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Amazon's 100 Books To Read In A Lifetime
Page One

here on page 1: fiction, A-L on Page 2: top of page fiction, M-Z on Page 3: top of page memoir & biography history & non-fiction children's books links

In late 2013, the Book Editors at Amazon put together a list of '100 Books To Read In A Lifetime', which they defined as 'a bucket list of books to create a well-read life'. The books were listed on the Amazon website { at http://www.amazon.com/100Books } and then Amazon had members of their Goodreads 'social cataloging' website perform a similar vote; those results are posted at this Amazon link.
Less than half are on both lists, so the combined entries here listed about 160 titles.

Then in Summer 2014, Amazon's Editors devised the '100 Children's Books To Read In A Lifetime' list; because of the overlap factor,
these three pages then grew to almost 200 titles.

"99 Novels: The Best In English Since 1939" [1984] A Personal Choice by Anthony Burgess The provocative, funny, and opinionated essays begin with "Finnegan's Wake" [1939] by James Joyce and range across books by Brian Aldiss, J.G. Ballard, Raymond Chandler ("The Long Goodbye" [1953]), Ian Fleming, Graham Greene, Aldous Huxley, Norman Mailer, Mary McCarthy, Brian Moore, Iris Murdoch, Anthony Powell ("Dance To The Music of Time" [1951-75]), and Philip Roth, thru "1984" by George Orwell Simon & Schuster 8x5¼ pb [3/85] out of print/40+ used Allison & Busby mass pb [2/84] out of print/used Summit Books USA 8¾x5¾ hardcover [4/84] out of print/60+ used

"The Modern Library: The 200 Best Novels In English Since 1950" [1999] by Carmen Callil & Colm Tóibín Robinson Publng 7¾x5 pb [6/2011] out of print/used Picador 7¾x5 pb [4/2000] out of print/used Picador 8½x5½ hardcover [6/99] out of print/used Amazon reviewer" "This is a wonderful book, and I intend to work my way through the novels that they sample. It may take me seven years but I cannot think of a better way to read my way around the world." complete list of included authors: Chinua Achebe, Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis, Mulk Raj Anand, Jessica Anderson, Margaret Atwood, Beryl Bainbridge, James Baldwin, J.G. Ballard, John Banville, Pat Barker, Julian Barnes, Samuel Beckett, Sam Hanna Bell, Saul Bellow, Elizabeth Bowen, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Anita Brookner, Anthony Burgess, Wm. S. Burroughs, A.S. Byatt, Peter Carey,

