1 The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Winner of the 2001 National Book Award for Fiction where after 50 years of being a wife and mother, Enid want to have a little fun.
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Whether you’re a bookworm or you just dip in and out of reading, book recommendations are always welcome. With millions of books to choose from, having a pointer towards something that you would enjoy or find relevant and edifying is a good thing – right? I’ve picked out 50 from the list of 100 as recommended by the book editors at Amazon:
Winner of the 2001 National Book Award for Fiction where after 50 years of being a wife and mother, Enid want to have a little fun.
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A crazy story about Marlowe, a war veteran, a nymphomaniac wife, Lennox, gangsters and cops.
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The epic books on which they based some of the best films of all time of the same name.
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This is a book on the quest for the secret of success in baseball.
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A funny book that loosely recounts the events of a wimpy kid’s life.
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All about the serial killer that used the 1893 World’s fair to lure in his victims.
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What would happen if you could re-live your life in order to get it right this time?
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A stunning piece of fiction set within a rich family in the 1870s.
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A book that comes out against war.
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An abridged version of the classic Wind in the Willows world.
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Meet Milo and follow his adventures within Lands Beyond with Tock, the captive princess and Humbug.
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The story of how the cells of a poor black tobacco farmer were taken and eventually proved vital in medical science for cloning and vaccinations for polio.
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A ground-breaking look at memory, war, imagination and storytelling.
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Take a look at the life of an emotionally impaired everyman who meets his father for the first time at the age of 36.
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A book upon which there is based a classic movie about the time two drug soaked idiots take a trip to Vegas.
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The smartest person of our time is a British man that is almost completely disabled. He gives his insight on time and the universe.
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Death, villains, cold porridge, threats and much more. A story about a bad beginning.
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George Orwell’s classic where he explains his vision of the future in 1984. It remains a haunting view of a possible future.
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A classic piece of literature revolving around a young woman trapped in an attic hiding from Nazi troops.
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A funny but true story about a chef and his life of sex, drugs and cooking.
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This book features the escapist adventures of two young men in 1939.
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A captivating and romantic story.
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The book upon which all the movies are based about the adventures of an invisible man.
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The book upon which the movie of the same name is based where a young woman commits suicide in a way that frames her boyfriend as the killer.
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A young girls having trouble growing up and choosing a religion talks things over with her own private god.
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The classic and scary tale of a family charged with looking after a hotel in a remote region are harassed by ghouls until the man is driven to insanity.
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The Little Prince comes to life in a format perfect for teen readers.
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Memoirs of a childhood in Texas.
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A college senior loses both of his parents to cancer, then inherits his eight-year-old brother and all within five weeks.
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The story of Calliope Stephanides and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family.
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This novel is at once a fascinating family saga and an astonishing evocation of a vast land and its people.
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A book on how children are given guns, drugs and used as soldiers.
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Set on a planet called Dune and the basis for the games and movies of the same name.
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A look at life in Haiti as seen through the eyes of a young girl.
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The book that started the movie saga of the same name.
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A search to a tribe of distance runners.
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This is a book about how the banning of DDT changed the ways that laws affect our land, air and people.
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Dealing with a stillborn birth whilst undergoing nightly blackouts.
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A history of Abraham Lincoln, the US president.
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This notes a perfect world, or a seemingly perfect world.
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An ordinary man is somehow sucked into a murder case on the Algerian beach.
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A humorist collects together his strongest work yet.
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An expository look at the most famous terrorist organization and the run up to it.
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A story around a slave that was freed but was still not free.
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A piece of twentieth-century literature that is set in a bleak and dystopian future.
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A life that is terminal is featured whilst undergoing a medical miracle that shrinks cancer.
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An autobiographical story of an orphan that is eager for life.
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A look at the disillusionment of the post-World War I generation.
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How as omnivores in a world where we choose what to eat, we may be evolving ourselves into oblivion.
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A great look at the world of neurological disorders and a real eye-opener that shows how bizarre some of the worlds are that some people live in.
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There’s something here for all tastes. Anything of interest to you?