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mommytonga's "Wow books"

When I finished the books on this list I had to take a moment to absorb the experience and just say "wow"... I will of course continue to add to this list as I finish other books
1.
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 Einstein's Dreams
by Alan Lightman
  
2. Asleep
by Banana Yoshimoto
  
3. Life of Pi  
4. Cracking India: A Novel
by Bapsi Sidhwa
  
5.
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 Woman Warrior
by Maxine Hong Kingston
  
6. Sentimental Heartbroken Rednecks: Stories
by Greg Bottoms
  
7. Love in the Time of Cholera
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  
8. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
by Milan Kundera
  
9. When the Emperor Was Divine
by Julie Otsuka
  
10. The Lights of Earth
by Gina Berriault
  
11. The Shell Collector: Stories
by Anthony Doerr
  
12.
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 The Sparrow
by Mary Doria Russell
  
13. Children of God (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
by Mary Doria Russell
  
14. The Satanic Verses: A Novel (Bestselling Backlist)
by Salman Rushdie
  
15. Disgrace (Essential Edition): (Penguin Essential Edition) (Penguin Essential Editions)
by J. M. Coetzee
  
16. Elizabeth Costello
by J. M. Coetzee
  
17. Self-Reliance and Other Essays (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  
18. On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
by Jack Kerouac
  
19. Why Christianity Must Change or Die: A Bishop Speaks to Believers In Exile
by John Shelby Spong
  
20.
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 Secret Asian Man
by Nick Carbo
  
21. America Is in the Heart: A Personal History (Washington Paperbacks, Wp-68)
by Carlos Bulosan
  
22. Dark Sky Question (Barnard New Women Poets Series)
by Larissa Szporluk
  
23. The Cheese Monkeys: A Novel in Two Semesters
by Chip Kidd
  
24. The Name of the Rose (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Umberto Eco
  
25. Baudolino
by Umberto Eco
  
26. Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
  
27. Sleeping on the Wire
by David Grossman
  
28. The Mists of Avalon
by Marion Zimmer Bradley
  
29. Bring Me Your Saddest Arizona (Iowa Short Fiction Award)
by Ryan Harty
  
30. Alligator Dance: Stories
by Janet Peery
  
31. Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
by Edward O. Wilson
  
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Created by mommytonga on Jan 01, 2007.