What book(s) are you most proud to have on your bookshelf?
MC3980@aol.com
Blessings by Anna Quindlen
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ottobahn1@comcast.net
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom is the one I'm proudest of.
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kmmjarko@highstream.net
I think the books I am the most proud of are Les Miserables, War and Peace, Pride and Prejudice, and Grapes of Wrath.
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veddergirl187@yahoo.com
The books I am most proud to have on my shelf include Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel, all of Tom Savage's thrillers, all of Anne Rice's books, and A Heartbreaking Work of a Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers.
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sharoncerasoli@hotmail.com
The Bible
Langston Hughes poetry
Emily Dickinson Poetry
I Ching by Hua-Ching Ni
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Debbie_Moore@nynd.uscourts.gov
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
John Adams by David McCullough
Walking the Bible by Bruce Feiler
Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
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billiegirl20@hotmail.com
I am very proud of a TON of books on my bookshelf, but the following rate the highest:
My beautiful hardcover complete edition of Stephen King's The Stand. As it's my favorite book, when I found this beautiful hardcover, I wasn't able to pass it up. I love the fact that I've read this book so many times.
I love my entire collection of Harry Potter books. I've been able to keep them in pretty good shape over numerous readings. The books are wonderful --- it's great to have my nieces and nephews come over and stare at them, almost in awe.
My autographed copy of Judith Ryan Hendrick's Bread Alone. This is a beautiful book and Judi is a wonderful person and author.
My collection of Jim Carroll's poetry books. His poetry speaks to me like no one else's and just to read his books (and the notes I made in them) gives a look into MY head.
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kelly.kelly@verizon.net
My N.A.S. Bible from 1973 --- well-loved and well-marked!
Anna Karenina --- the new translation in hardcover.
Traveling Mercies by Anne Lamott.
Expecting Adam by Martha Beck
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Lamb1175@aol.com
The books I am most proud to have are:
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
My Antonia by Willa Cather
The Mitford series by Jan Karon
The Bible
The Poetry of Robert Frost
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vger4@worldnet.att.net
Books I'm most proud to have on my shelves:
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
King Hereafter by Dorothy Dunnett
The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCollough
Katherine by Anya Seton
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
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GenK@aol.com
Walking the Bible by Bruce Feiler
The Womens' Great Lakes Reader
Marie Antoinette by Antonia Fraser
The Last Gift of Time by Carolyn Heilbrun
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joswood@adiis.net
The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult
Beautiful Child by Torey Hayden
The Great Santini by Pat Conroy
Absolute Power by David Baldacci
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paatest@dscp.dla.mil
Here are the five books I am most proud to have on my bookshelf: Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl, The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets, The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats, and Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago. These are essential volumes in my personal library and for me carry a lot of resonance through my life.
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JenniferKtspws@aol.com
I am really in love with the Mitford series by Jan Karon. Those are books that I will keep around forever. No one should miss reading these stories.
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Pjwhome@aol.com
The books on my shelf that I am proudest of are Atlas Shruggedby Ayn Rand and my collection of Agatha Christie mysteries. I am also very proud of The Science Class You Wish You Had, which was written by David Brody, a coworker/friend of mine.
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DDingyd311@aol.com
The Left Behind series by Tim F. LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, and all my books on Princess Diana.
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trughouse@msn.com
I couldn't put down a book called Warriors into the Wild by Erin Hunter. It was about four cat clans that strive to live in the wild. They battle for more land, and then a friendly Kittypet (a humans cat) named Rusty comes into the ThunderClan and tries to pull together all four clans. During the book, Rusty's name changes to Firepaw when he's an apprentice, then to Fireheart as a warrior. He tries hard to survive with the clans, and doesn't miss his old home and friends a lot. This book brings you into the adventures as the cats race along the forest floor. I highly recommend this book to you if you like cats, or adventure.
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ababe28@hotmail.com
The Treasured Writings of Kahlil Gibran
Gooberz by Linda Goodman
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Star Signs
The Celestine Prophecy (all editions)
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svitale@grantsburgtelcom.net
Househusband by Ad Hudler, because it was written by one of my best friends from college.
