Siddharth's bookshelf: all en-US Thu, 29 Aug 2024 11:02:26 -0700 60 Siddharth's bookshelf: all 144 41 https://www.goodreads.com/images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[Around the World in Eighty Days]]> 54479
Inspired by Jules Verne’s own sea travels and his fascination with circumnavigating the globe, the avid dreamer’s picaresque voyage inspired generations of adventurers who were eager to best Verne’s challenge—from nineteenth-century journalist Nellie Bly to Monty Python’s Michael Palin.]]> 252 Jules Verne 014044906X Siddharth 5 3.95 1872 Around the World in Eighty Days
author: Jules Verne
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average rating: 3.95
book published: 1872
rating: 5
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]]> The Heart of India 18777088 333 Alexander Campbell Siddharth 0 currently-reading 3.00 The Heart of India
author: Alexander Campbell
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]]> Further Foolishness 7535013 172 Stephen Leacock 0554328887 Siddharth 5 3.55 1916 Further Foolishness
author: Stephen Leacock
name: Siddharth
average rating: 3.55
book published: 1916
rating: 5
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]]> Roads to Mussoorie 2006883 125 Ruskin Bond 812910699X Siddharth 5 4.10 2010 Roads to Mussoorie
author: Ruskin Bond
name: Siddharth
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2010
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Art of Money Getting: Golden Rules for Making Money]]> 1414549 48 P.T. Barnum 1599868539 Siddharth 5 3.77 1880 The Art of Money Getting: Golden Rules for Making Money
author: P.T. Barnum
name: Siddharth
average rating: 3.77
book published: 1880
rating: 5
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]]> Red Aces (J.G. Reeder) 2008357 234 Edgar Wallace 184232702X Siddharth 5 3.50 1929 Red Aces (J.G. Reeder)
author: Edgar Wallace
name: Siddharth
average rating: 3.50
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]]> A Hero of Our Time 226378 A Hero of Our Time looks backward to the tales of Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron, so beloved by Russian society in the 1820s and '30s. In the character of its protagonist, Pechorin, the archetypal Russian antihero, Lermontov's novel looks forward to the subsequent glories and passion of Russian literature that it helped, in great measure, to make possible.]]> 185 Mikhail Lermontov 014044176X Siddharth 0 to-read 4.12 1840 A Hero of Our Time
author: Mikhail Lermontov
name: Siddharth
average rating: 4.12
book published: 1840
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]]> <![CDATA[People: The Autobiography of a Mystery Writer]]> 17567669 Blue Hard Cover 0 Edgar Wallace Siddharth 5 4.00 1926 People: The Autobiography of a Mystery Writer
author: Edgar Wallace
name: Siddharth
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1926
rating: 5
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]]> This Side of Paradise 46165 This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald's romantic and witty first novel, was written when the author was only twenty-three years old. This semi-autobiographical story of the handsome, indulged, and idealistic Princeton student Amory Blaine received critical raves and catapulted Fitzgerald to instant fame. Now, readers can enjoy the newly edited, authorized version of this early classic of the Jazz Age, based on Fitzgerald's original manuscript. In this definitive text, This Side of Paradise captures the rhythms and romance of Fitzgerald's youth and offers a poignant portrait of the "Lost Generation."]]> 268 F. Scott Fitzgerald 0684843781 Siddharth 4 3.65 1920 This Side of Paradise
author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
name: Siddharth
average rating: 3.65
book published: 1920
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories]]> 13397392 The 2008 edition with the same isbn and an extra story can be found here.

This compilation contains stories which have a spectacular diversity in the plots and themes. The cases range from very brief tales to full-length novellas. Violent murders, poisonings,kidnappings and thefts, all are solved or thwarted with Poirot's usual panache - and characteristic application of his little grey cells.]]> 878 Agatha Christie 0006513778 Siddharth 5 4.32 1999 Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories
author: Agatha Christie
name: Siddharth
average rating: 4.32
book published: 1999
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]]> The Husband 16429
"So, we have your wife. You can get her back for 2 million cash."

Landscape gardener Mitchell Rafferty thinks it must be some kind of a joke. He was busy planting flower beds for one of his clients when his phone rang. Now he’s standing in a normal suburban neighborhood on a bright summer day having a phone conversation out of his darkest nightmare.

Whoever is on the other end of the line is dead serious. "See that guy across the street?" Rifle fire shatters the stillness as the man goes down, shot in the head. "An object lesson."

The caller doesn’t care that Mitch has no way of raising such a vast sum. He’s confident that Mitch will find a way. If he loves his wife enough.

Mitch does love her enough. He’s got sixty hours to prove it. He’ll pay anything. He’ll pay a lot more. than two million dollars.

From the master storyteller comes a story of love, tenacity and courage with the pace of a runaway train, "The Husband" is a thriller that holds the reader in its relentless grip from its tense opening to its shattering climax.]]> 322 Dean Koontz 0553804790 Siddharth 5 3.82 2006 The Husband
author: Dean Koontz
name: Siddharth
average rating: 3.82
book published: 2006
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)]]> 968 This is an alternate cover for 9780307277671. Others can be found:
here, here, here, here, and here


While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. While working to solve the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci -- clues visible for all to see -- yet ingeniously disguised by the painter.

Langdon joins forces with a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, and learns the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion -- an actual secret society whose members included Sir Isaac Newton, Botticelli, Victor Hugo, and Da Vinci, among others.

