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When House Atreides is betrayed, the destruction of Paul鈥檚 family will set the boy on a journey toward a destiny greater than he could ever have imagined. And as he evolves into the mysterious man known as Muad鈥橠ib, he will bring to fruition humankind鈥檚 most ancient and unattainable dream.]]> 658 Frank Herbert 059309932X 脰测办眉 5 currently-reading 4.33 1965
author: Frank Herbert
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average rating: 4.33
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]]> 4929 Kafka on the Shore, a tour de force of metaphysical reality, is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister; and an aging simpleton called Nakata, who never recovered from a wartime affliction and now is drawn toward Kafka for reasons that, like the most basic activities of daily life, he cannot fathom. Their odyssey, as mysterious to them as it is to us, is enriched throughout by vivid accomplices and mesmerizing events. Cats and people carry on conversations, a ghostlike pimp employs a Hegel-quoting prostitute, a forest harbors soldiers apparently unaged since World War II, and rainstorms of fish (and worse) fall from the sky. There is a brutal murder, with the identity of both victim and perpetrator a riddle鈥攜et this, along with everything else, is eventually answered, just as the entwined destinies of Kafka and Nakata are gradually revealed, with one escaping his fate entirely and the other given a fresh start on his own.]]> 467 Haruki Murakami 1400079276 脰测办眉 5 4.14 2002
author: Haruki Murakami
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average rating: 4.14
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Armed only with the invincible innocence of children, they fashion a childhood for themselves in the shade of the wreck that is their family鈥攖heir lonely, lovely mother, Ammu (who loves by night the man her children love by day), their blind grandmother, Mammachi (who plays Handel on her violin), their beloved uncle Chacko (Rhodes scholar, pickle baron, radical Marxist, bottom-pincher), their enemy, Baby Kochamma (ex-nun and incumbent grandaunt), and the ghost of an imperial entomologist's moth (with unusually dense dorsal tufts).

When their English cousin, Sophie Mol, and her mother, Margaret Kochamma, arrive on a Christmas visit, Esthappen and Rahel learn that Things Can Change in a Day. That lives can twist into new, ugly shapes, even cease forever, beside their river "graygreen." With fish in it. With the sky and trees in it. And at night, the broken yellow moon in it.

The brilliantly plotted story uncoils with an agonizing sense of foreboding and inevitability. Yet nothing prepares you for what lies at the heart of it.