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Gdislov@aol.com
The Bible is the most awe inspiring, encouraging, and life supporting I have on my bookshelf. It's all that and more for EVERYONE!
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KATHLAU@aol.com
I’ve been a children's librarian for over 30 years and through that course of time I have met many wonderful authors. I am most proud of my autographed copies of:
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
Strega Nona by Tomie dePaola
Frog and Toad are Friends by Arnold Lobel
Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges (my most recent acquisition)
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AprilToole@aol.com
I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb
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AndreaCarter3270@aol.com
An 1875 copy of Webster's Unabridged Dictionary
Hitler: 1889-1936 Hubris and Hitler: 1936-1945 Nemesis, a 2-volume biography of Adolf Hitler by Ian Kershaw
The Origins of the Inquisition in Fifteenth-Century Spain by B. Netanyahu
Shelby Foote's 3-volume The Civil War: A Narrative
The Isles: A History by Norman Davies.
This is an extremely difficult exercise; tomorrow I might select entirely different titles. I have literally thousands of books, and paring that list down to 5 books is virtually impossible for me. But I wouldn't part with any of these.
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Rickimc@aol.com
The His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman
First Edition copies of both Flowers in the Attic and Petals on the Wind by V. C. Andrews.
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corrieb@rogers.com
Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, Where The Heart Is by Billie Letts, and The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides.
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NFrazelle@aol.com
The Bible, Webster's Dictionary, Roget's Thesaurus, Famous Women's Quotes, and Daily Meditations.
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MizMSCYC@aol.com
Isabel Allende
Julia Alvarez
Lee Smith
P.G. Wodehouse
William Faulkner
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Helenme23@wmconnect.com
The books I am most proud to have on my bookshelf are:
The Ritual Bath by Faye Kellerman, a first edition of her first book.
The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. Sayers, an American first edition.
The Ballad of Frankie Silver by Sharyn McCrumb, a paperback I got signed by the author at a book signing.
Beach Music by Pat Conroy, signed by the author from a local book signing.
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jennysnell@netspeed.com.au
My special books that I am most proud to have on my bookshelf are
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom and The Vintner’s Luck by New Zealand novelist Elizabeth Knox. These are books that had a profound effect on me and resonate in my thoughts when I happen to spy them on my bookshelf. Interestingly both of these books have gold covers and they *shine* in comparison to all of the other books that share the shelf.
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sunshine1@cfu.net
I do not have names, just authors, whose books I am proud to have on my shelves. Anything by Mary Higgins Clark, Sidney Sheldon, James Michener, Patricia Cornwell and Phillip Margolin.
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Graham2124@aol.com
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
The Civil War: A Narrative by Shelby Foote
A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes and the Eternal Passion for Books by Nicholas A. Basbanes
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Hrselover326@aol.com
The books I am most proud of to have on my shelf are Lingberghby A. Scott Berg, Her Little Majesty by Carolly Erickson, and The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy.
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ALEMESH@aol.com
I am an admitted 'book snob'. When I hear someone is reading Danielle Steele or Sidney Sheldon, I cringe. I tend to look at those types of authors as more superficial.
Some of the favorite books in my library include All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier, and Charming Billy by Alice McDermott. I try to read books that will expand my knowledge of things unknown to me and at the same time be entertaining.
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GERBAM@aol.com
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
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ermelhouse@aol.com
The Bible
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AurelieShuleshko@aol.com
How to Clean and Care for Practically Anything by Consumer Reports
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
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clschomer@dmci.net
I am most proud of The Story of Civilization by Will Durant. The set only proves that there are no new stories, it has all happened before.
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Leolioness321@aol.com
The books I'm proud to have on my bookshelf are:
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
All the Harry Potter books written so far.
These are actually just a few of my favorites but they are the only ones I can read over and over again.
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Heringbess@aol.com
A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe, Ishmael by Daniel Quinn, John Adamsby David McCullough, Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow, and Forever by Pete Hamill.
