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  "Memoirs of A Geisha: A Novel" [1997] by Arthur Golden
author entry at Wikipedia •
novel entry at Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoirs_of_a_Geisha_(film)
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  "Middlesex" [2002] by Jeffrey Eugenides
author entry at Wikipedia •
novel entry at Wikipedia
won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312427735/
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        "Midnight's Children: A Novel" [1981] by Salman Rushdie
author entry at Wikipedia •
novel entry at Wikipedia
won the Booker Prize in 1981
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0812976533/
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            "Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel" [1949] by George Orwell [1903-50]
author entry at Wikipedia •
novel entry at Wikipedia
  | Winston Smith endures a squalid existence as a clerk in a bureaucracy of the totalitarian super- state of Oceania, where everyone is under the constant surveillance of the Thought Police. Kindle Edition from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt [9/2013] for $5.68 Signet/NAL mass pb [1961] for $5.98 Plume Centennial Edition 7¾x5¼ pb [5/2003] for $13.04 Plume 8x5¼ pb [4/83] for $9.04 Everyman's Library 8x5 hardcover [11/92] for $11.86 |
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  "The Odyssey" epic poem [VIIIth Century B.C.E.] by Homer [VIIIth Century B.C.E.]
author entry at Wikipedia •
poem entry at Wikipedia
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  "Of Human Bondage" [1915] by W. Somerset Maugham [1874-1965]
author entry at Wikipedia •
novel entry at Wikipedia
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/055321392X/
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  "Of Mice and Men" [Feb 1937 novel] by John Steinbeck [1902-68]
author entry at Wikipedia •
novel entry at Wikipedia
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Kindle Edition from Penguin Classic [1994 edition] for $5.62
Bantam mass pb [9/83] out of print/130+ used Penguin 8½x5½ pb [1/2002] for $11.80 Penguin hardcover [1993] for $17.15 Penguin ABRIDGED audio [10/92] 2 tapes read by Gary Sinise - out of print/many used |
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1939 b&w movie [Hal Roach Studios / United Artists] Directed by Lewis Milestone; starring Burgess Meredith, Betty Field, Lon Chaney Jr., Charles Bickford, Roman Bohnen, Bob Steele & Noah Beery Jr.; nominated for Oscars for Best Picture, Best Music (Aaron Copland), Best Sound Image Ent b&w DVD [3/2001] for $7.38 Image Ent b&w VHS [3/2001] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia |
  | 1992 M.G.M. color movie Directed by & co-starring Gary Sinise; also starring John Malkovich, Ray Walston, Casey Siemaszko, Sherilyn Fenn & John Terry MGM/UA widescreen color DVD [11/2001] for $40.67 MGM/UA color VHS [10/93] for $10.22 full credits from IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia |
    "The Old Man and The Sea" [1952] by Ernest Hemingway [1899-1961]
author entry at Wikipedia •
novel entry at Wikipedia
won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
"The Old Man and The Sea" [1958 feature film] directed by John Sturges, starring Spencer Tracy
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0207639/
"The Old Man and The Sea" [1990 TV movie] starring Anthony Quinn
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        "On The Road" Beat novel [October 1957] by Jack Kerouac [1922-69]
author entry at Wikipedia •
book entry at Wikipedia
celebrating 50th anniversary of 'On The Road' in Paris, France [Sept 2007]
Jack Kerouac Reads from 'On The Road' (1959 Steve Allen Show) [5:44] on YouTube
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    "One Hundred Years of Solitude" [1967] by Gabriel García Márquez [1927-2014] of Colombia
"The most important Latin American novel of the XXth Century." — Isabelle Allende
author entry at Wikipedia •
novel entry at Wikipedia
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  "Outlander" aka "Cross Stitch" [1991 novel] by Diana Gabaldon
author entry at Wikipedia •
novel entry at Wikipedia
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  "The Pillars of The Earth" historical novel [1989] by Ken Follett
author entry at Wikipedia •
novel entry at Wikipedia
plus 2010 Starz TV mini-series
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    "The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel" [1998] by Barbara Kingsolver
author entry at Wikipedia •
novel entry at Wikipedia
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0061577073/
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    "Portnoy's Complaint" [1969] by Philip Roth
