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Listopia > Martha's votes on the list Best Books Ever (51 Books)
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
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"stunning"
Martha
rated it 5 stars
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The Book Thief
by See Review |
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Water for Elephants
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"wonderful writing"
Martha
rated it 5 stars
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The Stand
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"King's best example of his enormous talent"
Martha
rated it 5 stars
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Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
by See Review |
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Moby-Dick or, The Whale
by See Review |
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The Help
by See Review |
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The Secret Life of Bees
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"Got lost in this book- didn't want it to end"
Martha
rated it 5 stars
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Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
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"the very best of Anne Rice
Martha
rated it 5 stars
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The Shining (The Shining, #1)
by See Review |
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The Thorn Birds
by See Review |
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The Other Boleyn Girl (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #9)
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"Not historically accurate but a great read"
Martha
rated it 5 stars
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Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by See Review |
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It
by See Review |
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Girl with a Pearl Earring
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"beautiful writing"
Martha
rated it 5 stars
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Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog
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"fun"
Martha
rated it 4 stars
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The Thirteenth Tale
by See Review |
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Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)
by See Review |
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Walden or, Life in the Woods
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"life lessons for everyone"
Martha
rated it 3 stars
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Cold Mountain
by See Review |
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Alice in Wonderland
by See Review |
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The Time Machine
by See Review |
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The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings
by See Review |
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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"true story that reads like fiction great stuff"
Martha
rated it 5 stars
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
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"Larson is an incredible writer of non-fiction that reads like a great tale"
Martha
rated it 5 stars
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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
by See Review |
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’Salem’s Lot
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"scary!!"
Martha
rated it 5 stars
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The Woman in White
by See Review |
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend
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"couldn't stop reading"
Martha
rated it 5 stars
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The Haunting of Hill House
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"incredibly frightening"
Martha
rated it 5 stars
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The Shell Seekers
by See Review |
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The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar
by See Review |
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The Red Garden
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"beautiful"
Martha
rated it 5 stars
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The Seamstress
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"touching"
Martha
rated it 4 stars
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
by See Review |
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Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper - Case Closed
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"riveting- painstaking research= a great read"
Martha
rated it 4 stars
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Thunderstruck
by See Review |
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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
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"all Larson's books are amazing- this one is chilling. "
Martha
rated it 5 stars
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The Turn of the Screw
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"great, atmospheric ghost story"
Martha
rated it 4 stars
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The Woman in Black
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"a great Victorian ghost story"
Martha
rated it 5 stars
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The Other
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"the climax will have you turning pages backwards to see how he did it!"
Martha
rated it 5 stars
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Dracula
by See Review |
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Ghost Story
by See Review |
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Henry VIII: The King and His Court
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"history written as a novel- you can't make this stuff up!"
Martha
rated it 5 stars
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The Lady Elizabeth
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"wonderful book with all of Weir's intricate research, great prose & imagination"
Martha
rated it 5 stars
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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"the title put me off but the book was wonderful"
Martha
rated it 5 stars
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The Night Circus
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"interesting story vivid descriptions"
Martha
rated it 4 stars
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Innocent Traitor
by See Review |
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Girl in Hyacinth Blue
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"Vreeland's best- an amazing story"
Martha
rated it 5 stars
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