Angela Carter, Raymond Carver, Raymond Chandler, Bruce Chatwin, Amit Chaudhuri, John Cheever, Agatha Christie, Jonathan Coe, J.M. Coetzee, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Jim Crace, Micheal Cunningham, Robertson Davies, Louis de Berniéres, Don DeLillo, Anita Desai, Pete Dexter, Joan Didion, Isak Dineson, E.L. Doctorow, Roddy Doyle, Margaret Drabble, Daphne du Maurier, Maureen Duffy, Bret Easton Ellis, Ralph Ellison, Jeffrey Eugeni-des, J.G. Farrell, William Faulkner, Sebastian Faulks, Penelope Fitzgerald, Thomas Flanagan, Richard Ford, Frederick Forsyth, John Fowles, Janet Frame, Charles Frazier, William Gaddis, Mavis Gallant, Helen Garner, William H. Gass, Maurice Gee, Kaye Gibbons, William Golding, Nadine Gordimer, Alasdair Gray, Henry Green, Graham Greene, Patrick Hamilton, Elizabeth Hardwick, Frank Hardy, Thomas Harris, Wilson Harris, L.P. Hartley, Shirley Hazzard, Roy A.K. Heath, Joseph Heller, Ernest Hemingway, Georgette Heyer, Carl Hiaasen, Patricia Highsmith, Oscar Hijuelos, Russell Hoban, Alan Hollinghurst, Kazuo Ishiguro, P.D. James, Elizabeth Jenkins, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, B.S. Johnson, Elizabeth Jolley, James Kelman, Thomas Keneally, Jack Kerouac, Balraj Khanna, Stephen King, Margaret Laurence, Mary Lavin, John Le Carré, Harper Lee, Rosamund Lehmann, Elmore Leonard, Doris Lessing, David Lodge, Bernard MacLaverty, Alistair MacLeod, Norman Mailer, Bernard Malamud, David Malouf, Olivia Manning, William Maxwell, Eugene McCabe, Patrick McCabe, Cormac McCarthy, Mary McCarthy, Carson McCullers, Ian McEwan, John McGahern, Patrick McGrath, Larry McMurtry, Gita Mehta, Rohinton Mistry, Timothy Mo, Brian Moore, Frank Moorhouse, Toni Morrison, Alice Munro, Iris Murdoch, Vladimir Nabokov, V.S. Naipaul, R.K. Narayan, Patrick O'Brian, Edna O'Brien, Flannery O'Connor, John O'Hara, Micheal Ondaatje, Grace Paley, Jayne Anne Phillips, Sylvia Plath, Katherine Anne Porter, Anthony Powell, V.S Pritchett, E. Annie Proulx, Mario Puzo, Thomas Pynchon, Jean Rhys, Anne Rice, Mordecai Richler, Marilynne Robinson, Philip Roth, Norman Rush, Salman Rushdie, J.D. Salinger, Frank Sargeson, Paul Scott, Hubert Selby Jr., Will Self, Vikram Seth, Bapsi Sidhwa, Alan Sillitoe, Iain Sinclair, Jane Smiley, Wole Soyinka, Muriel Spark, Christina Stead, John Steinbeck, Francis Stewart, Robert Stone, David Storey, William Styron, Graham Swift, Amy Tan, Donna Tartt, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter Taylor, Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, John Kennedy Toole, William Trevor, Amos Tutuola, Anne Tyler, John Updike, Barbera Vine (Ruth Rendell), Alice Walker, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Evelyn Waugh, Fay Weldon, Irvine Welsh, Eudora Welty, Rebecca West, Edmund White, Patrick White, Jeanette Winterson, Tim Winton, P.G. Wodehouse, Tom Wolfe, Tobias Wolff, and Francis Wyndham

	"1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up" [2009] Edited by Julia Eccleshare, Preface by Quentin Blake includes reviews of books not available in English Cassell Illustrated UK 8¼x6¼x2¼" {4¼ pounds!} pb [10/2009] out of print/used Universe 8½x6¾x2½" ({4.5 pounds!} hardcover [10/2009] for $22.90
	"1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (Revised & Updated)" [2010] by Peter Boxall Universe 8½x6¾x2½" {4.4 pounds!} hardcover [3/2010] for $26.50 Universe previous edition 8½x6¾ hardcover [3/2006] out of print/100+ used Cassell Illustrated previous edition 8¼x6¼ pb [3/2006] out of print/used
	"Encyclopedia of The American Novel" [2013] by Abby H.P. Werlock Very strange situation: found the book on a Google research link which displays cover and contents, stating that the first edition was published on paper in 2013 and the second edition as an ebook, albeit with a paper ISBN, published in March 2016. Nobody sells the book, even the Google reference page showed 'No price No rating' for Amazon & B&N & Books-A-Million & IndieBound {page is now gone}. Looks/sounds like a good book, so coded here as is, in case things ever get resolved. • "Provides a comprehensive reference to the novel in American literature with over 900 entries containing critical analyses and synopses of individual novels, novelist biographies, essays on fiction genres, and more."

