Shannon's "5-star Books"

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This is an ongoing list of my absolute favorite books that I have read or reread since 2000, books that I have awarded 5 stars.

  1. 1.
    Earth
    by David Brin

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  2. 2.
    Parable of the Sower
    by Octavia E. Butler

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  3. 3.
    Parable of the Talents
    by Octavia E. Butler

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  4. 4.
    The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel
    by Michael Chabon

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  5. 5.
    Specimen Days: A Novel
    by Michael Cunningham

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  6. 6.
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  7. 7.
    American Gods
    by Neil. Gaiman

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  8. 8.
    Dune, 40th Anniversary Edition (Dune Chronicles, Book 1)
    by Frank Herbert

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  9. 9.
    Never Let Me Go
    by Kazuo Ishiguro

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  10. 10.
    The Haunting of Hill House (Penguin Classics)
    by Shirley Jackson

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  11. 11.
    We Have Always Lived in the Castle
    by Shirley Jackson

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  12. 13.
    Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
    by Anne Lamott

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  13. 14.
    The Debt to Pleasure: A Novel
    by John Lanchester

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  14. 15.
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    by Harper Lee

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  15. 16.
    The Left Hand of Darkness
    by Ursula K. Le Guin

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  16. 17.
    Mystic River
    by Dennis Lehane

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  17. 18.
    Life of Pi
    by Yann Martel

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  18. 19.
    The Road (rough cut)
    by Cormac Mccarthy

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  19. 20.
    Cloud Atlas: A Novel
    by David Mitchell

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  20. 21.
    Watchmen (Absolute Edition)
    by Alan Moore

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  21. 22.
    The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
    by Michael Pollan

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  22. 23.
    Blue Angel: A Novel (P.S.)
    by Francine Prose

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  23. 24.
    The Years of Rice and Salt
    by Kim Stanley Robinson

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  24. 25.
    13 Ways of Looking at the Novel
    by Jane Smiley

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  25. 26.
    The Little Prince

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  26. 27.
    East of Eden (Oprah's Book Club)
    by John Steinbeck

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  27. 28.
    Slaughterhouse-Five
    by Kurt Vonnegut

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Created by Shannon on Dec 28, 2007.
 

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