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Flatland
Edwin A. Abbott
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Math, satire and metaphysics in one package
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Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
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Watership Down
Richard Adams
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The balancing act of getting us in the head of the rabbits while keeping them still very rabbitish is impressive
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The Oresteia
Aeschylus
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A masterpiece
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Edward Albee
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Haunting and hilarious
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The Book of Three
Lloyd Alexander
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Middlegrade Epic fantasy doesn't get better than this
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Inferno: The Divine Comedy, Book 1
Dante Alighieri
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A masterpiece
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Skellig
David Almond
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Such a subtle wonderous touch this author has here
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A Coffin for Dimitrios
Eric Ambler
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Thrilling
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Fairy Tales
Hans Christian Andersen
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These tales are way stranger and more fun than you'd think going into them
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Foundation: The Foundation Trilogy, Book 1
Isaac Asimov
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somehow spawned a whole genre and yet totally unique.
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Foundation and Empire: The Foundation Trilogy, Book 2
Isaac Asimov
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somehow spawned a whole genre and yet totally unique.
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Second Foundation: The Foundation Trilogy, Book 3
Isaac Asimov
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somehow spawned a whole genre and yet totally unique.
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Confessions
Saint Augustine
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A masterpiece
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Emma
Jane Austen
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I find Emma to be one of Austin's most frustrating yet fully fleshed out characters.
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Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen
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such great satire, even if you've not read a page of what they are poking fun at
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Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
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The best introduction to Austen’s work is surely the second of the six novels she wrote before her death at only forty-one, Pride and Prejudice, in which she introduces us to Elizabeth Bennet, the wittiest and most vivacious of five sisters on the hunt—if their mother has her way, at least—for husba...show more
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Tuck Everlasting
Natalie Babbitt
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Age has its despairs, yet without its dimension, our lives lose their shape: A timeless life, without growth or change, would be drearier than the day is long. That’s the profound truth that illuminates this extraordinary fable, in which a young girl named Winnie finds herself catapulted into great ...show more
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum
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There’s no greater tribute to the pleasures of L. Frank Baum’s book than to say that the story is so good that it isn’t overwhelmed by the images from the wonderful Judy Garland movie. The story unfolds with a declarative matter-of-factness that puts no barrier between the real and the imagined; bec...show more
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