Fiction  Works,  A to L

Authors with multiple mentions on these Amazon100 pages include Charles Dickens [1812-70] (3), Dr. Seuss {Theodor Geisel 1904-91} (3), Wm. Shakespeare [1564-1616] (3),
John Steinbeck [1902-68] (3), Roald Dahl [1916-90] (2), Fyodor Dostoyevsky [1821-81] (2), Ernest Hemingway [1899-1961] (2), John Irving [b. 1942] (2),
Stephen King [b.1947] (2), George Orwell [1903-50] (2), J.R.R. Tolkien [1892-1973] (2), and Mark Twain [1835-1910] (2)

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  "A Christmas Carol - In Prose: Being A Ghost Story of Christmas" [1843]
by Charles Dickens [1812-70]
author entry at Wikipedia • novel entry at Wikipedia

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  "A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire)" [1996]
by George R.R. Martin of Santa Fe, New Mexico

Spirit of America Bookstore's "Game of Thrones" Novels & TV Page

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"A Lost Lady" [1923] by Willa Cather [1873-1947]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Lost_Lady
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Lost_Lady_(film)

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  "A Prayer For Owen Meany" [1989] by John Irving
author entry at Wikipedia • novel entry at Wikipedia

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  "A Tale of Two Cities" [1859] by Charles Dickens [1812-70]
author entry at Wikipedia • novel entry at Wikipedia

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    "A Tree Grows In Brooklyn" [1943] by Betty Smith [1896-1972]
author entry at Wikipedia • novel entry at Wikipedia

also 1945 feature film and 1951 Broadway stageplay and 1974 TV movie

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       "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" [1885] by Mark Twain [1835-1910]
author entry at Wikipedia • novel entry at Wikipedia

Spirit of America Bookstore's
"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" 1885 Novel & Movies Page

  "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" [1876] by Mark Twain [1835-1910]
author entry at Wikipedia • novel entry at Wikipedia

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  "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" [1892] by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [1859-1930]
author entry at Wikipedia • novel entry at Wikipedia

Sherlock Holmes Pages at BlackHat Mystery Bookstore

Sherlock Holmes Film Festival Pages at BlackHat Mystery Bookstore

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  "The Age of Innocence" [1920] by Edith Wharton [1862-1937]
author entry at Wikipedia • novel entry at Wikipedia
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0451530888/

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  "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay" [2000] by Michael Chabon
author entry at Wikipedia • novel entry at Wikipedia
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0812983580/

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  "And Then There Were None" [1939] by Agatha Christie [1890-1976]
author entry at Wikipedia • novel entry at Wikipedia

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    "Animal Farm" [1945] by George Orwell [1903-50]

Spirit of America Bookstore's
"Animal Farm" Novel & Movies Page

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    "Anna Karenina" [1878] by Leo Tolstoy [1828-1910]
author entry at Wikipedia • novel entry at Wikipedia

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"Atlas Shrugged" [1957 novel] by Ayn Rand [1905-82]

"Atlas Shrugged" Novel & Movies Page
at Maison d'Être Philosophy Bookstore

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  "bel canto" [2001 novel] by Ann Patchett of Nashville, Tennessee
author entry at Wikipedia • novel entry at Wikipedia
book received the Orange Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0061565318/

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        "Beloved" [Knopf 2006] by Toni Morrison
author entry at Wikipedia • novel entry at Wikipedia
winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400033411/

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      "The Book Thief" [2005 New York Times bestseller] by Markus Zusak of Australia
author entry at Wikipedia • novel entry at Wikipedia
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375842209/

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    "Brave New World" [1932 novel] by Aldous Huxley [1894-1963]
author entry at Wikipedia • novel entry at Wikipedia

more details (synopses, sequels, Broadway musical, books & ebooks, links, merchandise) on

Spirit of America Bookstore's "Brave New World" Novel & Movies Page

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  "Breath, Eyes, Memory" novel [1994] by {Ms} Edwidge Danticat
author entry at Wikipedia • novel entry at Wikipedia
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/037570504X/

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  "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" [2007] by Junot Díaz
author entry at Wikipedia • novel entry at Wikipedia
book won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1594483299/

