 | Christy by Catherine Marshall
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 This is one of my absolute favorite books of all time!!!! I've re-read it probably upwards of 100 times. It is like an old friend to me. Christy Huddleston has the pluck and strong will that we all look for in ourselves.
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 | The Complete Anne of Green Gables Boxed Set (Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne of Windy Poplars, Anne's House of Dreams, ... Rainbow Valley, Rilla of Ingleside) by L.M. Montgomery
Buy new: $27.73 / Used from: $19.25 Here's one of my childhood favorites. I love all of the characters as if they were my own friends. I can remember laying in bed sick when I was younger and reading these books all day long.
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 | Little Women (Unabridged Classics) by Louisa May Alcott
Buy new: $7.16 / Used from: $2.20 I always get a hankering to re-read this book around Christmas-time. I see a lot of myself in Jo and it is fun to see how my perspective changes on the various characters and their decisions as I get older.
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 | Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $4.50 Even though Scarlet O'Hara is as selfish as a human being can be, you have to admire her will to survive and get what she wants. And we all need a Melanie in our lives.
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 | Baby Island by Carol Ryrie Brink
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $1.03 As a little girl, I would pretend that I was one of the girls in this story that saved all of the babies.
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 | Pride and Prejudice (Oxford World's Classics) by Jane Austen
Buy new: $7.95 / Used from: $3.23 Elizabeth Bennet has a lot of pluck for a woman in her time. And Darcy doesn't end up being so bad in the end.
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 | The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle) by Mary Ann Shaffer
Buy new: $5.50 / Used from: $4.93 This book had me laughing outloud at times. Though it covers some very tragic events, the characters manage to deal with them matter-of-factly and find humor even in the midst of the Nazi occupation.
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 | Beauty Shop for Rent: . . . fully equipped, inquire within by Laura Bowers
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $4.46 This book had me laughing outloud at times. As someone who pinches her pennies and survives on minimum wage jobs, I respect the main character for all of her money-making ways.
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 | Not Without My Daughter by Betty Mahmoody
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 I haven't read this book in years, but I remember how it gripped me and I couldn't put it down until I had finished the last page.
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 | Harry Potter Boxset Books 1-7 by J. K. Rowling
Buy new: $114.07 / Used from: $72.00 It's Harry Potter...enough said!
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 | J.R.R. Tolkien Boxed Set (The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings) by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $6.68 LotR is so imaginative and colorful. I personally love the Fellowship of the Ring the most, but all the them are wonderful!!!
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 | Emma (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen
Buy new: $8.00 / Used from: $1.43 Jane Austen was a genius. She had a way of making fun of her society, identifying the good in it, and designing characters that come to life.
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 | The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Buy used from: $0.01 As one of my friends once said, The Da Vinci Code is like Harry Potter for adults.
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 | Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
Buy new: $10.79 / Used from: $2.49 This is a good book to read when you are in kind of a dark mood.
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 | Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics) by William Makepeace Thackeray
Buy new: $9.00 / Used from: $1.63 Kind of like Gone With The Wind, you have to admire the main character even as you dislike her.
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 | Jane Eyre (Fine Edition) by Charlotte Bronte
Buy new: $33.40 / Used from: $19.95 This is another of my dark day books, especially if the wind is whipping up a storm and the power is about to go out.
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 | The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
Buy used from: $5.94 This is another of my childhood favorites that I continue to enjoy as an adult.
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 | The Winds of War by Herman Wouk
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $1.00 This book and its sequel are enormously long, but so, so, so, so good.
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 | War and Remembrance by Herman Wouk
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $0.94 This book and The Winds of War are both enormously long, but I will never forget the characters.
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 | Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: A Novel by Rebecca Wells
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $0.01 Love this book, the characters are so fiesty and out there.
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