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Bpowellclark@aol.com
My most prized five books are:
Forgiving Sam by Powell Clark (I wrote that one)
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Clover by Dori Sanders
Thorpe by Mary Dutton
My John Steinbeck collection
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BDORM@aol.com
The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov
All of the books in the Dune series by Frank Herbert
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LESCARP@msn.com
The Bible
The Book of Mormon
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zaraya@optonline.net
I am glad to have the following titles on my bookshelf:
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
The Annotated Wizard of Oz
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
One for thought, one for fun and one for the heart.
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Ethornberry524@aol.com
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry.
I was up from 11:00 PM until 2:30 AM!!!
Most Jerry Spinelli books are good too.
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MaryAllred@aol.com
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
Sweet Thursday by John Steinbeck
The Winter of our Discontent by John Steinbeck
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
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Cberrysb@aol.com
My most memorable books that I have read and are on my shelf are Envy by Sandra Brown, At Home in Mitford by Jan Karon,Plum Island by Nelson DeMille, The Summons by John Grisham, and The Accident by Danielle Steel.
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JAMILLE.KRUPA@ROCHE.COM
The books I am most proud to have are:
The Bible
Tales of O. Henry by O. Henry
The Other Side of Midnight by Sidney Sheldon
All Together in One Place by Jane Kirkpatrick
Lidia’s Italian Table by Lidia Bastianich
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rfentress@bluegrasscellular.com
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
All of Barbara Kingsolver's books
All of Anita Shreve's books
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Choconnell@aol.com
I am a 35-year-old female teacher. Books that I am most proud of:
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
The Bible
Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Ken Burns’ American Civil War
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Tara@wi.rr.com
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
Lord of the Rings trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Watership Down by Richard Adams
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irelan@wcbeach.com
The Lanny Budd series by Upton Sinclair
The Tale of Master Meadow Mouse
Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset
Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
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Trop49@aol.com
Favorite books: Angle of Repose by Wallace Earle Stegner and A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul.
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SCaraway@aol.com
My all-time favorite book is Katherine by Anya Seton. Also all 8 Stephanie Plum books by Janet Evanovich. Fun, fun reading!
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mtsantoro@enter.net
This is a tough question because I have so many books I'm proud of:
A rare out of print copy of Irving Stone's Depths of Glory: A Biographical Novel of Camille Pissarro
Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross --- just because it's one of my all-time favorite books
A rare defective copy of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
Joy of Cooking illustrated by Andy Warhol
Miss O'Keeffe, a book written by Georgia O'Keeffe's caretaker in her last years of life. A great book that’s heartwarming and heart-wrenching.
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DesrosierP@aol.com
The Bible
War and Remembrance by Herman Wouk
Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
Beach Music by Pat Conroy
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Bonniespins@aol.com
I guess the book that I am most proud to have on my bookshelf is The Bible. I also am proud of my very worn copy of Winnie the Pooh, which was given to me in the early 1940's by my grandmother.
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DANDRSIMS@aol.com
Among my favorites, here are five:
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
Blindness by Jose Saramago
The Brothers K by David James Duncan
Independent People by Halldor Laxness
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
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cdonovan@peoplepc.com
Books I am most proud to have on my bookshelf:
The Last Hurrah by Edwin O'Connor
Coming Home by Rosamunde Pilcher
Over There by Thomas Fleming
Blitz by David Fraser
Inherit the Sun by Maxwell Grant
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Bjglu@aol.com
Ulysses by James Joyce, Ghost Soldiers by Hampton Sides, andThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver.
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ELLERBAKER@aol.com
The Promise by Danielle Steel --- not her best, but the one that introduced me to this wonderful author.
A Knight in Shining Armor by Jude Deveraux --- a girl can dream, can't she? The one that is my all time favorite and I have read it many times and will probably read many more times.
The Flame and the Flower by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss.
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MAX125@aol.com
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak and Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell.
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MARGOU5253@aol.com
John Adams by David McCullough
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
The Dictionary
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human by Harold Bloom
The Sibley Guide to Birds by David Allen Sibley.