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    "The Brothers Karamazov" [1880] by Fyodor Dostoyevsky [1821-81]
author entry at Wikipedia • novel entry at Wikipedia

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          "Catch-22" [1961 bestseller] by Joseph Heller [1923-99]
author entry at Wikipedia • novel entry at Wikipedia

Captain Yossarian tries desperately to get grounded so he will not have to fly any more bombing missions over Hitler's Europe: anyone who goes to war is crazy, but if he asks to be grounded for being crazy, then he's not crazy anymore and he has to keep flying – 'catch 22'. A gut-wrenching satire. Kindle Edition from Simon & Schuster Digital Sales [10/2010] for $8.80 S&S 8½x5¾ pb [4/2011] for $9.32 Everyman's Library 8½x5¼ hardcover [10/99] for $18.30

"Catch-22" feature film [Filmways/Paramount June 1970] Directed by Mike Nichols; screenplay by Buck Henry; all-star cast, including Alan Arkin, Buck Henry & Orson Welles Paramount widescreen color DVD [5/2013 for $5.97> Paramount widescreen color DVD [5/2001] for $11.99 Paramount color VHS [8/2001] for $9.95 full credits from IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia

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          "The Catcher In The Rye" first novel [Little, Brown & Co. July 1951]
by J.D. Salinger [1919-2010]
author entry at Wikipedia • novel entry at Wikipedia

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    "The Color Purple" [1982] by Alice Walker
author entry at Wikipedia • novel entry at Wikipedia
book won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

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    "The Corrections: A Novel" [2001] by Jonathan Franzen
author entry at Wikipedia • novel entry at Wikipedia
winner of the 2001 National Book Award for Fiction
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312421273/

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  "The Count of Monte Cristo" [1844-45] by Alexandre Dumas (père) [1802-70]
author entry at Wikipedia • novel entry at Wikipedia

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       "Crime and Punishment" [1866] by Fyodor Dostoyevsky [1821-81]
author entry at Wikipedia • novel entry at Wikipedia

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    "Cutting For Stone" [2009 first novel] by Abraham Verghese
author entry at Wikipedia • novel entry at Wikipedia
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375714367/

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  "Dracula" [1897] by Abraham 'Bram' Stoker [1847-1912]
author entry at Wikipedia • novel entry at Wikipedia

'Dracula' Section on Magic Lantern's Horror / Monster / Fantasy Page

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    "Dune" science fiction classic [1965] by Frank Herbert [1920-86]
author entry at Wikipedia • novel entry at Wikipedia

Spirit of America Bookstore's
"Dune" Novels & Movies Page

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    "East of Eden" [Viking Sept 1952] by John Steinbeck [1902-68]
Steinbeck considered "East of Eden" his greatest novel: "I think everything else I have written has been, in a sense, practice for this."
author entry at Wikipedia • novel entry at Wikipedia

	Kindle Edition from Penguin Group [2002 edition] for $7.50 Penguin/Oprah 8½x5½ pb [6/2003] for $13.50 Viking/Oprah 8¾x6 hardcover [6/2003] for $20.63 Sears & Viking hardcover [1952] out of print/90+ used
	color movie [Warner 1955] Filmed in Cinemascope; produced & directed by Elia Kazan [1909-2003]; script by Paul Osborn; starring Julie Harris, James Dean, Raymond Massey, Burl Ives & Richard Davalos; won Oscar for Best Supporting Actress (Jo Van Fleet), Oscar noms for Best Director, Best Script/Adaptation & Best Actor (Dean) Warner Home Video widescreen color Blu-ray [3/2014] for $14.96 Warner Home Video widescreen color DVD [11/2013] 2 disks for $9.23 Warner Special Edition widescreen color DVD [5/2005] 2 disks for $13.97 Warner Home Video color VHS [12/94] for $5.14 full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia
	TV miniseries [Viacom/ABC Feb 1981] Directed by Harvey Hart; script by Richard Shapiro; starring Karen Allen, Anne Baxter, Hart Bochner, Sam Bottoms, Timothy Bottoms, Bruce Boxleitner, Jane Seymour, Warren Oates, Soon-Tek Oh & Lloyd Bridges Acorn Media color DVD [3/2009] 3 disks for $40.22 Anchor Bay color VHS [9/90] 3 tapes - out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb

