10 Books to Read in 2009

    By LaurenA

    12 months ago

    My Top 10 Favorite reads from 2008 (In no particular order)

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      Post Office: A Novel  

      Charles Bukowski , Trade Paperback

      HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS

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      "It began as a mistake." By middle age, Henry Chinaski has lost more than twelve years of his life to the U.S. Postal Service. In a world where his three true, bitter pleasures are women, booze, and racetrack betting, he somehow drags his hangover out of bed every dawn to lug waterlogged mailbags up mud-soaked mountains, outsmart vicious guard dogs, and pray to survive the day-to-day trials of sadistic bosses and certifiable coworkers.

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      Angels & Demons  

      Dan Brown , Trade Paperback

      Simon & Schuster

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      World-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a cryptic symbol seared into the chest of a murdered physicist. What he discovers is unimaginable: a deadly vendetta against the Catholic Church by a centuries-old underground organization -- the Illuminati. Desperate to save the Vatican from a powerful time bomb, Langdon joins forces in Rome with the beautiful and mysterious scientist Vittoria Vetra. Together they embark on a frantic hunt through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, deserted cathedrals, and the most secretive vault on earth . . . the long-forgotten Illuminati lair.

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      Lord Of The Flies  

      William Golding , Trade Paperback

      Faber And Faber

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      A group of boys stranded on a remote island organizes itself into a democracy for its members' survival and rescue. Soon, however, the boys' fear of the unknown drives them into a tribal war that brings out in them humanity's darker side. Though written in often unclear and ambiguous prose, the story is fascinating, and explores the natures of boys and relationships as well as themes of coming of age, civilization vs. primitive society and the fear and destruction the narrator believes is at the heart of human nature. Exciting and sometimes frightening, this is a classic.

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      Sigent Classics Animal Farm 50th Anniversary Edition  

      Orwell, George , Mass Market Paperbound

      Signet Book

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      A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned--a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as terrible.

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      The Kite Runner  

      Khaled Hosseini , Trade Paperback

      Doubleday Canada

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      The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father’s servant, The Kite Runner is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country in the process of being destroyed. It is about the power of reading, the price of betrayal, and the possibility of redemption. And it is also about the power of fathers over sons -- their love, their sacrifices, their lies.

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      Life of Pi  

      Yann Martel , Trade Paperback

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      Life of Pi is a masterful and utterly original novel that is at once the story of a young castaway who faces immeasurable hardships on the high seas, and a meditation on religion, faith, art and life that is as witty as it is profound. Using the threads of all of our best stories, Yann Martel has woven a glorious spiritual adventure that makes us question what it means to be alive, and to believe.

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      Water for Elephants: A Novel  

      Sara Gruen , Trade Paperback

      Harpercollins Canada, Limited

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      Sara Gruen’s darkly beautiful tale about the characters who inhabit the less-than-greatest show on earth. Jacob finds a place tending the circus animals, including a seemingly untrainable elephant named Rosie. He also comes to know Marlena, the star of the equestrian act—and wife of August, a charismatic but cruel animal trainer. Caught between his love for Marlena and his need to belong in the crazy family of travelling performers, Jacob is freed only by a murderous secret that will bring the big top down. Water for Elephants is an enchanting page-turner, the kind of book that creates a world that engulfs you from the first page to the last.

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      Atonement  

      Ian Mcewan , Mass Market Paperbound

      Knopf Canada

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      Brilliant and utterly enthralling in its depiction of childhood, love and war, England and class, the novel is a profoundly moving exploration of shame and forgiveness and the difficulty of absolution.

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      1984  

      George Orwell , Trade Paperback

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      George Orwell''s prophetic, nightmare vision in 1949 of the world we were becoming is timelier than ever. "1984" is still the great modern classic "negative Utopia" - a startling original and haunting novel that creates an imaginary world that is completely convincing from the first sentence to the last four words. No one can deny this novel''s power, its hold on the imagination of whole generations, or the power of its admonitions - a power that seems to grow, not lessen, with the passage of time.

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      The Twilight Saga Collection  

      Stephenie Meyer , Hardcover

      Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

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      Deeply romantic and extraordinarily suspenseful, Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn capture the struggle between defying our instincts and satisfying our desires. All though not a literature masterpiece the Twilight Saga offers readers the chance to immerse themselves entirely into the series - you can't help but to fall in love with the characters.

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