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jipvin@optonline.net
Mrs. Delaney: Room 108 (this is my first published novel!)
The Riverside Shakespeare
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thecranes@hypersurf.com
The Anne of Green Gables series by L.M. Montgomery
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling
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Pamijo05@aol.com
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
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PRPflaumer@aol.com
The New Jerusalem Bible Hardbound, Exultant Bird (a collection of poems by
Pearl Lunt Robinson, grandmother of a friend now deceased), A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson (an old family copy, fragile, tattered and well loved), Bernard Lonergan's Insight(because it took me a year to simply get through it, and I still don't understand it all, but what I do get is amazing stuff), and Shakespeare's collected plays (because what's a library without Will Shakespeare?).
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Water12Sun@aol.com
Summer Sisters by Judy Blume
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
The Bible
Michelangelo
The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield
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amandadewis@yahoo.com
I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb
The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
All of Nelson DeMille's books, but especially The General's Daughter, Up Country, and The Charm School.
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FRANCES732@aol.com
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Love Notes by Penny Mickelbury
Black Cherry Blues by James Lee Burke
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
The Best of Simple by Langston Hughes
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GandmaRI@aol.com
The Bible
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sschmooch2@comcast.net
A Parchment of Leaves by Silas House
Clay's Quilt by Silas House
I am most proud to own these books because I know very soon he will be a household name and I can say I knew him before he was famous. If you read the reviews of his books on Amazon, you will quickly realize that his readers cannot believe he has not made it to the bestseller's list yet. He is an incredible writer and person. He has also appeared on NPR radio. Find out more about him and discover this rising star before everyone else does!
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klsimonetti@earthlink.net
I'm most proud of the following five books on my bookshelf:
Troy by Adele Geras
Postcards from No Man’s Land by Aidan Chambers
Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry: Second Edition, edited by Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair
Lucie Babbidge’s House by Sylvia Cassedy
USA Trilogy by John Dos Pasos
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Butterfly4Shelly@aol.com
These are the books that I am most proud to have on my bookshelf:
A Painted House by John Grisham
Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas by James Patterson
Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
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BeckyC3694@aol.com
Footprints in Courage: A Bataan Death March Survivor's Story by Kristin Gilpatrick, with research by Rick Peterson.
True story...remarkable story. Alf Larson was a POW for 3 1/2 years. He came to our store to sign books; at 84 years, he is a sweetheart!
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Mikemaniram@aol.com
The Big Sea by Langston Hughes
Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
The Iliad by Homer
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Bshbsh@aol.com
Five books I'm proud to have on my shelf:
Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War
Plato's Republic
Beowulf
The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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Fafajane@aol.com
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
The Bible
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Tales from Atlantis
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HRDCOVERS@aol.com
I'd have to go with the classics like The Grapes of Wrath and To Kill A Mockingbird. But the one that I value the most, which has just recently been considered a classic, is A Tree Grows in Brooklyn......Why???? Because that's where I grew up.
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squinn@adamsmedia.com
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Dante's Inferno
Proust's In Search of Lost Time
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karino@overmtn.com
The book I'm most proud to have on my shelf is Signposts in a Strange Land by Walker Percy.
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Mkri100@aol.com
All of Jane Smiley’s books
George and Laura by Christopher Andersen
Now Let Me Tell You What I Really Think by Chris Matthews
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GeoBarb636@aol.com
I would be most proud to have all of Nicholas Sparks's books on my bookshelf. I have a signed copy of his latest, The Guardian. Thanks for asking.
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Gerbelsnrf@aol.com
The book I am most proud to have is Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury. I read it my senior year in high school, and there was a huge sense of accomplishment after finishing it.
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PamE523@aol.com
I'm proudest to own all of the books by Amy Tan and hope she writes more! I am also a huge fan of Pearl S. Buck and Wally Lamb.
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admil@directcon.net
The books I am proud to have on my bookshelf to name a few:
The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
John Adams by David McCullough
Centennial by James Michener
Circle of Friends and Quentins by Maeve Binchy
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