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    "Ender's Game (The Ender Quintet)" [1985] by Orson Scott Card
author entry at Wikipedia • novel entry at Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ender%27s_Game_(film)

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        "Fahrenheit 451: A Novel" [1953] by Ray Bradbury [1920-2012]
author entry at Wikipedia • novel entry at Wikipedia

	Kindle Edition from Simon & Schuster Digital Sales [11/2011] for $7.50 Simon & Schuster 8¼x5½ pb [1/2012] for $7.90 Ballantine 8¼x5½ trade pb [8/96] out of print/hundreds used Ballantine mass pb [2/95] out of print/hundreds used Simon & Schuster 8½x5¾ hardcover [1/2012] for $18.22 Simon & Schuster 8¾x5¾ hardcover [9/93] out of print/50+ used
	audio CD read by Christopher Hunt Harper UNABR audio CD [12/2005] for $14.53 audio read by Ray Bradbury Caedmon UNABR audio CD [10/2001] out of prodn/used Harper UNABR audio [10/2001] 6 tapes - out of prodn/used Caedmon UNABR audio [10/2001] out of prodn/used audio tapes read by Michael Prichard BooksOnTape UNABR audio [9/88] out of prodn/many used
	feature film [Universal France Sept 1966, USA Nov 1966] Directed by François Truffaut [1932-84]; cinematography by Nicolas Roeg; starring Oskar Werner, Julie Christie {dual role} & Cyril Cusack Universal widescreen color DVD [4/2003] for $9.19 Image Ent. letterbox color DVD [10/2000] out of prodn/used Universal color VHS [6/96] for $16.88 full credits from IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia • watch official trailer [2:20] on YouTube
	"Fahrenheit 451: The Authorized Adaptation" graphic novel [2009] Drawn by Tim Hamilton, Introduction by Ray Bradbury Hill & Wang 9x6½ pb [7/2009] for $12.78 Hill & Wang 9¼x6¼ hardcover [7/2009] out of print/40+ used

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      "The Fault In Our Stars" YA novel [2012] by John Green
Soon To Be A Major Motion Picture! • TIME Magazine’s #1 Fiction Book of 2012!
author entry at Wikipedia • novel entry at Wikipedia
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0525478817/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fault_in_Our_Stars_(film)
http://www.thefaultinourstarsmovie.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiFiVNvyxdE

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    "Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus" [1818 first novel]
by Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley [1797-1851]
author entry at Wikipedia • novel entry at Wikipedia

'Frankenstein's Monster' Section on Magic Lantern's Horror / Monster / Fantasy Movies Page

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  "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" [2005] by Stieg Larsson [1954-2004]
author entry at Wikipedia • 'Millennium Trilogy' entry at Wikipedia

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    "Gone Girl" [2012 New York Times bestseller] by Gillian Flynn
author entry at Wikipedia • novel entry at Wikipedia
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/030758836X/

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    "Gone With The Wind" [1936] by Margaret Mitchell [1900-49]

"Gone With The Wind" Novel & Movie Page
at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store

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  "The Good Earth" [1931] by Pearl S. Buck [1892-1973]
author entry at Wikipedia • novel entry at Wikipedia
book won the Pulitzer Prize for The Novel

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        "The Grapes of Wrath" [Viking 1939] by John Steinbeck [1902-68]
The book won the Pulitzer Prize for The Novel, and is listed on Time Magazine's All-TIME 100 Novels (10/2005)

