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Adams, Douglas
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Just before the Earth is demolished, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect.
215 p. 1980
Appears on the following book lists:
 Science Fiction
Books to Film
Science Fiction
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Asimov, Isaac
Foundation
Mankind's last best hope is faced with an agonizing choice: submit to the barbarians and be overrun--or fight them and be destroyed.
255 p. 1951
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Science Fiction
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Atwood, Margaret
The Handmaid's Tale
In the world of the near future, who will control women's bodies?
350 p. 2006
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Cisneros, Sandra
The House On Mango Street
A young girl grows up in the Latino section of Chicago.
110 p. 1991
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Esquivel, Laura
Like Water for Chocolate : a Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes Romances and Home Remedies
This is a "tall-tale, fairy-tale, soap opera romance, Mexican cookbook, and home-remedy handbook all rolled into one" (San Francisco Chronicle)
245 p. 1992
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If you liked . . . The Time Traveler's Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger
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Eugenides, Jeffrey
Middlesex
Calliope's friendship with a classmate and her sense of identity are compromised by the adolescent discovery that she is a hermaphrodite, a situation with roots in her grandparents' desperate struggle for survival in the 1920s.
529 p. 2002
Appears on the following book lists:
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Oprah's Books
Family Sagas
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Follett, Ken
Pillars of the Earth
A passionate, violent and absorbing epic story built around the construction of a great cathedral in 12th Century England.
973 p. 1989
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Oprah's Books
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Frazier, Charles
Cold Mountain
Wounded in battle, Inman is not the man he used to be when he slowly makes his way home to North Carolina. His sweetheart, Ada, too has changed, no longer a flighty belle but a hard-working farm woman. Will their love be the same?
356 p. 1997
Appears on the following book lists:
If you liked . . . The Time Traveler's Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger
Historical Fiction
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Golden, Arthur
Memoirs of a Geisha : a Novel
A fisherman's daughter in 1930s Japan rises to become a famous geisha.
434 p. 1997
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Hanff, Helene
84 Charing Cross Road
A New York writer with a passion for literature writes to a London bookstore in search of rare classics. A good-natured, reserved Englishman answers her request, beginning a relationship that spans two continents and two decades.
97 p. 1970
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Hassler, Jon
Dear James
Fleeing unhappiness at home, Agatha McGee sets off on a pilgrimage to Italy, unaware that her old soulmate and nemesis, Father James O'Hannon of County Kildare, Ireland, is waiting to meet her. There, in the golden light of Assisi, Agatha and James begin to rebuild their friendship . . . and their love.
587 p. 2006
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Irving, John
The Hotel New Hampshire
""The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life led in hotels.""So says John Berry, son of a hapless dreamer, brother to a cadre of eccentric siblings, and chronicler of the lives lived, the loves experienced, the deaths met, and the myriad strange and wonderful times encountered by the family Berry.
401 p. 2001
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Kesey, Ken
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
An inmate of a mental institution tries to find the freedom and independence denied him in the outside world.
272 1963
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King, Stephen
Carrie
Unaware that she possesses a terrifying power, Carrie White creates much destruction in a small, quiet New England town.
253 p. 1999
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Kingsolver, Barbara
The Poisonwood Bible : a Novel
Nathan Price, a self-righteous Baptist minister establishes a mission in a village in 1959 Belgian Congo. The resulting clash of cultures is seen through the eyes of his wife and his four daughters.
546 p. 1998
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Oprah's Books
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Krakauer, Jon
Into Thin Air : a Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
When John Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn't slept in 57 hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to begin his long, dangerous descent from 29,028 feet, twenty other climbers were still pushing doggedly toward the top. No one had noticed that the sky had begun to fill with clouds. Six hours later and 3,000 feet lower, in 70-knot winds and blinding snow, Krakauer collapsed in his tent, freezing, hallucinating from exhaustion and hypoxia, but safe. The following morning he learned that six of his fellow climbers hadn't made it back to their camp and were in a desperate struggle for their lives. When the storm finally passed, five of them would be dead, and the sixth so horribly frostbitten that his right hand would have to be amputated. Into thin air is the definitive account of the deadliest season in the history of Everest--Front flap.
293 p. 1997
Appears on the following book lists:
Amazing Adventures
Alex Award - Nonfiction
Outdoor Adventure and Survival
Nonfiction
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Morrison, Toni
The Bluest Eye
The Bluest Eye (1970) is the first novel written by Toni Morrison. It is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove--a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others--who prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning and the tragedy of its fulfillment.
215 p. 1993
Appears on the following book lists:
Oprah's Books
Classics
Challenged and Banned Books
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Palahniuk, Chuck
Fight Club
The rise of a terrorist organization, led by a waiter who enjoys spitting in people's soup. He starts a fighting club, where men bash each other, and the club quickly gains in popularity. It becomes the springboard for a movement devoted to destruction for destruction's sake.
208 p. 1996
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Toole, John Kennedy
A Confederacy of Dunces
A humorous story set in New Orleans about around a slob named Ignatius Reilly and his relationship with his mother.
338 p. 2000
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Walker, Alice
The Color Purple : a Novel
Celie is a poor black woman whose letters tell the story of 20 years of her life, beginning at age 14 when she is being abused and raped by her father and attempting to protect her sister from the same fate, and continuing over the course of her marriage to "Mister," a brutal man who terrorizes her. Celie eventually learns that her abusive husband has been keeping her sister's letters from her and the rage she feels, combined with an example of love and independence provided by her close friend Shug, pushes her finally toward an awakening of her creative and loving self.
245 p. 1982
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Classics
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