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Anna Quindlen's Recommendations

From, "How Reading Changed My Life"
1. Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
  
2. Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics)
by William Makepeace Thackeray
  
3. East of Eden (Oprah's Book Club)
by John Steinbeck
  
4. The Forsyte Saga (Dover Value Editions)
by John Galsworthy
  
5. Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Thomas Mann
  
6. Can You Forgive Her?
by Anthony Trollope
  
7. Sophie's Choice
by William Styron
  
8. Henry and Clara: A Novel
by Thomas Mallon
  
9. Lonesome Dove: A Novel (Simon & Schuster Classics)
by Larry McMurtry
  
10. Underworld
by Don DeLillo
  
11. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Modern Library Classics)
by Edward Gibbon
  
12. The Best and the Brightest
by John McCain
  
13. Lenin's Tomb
by David Remnick
  
14. Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson
  
15. Lincoln
by David Herbert Donald
  
16. In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
  
17. The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America
by John Putnam Demos
  
18.
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 Bantam book
by Simone de Beauvoir
  
19. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
by Robert A. Caro
  
20. The Catcher in the Rye  
21. A Separate Peace
by John Knowles
  
22. Lost In Place: Growing Up Absurd in Suburbia
by Mark Salzman
  
23.
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 The World According to Garp
by John Irving
  
24.
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 Bloodbrothers
by Richard Price
  
25. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (P.S.)
by Betty Smith
  
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Created by langenoire on Jan 07, 2007.