 | Chocolat by Joanne Harris
Buy used from: $0.01 Great imagery, could smell the chocolate as I read.
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 | She's Come Undone (Oprah's Book Club) by Wally Lamb
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Disturbing, not sure I can recommend this one.
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 | Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.95 A brilliant story about a boy and a tiger on a life boat in the Pacific Ocean.
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 | Pride and Prejudice (Bantam Classics) by Jane Austen
Buy new: $4.95 / Used from: $0.01 A classic, I loved Mr. Darcy of course. It took me a while to get through this book, but was worth it.
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 | Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $0.01 I like the author's use of color. I could feel how Vermeer's workroom held life and meaning to Griet.
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 | A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 A fun read. I hope I am this kind of Grandma some day.
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 | O Pioneers! (Vintage Classics) by Willa Cather
Buy new: $9.00 / Used from: $0.95 The imagery and foreshadowing is great in this book. Tragic and beautiful.
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 | The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $4.39 A very thought provoking, and at times abrasive look at what the future could hold for us.
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 | Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
Buy new: $12.95 / Used from: $0.05 Fun YA read, the author is very imaginative.
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 | Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: A Novel by Lisa See
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 I'll be forever grateful that I didn't have to go through the horror of foot-binding.
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 | A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana by Haven Kimmel
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $0.01 Some of the phrases from Zippy's dad could have been direct quotes from my own dad.
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 | The Goose Girl (Books of Bayern) by Shannon Hale
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $2.95 Another good YA from Shannon Hale.
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 | The Amateur Marriage: A Novel by Anne Tyler
Buy new: $11.21 / Used from: $0.01 A story about a couple who never really grew to understand each other.
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 | Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
Buy new: $16.49 / Used from: $2.66 Not as good as I had heard, but still enjoyable. The book is built on a great premise.
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 | Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 I was pleasantly surprised at how good this novel was. Mystery and romance!
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 | The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger
Buy new: $11.86 / Used from: $0.01 A very funny, light read. I throughly enjoyed this story about the "boss from hell"
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 | The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle (rpkg) by Avi
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 A swashbuckling tale about a 13-year-old girl who finds herself is some very bad circumstances.
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 | Can You Keep a Secret? by Sophie Kinsella
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $0.01 Very funny. We all have secrets like this.
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 | The Count of Monte Cristo (Bantam Classics) by Alexandre Dumas
Buy new: $6.95 / Used from: $0.01 This continues to be one of my favorites. I think Dumas is brilliant!
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 | The Wild Girl: The Notebooks of Ned Giles, 1932 by Jim Fergus
Buy new: $11.96 / Used from: $0.79 This was different from anything I've read before. I enjoyed it and would read this author again.
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 | Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
Buy new: $8.95 / Used from: $0.01 Very funny Newbery Honor. Hiaasen is always fun.
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 | The Secret History of the Pink Carnation by Lauren Willig
Buy used from: $7.47 I was disappointed in this book. It is very different from The Scarlet Pimpernell.
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 | Twilight (Twilight, Book 1) by Stephenie Meyer
Buy new: $13.59 / Used from: $6.87 I read this book about a teenage vampire in two days.
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