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Shannon's "5-star Books"

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. Earth
by David Brin
  
2. Parable of the Sower
by Octavia E. Butler
  
3. Parable of the Talents
by Octavia E. Butler
  
4. The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel
by Michael Chabon
  
5. Specimen Days: A Novel
by Michael Cunningham
  
6. The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  
7. American Gods
by Neil. Gaiman
  
8. Dune, 40th Anniversary Edition (Dune Chronicles, Book 1)
by Frank Herbert
  
9. Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro
  
10. The Haunting of Hill House (Penguin Classics)
by Shirley Jackson
  
11. We Have Always Lived in the Castle
by Shirley Jackson
  
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 The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, Book 1): Revised and Expanded
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13. Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
by Anne Lamott
  
14. The Debt to Pleasure: A Novel
by John Lanchester
  
15. To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
  
16. The Left Hand of Darkness
by Ursula K. Le Guin
  
17. Mystic River
by Dennis Lehane
  
18. Life of Pi
by Yann Martel
  
19. The Road (rough cut)
by Cormac Mccarthy
  
20. Cloud Atlas: A Novel
by David Mitchell
  
21. Watchmen (Absolute Edition)
by Alan Moore
  
22. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
by Michael Pollan
  
23. Blue Angel: A Novel (P.S.)
by Francine Prose
  
24. The Years of Rice and Salt
by Kim Stanley Robinson
  
25. 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel
by Jane Smiley
  
26. The Little Prince  
27. East of Eden (Oprah's Book Club)
by John Steinbeck
  
28. Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
  
This is Shannon's list. Only Shannon can edit it. You can make your own version of this list.
Created by Shannon on Dec 28, 2007.