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The Lovely Bones

The Lovely Bones

Alice Sebold

4.09 (11)

My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie.Inside the snow globe on my father's desk, there was a penguin wearing a red-and-white-striped scarf.

#100
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Tales of the City

Tales of the City

Armistead Maupin

4.0 (3)

Mary Ann Singleton was twenty-five years old when she saw San Francisco for the first time.

#380
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The Joy Luck Club

The Joy Luck Club

Amy Tan

4.4 (5)

The old woman remembered a swan she had bought many years ago in Shanghai for a foolish sum.

#144
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Mort

Mort

Terry Pratchett

4.86 (7)

This is the bright candlelit room where the lifetimers are stored - shelf upon shelf of them, squat hourglasses, one for ever living person, pouring their fine sand from the future into the past.

#278
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The Opposing Shore

The Opposing Shore

Julien Gracq

4.0 (1)

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Riddley Walker

Riddley Walker

Russell Hoban

3.0 (2)

On my naming day when I come 12 I gone front spear and kilt a wyld boar he parbly ben the las wyld pig on the Bundel Downs any how there hadnt ben none for a long time befor him nor I aint looking to see none agen.

#563
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Of Human Bondage

Of Human Bondage

W. Somerset Maugham

4.0 (2)

The day broke grey and dull.

#267
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Go in beauty

Go in beauty

William Eastlake

5.0 (1)

#611
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A Separate Peace

A Separate Peace

John Knowles

3.75 (4)

I went back to Devon School not long ago, and found it looking oddly newer than when I was a student there fifteen years before.

#154
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