In a breathless race through Paris, London, and beyond, Langdon and Neveu match wits with a faceless powerbroker who seems to anticipate their every move. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine puzzle in time, the Priory's ancient secret -- and an explosive historical truth -- will be lost forever.

The Da Vinci Code heralds the arrival of a new breed of lightning-paced, intelligent thriller utterly unpredictable right up to its stunning conclusion.]]> 489 Dan Brown Siddharth 5 3.92 2003 The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
author: Dan Brown
name: Siddharth
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2003
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]]> <![CDATA[The Disintegration Machine (Professor Challenger, #5)]]> 4340651 48 Arthur Conan Doyle 1425477194 Siddharth 4 3.48 1929 The Disintegration Machine (Professor Challenger, #5)
author: Arthur Conan Doyle
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average rating: 3.48
book published: 1929
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[When the World Screamed (Professor Challenger, #4)]]> 1476665 Liberty Magazine, 25 February-3 March 1928.]]> Arthur Conan Doyle 0877016526 Siddharth 4 3.35 1928 When the World Screamed (Professor Challenger, #4)
author: Arthur Conan Doyle
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average rating: 3.35
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]]> <![CDATA[The Poison Belt (Professor Challenger, #2)]]> 272751 "Nothing could be done. The thing was universal and beyond our human knowledge or control. It was death for young and old, for weak and strong, for rich and poor, without hope or possibility of escape." 
Must Professor George Challenger and friends, barricaded in a room, see Earth die? As globe passes through a belt of poisonous ether, terror sweeps mankind; cities riot; communications cease. Novella.]]> 93 Arthur Conan Doyle 0803266340 Siddharth 5 3.45 1913 The Poison Belt (Professor Challenger, #2)
author: Arthur Conan Doyle
name: Siddharth
average rating: 3.45
book published: 1913
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]]> <![CDATA[The Land of Mist (Professor Challenger, #3)]]> 52676 This novel was first published in a serial form in "The Strand" magazine July 1925-May 1928.]]> 516 Arthur Conan Doyle 1425000134 Siddharth 4 2.95 1926 The Land of Mist (Professor Challenger, #3)
author: Arthur Conan Doyle
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]]> The Surgeon of Crowthorne 50909 The Professor and the Madman, masterfully researched and eloquently written, is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary -- and literary history. The compilation of the OED, begun in 1857, was one of the most ambitious projects ever undertaken. As definitions were collected, the overseeing committee, led by Professor James Murray, discovered that one man, Dr. W. C. Minor, had submitted more than ten thousand. When the committee insisted on honoring him, a shocking truth came to light: Dr. Minor, an American Civil War veteran, was also an inmate at an asylum for the criminally insane.]]> 207 Simon Winchester Siddharth 5 3.86 1998 The Surgeon of Crowthorne
author: Simon Winchester
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average rating: 3.86
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]]> <![CDATA[The Altman Code (Covert-One, #4)]]> 70088
Covert-One agent Jon Smith is sent to rendezvous in Taiwan with another agent who has acquired the ship's true manifest. But before Smith can get the document, he is ambushed, the second agent is murdered, and the evidence is destroyed. Smith escapes with only his life and a verbal message-the president's biological father is still alive, held prisoner by the Chinese for fifty years. As the mysterious ship draws closer to its end port, Smith is losing time in uncovering the truth about the vessel and its cargo-a truth that probes the secrets of the Chinese ruling party, the faction in Washington working to undermine the elected government, and the international cabal who is thrusting the world to the brink of war...]]> 496 Robert Ludlum 0312995458 Siddharth 5 3.96 2003 The Altman Code (Covert-One, #4)
author: Robert Ludlum
name: Siddharth
average rating: 3.96
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]]> <![CDATA[The Paris Option (Covert-One, #3)]]> 31269
A fiery explosion in the dark of night shatters one of the laboratory buildings in Paris's esteemed Pasteur Institute. Among the dead is Emile Chambord, one of the leaders in the global race to create a molecular or DNA computer. Unfortunately, Professor Chambord kept the details of his work secret, and his notes were apparently destroyed in either the bomb blast or the raging fire that followed. Under the cover of visiting his friend Marty Zellerbach, who was severely injured when the Pasteur lab was destroyed, Covert-One agent Jon Smith flies to Paris to search for the connection between the Pasteur explosion and the forces now wielding the computer. Following a trail that leads him across two continents, Smith uncovers a web of deception that threatens to wreck havoc and forever reshape the world.]]> 512 Robert Ludlum 0312982615 Siddharth 4 3.89 2002 The Paris Option (Covert-One, #3)
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]]> The Sigma Protocol 31260
Meanwhile in Washington, D.C., Anna Navarro, field agent for the Department of justice, has been asked to investigate the sudden -- seemingly unrelated -- deaths of eleven men throughout the world. The only thing that connects them is a secret file, over a half-century old, linked to the CIA, and marked with the same puzzling codename: Sigma.

But as Anna follows the connecting thread, she finds herself in the shadows of a relentless killer who is one step ahead of her, victim by victim. Together she and Hartman must uncover the diabolical secrets long held behind the codename, Sigma. It will threaten everything they think they know about themselves and confirm their very worst fears...]]> 662 Robert Ludlum 0312982518 Siddharth 5 3.83 2001 The Sigma Protocol
author: Robert Ludlum
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average rating: 3.83
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]]> SilverFin (Young Bond, #1) 603911 BEFORE THE MAN BECAME THE LEGEND.
BEFORE THE BOY BECAME THE MAN.
MEET BOND. JAMES BOND.