author entry at Wikipedia •
novel entry at Wikipedia
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679756450/
filmed in 1972, starring Richard Benjamin & Karen Black
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        "Pride and Prejudice" [1813] by Jane Austen [1775-1817]
author entry at Wikipedia •
novel entry at Wikipedia
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0199535566/
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    "The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure" [1973] by William Goldman
author entry at Wikipedia •
novel entry at Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Princess_Bride_(film)
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  "The Raven" [1845 narrative poem] by Edgar Allan Poe [1809-49]
author entry at Wikipedia •
poem entry at Wikipedia
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  "Rebecca: A New Novel" [1938] by Daphne du Maurier [1907-89]
author entry at Wikipedia •
novel entry at Wikipedia
plus the Oscar-winning 1940 Hitchcock film
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    "The Road" [2006] by Cormac McCarthy
author entry at Wikipedia •
novel entry at Wikipedia
won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_(2009_film)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307387895/
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  "The Scarlet Letter" [1850] by Nathaniel Hawthorne [1804-64]
author entry at Wikipedia •
novel entry at Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scarlet_Letter_(1934_film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scarlet_Letter_(1995_film)
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  "The Secret History" [Knopf 1992] by Donna Tartt
author entry at Wikipedia •
novel entry at Wikipedia
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400031702/
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  "The Secret Life of Bees" [2002] by Sue Monk Kidd
author entry at Wikipedia •
novel entry at Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Life_of_Bees_(film)
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  "Selected Stories" [30 stories 1996] by Alice Munro [b. 1931]
author entry at Wikipedia •
novel entry at Wikipedia
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/067976674X/
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  "The Shining" [1977] by Stephen King
author entry at Wikipedia •
novel entry at Wikipedia
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307743659/
plus the 1980 feature film by Stanley Kubrick [1928-99]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shining_(film)
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  "Siddhartha" [1922] by Hermann Hesse [1877-1962]
author entry at Wikipedia •
novel entry at Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siddhartha_(film)
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      "Slaughterhouse-Five: or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance With Death" [1969]
absurdist WW2 novel by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. [1922-2007]
author entry at Wikipedia •
novel entry at Wikipedia
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385333846/
"Slaughterhouse-Five" feature film [1972]
Directed by George Roy Hill • full credits at IMDb •
movie entry at Wikipedia
http://www.amazon.com/Slaughterhouse-Five-Michael-Sacks/dp/B0001FVDGY/
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  "The Stand" [1978] by Stephen King
author entry at Wikipedia •
novel entry at Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stand_(TV_miniseries)
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      "The Stranger (L'Etranger)" aka 'The Outsider'
existentialist fiction [Gallimard 1942] by Albert Camus [1913-60]
author entry at Wikipedia •
novel entry at Wikipedia
   | Translated by Matthew Ward in 1988
Kindle Edition from Vintage/Random House [8/2012] for $6.95 Vintage 8x5¼ pb [3/89] for $8.05 Everyman's Library 8½x5¼ hardcover [2/93] for $13.83 Knopf 8x5¼ hardcover [3/88] orig $20.68 - out of print/used Recorded Books UNABR audio CD [5/2005] 3 disks out of prodn/used French-language original: Gallimard pb [3/2005] for $14.42 Folio mass pb [3/99] for $11.53 |
  | "L'Etranger de Camus / Lu par Albert Camus" April 1954 recording by Albert Camus Ina/Frémeaux & Associés audio CD [4/2003] orig $25.99 - out of prodn/used "L'Etranger" [2010] by Albert Camus, read by Michael Lonsdale French & European Publns audio CD [7/2010] 3 disks for $80.96 |
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    "The Sun Also Rises" [1926] by Ernest Hemingway [1899-1961]
author entry at Wikipedia •
novel entry at Wikipedia
"The Sun Also Rises" [1957 feature film]
starring Tyrone Power, Ava Gardner & Errol Flynn
"The Sun Also Rises" [1984 feature film]
