House of Sand and Fog (1999) by Andre Dubus III
The book begins in the late 1980s with Kathy Nicolo, a former drug addict and alcoholic, being wrongly evicted from her home.
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Kim (1901) by Rudyard Kipling
The classics are “classics” because they are written in a style that is no longer preferred.
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The Masks of God, Vol. I: Primitive Mythology (1959) by Joseph Campbell
One of the last sections is “The Functioning of Myth” and Campbell goes into great deal to extrapolate the introductory section. “The ends for which men strive in the world,” writes Campbell, “are three — no more, no less; namely: love and pleasure (kāma), power and success (artha: pronounced ‘art-ha’), and lawful order and moral virtue (dharma).”
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King Solomon’s Mines (1885) by Sir H. Rider Haggard
King Solomon’s Mines is a fun adventure story that takes the reader into a mysterious land.
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To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) by Harper Lee
Much of the book is loosely based on experiences of racism in Monroeville, Alabama.
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20 Master Plots (1993) by Ronald B. Tobias
One of the nice perks of this book is that Tobias includes quotes by other authors to introduce the chapters.
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The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby (1925) by Francis Scott Fitzgerald could arguably be the great American novel often desired and debated among readers and writers.
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Reading Lolita in Tehran (2003) by Azar Nafisi
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Dr. Azar Nafisi is a memoir of a woman teaching literature in Islamic Iran.
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First Blood (1972) – Rambo – by David Morrell & the Real Ending
If you want to find out what REALLY happened to Rambo, then you’ll just have to read the book.
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The Sorrow of War (1990) by Bảo Ninh
I came across an English translation of The Sorrow of War (1993) and opened it up.
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Style: The Art of Writing Well (1955) by F.L. Lucas
“Your generalization is beautifully epigrammatic.”
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Ernest Hemingway on Writing (1984) by Ernest Hemingway
“You must be prepared to work always without applause.”
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Peter Pan (1911) by J.M. Barrie
“There could not have been a lovelier sight; but there was none to see it except a strange boy who was staring in at the window.”
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I Wonder (2013) by CG FEWSTON
A Poem
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Meditations (1909) by Marcus Aurelius
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