The Jungle Books - Rudyard Kipling
The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories - Mark Twain
Isn't that Twain's unfinished novel?
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby - Charles Dickens
Anna and the King of Siam - Margaret Landon
Two Years Before the Mast - Richard Henry Dana Jr.
Maugham's choce of Kipling's Best -Rudyard Kipling
Swiss Family Robinson - Johann Wyss
Goethes 'Faust - Translation by Baynard Taylor
Through the Looking Glass Lewis Carroll
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Indomitable Hornblower (A collection of three books) -C.S. Forester
Under the Lilacs Louisa May Alcott
The Marvellous Land of Oz - L Frank Baum
Bob, Son of Battle - Alfred Ollivant
Little Lord Fauntleroy - Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams
Selected Prose and Poetry Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Caine Mutiny - Herman Wouk
Best Known Works - Voltaire
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm - Kate Douglas Wiggin
By Shakespeare:
King Lear
Macbeth
Henry the V
Oedipus
Hamlet
The Tragedy of Richard the Third
Some gambles I took were books that I had not heard of but something about them called out to me to try them.
My Name is Aram - William Saroyan
Correlli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
The Rendevous and Other Stories - Patrick Obrien
The Tartan Pimpernel - Donald Caskie
Gunsmoke - Charles Wesley Sanders
The Little Lame Prince and The Adventures of a Brownie - Dinah Mulock
I have never read the majority of these books so feel free to give me your opinions and recommendations especially on the unknown books. I will add more books later. Little Johnny just got here and that demands my full attention.
Tash
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I have been a bad, bad, girl. The county library system had a huge book sale today.
- 02/05/2010 10:42:00 PM
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Money well spent!
- 03/05/2010 02:38:18 AM
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Captain Corelli's Mandolin is good.
- 02/05/2010 10:57:41 PM
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From reading the cover I had the idea it was something I might like.
- 04/05/2010 12:15:15 AM
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Money well spent!
- 03/05/2010 02:38:18 AM
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I have enjoyed what little I have read of his works. I'm not sure why I have balked for so long at
- 04/05/2010 12:18:24 AM
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the tartan pimpernel? is that the scarlet pimpernel's lesser known cousin? 
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- 03/05/2010 03:21:31 AM
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- 03/05/2010 03:21:31 AM
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Here is what it said about the book at Amazon.com. It looked like it might be fun.
- 04/05/2010 12:27:06 AM
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oooh.
- 03/05/2010 08:23:31 AM
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This version may have been finished although not as complete as Twain would have liked.
- 04/05/2010 12:33:19 AM
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Brave New World is my favorite on that list.
- 03/05/2010 08:48:46 AM
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I had heard the name several times on this board so it stuck in my mind.
- 04/05/2010 12:34:36 AM
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