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      "Things Fall Apart" [1958 first novel] by Chinua Achebe
'the most widely read book in modern African literature'
author entry at Wikipedia •
novel entry at Wikipedia
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385474547/
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  "The Thorn Birds" [1977] by Colleen McCullough (Robinson) of Australia
author entry at Wikipedia •
novel entry at Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thorn_Birds_(TV_miniseries)
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  "The Time Traveler's Wife" [2003 first novel] by Audrey Niffenegger
author entry at Wikipedia •
novel entry at Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Time_Traveler%27s_Wife_(film)
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          "To Kill a Mockingbird" [1960 bestseller] by (Nelle) Harper Lee [1926-2016]
author entry at Wikipedia •
novel entry at Wikipedia
  | As described by his tomboy daughter, an idealistic lawyer in 1932 Alabama agrees to defend a black man accused of raping a white woman, revealing the depths of local bigotry & racism; won 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Kindle Edition from HarperCollins Publrs [7/2014] for $4.73 Grand Central Publng mass pb [10/88] for $4.98 Harper Perennial 7¾x5¼ pb [7/2005] for $8.46 Harper Perennial 8x5½ pb [5/2006] for $13.43 Heinemann 8x5¾ hardcover [11/99] out of prodn/100+ used HarperCollins slipcover edition [10/2006] out of print/many used HarperCollins 8½x5½ hardcover [9/95] out of print/70+ used |
more details (synopsis, history, author, movies, other media) are on
Spirit of America Bookstore's "To Kill A Mockingbird" 1960 Novel & 1962 Movie Page
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  "Valley of The Dolls" [1966] by Jacqueline Susann [1918-74] 'addictively entertaining'
author entry at Wikipedia •
novel entry at Wikipedia
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0802135196/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_of_the_Dolls_(film)
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  "Water for Elephants: A Novel" [2006 bestseller] by Sara Gruen
author entry at Wikipedia •
novel entry at Wikipedia
  | Just at graduation from college in 1931, Jacob's life falls apart; he finds work with the struggling Benzini Brothers traveling circus and falls in love with the wife of the ruthless circus owner.
Kindle Edition from Algonquin Books [2007 edition] for $8.02 Algonquin Books movie tie-in mass pb [3/2011] for $5.50 Algonquin Books 8¼x5½ pb [5/2007] for $9.60 Algonquin Books 9½x6¼ deckle-edge hardcover [5/2006] for $16.29 book entry at Wikipedia • author's website |
  | "Water For Elephants" [Fox April 2011] Filmed in California, Georgia & Tennessee, especially on the Tennessee Valley Railroad near Chattanooga (with Engine #18 clearly visible). Directed by Francis Lawrence; script by Richard LaGravenese, based on Sara Gruen's bestseller novel; cinematography by Rodrigo Prieto; starring Reese Witherspoon, Robert Pattinson, Christoph Waltz, Hal Holbrook, Jim Norton, Paul Schneider, Richard Brake, Mark Povinelli & Tai The Elephant Fox widescreen color Blu-ray/digital [11/2011] 2 disks for $10.49 Fox widescreen color Blu-ray [11/2011] for $13.99 Fox widescreen color DVD [11/2011] for $4.99 full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia |
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  "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel" [Japan 1994-95, English 1997] by Haruki Murakami
author entry at Wikipedia •
novel entry at Wikipedia
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679775439/
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  "The World According To Garp" [1978 bestseller] by John Irving
author entry at Wikipedia •
novel entry at Wikipedia
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345418018/
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    "Wuthering Heights" [1847] by Emily Brontë [1818-48]
author entry at Wikipedia •
novel entry at Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuthering_Heights_(1939_film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuthering_Heights_(1970_film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Bront%C3%AB%27s_Wuthering_Heights
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuthering_Heights_(2009_television_serial)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuthering_Heights_(2011_film)
  "Hamlet, Prince of Denmark" stageplay [circa 1600-02] by Wm. Shakespeare [1564-1616]
  "Romeo and Juliet" stageplay [circa 1597] by Wm. Shakespeare [1564-1616]
    "The Tragedy of Macbeth" stageplay [1606] by Wm. Shakespeare [1564-1616]
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