Remarkable Reads

Submitted by prslook on Fri, 02/04/2011 - 19:41
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  • The Most Remarkable Book Read: The Cat in the Hat - Dr.Seuss
  • The Loneliest Book Read: The Happy Valley - Eric Berne
  • The Most Enchanting Book Read: Andersen's Fairy Tales
  • The Most Important Book Read: The Stranger - Albert Camus
  • The Most Daunting Book Read: Absalom, Absalom! - William Faulkner
  • The Most Resonant Book Read: A Sand County Almanac - Aldo Leopold
  • The Most Dangerous Book Read: The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories - William Saroyan
  • The Wisest Book Read: Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
  • The Classiest Book Read: Howards End - E.M.Forster
  • The Most Eloquent Book Read: Rock Springs - Richard Ford
  • The Maddest Book Read: The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing
  • The Most Double-D-Daring Book Read: The Robber Bridegroom - Eudora Welty
  • The Hippest Book Read: Civilization and Its Discontents - Sigmund Freud
  • The Most Familiar Book Read: South of the Big Four = Don Kurtz
  • The Most Incomprehensible Book Read: The Education of Henry Adams - Henry Adams
  • The Most Devastating Book Read: The Easter Parade - Richard Yates
  • The Most Apocalyptic Book Read: The War with the Newts - Karel Capek
  • The Saddest Book Read: To Tame a Land - Louis L'Amour
  • The Most Fragile Book Read:The Catcher in the Rye - J.D.Salinger
  • The Most Beautiful Book Read: Shot in the Heart - Mikal Gilmore
  • The Most Tempting Book Read: The Tarahumara - Antonin Artaud
  • The Most Fearless Book Read: 5001 Nights at the Movies - Pauline Kael
  • The Most Intuitive Book Read: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
  • The Most Scottish Book Read: Sunset Song - Lewis Grassick Gibbon
  • The Most Technically Elegant Book Read: Stick and Rudder: An Explanation of the Art of Flying - Wolfgang Langewiesche
  • The Queerest Book Read: The Scapegoat - Jocelyn Brooke
  • The Most Exotic Book Read: The Worm Ouroboros - E.R.Eddison
  • The Most Smokin' Book Read: Confessions of Zeno - Italo Svevo
  • The Most Seductive Books Read: Literature from India (i.e. "Feasting, Feasting" by Anita Desai)
  • The Most Elegant Book Read: Lanterns on the Levee - William Alexander Percy
  • The Most Surprising Book Read: I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years - Victor Klemperer
  • The Most Unpleasant Book Read: American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
  • The Most Luminous Book Read: The Little Locksmith - Katharine Butler Hathaway
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From the book "Remarkable Reads: 34 Writers and Their Adventures in Reading" by J. Peder Zane