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First Lady Laura Bush's "25 Books to Read Before You're 25"

First Lady Laura Bush’s Recommendations
1. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain Library)
by Mark Twain
  
2. Atonement
by Ian McEwan
  
3. Bless Me, Ultima
by Rudolfo Anaya
  
4. The Brothers Karamazov (Signet Classics)
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  
5. Ethan Frome (Enriched Classics)
by Edith Wharton
  
6.
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 The Complete Stories of Flannery O’Conner
by Flannery O'Conner
  
7.
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 The French Lieutenant’s Woman
by John Fowles
  
8. The Heart of the Matter
by Graham Greene
  
9. I Claudius
by Robert Graves
  
10. Jane Eyre (Enriched Classics)
by Charlotte Bronte
  
11.
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 A Lesson Before Dying
by Ernest J. Gaines
  
12. The Little Prince
by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  
13. My Antonia (Signet Classics)
by Willa Cather
  
14. Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Faimly, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt
by David McCullough
  
15. Music for Chameleons (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Truman Capote
  
16.
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 The Optimist’s Daughter
by Eudora Welty
  
17. Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)
by Jane Austen
  
18.
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 The Razor’s Edge
by Somerset Maugham
  
19. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
by Azar Nafisi
  
20. Rebecca
by Daphne du Maurier
  
21.
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 Secret Life of Bees
by Sue Monk Kidd
  
22.
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 Ship of Fools
by Katherine Anne Porter
  
23. Siddhartha
by Herman Hesse
  
24.
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 Sophie's Choice
by William Styron
  
25. War and Peace (Modern Library MM)
by Leo Tolstoy
  
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Created by misstakenid on Jul 20, 2007.