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1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible -
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 1984 - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D
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Chesilbeach, the above is a list of the "doorstoppers" that I have read and that I can think of hand. I often get on a theme kick (i.e. India kick or Africa kick etc.) I loved Half of a Yellow Sun as I was in the mood for it especially after listening to an interview of Adichie.
The Poisonwood Bible was recommended to me by an art director of a New Mexico Museum, but I really did not pay too much attention to it as I thought it might be too religious for me. Silly me. Several months later (during an Africa kick), I picked it up and WOW! I absolutely loved it and could not put it down. It is written from several points of view which I thought might be too disruptive, but the way Kingsolver wrote it, this technique really works. I highly recommend it.
Are you an Ian McEwan fan? Above all, he is my most favourite writer. I am speaking stylistically. He absolutely writes the most beautiful prose. His subjects, however, are so, so dark I sometimes have trouble getting through his books. Oh well, can't have it all.
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Wrist Weights I have Read
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth (ps. 1488)
Labyrinth by Kate Moss (ps. 528)
By Rosamund Pilcher:
The Shell Seekers (ps. 582)
Winter Solstice (ps. 504)
September (ps. 613)
Coming Home (ps. 977)
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry (ps. 624)
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (ps. 576)
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Adichie (ps. 560)
The Secret History by Donna Tartt (ps. 578)
The Shinning by Stephen King (ps. 528)
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters (ps. 582)
The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff (ps. 544)
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (ps. 576)
The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton (ps. 560)
The Cold Moon by Jeffrey Deaver (ps. 656)
The Sleeping Doll by Jeffrey Deaver (ps.608)
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese (ps. 560)
Wrist Weights to be Read
Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra (ps. 947)
The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz (ps. 1360)
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Most disturbing for me has been A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry. It was very good but an emotionally exhausting book to get through.
But for the Grace of God go I.
Fictional Villains We Love to Hate
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Uriah Heep from David Copperfield - nasty little creature