"The Grapes of Wrath" Novel & Movie Page
at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store

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    "Great Expectations" [1861 novel] by Charles Dickens [1812-70]
author entry at Wikipedia • novel entry at Wikipedia
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0486415864/

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              "The Great Gatsby" [Scribner's 1925] by F. Scott Fitzgerald [1896-1940]

Spirit of America Bookstore's
"The Great Gatsby" Novel & Movies Page

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      "The Handmaid's Tale" [1985] by Margaret Atwood
author entry at Wikipedia • novel entry at Wikipedia
won the 1987 Arthur C. Clarke Award
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/038549081X/

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  "The Harry Potter Books" [1997-2007] by J.K. Rowling
author entry at Wikipedia • book series entry at Wikipedia

      "Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone (Book 1)" [1997]

"Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets (Book 2)" [1998]

  "Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3)" [1999]

"Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire (Book 4)" [2000]

"Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix (Book 5)" [2003]

  "Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince (Book 6)" [2005]

  "Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows (Book 7)" [2007]

Harry Potter Book Sets (Books 1-7) Kindle Edition from Pottermore Limited [3/2012] for $57.54 Arthur A. Levine Books 8½x5½ slipcover pb box set [7/2009] 7 books for $42.00 Arthur A. Levine Books 'chest'-packaged 9¼x6½ hardcover set [10/2007] for $90.00

Harry Potter Books & Movies Page
at Magic Lantern Video & Bookstore

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  "The Help" [2009 NYTimes bestseller] by Kathryn Stockett
author entry at Wikipedia • novel entry at Wikipedia
plus the Oscar-winning 2011 movie

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      "The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy" [1979] by Douglas Adams [1952-2001]
author entry at Wikipedia • novel entry at Wikipedia

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    "The Hobbit" [1966] by J.R.R. Tolkien [1892–1973]
author entry at Wikipedia • novel entry at Wikipedia

'Lord of The Rings' & 'The Hobbit' Novels & Movies Page at Magic Lantern Video & Bookstore

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  "The Holy Bible: New King James Version (NKJV)" [1982]

“Jehovah has always seemed to me the most fascinating character in all fiction.” — Oliver Herford [1863-1935]

visit the Judeo-Christian Bible Page at Spirit of America Bookstore

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  "The Hunger Games Trilogy" by Suzanne Collins
author entry at Wikipedia • book series entry at Wikipedia

    "The Hunger Games" [2008]
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0439023521/

  "Catching Fire" (Book 2 of The Hunger Games)" [2009]

  "Mockingjay (The Final Book of The Hunger Games)" [2010]

"The Hunger Games Trilogy Boxsets" Kindle Edition from Scholastic Press [5/2011] for $17.99 Scholastic Press 8¼x5¾x4-inches slipcover pb set [9/2013] for $32.79 Scholastic Press 9x6x4 slipcover hardcover set [8/2010] for $40.19

— and, of course, the three movies

Announced 6/2024: Suzanne Collins is writing a new 'Hunger Games' novel, "Sunrise On The Reaping",
that’s scheduled for release in March 2025.

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  "Interpreter of Maladies" [9 stories 1999] by Jhumpa Lahiri
author entry at Wikipedia • book entry at Wikipedia
won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/039592720X/

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    "Invisible Man" [1952] by Ralph Ellison [1914-94]
author entry at Wikipedia • novel entry at Wikipedia
won the National Book Award in 1953
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679732764/

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    "Jane Eyre: An Autobiography" [1847] by Charlotte Brontë [1816-55]
author entry at Wikipedia • novel entry at Wikipedia

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  "Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid On Earth" graphic novel [Pantheon 2000] by Chris Ware
author entry at Wikipedia • novel entry at Wikipedia
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375714545/

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  "The Kite Runner" [2003] by Khaled Hosseini
author entry at Wikipedia • novel entry at Wikipedia