James Bond will one day become the world’s most famous spy, but at the moment his challenge is to fit in at his new school - making friends, learning the rules and facing up to bullies. Unknown to James though, there is an even tougher challenge awaiting him- something mysterious and deadly lurking in the water. Something called SilverFin.



The first five books and companion novel in the series are written by Charlie Higson, with the rest being written by Steve Cole.

The series consists of the following titles;
1. SilverFin
2. Blood Fever
3. Double or Die
4. Hurricane Gold
5. By Royal Command
6. Shoot to Kill
7. Heads You Die
8. Strike Lightning
9. Red Nemesis]]> 352 Charlie Higson 078683661X Siddharth 4 3.82 2005 SilverFin (Young Bond, #1)
author: Charlie Higson
name: Siddharth
average rating: 3.82
book published: 2005
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Godfather Returns (The Godfather Returns, #1; The Godfather #3)]]> 79030
Thirty-five years ago, Mario Puzo's great American tale, The Godfather, was published, and popular culture was indelibly changed. Now, in The Godfather Returns, acclaimed novelist Mark Winegardner continues the story-the years not covered in Puzo's bestselling book or in Francis Ford Coppola's classic films.

It is 1955. Michael Corleone has won a bloody victory in the war among New York's crime families. Now he wants to consolidate his power, save his marriage, and take his family into legitimate businesses. To do so, he must confront his most dangerous adversary yet, Nick Geraci, a former boxer who worked his way through law school as a Corleone street enforcer, and who is every bit as deadly and cunning as Michael. Their personal cold war will run from 1955 to 1962, exerting immense influence on the lives of America's most powerful criminals and their loved ones, including

Tom Hagen, the Corleone Family's lawyer and consigliere, who embarks on a political career in Nevada while trying to protect his brother;

Francesca Corleone, daughter of Michael's late brother Sonny, who is suddenly learning her family's true history and faces a difficult choice;

Don Louie Russo, head of the Chicago mob, who plays dumb but has wily ambitions for muscling in on the Corleones' territory;

Peter Clemenza, the stalwart Corleone underboss, who knows more Family secrets than almost anyone;

Ambassador M. Corbett Shea, a former Prohibition-era bootlegger and business ally of the Corleones', who wants to get his son elected to the presidency-and needs some help from his old friends;

Johnny Fontane, the world's greatest saloon singer, who ascends to new heights as a recording artist, cozying up to Washington's power elite and maintaining a precarious relationship with notorious underworld figures;

Kay Adams Corleone, who finally discovers the truth about her husband, Michael-and must decide what it means for their marriage and their children and

Fredo Corleone, whose death has never been fully explained until now, and whose betrayal of the Family was part of a larger and more sinister chain of events.

Sweeping from New York and Washington to Las Vegas and Cuba, The Godfather Returns is the spellbinding story of America's criminal underworld at mid-century and its intersection with the political, legal, and entertainment empires. Mark Winegardner brings an original voice and vision to Mario Puzo's mythic characters while creating several equally unforgettable characters of his own. The Godfather Returns stands on its own as a triumph-in a tale about what we love, yearn for, and sometimes have reason to fear . . . family.

From the Hardcover edition.]]> 538 Mark Winegardner 0345478983 Siddharth 5 3.59 2004 The Godfather Returns (The Godfather Returns, #1; The Godfather #3)
author: Mark Winegardner
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average rating: 3.59
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]]> Terror Keep 3749755 186 Edgar Wallace 0856176133 Siddharth 5 3.76 1926 Terror Keep
author: Edgar Wallace
name: Siddharth
average rating: 3.76
book published: 1926
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]]> <![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)]]> 136251
In this final, seventh installment of the Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling unveils in spectacular fashion the answers to the many questions that have been so eagerly awaited.]]> 759 J.K. Rowling Siddharth 5 4.61 2007 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
author: J.K. Rowling
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average rating: 4.61
book published: 2007
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]]> <![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)]]> 1 652 J.K. Rowling Siddharth 5 4.57 2005 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
author: J.K. Rowling
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average rating: 4.57
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]]> <![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)]]> 2
There is a door at the end of a silent corridor. And it's haunting Harry Potter's dreams. Why else would he be waking in the middle of the night, screaming in terror? It's not just the upcoming O.W.L. exams; a new teacher with a personality like poisoned honey; a venomous, disgruntled house-elf; or even the growing threat of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. Now Harry Potter is faced with the unreliability of the very government of the magical world and the impotence of the authorities at Hogwarts. Despite this (or perhaps because of it), he finds depth and strength in his friends, beyond what even he knew; boundless loyalty; and unbearable sacrifice.

