrong - and wrong inside Eddie, in a way he can't face. Something which threatens the happiness of their whole family.]]> 96 Arthur Miller 0140481354 Gabby 4 3.70 1955 A View from the Bridge: A Play in Two Acts
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]]> Broken Glass 116156 144 Arthur Miller 0140249389 Gabby 3 3.51 1994 Broken Glass
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]]> <![CDATA[Other Stories and Other Stories]]> 127639 Other Stories and Other Stories is a stunning collection of short stories from Ali Smith.

Individually lucid and luminous, these formally inventive and exquisite tales resonate subtly together. In examining the distances and connections between ourselves and others, and lightly and expertly inching us closer to the bone, storytelling itself has never seemed so necessary, so moving or so joyous.

'Beautifully written and quietly unsettling' Big Issue

'Bold and sensitive. Smith's prose is a joy' Independent

'A wonderful collection; deceptively easy on one level with its whirling library of ghost story, funny story, love story, scary story, and more. Like Russian dolls, separate yet invisibly linked, they unfold from and into one another' Herald

'Smith breathes life into her imagined words with a true understanding of the craft of the short-story writer. She dances surely and lightly over the form' Guardian

'Captures quiet epiphanies of the extraordinary in the mundane' Sunday Times

'These stories fizz with life' The Times Literary Supplement]]> 179 Ali Smith 0141018011 Gabby 0 to-read 3.94 1999 Other Stories and Other Stories
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]]> <![CDATA[The Whole Story and Other Stories]]> 535225
What happens when you run into Death in a busy train station? (You know he’s Death because when he smiles, your cell phone goes dead.) What if your lover falls in love with a tree? Should you be jealous? From the woman pursued by a band of bagpipers in full regalia to the artist who’s built a seven-foot boat out of secondhand copies of The Great Gatsby, Smith’s characters are offbeat, charming, sexy, and as wonderfully complex as life itself.]]> 177 Ali Smith 140007567X Gabby 0 to-read 3.79 2003 The Whole Story and Other Stories
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]]> The Winter's Tale 44133 You can find an alternative cover for this ISBN here.

The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems and an extensive introduction. The Winter's Tale is one of Shakespeare's most varied, theatrically self-conscious, and emotionally wide-ranging plays. Much of the play's copiousness inheres in its generic intermingling of tragedy, comedy, romance, pastoral, and the history play. In addition to dates and sources, the introduction attends to iterative patterns, the nature and cause of Leontes' jealousy, the staging and meaning of the bear episode, and the thematic and structural implications of the figure of Time. Special attention is paid to the ending and its tempered happiness. Performance history is integrated throughout the introduction and commentary. Appendices include the theatrical practice of doubling.]]> 306 William Shakespeare 0521293731 Gabby 3 3.70 1623 The Winter's Tale
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]]> The Reader 101299
When he falls ill on his way home from school, fifteen-year-old Michael Berg is rescued by Hanna, a woman twice his age. In time she becomes his lover—then she inexplicably disappears. When Michael next sees her, he is a young law student, and she is on trial for a hideous crime. As he watches her refuse to defend her innocence, Michael gradually realizes that Hanna may be guarding a secret she considers more shameful than murder.]]> 216 Bernhard Schlink 0375408266 Gabby 0 to-read 3.78 1995 The Reader
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]]> <![CDATA[Beowulf - A Verse Translation Nce + Shakespeare/ Hamlet 2e Nce + Austen/ Northanger Abbey Nce]]> 31226606 Unknown 0470817828 Gabby 4 3.98 Beowulf - A Verse Translation Nce + Shakespeare/ Hamlet 2e Nce + Austen/ Northanger Abbey Nce
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]]> Sorry 3275195 232 Gail Jones 1933372559 Gabby 4 3.54 2007 Sorry
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]]> Half of a Yellow Sun 18749 A masterly, haunting new novel from a writer heralded by The Washington Post Book World as “the 21st-century daughter of Chinua Achebe,� Half of a Yellow Sun re-creates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra’s impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in Nigeria in the 1960s, and the chilling violence that followed.

With astonishing empathy and the effortless grace of a natural storyteller, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie weaves together the lives of three characters swept up in the turbulence of the decade. Thirteen-year-old Ugwu is employed as a houseboy for a university professor full of revolutionary zeal. Olanna is the professor’s beautiful mistress, who has abandoned her life of privilege in Lagos for a dusty university town and the charisma of her new lover. And Richard is a shy young Englishman in thrall to Olanna’s twin sister, an enigmatic figure who refuses to belong to anyone. As Nigerian troops advance and the three must run for their lives, their ideals are severely tested, as are their loyalties to one another.

Epic, ambitious, and triumphantly realized, Half of a Yellow Sun is a remarkable novel about moral responsibility, about the end of colonialism, about ethnic allegiances, about class and race—and the ways in which love can complicate them all. Adichie brilliantly evokes the promise and the devastating disappointments that marked this time and place, bringing us one of the most powerful, dramatic, and intensely emotional pictures of modern Africa that we have ever had.]]> 435 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 1400044162 Gabby 0 to-read, books-to-buy 4.34 2006 Half of a Yellow Sun
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]]> The Mallen Streak 1495952
Nor did it. In 1851, Thomas Mallen found himself a ruined man, forced amid scandal and disgrace, to sell the Hall and adjust to a new and very different mode of living. With him went his two young wards and their indomitable governess. Then, into their lives came the Radlet brothers of Wilbur Farm, one of whom bore the unmistakable Mallen Streak.