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    "Les Misérables" [1862 novel] by Victor Hugo [1802-85]
author entry at Wikipedia • novel entry at Wikipedia
plus the Broadway stageplay and the musical feature film

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  "Life After Life: A Novel" [4/2013] by Kate Atkinson
author entry at Wikipedia • novel entry at Wikipedia
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316176494/

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  "Life of Pi" [2001] by Yann Martel
author entry at Wikipedia • novel entry at Wikipedia
winner of the 2001 Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and the 2002 Man Booker Prize for Fiction
plus award-winning feature film

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    "Little Women" [1868-69] by Louisa May Alcott [1832-88]
author entry at Wikipedia • novel entry at Wikipedia

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      "Lolita" [Paris 1955, English 1958] by Vladimir Nabokov [1899-1977]
author entry at Wikipedia • novel entry at Wikipedia
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679410430/
plus the 1962 feature film by Stanley Kubrick [1928-99] and another in 1997 by Adrian Lyne

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  "The Long Goodbye" [1953] by Raymond Chandler [1888-1959]
author entry at Wikipedia • novel entry at Wikipedia

"First-rate noir"; P.I. Philip Marlowe's friend Terry Lennox asks for a ride across the border to Mexico; when Marlowe returns, the police are waiting for him, asking questions about the bludgeon murder of Terry's wife. Kindle Edition from Vintage/Random House [2002 edition] for $9.12 Vintage 8x5 pb [8/92] for $9.60 Houghton Mifflin/BOMC 8¼x5¼ hardcover [1954] out of print/used New Millennium Audio ABR audio read by Elliott Gould [3/2002] out of prodn/used Spanish-language edition "El Largo Adios": Alianza 7x4½ pb [6/2005] out of print/used

1973 feature film directed by Robert Altman [1925-2006] Script by Leigh Brackett, based on Chandler's novel; starring Elliott Gould, Nina van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden, Mark Rydell, Henry Gibson, David Arkin & Jim Bouton Region 1 Blu-ray not available M.G.M. widescreen color DVD [9/2002] for $51.98 MGM/UA color VHS [5/91] for $7.98 full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia

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      "Lord of The Flies" [1954] by William Golding [1911-93]
author entry at Wikipedia • novel entry at Wikipedia

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        "The Lord of the Rings Trilogy" [1954-55] by J.R.R. Tolkein [1892–1973]
author entry at Wikipedia • novel entry at Wikipedia

'Lord of The Rings' & 'The Hobbit' Novels & Movies Page
at Magic Lantern Video & Bookstore

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  "Love In The Time of Cholera" Latin-American masterpiece
[Spanish 1985, English 1988] by Gabriel García Márquez [1927-2014] of Colombia
author entry at Wikipedia • novel entry at Wikipedia
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307389731/

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  "Love Medicine" [1984 first novel] by (Karen) Louise Erdrich
author entry at Wikipedia • novel entry at Wikipedia
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0061787426/

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on Page 3: top of page • memoir & biography • history & non-fiction • children's books • links

Time Magazine's All-TIME 100 Novels Page at Spirit of America Bookstore

The Telegraph of U.K.'s List of Best 100 Novels at Spirit of America Bookstore

The B.B.C.'s Top 100 Books List at Spirit of America Bookstore

Spirit of America Bookstore's Great Books & Great Authors Page

PBS's 'The Great American Read' Project of 2018

Spirit of America Bookstore's The Harvard Classics [1909] Page

Top 100+ Children's Books Page at Spirit of America Bookstore

A List of 50 Books - to help you understand everything in the Universe Page at Maison d'Être Philosophy Bookstore

150 Essential Mystery Novels Page at BlackHat Mystery Bookstore

100 Classic Books Made Into Films Page at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store

TIME Magazine's 100+ Top Movies Pages at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store

Nobel Prizes in Literature[est. 1901] Page
Pulitzer Prizes [est. 1921] Page

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