This stunning illustrated edition brings together the talents of award-winning artists Jim Kay and Neil Packer in a visual feast, featuring iconic scenes and much loved characters -- Tonks, Luna Love good, and many more -- as the Order of the Phoenix keeps watch over Harry Potter’s fifth year at Hogwarts. With its oversized format, high-quality paper, ribbon bookmark, and color on nearly every page, this edition is the perfect gift for Harry Potter fans and book lovers of all ages.]]> 576 J.K. Rowling Siddharth 5 4.50 2003 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
author: J.K. Rowling
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average rating: 4.50
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]]> <![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)]]> 6 734 J.K. Rowling 0439139597 Siddharth 5 4.56 2000 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
author: J.K. Rowling
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average rating: 4.56
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]]> <![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)]]> 5 547 J.K. Rowling 043965548X Siddharth 5 4.57 1999 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
author: J.K. Rowling
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average rating: 4.57
book published: 1999
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]]> <![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)]]> 15881
And strike it does. For in Harry’s second year at Hogwarts, fresh torments and horrors arise, including an outrageously stuck-up new professor and a spirit who haunts the girls’ bathroom. But then the real trouble begins – someone is turning Hogwarts students to stone. Could it be Draco Malfoy, a more poisonous rival than ever? Could it possibly be Hagrid, whose mysterious past is finally told? Or could it be the one everyone at Hogwarts most suspects… Harry Potter himself!]]> 341 J.K. Rowling Siddharth 5 4.42 1998 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
author: J.K. Rowling
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average rating: 4.42
book published: 1998
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]]> A Quiver Full of Arrows 13199 Extraordinary Deeds

The bestselling author of Kane & Abel, The Prodigal Daughter and Honor Among Theives once again astonishes, delights, and electrifies his legions of fans.

From London to China, and New York to Nigeria, Jeffrey Archer takes the reader on a tour of ancient heirlooms and modern romance, of cutthroat business and kindly strangers, of lives lived in the realms of power and lives freed from the gloom of oppression. Fortunes are made and squandered, honor betrayed and redeemed, and love lost and rediscovered.

Embracing the passions that drive men and women to love and to hate, the short stories in A Quiver Full of Arrows will captivate the hearts and souls of readers of everywhere.
]]> 288 Jeffrey Archer 0312937695 Siddharth 5 3.79 1980 A Quiver Full of Arrows
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average rating: 3.79
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]]> A Twist in the Tale 78976 No one can weave a web of suspense, deliver a jolt of surprise, or teach a lesson in living like bestselling author Jeffrey Archer. From Africa to the Middle East, and from London to Beijing, Archer takes us to places we've never seen and introduces us to people we'll never forget.

Meet the philandering husband who thinks he's committed the perfect murder; the self-assured chess champion who plays a beautiful woman for stakes far higher than cash; and the finance minister who needs to crack the secrets of a Swiss bank. Jeffrey Archer's collection of twelve spellbinding stories will sweep you on a journey of thwarted ambition, undying passion, and unswerving honor that you'll never forget.
]]> 320 Jeffrey Archer 0312933525 Siddharth 5 3.88 1988 A Twist in the Tale
author: Jeffrey Archer
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average rating: 3.88
book published: 1988
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]]> False Impression 78971 538 Jeffrey Archer 0312939779 Siddharth 5 3.71 2005 False Impression
author: Jeffrey Archer
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average rating: 3.71
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]]> As the Crow Flies 7201
Encompassing three continents and spanning over sixty years, As the Crow Flies brings to life a magnificent tale of one man's rise from rags to riches set against the backdrop of a changing century.]]> 800 Jeffrey Archer 0312997116 Siddharth 5 4.11 1991 As the Crow Flies
author: Jeffrey Archer
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average rating: 4.11
book published: 1991
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]]> A Prisoner of Birth 1611988 International bestseller and master storyteller Jeffrey Archer is at the very top of his game in this story of fate and fortune, redemption and revenge.

If Danny Cartwright had proposed to Beth Wilson the day before, or the day after, he would not have been arrested and charged with the murder of his best friend. But when the four prosecution witnesses are a barrister, a popular actor, an aristocrat, and the youngest partner in an established firm's history, who is going to believe his side of the story?

Danny is sentenced to twenty-two years and sent to Belmarsh prison, the highest-security jail in the land, from where no inmate has ever escaped.

However, Spencer Craig, Lawrence Davenport, Gerald Payne, and Toby Mortimer all underestimate Danny's determination to seek revenge, and Beth's relentless quest to pursue justice, which ends up with all four fighting for their lives.

Thus begins Jeffrey Archer's most powerful novel since Kane and Abel, with a cast of characters that will remain with you long after you've turned the last page.

And if that is not enough, prepare for an ending that will shock even the most ardent of Archer's fans.

]]> 501 Jeffrey Archer 0312379293 Siddharth 5 4.16 2008 A Prisoner of Birth
author: Jeffrey Archer
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average rating: 4.16
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]]> <![CDATA[Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less]]> 78982
A brilliant, self-made guru of deceit. A very dangerous individual. And now, a hunted man.

With nothing left to lose four strangers are about to come together-each expert in their own field. Their plan: find Harvey, shadow him, trap him, and penny-for-penny, destroy him. From the luxurious casinos of Monte Carlo to the high-stakes windows at Ascot to the bustling streets of Wall Street to fashionable London galleries, their own ingenious game has begun. It's called revenge-and they were taught by a master.
]]> 305 Jeffrey Archer 0312997132 Siddharth 5 4.04 1976 Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less
author: Jeffrey Archer
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average rating: 4.04
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]]> Kane & Abel (Kane & Abel, #1) 78983 592 Jeffrey Archer 0312995059 Siddharth 5 4.32 1979 Kane & Abel (Kane & Abel, #1)
author: Jeffrey Archer
name: Siddharth
average rating: 4.32
book published: 1979
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]]> <![CDATA[No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks]]> 154924
For eighteen years Ed Viesturs pursued climbing’s holy to stand atop the world’s fourteen 8,000-meter peaks, without the aid of bottled oxygen. But No Shortcuts to the Top is as much about the man who would become the first American to achieve that goal as it is about his stunning quest. As Viesturs recounts the stories of his most harrowing climbs, he reveals a man torn between the flat, safe world he and his loved ones share and the majestic and deadly places where only he can go.

