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11 Lifetime Favorites of A Friend
- Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
- The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide: Six novels by Douglas Adams
Truthfully, I much prefer the audio series!
- The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Different and much better! than the film version.
- Story Like The Wind (AND its companion book) A Far Off Place by Laurens Van Der Post
These books are sold separately but are one story, broken at a critical point in the plot; you will suffer if you finish the first and do not have the second at hand!
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Worth another read, and not just for women. It’s as good as, or better, than the movie.
- Howards End by E.M. Forster
An almost perfectly constructed novel. I always loved the book while loathing the main male character—until I saw the film with Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson and was able to understand him and learn from her! Amazing. A film version informs the novel!!
- Flint by Louis Lamour
Arguably his best, certainly his most archetypical work.
- Shane by Jack Schaefer
This first-time novel became Oscar winning 50’s movie starring Alan Ladd. Who can forget the poignant cry of the young boy: “Shane! Shane!” However, the character nuances and the scene in which the two men wrestle with the stump are far more interesting and important in the book.
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John Le Carre
Still top candidate for the best spy novel ever written.
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
A book for any woman who has ever wholeheartedly loved a man. Author Alice Walker says, “There is no book more important to me than this one.”
- Light A Penny Candle by Maeve Binchey
I wonder if men like her books. All the women I know find most of them extremely soothing, inspiring, and uplifting. A rare compassionate commodity, although like the books of Louis Lamour, they can be repetitive. But soothing, soothing!
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