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Listopia > James Ressler's votes on the list Best Books Ever (79 Books)
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Gone with the Wind
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Animal Farm
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Wuthering Heights
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"A great tale of revenge; a completely nonnurturing environment that the characters have to survive."
James
rated it 5 stars
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Crime and Punishment
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"A great book to explore psychology of the human mind."
James
rated it 5 stars
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Les Misérables
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Lord of the Flies
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"A great parable of the evil that lurks within, that we have to stifle."
James
rated it 5 stars
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
by See Review |
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Romeo and Juliet
by See Review |
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
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"One of the most appealing characters in all literature."
James
rated it 5 stars
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Where the Wild Things Are
by See Review |
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A Tale of Two Cities
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Lolita
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"Not a book for everyone. I really enjoyed the voice of the narrator as complex, sensitive, repugnant, humorous, etc."
James
rated it 5 stars
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Anna Karenina
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Slaughterhouse-Five
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"A really original (for the time) concept, executed with style and flair."
James
rated it 5 stars
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Of Mice and Men
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"Same as my comments about the Grapes of Wrath."
James
rated it 4 stars
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The Odyssey
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"A great adventure story"
James
rated it 5 stars
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Brave New World
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"A provocative look at the future, which may still come to pass."
James
rated it 4 stars
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Catch-22
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"Modern, bitter, cynical, funny, devastating"
James
rated it 5 stars
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Fahrenheit 451
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The Brothers Karamazov
by See Review |
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The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
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"Really makes one think about the future of society."
James
rated it 5 stars
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Don Quixote
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Siddhartha
by See Review |
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The Red Tent
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"Made biblical story come alive."
James
rated it 5 stars
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Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
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"I loved the two main characters."
James
rated it 5 stars
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
by See Review |
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
by See Review |
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The Color Purple
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Great Expectations
by See Review |
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Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)
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The Old Man and the Sea
by See Review |
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In Cold Blood
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"Marvelous explanation of the tragedy. A complex look into the mind of a murderer."
James
rated it 5 stars
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The Metamorphosis
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"Much more here than meets the eye."
James
rated it 5 stars
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Heart of Darkness
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"I like teaching it more than reading it."
James
rated it 4 stars
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The Joy Luck Club
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Atonement
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"Excellent concept. Excellent ending (s)"
James
rated it 5 stars
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A Farewell to Arms
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"I find it moving."
James
rated it 5 stars
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Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
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"Classic work about the effects of suffering, specifically slavery, on the characters. A novel that deals with the true American situation."
James
rated it 5 stars
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The Sound and the Fury
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"Excellent use of multiple narrators."
James
rated it 4 stars
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The Crucible
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The Sun Also Rises
by See Review |
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Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)
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"Great read"
James
rated it 5 stars
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The Three Musketeers
by See Review |
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Invisible Man
by See Review |
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The Awakening
by See Review |
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David Copperfield
by See Review |
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The Prince of Tides
by See Review |
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The Godfather (The Godfather, #1)
by See Review |
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King Lear
by See Review |
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Oliver Twist
by See Review |
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Sophie’s Choice
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"Really engrossing."
James
rated it 5 stars
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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Paradise Lost
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A Separate Peace
by See Review |
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Into the Wild
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"Moving. Well told."
James
rated it 5 stars
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Othello
by See Review |
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The Trial
by See Review |
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High Fidelity
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"Easy to read, relevant, entertaining."
James
rated it 5 stars
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A Streetcar Named Desire
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"Great contrasting characters."
James
rated it 5 stars
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Death of a Salesman
by See Review |
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Cry, the Beloved Country
by See Review |
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Speak
by See Review |
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Everything is Illuminated
by See Review |
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House of Sand and Fog
by See Review |
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Doctor Zhivago
by See Review |
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John Adams
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"McCullough made what seemed to be a really uninteresting man interesting and relevant. Helped my understanding of the founding of America."
James
rated it 5 stars
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Brideshead Revisited
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"Captivating"
James
rated it 5 stars
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A Room with a View
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"I love Forster's voice---highly entertaining"
James
rated it 5 stars
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Native Son
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"Important in understanding racial problems."
James
rated it 4 stars
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The Corrections
by See Review |
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The Remains of the Day
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"Shows the problems with being too self-contained, too disciplined."
James
rated it 5 stars
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Ethan Frome
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
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"The immediacy of the reading experience made this come alive."
James
rated it 4 stars
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The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)
by See Review |
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Howards End
by See Review |
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Light in August
by See Review |
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No Country for Old Men
by See Review |
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