A preternaturally cautious climber who once turned back 300 feet from the top of Everest but who would not shrink from a peak (Annapurna) known to claim the life of one climber for every two who reached its summit, Viesturs lives by an unyielding motto, “Reaching the summit is optional. Getting down is mandatory.” It is with this philosophy that he vividly describes fatal errors in judgment made by his fellow climbers as well as a few of his own close calls and gallant rescues. And, for the first time, he details his own pivotal and heroic role in the 1996 Everest disaster made famous in Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air.

In addition to the raw excitement of Viesturs’s odyssey, No Shortcuts to the Top is leavened with many funny moments revealing the camaraderie between climbers. It is more than the first full account of one of the staggering accomplishments of our time; it is a portrait of a brave and devoted family man and his beliefs that shaped this most perilous and magnificent pursuit.]]> 368 Ed Viesturs 0767924703 Siddharth 5 4.12 2006 No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks
author: Ed Viesturs
name: Siddharth
average rating: 4.12
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]]> <![CDATA[The Complete Works of Mark Twain: The Novels, Short Stories, Essays and Satires, Travel Writing, Non-Fiction, the Complete Letters, the Complete Speeches, and the Autobiography of Mark Twain]]> 21461029
This is The Complete Works of America’s favourite storyteller Mark Twain. The eBook contains over 60 novels and shorter texts (short stories, essays, letters, speeches).

Twain began his career writing light, humorous verse, but evolved into a chronicler of the vanities, hypocrisies and murderous acts of mankind. At mid-career, with Huckleberry Finn, he combined rich humor, sturdy narrative and social criticism. Twain was a master at rendering colloquial speech and helped to create and popularize a distinctive American literature built on American themes and language.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 – 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "the Great American Novel."]]> 9981 Mark Twain 8026807448 Siddharth 5 4.42 1910 The Complete Works of Mark Twain: The Novels, Short Stories, Essays and Satires, Travel Writing, Non-Fiction, the Complete Letters, the Complete Speeches, and the Autobiography of Mark Twain
author: Mark Twain
name: Siddharth
average rating: 4.42
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]]> The Mind of MR J G Reeder 22478910 144 Edgar Wallace 0755119339 Siddharth 5 3.89 1925 The Mind of MR J G Reeder
author: Edgar Wallace
name: Siddharth
average rating: 3.89
book published: 1925
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]]> Crash 70241 Crash explores the disturbing potentialities of contemporary society's increasing dependence on technology as intermediary in human relations.]]> 224 J.G. Ballard 0312420331 Siddharth 5 3.69 1973 Crash
author: J.G. Ballard
name: Siddharth
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]]> <![CDATA[Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster]]> 1898
Into Thin Air is the definitive account of the deadliest season in the history of Everest by the acclaimed journalist and author of the bestseller Into the Wild. On assignment for Outside Magazine to report on the growing commercialization of the mountain, Krakauer, an accomplished climber, went to the Himalayas as a client of Rob Hall, the most respected high-altitude guide in the world. A rangy, thirty-five-year-old New Zealander, Hall had summited Everest four times between 1990 and 1995 and had led thirty-nine climbers to the top. Ascending the mountain in close proximity to Hall's team was a guided expedition led by Scott Fischer, a forty-year-old American with legendary strength and drive who had climbed the peak without supplemental oxygen in 1994. But neither Hall nor Fischer survived the rogue storm that struck in May 1996.

Krakauer examines what it is about Everest that has compelled so many people -- including himself -- to throw caution to the wind, ignore the concerns of loved ones, and willingly subject themselves to such risk, hardship, and expense. Written with emotional clarity and supported by his unimpeachable reporting, Krakauer's eyewitness account of what happened on the roof of the world is a singular achievement.]]> 368 Jon Krakauer Siddharth 5 4.25 1997 Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
author: Jon Krakauer
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average rating: 4.25
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]]> <![CDATA[747: Creating the World's First Jumbo Jet and Other Adventures from a Life in Aviation]]> 1267151 288 Joe Sutter 0060882417 Siddharth 5 4.22 2006 747: Creating the World's First Jumbo Jet and Other Adventures from a Life in Aviation
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average rating: 4.22
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]]> <![CDATA[Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)]]> 6424171 An alternate cover edition can be found here.

An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now humankind’s most thrilling fantasies have come true. Creatures extinct for eons roam Jurassic Park with their awesome presence and profound mystery, and all the world can visit them—for a price. Until something goes wrong. . . .--back cover]]> 416 Michael Crichton 0345370775 Siddharth 5 4.25 1990 Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)
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]]> Room 13 (Mr. J. G. Reeder #1) 6558828 224 Edgar Wallace Siddharth 5 3.58 1924 Room 13 (Mr. J. G. Reeder #1)
author: Edgar Wallace
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average rating: 3.58
book published: 1924
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]]> Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 51496 139 Robert Louis Stevenson 0451528956 Siddharth 5 3.84 1886 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
author: Robert Louis Stevenson
name: Siddharth
average rating: 3.84
book published: 1886
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921]]> 19380974 424 Charles Howard-Bury Siddharth 5 3.95 1922 Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921
author: Charles Howard-Bury
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average rating: 3.95
book published: 1922
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]]> Sanders Of The River 465387 Sanders of the River encapsulates the beliefs and assumptions that motivated such quests. There is religious palava, raiding palava, and all the while, Bosambo, magnificent chief of the Ochori, watches on.]]> Edgar Wallace 1417914653 Siddharth 5 3.66 1911 Sanders Of The River
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]]> The Complete Four Just Men 13276170 ‘We shall have no other course to pursue but to fulfil


our promise. You will die at Eight in the Evening – The Four Just Men’


