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June 19, 2009 reading No Comments
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Facebook has a thing going about favorite books and I thought I’d share my list here for FZ readers. Feel free to chime in with some of yours.
In no particular order…

1. The Things They Carried (Tim O’Brien)

2. Love In The Time Of Cholera (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

3. Whoever Fights Monsters (Robert K. Ressler)

4. Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)

5. The Road Less Traveled (M. Scott Peck)

6. One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich (Alexander Solzhenitsyn)

7. The Giving Tree (Shel Silverstein)

8. On Writing (Stephen King)

9. A Prayer For Owen Meany (John Irving)

10. An Air That Kills (Andrew Schneider, David McCumber)

11. The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)

12. Into Thin Air (Jon Krakauer)

13. The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition (Caroline Alexander)

14. The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison (Pete Earley)

15. A Walk In The Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Bill Bryson)

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