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Christopher's "Books to contemplate the weight of being"

I am discovering that alchemy and weight and lightness are not so very different.
1. A Fine Balance (Oprah's Book Club)
by Rohinton Mistry
  
2. The Power of One
by Bryce Courtenay
  
3. The Stone Diaries
by Carol Shields
  
4. The Hour of the Star (New Directions Paperbook)
by Clarice Lispector
  
5. Blindness (Harvest Book)
by Jose Saramago
  
6. Kim (Penguin Classics)
by Rudyard Kipling
  
7. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Oprah's Book Club)
by Carson McCullers
  
8. The Bell Jar (P.S.)
by Sylvia Plath
  
9. Cry, the Beloved Country (Oprah's Book Club)
by Alan Paton
  
10. I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala
by Rigoberta Menchu
  
11. So Long a Letter (African Writers Series)
by Mariama Ba
  
12. The Unbearable Lightness of Being: Twentieth Anniversary Edition
by Milan Kundera
  
13. Encyclopaedia of Snow
by Sarah Emily Miano
  
14. Cloud Atlas: A Novel
by David Mitchell
  
15. The Book of Disquiet (Penguin Classics)
by Fernando Pessoa
  
16. The Satanic Verses: A Novel (Bestselling Backlist)
by Salman Rushdie
  
17. The I Ching or Book of Changes
by C.F. Baynes
  
18. The God of Small Things
by Arundhati Roy
  
19.
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 Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
  
20. Autobiography of Red
by Anne Carson
  
21. One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  
22. The Inheritance of Loss
by Kiran Desai
  
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Created by Christopher on Mar 17, 2006.