Criminals and malefactors beware! There is no escape from


the sword of justice wielded by The Four Just Men. Here are the complete adventures


of Edgar Wallace’s daring and ingenious vigilantes. This fascinating bumper collection


contains all six volumes of the Just Men saga: The Four Just Men, The


Council of Justice, The Just Men of Cordova, The Law of The Four Just


Men, The Three Just Men and Again the Three.


In these thrilling yarns of daring do, mystery and


international intrigue, the Just Men tackle wrongdoers of all kinds from criminal


masterminds and desperate anarchists to cunning murderers and obsessive madmen.


Where Scotland Yard fails – they succeed. With a finely blended mixture of


suspense, humour and action Edgar Wallace concocts a fantastic and unmissable series


of page-turning adventures.

]]> 960 Edgar Wallace 1840226846 Siddharth 5 3.65 1921 The Complete Four Just Men
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]]> Next 7661 Fast, furious, and out of control.

This is not the world of the future --- it's the world right now.

Is a loved one missing some body parts? Are blondes becoming extinct? Is everyone at your dinner table of the same species? Humans and chimpanzees differ in only 400 genes; is that why an adult human being resembles a chimp fetus? And should that worry us? There's a new genetic cure for drug addiction --- is it worse than the disease?

We live in a time of momentous scientific leaps; a time when it's possible to sell our eggs and sperm online for thousands of dollars; test our spouses for genetic maladies and even frame someone for a genetic crime.

We live in a time when one fifth of all our genes are owned by someone else, and an unsuspecting person and his family can be pursued cross-country because they happen to have certain valuable genes within their chromosomes ...

Devilishly clever, Next blends fact and fiction into a breathless tale of a new world where nothing is what it seems, and a set of new possibilities can open at every turn. Next challenges our sense of reality and notions of morality. Balancing the comic and bizarre with the genuinely frightening and disturbing, Next shatters our assumptions, and reveals shocking new choices where we least expect.

The future is closer than you think. Get used to it.

]]> 431 Michael Crichton 0060872985 Siddharth 5 3.54 2006 Next
author: Michael Crichton
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]]> Prey 83763
It has been programmed as a predator. It is evolving swiftly, becoming more deadly with each passing hour.

Every attempt to destroy it has failed.

And we are the prey.]]> 507 Michael Crichton 0061015725 Siddharth 4 3.79 2002 Prey
author: Michael Crichton
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average rating: 3.79
book published: 2002
rating: 4
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]]> The Great Train Robbery 7682 300 Michael Crichton 0553129198 Siddharth 5 3.87 1975 The Great Train Robbery
author: Michael Crichton
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average rating: 3.87
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]]> Pirate Latitudes 6428887 The Caribbean, 1665. Port Royal, Jamaica is a cutthroat town of taverns, grog shops, and bawdy houses. For Captain Charles Hunter, there’s a living to be made, and gold in Spanish hands is gold for the taking.

Word in port is that the galleon El Trinidad is awaiting repairs in a nearby, heavily fortified, harbor. Hunter assembles a crew of ruffians to infiltrate the enemy island and commandeer El Trinidad, along with its fortune in gold. The raid is as perilous as the bloodiest tales of island legend and Hunter will lose more than one man before he even sets foot on foreign shores, where dense jungle and the firepower of Spanish infantry stand between him and the treasure . . .

With all the suspense that readers have come to expect from one of the best-loved authors of all time, Pirate Latitudes is an irresistible adventure of swashbuckling pirates in the New World, a classic story of treasure and betrayal.

]]> 312 Michael Crichton 0061929379 Siddharth 4 3.47 2009 Pirate Latitudes
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]]> Disclosure 7675
What follow next made Disclosure the most talked about novel of the decade.]]> 464 Michael Crichton 0099303744 Siddharth 5 3.80 1994 Disclosure
author: Michael Crichton
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average rating: 3.80
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]]> <![CDATA[Sea and Sardinia (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D. H. Lawrence)]]> 728765 D.H. Lawrence 0521285755 Siddharth 0 currently-reading 3.52 1921 Sea and Sardinia (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D. H. Lawrence)
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]]> High Fidelity 285092
Rob does. He keeps a list, in fact. But Laura isn't on it—even though she's just become his latest ex. He's got his life back, you see. He can just do what he wants when he wants: like listen to whatever music he likes, look up the girls that are on his list, and generally behaves as if Laura never mattered. But Rob finds he can't move on. He's stuck in a really deep groove—and it's called Laura. Soon, Rob's asking himself some big questions: about love, about life—and about why we choose to share ours with the people we do.]]> 323 Nick Hornby 1573225517 Siddharth 5 3.92 1995 High Fidelity
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]]> Tender Is the Night 46164 Tender Is the Night is the tragic romance of the young actress Rosemary Hoyt and the stylish American couple Dick and Nicole Diver. A brilliant young psychiatrist at the time of his marriage, Dick is both husband and doctor to Nicole, whose wealth goads him into a lifestyle not his own, and whose growing strength highlights Dick's harrowing demise. A profound study of the romantic concept of character, Tender Is the Night is lyrical, expansive, and hauntingly evocative.]]> 430 F. Scott Fitzgerald Siddharth 5 3.80 1934 Tender Is the Night
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name: Siddharth
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]]> <![CDATA[Echo Park (Harry Bosch, #12; Harry Bosch Universe, #17)]]> 32501
In 1993 Marie Gesto disappeared after walking out of a supermarket. Harry Bosch worked the case but couldn't crack it, and the twenty-two-year-old was never found. Now, more than a decade later, with the Gesto file still on his desk, Bosch gets a call from the District Attorney.