The God of Small Things takes on the Big Themes鈥擫ove. Madness. Hope. Infinite Joy. Here is a writer who dares to break the rules. To dislocate received rhythms and create the language she requires, a language that is at once classical and unprecedented. Arundhati Roy has given us a book that is anchored to anguish, but fueled by wit and magic.]]> 321 Arundhati Roy 0679457313 脰测办眉 5 3.97 1997
author: Arundhati Roy
name: 脰测办眉
average rating: 3.97
book published: 1997
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Published on the eve of World War I, a decade after Buddenbrooks had established Thomas Mann as a literary celebrity, Death in Venice tells the story of Gustav von Aschenbach, a successful but aging writer who follows his wanderlust to Venice in search of spiritual fulfillment that instead leads to his erotic doom.
In the decaying city, besieged by an unnamed epidemic, he becomes obsessed with an exquisite Polish boy, Tadzio. "It is a story of the voluptuousness of doom," Mann wrote. "But the problem I had especially in mind was that of the artist's dignity."]]> 142 Thomas Mann 0060576170 脰测办眉 5 3.77 1911
author: Thomas Mann
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average rating: 3.77
book published: 1911
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In Killing Commendatore, a thirty-something portrait painter in Tokyo is abandoned by his wife and finds himself holed up in the mountain home of a famous artist, Tomohiko Amada. When he discovers a previously unseen painting in the attic, he unintentionally opens a circle of mysterious circumstances. To close it, he must complete a journey that involves a mysterious ringing bell, a two-foot-high physical manifestation of an Idea, a dapper businessman who lives across the valley, a precocious thirteen-year-old girl, a Nazi assassination attempt during World War II in Vienna, a pit in the woods behind the artist鈥檚 home, and an underworld haunted by Double Metaphors. A tour de force of love and loneliness, war and art鈥攁s well as a loving homage to The Great Gatsby鈥�Killing Commendatore is a stunning work of imagination from one of our greatest writers.]]> 681 Haruki Murakami 052552004X 脰测办眉 5 3.88 2017
author: Haruki Murakami
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average rating: 3.88
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]]> 41881472 242 Morgan Housel 0857197681 脰测办眉 0 to-read 4.27 2020
author: Morgan Housel
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average rating: 4.27
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]]> 29570912 62 Stefan Zweig 脰测办眉 0 4.31 1942
author: Stefan Zweig
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average rating: 4.31
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]]> 7624 182 William Golding 0140283331 脰测办眉 5 3.70 1954
author: William Golding
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average rating: 3.70
book published: 1954
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]]> 1953 A Tale of Two Cities is Charles Dickens鈥檚 great historical novel, set against the violent upheaval of the French Revolution. The most famous and perhaps the most popular of his works, it compresses an event of immense complexity to the scale of a family history, with a cast of characters that includes a bloodthirsty ogress and an antihero as believably flawed as any in modern fiction. Though the least typical of the author鈥檚 novels, A Tale of Two Cities still underscores many of his enduring themes鈥攊mprisonment, injustice, social anarchy, resurrection, and the renunciation that fosters renewal.]]> 489 Charles Dickens 0141439602 脰测办眉 4 3.86 1859
author: Charles Dickens
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average rating: 3.86
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First published in 1939, Steinbeck鈥檚 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鈥攄riven 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鈥檚 fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman鈥檚 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鈥檚 powerful landmark novel is perhaps the most American of American Classics.]]> 496 John Steinbeck 067001690X 脰测办眉 5 4.06 1939
author: John Steinbeck
name: 脰测办眉
average rating: 4.06
book published: 1939
rating: 5
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]]> 13079982 Sixty years after its original publication, Ray Bradbury鈥檚 internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before.

Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television 鈥渇amily.鈥� But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn鈥檛 live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known.]]> 194 Ray Bradbury 脰测办眉 5 3.97 1953
author: Ray Bradbury
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average rating: 3.97
book published: 1953
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]]> 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鈥攕hooting 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鈥�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 脰测办眉 4 3.81 1951
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]]> 320 417 Gabriel Garc铆a M谩rquez 脰测办眉 5 4.10 1967
author: Gabriel Garc铆a M谩rquez
name: 脰测办眉
average rating: 4.10
book published: 1967
rating: 5
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]]> 24280 1463 Victor Hugo 0451525264 脰测办眉 0 4.19 1862
author: Victor Hugo
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average rating: 4.19
book published: 1862
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]]> 40961427 Nineteen Eighty-Four is a rare work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory becomes more real. Published in 1949, the book offers political satirist George Orwell's nightmarish vision of a totalitarian, bureaucratic world and one poor stiff's attempt to find individuality. The brilliance of the novel is Orwell's prescience of modern life鈥攖he ubiquity of television, the distortion of the language鈥攁nd his ability to construct such a thorough version of hell. Required reading for students since it was published, it ranks among the most terrifying novels ever written.]]> 298 George Orwell 脰测办眉 0 4.24 1949
author: George Orwell
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average rating: 4.24
book published: 1949
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]]> 16640 149 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 0812969901 脰测办眉 3 3.71 1774
author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
name: 脰测办眉
average rating: 3.71
book published: 1774
rating: 3
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]]> 12813565 302 Chuck Palahniuk 0393083527 脰测办眉 5 4.05 1999
author: Chuck Palahniuk
name: 脰测办眉
average rating: 4.05
book published: 1999
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