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" Top Ten Tuesday " is an original feature/weekly meme created on the blog " The Broke and the Bookish ". This feat...

Brontë, Anne "Agnes Grey" - 1847 Anne Brontë, the youngest and lesser known of the three Brontë sisters . I have no idea why be...

Wright, Richard B. "Clara Callan" - 2001 I received this book from a Canadian member of our book club. As everyone knows, my...

Lamb, Wally "Wishin' and Hopin': A Christmas Story" - 2009 Another one of my favourite authors, Wally Lamb . I came a...

Oates, Joyce Carol "Sexy" - 2005 It's always a pleasure to read another book by Joyce Carol Oates , even though most of ...

Webster, Jean "Daddy Longlegs" - 1912 A favourite classic book for everyone who was lucky enough to read it at the time. I m...

Ulitzkaya, Lyudmila "Imago" or "The Big Green Tent" ( Russian: Zelenyi shater/Зеленый шатер ) - 2010 I love Rus...

Orsenna, Erik " Grammar Is a Sweet, Gentle Song" ( French: La grammaire est une chanson douce ) - 2001 An interesting book. ...

Brontë, Charlotte "Villette" - 1853 I really loved this novel. As a fan of Jane Austen and someone who read all her novels an...

Nafisi, Azar "Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books" - 2003  A beautifully written memoir about a dark time. It is not ...

Joyce, James "Ulysses" - 1922  I loved the writing but the story was quite overwhelming despite reading " The Odyssey ...

Shriver, Lionel "We need to talk about Kevin" - 2003 What is going through the mind of a mass murderer? What is going throug...

McCourt, Frank "Teacher Man. A Memoir 1949-1985" - 2005 Frank McCourt's third (and last) account of his interesting lif...

Brijs, Stefan "The Angel Maker" ( Dutch/Flemish: De engelenmaker ) - 2005 A story about a doctor who clones lives a very p...

Haruf, Kent "Plainsong" - 1999 The story of a father raising his teenager sons alone in a small town. Another farm is run by ...

Pessl, Marisha "Special Topics in Calamity Physics" - 2006 A modern book about teenagers. Granted, not the usual ones but the...

McCourt, Frank "'Tis: A Memoir" - 1999 What happens after " Angela's Ashes "? Frank McCourt leaves Ireland ...

Jelinek, Elfriede "The Piano Teacher" (German: Die Klavierspielerin ) - 1988 Elfriede Jelinek received the Nobel Prize f...

Hamilton, Jane "A Map of the World" - 1994 " Happiness is an Illusion, Pain is Reality " - Alice Goodwin, the main ...

Rowlatt, Bee & Witwit, May "Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad. The True Story of an Unlikely Friendship" - 2010 Two ve...