Unnati
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Penny Reid:
I saw the amazing quotes you've mentioned in Beauty and the Moustache. I would love to know a list of your all-time favorite books. Could you please put one up?
Penny Reid
Sure! This is such a nice question. <3
I feel I have to break this into age brackets as my favorite books have changed over time. Sorry if this is terribly long...
Ages 6 - 12
The Lorax, The Pants with Nobody Inside Them, and The Butter Battle Book (Seuss)
Chronicles of Narnia (Lewis)
Little House on the Prairie (Wilder)
Anne of Green Gables (Montgomery)
Treasure Island (Stevenson)
The Princess Bride (Goldman)
To Kill a Mocking Bird (Lee)
Ages 13-18
The Three Musketeers (Dumas)
The Foundation Trilogy (Asimov)
The Lord of the Rings (Tolkien)
Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
The Shell Seekers (Pilcher) - Not for the story; I felt like the story was *meh* but the writing was excellent.
Lonesome Dove (McMurtry)
The Screwtape Letters (Lewis)
The Mists of Avalon (Bradley)
The Stand (King)
Ages 19-30
**Persuation (Austen) – This book is my all-time favorite book. I read it when I was 19 and it changed my perspective on life
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Sedaris)
American Gods (Gaiman)
Harry Potter (Rowling)
Of Human Bondage (Maugham)
The Language of God (Collins)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Wilde)
Neuromancer (Gibson)
Pascal's Pensées (Pascal)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Verne)
The Agony and the Ecstasy (Stone)
Ages 31- present
The Hunger Games (Collins)
Painted Faces (Cosway)
The Kite Runner (Hosseini)
The Book Thief (Zusak)
Edenbrooke (Donaldson)
Everything is Illuminated (Safran Foer)
I feel I have to break this into age brackets as my favorite books have changed over time. Sorry if this is terribly long...
Ages 6 - 12
The Lorax, The Pants with Nobody Inside Them, and The Butter Battle Book (Seuss)
Chronicles of Narnia (Lewis)
Little House on the Prairie (Wilder)
Anne of Green Gables (Montgomery)
Treasure Island (Stevenson)
The Princess Bride (Goldman)
To Kill a Mocking Bird (Lee)
Ages 13-18
The Three Musketeers (Dumas)
The Foundation Trilogy (Asimov)
The Lord of the Rings (Tolkien)
Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
The Shell Seekers (Pilcher) - Not for the story; I felt like the story was *meh* but the writing was excellent.
Lonesome Dove (McMurtry)
The Screwtape Letters (Lewis)
The Mists of Avalon (Bradley)
The Stand (King)
Ages 19-30
**Persuation (Austen) – This book is my all-time favorite book. I read it when I was 19 and it changed my perspective on life
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Sedaris)
American Gods (Gaiman)
Harry Potter (Rowling)
Of Human Bondage (Maugham)
The Language of God (Collins)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Wilde)
Neuromancer (Gibson)
Pascal's Pensées (Pascal)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Verne)
The Agony and the Ecstasy (Stone)
Ages 31- present
The Hunger Games (Collins)
Painted Faces (Cosway)
The Kite Runner (Hosseini)
The Book Thief (Zusak)
Edenbrooke (Donaldson)
Everything is Illuminated (Safran Foer)
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Mariam Elabd
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Penny Reid:
Hello penny I would like to inform you that u now rank high on my obsessive/stalkerish list, so would you kindly feed my compulsive tendencies with greg and fiona pre engaged, wedded or with kids ?? It doesn't have to be long, just a blog post every now and then for us sick ppl, it would be considered as a medecine for us obsessies. Off note : What is the actual average length of eyebrow hair ??
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