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Novels become my favorites by having transformed me in some way.
These are the novels I return to over and over again. One of my favorite reading adages (I totally believe I coined it, but could be wrong) is, "If it isn't worth reading twice, it isn't worth reading once."
Here's the list (in no particular order) of novels that have shaped me, changed me, and that I return to again and again and again.
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- Esther Waters by George Moore
- Anna Karenina by Count Leo Tolstoy
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
- Indigo by Beverly Jenkins
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
- Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
- The Street by Ann Petry
- Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
- The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector
- Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal
- World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
- Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
I apologize that I wasn't able to transfer the year of writing on most of these books from my other website hosting service. I lost so much good content, but I will work to build this site up, and as time permits will revisit the reasons why I love the novels above.
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