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RECOMMENDED
READING - Novels
These
novels are instructive about what we believe good fiction can be.
We believe a good novel should be both entertaining and take the main
character on an emotional and spiritual journey of change. Not necesarily
with a happy ending.
This
list is by no means exhaustive. They have been
selected to demonstrate the wide variety of themes, subject matter
and genres spanning decades.
Franny
and Zooey
by J.D. Salinger
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The
Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger
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| Musashi
by Eiji Yoshikawa |
A
great samurai story. What all fiction should be like. It is great
fun to read and has profound meaning and relevance to the way we
live our lives. |
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The
Accidental Tourist
by Anne Tyler
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Breathing
Lessons
by Anne Tyler
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Earthly
Possessions
by Anne Tyler
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The
Postman Always Rings Twice
by James M. Cain
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Mildred
Pierce
by James M. Cain
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The Count of Monte Christo
by Alexandre Dumas
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The
Three Musketeers
by Alexandre Dumas
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| Get
Shorty by Elmore Leonard |
"Gets
Hollywood right where it lives and the joke is so funny, soinfinitely
tricky, so perfectly synchronized on so many levels that it's apt
to make you spin." Chicago Tribune. |
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| Click
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Steppenwolf
by Hermann Hesse
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Siddharta
by Hermann Hesse
The Glass Bead Game
by Hermann Hesse
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Naked and the Dead by Normal Mailer |
His
first and by far his best novel about the first world war. When
you read it, you realise why he became an instant celebrity after
its publication. |
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The
Spy who Came in From the Cold
by John le Carre
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Jurassic
Park
by Michael Crichton
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Brothers
Karamazov
by Fedor Dostoevsky, Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Heartburn
by Nora Ephron
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The
Essence of the Thing
by Madeleine St John
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| War
and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
One
of the best books ever written. Max Perkins, the great American
editor, recommended War and Peace to all his writers. He read it
himself every year. |
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Anna
Karenin by Leo Tolstoy
A
truly great love story that seems as poignant and relevant today as when
it was written.
The
Big Sleep
by Raymond Chandler
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Farewell
My Lovely
by Raymond Chandler
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The
Maltese Falcon
by Dashiell Hammett
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The
Hobbit
J. R. R. Tolkein
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Pride
and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
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Wuthering
Heights
by Emily Bronte
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Portrait
of a Lady
by Henry James
The
Ambassadors
by Henry James
| The
Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald |
Described
by many as a perfect novel. Hemingway said it wasn't until he read
this book that he realised what a rare talent Fitzgerald was. |
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A
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by James Joyce
The
Bonfire of The Vanities
by Tom Wolfe
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A
Man in Full
by Tom Wolfe
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Brideshead
Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh
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Scoop
by Evelyn Waugh
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Silence
of the Lambs
by Thomas Harris
Killing
Floor & Die Trying
by Lee Child
The
Firm
by John Grisham
Ice Station
by Matthew Reilly
Harry
Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
by J.K Rowling
The
Lovely Bones
by
Alice Sebold
The
Little Prince
by
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Hard
Eight
by
Janet Evanovich
Casino
Royale
Ian
Fleming
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