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Yes, I actually read it this summer for the first time and loved it!HYR The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
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Of course! And some of the sequels too. And both of the movies/ miniseries based on it...HYR Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
?BTW, I heartily recommend listening to Orson Welles' version of The War of the Worlds. Some of the actors who've been in various Star Trek iterations who call themselves Alien Voices do a particularly good version.
This is one of those books that I think I've read, without knowing for sure...HYR The Blue Girl by Charles de Lint
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(Thanks for the rec, Leah!)No, I hadn't heard of this series, but it sounds like one I'd love! And if you've read book #2 in the series, please review it as gr has no reviews, yet... HNR.
HYR Oscar Wilde ~ de Profundis
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Yes, I read and absolutely loved it! It made me admire Wilde not just as a writer, but as a person.HYR A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
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No, I haven't. It's on my TBR shelf/ shelves/ room, but clearly I need to read this soon. I did read The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr Norris/Goodbye to Berlin approximately a hundred years ago. HYR Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
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Not yet, or not so I remember it... It's on my list of 50 states with a book set in each state and a bunch of countries too. I just have six states left. It's my Alaska book, of course.HYR the book I read for New York A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly
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HNRYes, The Reader is a very memorable book, I read it twice. And the movie adaptation is wonderful too.
HYR The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
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Yes, about 100 years ago. (I prefer the movie to the book of The Reader, which is unusual. Perhaps it's the unsympathetic main characters.)
HYR Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin
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HNR(About The Reader: I agree that Hanna is an unsympathetic character, but I think that Michael is a very interesting narrator and a flawed human being. Too bad there was no narrator in the movie which I find almost as good as the book.)
HYR Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
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Yes, but all I remember of it is that I read it...HYR The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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HNR, but I have a collection of his short stories at home, so I'll probably read it later this year.HYR Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima
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I don't know, I know I bought it and intended to read it, long ago... Maybe. But in the binary of this, let's say HNR.HYR Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
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HYR The Maze of Bones* (The 39 Clues, Book 1) by Rick Riordan
*The is the first book in a 10-book young adult series written by different authors that works remarkably well. It is published by Scholastic Books. I think one of the reasons that it works so well is that Rick Riordan outlined the whole series before he or anyone else started writing. It is a mystery that is not completely solved until the last book. There are online games to help kids solve the mysteries in the series that parallel each book.
Books that are this complicated I don't tend to get started on so HNR.HYR Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
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No, but I've been meaning to. Have you read it?HYR The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
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I'm answering my own question to keep the game going.Yes.
HYR I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
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Yes, but it was creepy.HYR The Beastly Bride: Tales of the Animal People edited by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling
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HYR Grave Witch* (Alex Craft, Book 1) by Kalayna Price
?*Great new urban fantasy series!
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