THE MALLEN STREAK is the first in a trilogy of novels following the fortunes of the Mallens through succeeding generations.]]> 288 Catherine Cookson 0553139320 Gabby 0 to-read, books-to-buy 3.91 1973 The Mallen Streak
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]]> The Girl in the Glass Tower 28491574
Arbella longs to be free from her cold-hearted grandmother; to love who she wants, to wear a man's trousers and ride her beloved horse, Dorcas. But if she ever wishes to break free she must learn to navigate the treacherous game of power, or end up dead.]]> 464 Elizabeth Fremantle 0718180461 Gabby 0 to-read, books-to-buy 3.64 2016 The Girl in the Glass Tower
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]]> <![CDATA[Little Women (Little Women, #1)]]> 1934 This is an alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780451529305.

Generations of readers young and old, male and female, have fallen in love with the March sisters of Louisa May Alcott’s most popular and enduring novel, Little Women. Here are talented tomboy and author-to-be Jo, tragically frail Beth, beautiful Meg, and romantic, spoiled Amy, united in their devotion to each other and their struggles to survive in New England during the Civil War.

It is no secret that Alcott based Little Women on her own early life. While her father, the freethinking reformer and abolitionist Bronson Alcott, hobnobbed with such eminent male authors as Emerson, Thoreau, and Hawthorne, Louisa supported herself and her sisters with "woman’s work,� including sewing, doing laundry, and acting as a domestic servant. But she soon discovered she could make more money writing. Little Women brought her lasting fame and fortune, and far from being the "girl’s book� her publisher requested, it explores such timeless themes as love and death, war and peace, the conflict between personal ambition and family responsibilities, and the clash of cultures between Europe and America.

]]> 449 Louisa May Alcott Gabby 0 to-read, books-to-buy 4.16 1868 Little Women (Little Women, #1)
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]]> Things We Didn't See Coming 6348441 174 Steven Amsterdam 1740667018 Gabby 0 to-read, books-to-buy 3.30 2009 Things We Didn't See Coming
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]]> The Diary of a Young Girl 48855
In 1942, with the Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding. For the next two years, until their whereabouts were betrayed to the Gestapo, the Franks and another family lived cloistered in the “Secret Annexe� of an old office building. Cut off from the outside world, they faced hunger, boredom, the constant cruelties of living in confined quarters, and the ever-present threat of discovery and death. In her diary Anne Frank recorded vivid impressions of her experiences during this period. By turns thoughtful, moving, and surprisingly humorous, her account offers a fascinating commentary on human courage and frailty and a compelling self-portrait of a sensitive and spirited young woman whose promise was tragically cut short.
--back cover]]> 283 Anne Frank Gabby 0 to-read, books-to-buy 4.19 1947 The Diary of a Young Girl
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]]> The Old Man and the Sea 2165 Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here

This short novel, already a modern classic, is the superbly told, tragic story of a Cuban fisherman in the Gulf Stream and the giant Marlin he kills and loses—specifically referred to in the citation accompanying the author's Nobel Prize for literature in 1954.]]> 96 Ernest Hemingway 0684830493 Gabby 0 to-read, books-to-buy 3.81 1952 The Old Man and the Sea
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]]> Macbeth 8852
This shocking tragedy - a violent caution to those seeking power for its own sake - is, to this day, one of Shakespeare’s most popular and influential masterpieces.]]> 249 William Shakespeare 0743477103 Gabby 5 3.90 1623 Macbeth
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]]> Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic 26135825
Distant and exacting, Bruce Bechdel was an English teacher and director of the town funeral home, which Alison and her family referred to as the Fun Home. It was not until college that Alison, who had recently come out as a lesbian, discovered that her father was also gay. A few weeks after this revelation, he was dead, leaving a legacy of mystery for his daughter to resolve.]]> 232 Alison Bechdel 0618871713 Gabby 5 4.06 2006 Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
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]]> <![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)]]> 43509
A much-awaited new Harry Potter adventure from an acclaimed story-telling genius.]]> 636 J.K. Rowling Gabby 4 4.56 2000 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
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]]> Anecdotes of Destiny 1090444 244 Isak Dinesen 0140184139 Gabby 0 to-read 3.93 1958 Anecdotes of Destiny
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]]> The Waves 863767 The Waves introduces six characters—three men and three women—who are grappling with the death of a beloved friend, Percival. Instead of describing their outward expressions of grief, Virginia Woolf draws her characters from the inside, revealing them through their thoughts and interior soliloquies. As their understanding of nature’s trials grows, the chorus of narrative voices blends together in miraculous harmony, remarking not only on the inevitable death of individuals but on the eternal connection of everyone. The novel that most epitomizes Virginia Woolf’s theories of fiction in the working form, The Waves is an amazing book very much ahead of its time. It is a poetic dreamscape, visual, experimental, and thrilling.]]> 167 Virginia Woolf Gabby 3 4.00 1931 The Waves
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