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The Fountainhead by Ann Rand.

The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald.

Shutterbabe by Deborah Copaken Kogan.

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant.

Amelia Bedelia (series) by Peggy Parish.

Shanghai Baby by Wei Hui.

Confession of a Shopaholic & Pride & Prejudice

Mine is The Godfather by Mario Puzo. Most people are aware of the movies (which you should definitely see if you haven't already - they're film perfection), but the book is even better, and should be required reading for anyone who is a fan of the films. The first time I saw the film, my sister told me I would need to see it at least three times before I watched Part II just because there's so much information to absorb. What I learned when I had to read The Godfather for a college course on the American character is that you can save time by reading the book. I sometimes refer to the novel as "Life Lessons from the Don" because it's loaded with useful examples of how to deal with people and relationships and various situations in which you might find yourself. Obviously, you'll want to refrain from killing people, but other bits of wisdom that Vito Corleone imparts to his family and associates are priceless. Just make sure you're taking your notes from Vito's playbook and not his son Michael's. Because Michael is a bad, bad man.

Confession of a Shoppaholic, Can you keep a secret?
Legally Blonde and Sweet home Alabama♪

i love all of michael cunningham's books, especially The Hours and Flesh and Blood.

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Five go to Smugglers Top by Enid Blyton
Anything by Brett Easton Ellis and Chuck Palahniuk

and of course 'Dear Zoo' by Rod Campbell, best childrens book ever!

The Kite Runner- fantastic book

Mine would be Jane Austen's book Emma. I have always loved that book!

Gone with the Wind
Of Mice and Men
Stardust
American Gods
Anpao
North and South
Modoc
And probably a few more!

Oh, I forgot: House of Leaves! What a bizarre book but I couldn't put it down, even though it sometimes gave me the creeps after dark!

I have lots of mysterys..but my favorite is John Sanfords The Prey Series

be fabulousi have the house of leaves sitting on my bookshelf. been meaning to read it. it gave you the creeps?! i'm scared now...

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Memoirs of Cleopatra by Margaret George

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis and Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk.

Of Mice and Men and Cannery Row, both by John Steinbeck

cOrkie, The Fountainhead and the Great Gatsby are also two of my favorite books, probably in that exact order! Maybe I should read some of your other favorites- what is Shutterbabe about?

I also love Everything is Illuminated by Jonathon Safer Foer. Beautiful book.

from amazon description page

SHUTTERBABE

"To pursue her dream to cover wars as a photojournalist, Kogan moved to Paris upon graduation from Harvard in 1988. Pretty and petite, with a sharp eye for good-looking, virile colleagues who, incidentally, could help her career, she embarked on a series of adventures that she breezily chronicles with a somewhat disingenuous na?vet?. Although her publisher compares her to Christiane Amanpour, readers may find more similarities with Candace Bushnell in these episodic vignettes describing both her far-flung assignments and intimate relationships with colleagues. She traveled with Pascal to Afghanistan and Pierre to Amsterdam; Julian helped her in Zimbabwe, but forbade further intimacies; Doru was with her in Romania. When she met Paul, her husband-to-be, Kogan's commitment to photojournalism waned: she blames her distaste on the wartime horrors she witnessed. Calling photojournalists vultures who feed on other people's misery, she conflates paparazzi with photojournalists, expressing disgust at their role in Princess Diana's fatal accident. Upon her return with Paul to the U.S., she began a new career as assistant producer for NBC's Dateline, which she eventually left to become a full-time mother. Kogan's swiftly paced story easily holds the reader's interest as she moves from her carefree days as an aspiring photojournalist to the responsibilities and dilemmas facing a working mother."

Mimisugar I LOVED Can You Keep a Secret! If you like that you might like Cocktails for Three by Madeleine Wickham. Its kind of Sex and the City-esque.

My all time favorite reads
1) The Little Prince -Antoine Exupery
2) The Catcher in the Rye- JD Salinger
3) Wuthering Heights -Emily Bronte
4) Christ the Lord : Out of Egypt- Anne Rice
5) The Purpose Driven Life -Rick Warren
6) Love in the time of Cholera --Gabriel Garcia Marquez
7.) The Bible (NIV)

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
a wonderful book that everyone should read!

1. wuthering heights
2. catcher in the rye
3. fight club
4. the time traveler's wife

i know, what an eclectic collection of books oO

1. Tuesdays with Morrie (Albom)
2. The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Kundera)

1. Love Medicine and anything by Louise Erdrich
2. Storyteller (Leslie Marmon Silko + her other works Ceremony, Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit, Almanac of the Dead).
3. Catcher in the Rye (JD Salinger)
4. The Master & Margarita (Bulgakov)
5. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
6. The Invisible Man (Ellison)
7. Interpreter of Maladies (Jhumpa Lhari) & the Namesake
8. Pride & Predjudice, Sense & Sensibility, Mansfield Park (Austen)
9. Flight (Alexie) + The Lone Ranger & Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
10. House on Mango Street (Cisneros)
11. Gravity's Rainbow (Pynchon)
12. The Sound and the Fury (Faulkner)
13. One Hundred Years of Solitude (Garcia-Marquez)

and many, many more! The novels above have profoundly lived in my heart and mind; these writers are inspirational and the words beautifully evocative!!

Can't wait to read "Shutterbug."

Love all John Sanford Books..the prey series,,is the best..

my list wouldn't be complete without the Lord of the Rings trilogy! I'm usually not into the whole fantasy genre, but I've loved these books since I was a kid.

the kite runner
the english patient
pride and prejudice
the moor's last sigh
arranged marriage: stories

oh...and anything by shakespeare.

Wow, so many choices!

The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan
Gravity by Tess Gerritsen
The Tapestries by Kien Nguyen
The Golden Compass
the "Daughters of the Moon" teenager book series...

I like a little bit of everything!

Shanghai Baby is actually in my "to be read" pile... maybe I will have to move it up a few spots!

I'm on a roll now!

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
and Memoirs of a Geisha.