Listopia > Joan d'Arc's votes on the list Best Books Ever (42 Books)
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J.R.R. Tolkien 4-Book Boxed Set: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
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"Biggest influence on my writing career."
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The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
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"Influential futuristic near horror influenced my book Transsender and the Wendigo."
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Slaughterhouse-Five
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"Vonnegut was an early influence and this was my top fave."
Joan
rated it 5 stars
See Review |
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The Trial
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"The first surrealist (absurist) book I ever read, this was an early influence on my writing."
Joan
rated it 5 stars
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A Confederacy of Dunces
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"Top humor book!"
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Never Let Me Go
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"You do not know what is happening in this book until very close to the end. It's such a shock."
Joan
rated it 5 stars
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Candide
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"I read this as a teenager and never forgot this story."
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The Time Machine
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"Loved the book and the movie."
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Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
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"This young adult dystopian novel contains an exciting easter egg sort of hunt."
Joan
rated it 5 stars
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East of Eden
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"When I was a teen I loved all of Steinbeck's books."
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
by See Review |
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Franny and Zooey
by See Review |
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Gulliver’s Travels
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As I Lay Dying
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Steppenwolf
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No Country for Old Men
by See Review |
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Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2)
by See Review |
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The Talisman (The Talisman, #1)
by See Review |
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The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
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A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
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Childhood’s End
by See Review |
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Sometimes a Great Notion
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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The Old Man and the Sea
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The Stranger
by See Review |
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
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On the Road
by See Review |
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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American Gods: Tenth Anniversary (American Gods, #1)
by See Review |
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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11/22/63
by See Review |
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Ethan Frome
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A Moveable Feast
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Tales of H.P. Lovecraft
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The Illustrated Man
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Solaris
by See Review |
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Notes from Underground
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Mother Night
by See Review |
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Girl, Interrupted
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The Glass Bead Game
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Metamorphoses
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Ham on Rye
by See Review |
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