 | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (P.S.) by Betty Smith
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.01 This is my fav coming to age novel. It has a timeless appeal.
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 | Emma (Bantam Classics) by Jane Austen
Buy new: $4.95 / Used from: $0.01 So much fun...You have to laugh at all the trouble emma gets into to. I was delighted to realize that it followed the same plot as Clueless, a movie I'd seen as a young teen and which I didn't know was an adaptation of this book
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 | Northanger Abbey (Modern Library Classics) by Jane Austen
Buy new: $6.95 / Used from: $0.01 I love the naive, enthusiastic heroine. She made me obsessed with castles and palaces when I was in England.
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 | Mansfield Park (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen
Buy new: $8.00 / Used from: $0.51 A darker Austen, but still really good. In fact, one of her best.
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 | Sense and Sensibility (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen
Buy new: $7.00 / Used from: $0.01 Probably my least favorite Austen, but still really good.
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 | Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 What do you get when you have a beautiful young woman, a handsome rebel, and evil ship-wrecking men. Another great read by this author.
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 | Little Dorrit (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy new: $9.60 / Used from: $1.93 Really long, but highly recommended. It's very similar to Bleak House: Circumlocution Office= High Court of Chancery Great characters...
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 | The Moonstone (Oxford World's Classics) by Wilkie Collins
Buy used from: $0.12 Such a good mystery. It will have you wondering til the end. Also has great characters and a little humor mixed in.
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 | Lady Audley's Secret (Oxford World's Classics) by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Buy used from: $1.83 Great heroine. Lady Audley's the woman.
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 | March by Geraldine Brooks
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $0.01 Emerson and Thoreau are characters! Great book to show the horrors of slavery.
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 | The Known World: A Novel by Edward P. Jones
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.01 Beautifully written. I wouldn't be surprised if it entered the canon eventually. Very interesting issue that gives a different perspective on slavery, showing it to be more complex than one might think.
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 | Fifth Business (Penguin Classics) by Robertson Davies
Buy new: $9.75 / Used from: $1.47 Weird. Kinda wanna read the sequel.
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 | Silas Marner (Bantam Classics) by George Eliot
Buy new: $3.95 / Used from: $0.01 A sweet story that will warm your heart. Planning to read more by her...
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