A man accused of two heinous murders is willing to come clean about several others, including the killing of Marie Gesto. Taking the confession of the man he has sought-and hated-for thirteen years is bad enough. Discovering that he missed a clue back in 1993 that could have stopped nine other murders may just be the straw that breaks Harry Bosch.]]> 405 Michael Connelly 0316734950 Siddharth 4 4.12 2006 Echo Park (Harry Bosch, #12; Harry Bosch Universe, #17)
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average rating: 4.12
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]]> <![CDATA[Mustaine: A Heavy Metal Memoir]]> 7327341 New York Times Bestseller

Founding member, singer, and lead guitarist of Metallica and Megadeth shares the ultimate, unvarnished story behind his involvement in the rise of two of the world’s most influential heavy metal bands in history. 

Dave Mustaine is the first to admit that he’s bottomed out a few times in his dark and twisted speed metal version of a Dickensian life. From his soul-crushing professional and artistic setbacks to his battle with addiction, Mustaine has hit rock bottom on multiple occasions. April 1983 was his lowest point, when he was unceremoniously fired from Metallica for his hard-partying ways. But, what seemed to be the end of it all was just the beginning for the guitarist.

After parting ways with Metallica, Mustaine went on to become the front man, singer, songwriter, guitarist (and de facto CEO) for Megadeth—one of the most successful metal bands in the world. A pioneer of the thrash metal movement, Megadeth rose to international fame in the 1980s, and has gone on to earn seven consecutive Grammy nominations for Best Metal Performance.

In this outrageously candid memoir, one of heavy metal’s most iconic figures gives an insider’s look into the loud and sordid world of thrash metal—sex, drugs, and rock n’ roll included.  ]]> 346 Dave Mustaine 0061714372 Siddharth 4 3.90 2010 Mustaine: A Heavy Metal Memoir
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]]> <![CDATA[The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)]]> 16328
The peaceful English village of King’s Abbot is stunned. The widow Ferrars dies from an overdose of Veronal. Not twenty-four hours later, Roger Ackroyd—the man she had planned to marry—is murdered. It is a baffling case involving blackmail and death that taxes Hercule Poirot’s “little grey cells” before he reaches one of the most startling conclusions of his career.

Librarian's note: the first fifteen novels in the Hercule Poirot series are 1) The Mysterious Affair at Styles, 1920; 2) The Murder on the Links, 1923; 3) The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, 1926; 4) The Big Four, 1927; 5) The Mystery of the Blue Train, 1928; 6) Peril at End House, 1932; 7) Lord Edgware Dies, 1933; 8) Murder on the Orient Express, 1934; 9) Three Act Tragedy, 1935; 10) Death in the Clouds, 1935; 11) The A.B.C. Murders, 1936; 12) Murder in Mesopotamia, 1936; 13) Cards on the Table, 1936; 14) Dumb Witness, 1937; and 15) Death on the Nile, 1937. These are just the novels; Poirot also appears in this period in a play, Black Coffee, 1930, and two collections of short stories, Poirot Investigates, 1924, and Murder in the Mews, 1937. Each novel, play and short story has its own entry on Goodreads.]]> 288 Agatha Christie 1579126278 Siddharth 5 4.26 1926 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)
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]]> <![CDATA[Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)]]> 853510
One of the passengers is none other than detective Hercule Poirot. On vacation.

Isolated and with a killer on board, Poirot must identify the murderer—in case he or she decides to strike again.]]> 347 Agatha Christie 0007119313 Siddharth 5 4.21 1934 Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
author: Agatha Christie
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average rating: 4.21
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]]> The Dark Arena 22027
After coming home at the end of World War II, Walter Mosca finds himself too restless for his civilian role in America. So he returns to Germany to find the woman he had once loved–and to start some kind of life in a vanquished country. But ahead of Walter stretches a dark landscape of defeat and intrigue, as he succumbs to the corrupting influences of a malevolent time. Now he enters a different kind of war, one in which he must make a fateful decision–between love and ambition, passion and greed, life and death. . . .]]> 288 Mario Puzo 0345441699 Siddharth 5 3.38 1955 The Dark Arena
author: Mario Puzo
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average rating: 3.38
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]]> Omerta (The Godfather) 22028
Now his time has arrived. The Don is dead, his murder one bloody act in a drama of ambition and deceit --- from the deadly compromises made by an FBI agent to the greed of two crooked NYPD detectives and the frightening plans of a South American Mob kingpin. In a collision of enemies and lovers, betrayers and loyal soldiers, Astorre Viola will claim his destiny. Because after all these years, this moment is in his blood ...]]> 369 Mario Puzo 0345432401 Siddharth 5 3.75 2000 Omerta (The Godfather)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Sicilian (The Godfather, #2)]]> 22026
The year is 1950. Michael Corleone is nearing the end of his exile in Sicily. The Godfather has commanded Michael to bring a young Sicilian bandit named Salvatore Giuliano back with him to America. But Giuliano is a man entwined in a bloody web of violence and vendettas. In Sicily, Giuliano is a modern day Robin Hood who has defied corruption--and defied the Cosa Nostra. Now, in the land of mist-shrouded mountains and ancient ruins, Michael Corleone's fate is entwined with the dangerous legend of Salvatore Giuliano: warrior, lover, and the ultimate Siciliano.]]> 416 Mario Puzo 0345441702 Siddharth 4 4.02 1984 The Sicilian (The Godfather, #2)
author: Mario Puzo
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average rating: 4.02
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]]> The Secret History 29044 Truly deserving of the accolade modern classic, Donna Tartt's novel is a remarkable achievement—both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful.

Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality they slip gradually from obsession to corruption and betrayal, and at last—inexorably—into evil.]]> 559 Donna Tartt 1400031702 Siddharth 5 4.15 1992 The Secret History
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average rating: 4.15
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]]> The First Billion 137473
John “Jett” Gavallan is a former fighter pilot, now the high-flying CEO of Black Jet Securities, an investment firm that earned its first billion before the techno dream crashed and burned. Poised for an offering crucial to his company’s survival, Gavallan is banking on the riskiest gamble of his dazzling career. In exactly six days, he will take Mercury Broadband, Russia’s leading media company, public on the New York Stock Exchange. But rumors of fraud have suddenly surfaced that could send the deal south. Gavallan makes a preemptive strike by dispatching his number-two man--fellow Desert Storm fighter pilot Grafton Byrnes--to Moscow to penetrate the shadowy Russian multinational. When Byrnes fails to return, Gavallan fears the worst. But
the truth is even more diabolical than he can imagine.

Plunging into a desperate search for his best friend, the renegade top gun is suddenly fighting a different kind of war, where there is no safe harbor and no one he can trust. Not Konstantin Kirov, the elusive head of Mercury Broadband who may not be what he seems. Not the bankers and traders Gavallan does business with every day. Not the exotic beauty who has told him all her deepest secrets--except one. Suddenly Jett finds himself trapped in a conspiracy that could shatter the delicate balance between nations--and plunge the global economy into chaos. Hunted by the F.B.I. and a band of elite killers, Jett races from Palm Beach to Zurich to Moscow in a desperate search for answers. But for this brave ex-commando haunted by visions of war, the truth comes at a terrible price. With Mercury rising and the hours ticking down, he is moving closer to a place where murder and revenge are the currency of choice...and where the first billion is the ultimate insider secret--and the deadliest obsession of all.

With breakneck plotting, stunning realism, and a sense of danger that keeps the heart racing, The First Billion is a knockout of a novel that will linger long after the final shocking twist is revealed.]]> 608 Christopher Reich 0440234697 Siddharth 4 3.86 2003 The First Billion
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average rating: 3.86
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]]> A Clockwork Orange 227463 A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil, and the meaning of human freedom. And when the state undertakes to reform Alex to "redeem" him, the novel asks, "At what cost?"

This edition includes the controversial last chapter not published in the first edition and Burgess's introduction "A Clockwork Orange Resucked."]]> 192 Anthony Burgess Siddharth 5 3.98 1962 A Clockwork Orange
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]]> The Three Musketeers 7190 625 Alexandre Dumas Siddharth 5 4.09 1844 The Three Musketeers
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]]> The Patriots Club 86636
Desperately trying to get back to where he was just a day before, Bolden must re-learn the survival skills of his hardscrabble boyhood. But as Bolden–with just eleven dollars in his pocket and hunters all around him–survives one violent, harrowing hour after another, he makes a series of startling about a mysterious woman wanted for murder…about an astounding secret rooted in history, among the country’s Founding Fathers and families…about a conspiracy lurking in the darkest corners of corporate America–and a deadly plan that only he can stop. And in the process, maybe Bolden will also find out who he really is....

Furiously paced, filled with brilliantly drawn characters from politicians to patriots, from Wall Street players to battle-hardened cops, The Patriots Club is vintage brilliant, breathtaking, and impossible to put down until the final unforgettable page is turned.]]> 560 Christopher Reich 044024143X Siddharth 5 3.71 2005 The Patriots Club
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]]> Miss Lonelyhearts 250041 208 Nathanael West 082220763X Siddharth 5 3.63 1933 Miss Lonelyhearts
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]]> A Cool Million 2295674 142 Nathanael West Siddharth 5 3.66 1934 A Cool Million
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]]> The Day of the Locust 113441 The Day of the Locust is a novel about Hollywood and its corrupting touch, about the American dream turned into a sun-drenched California nightmare. Nathanael West's Hollywood is not the glamorous "home of the stars" but a seedy world of little people, some hopeful, some despairing, all twisted by their by their own desires -- from the ironically romantic artist narrator, to a macho movie cowboy, a middle-aged innocent from America's heartland, and the hard-as-nails call girl would-be-star whom they all lust after. An unforgettable portrayal of a world that mocks the real and rewards the sham, turns its back on love to plunge into empty sex, and breeds a savage violence that is its own undoing, this novel stands as a classic indictment of all that is most extravagant and uncontrolled in American life.]]> 208 Nathanael West 0451523482 Siddharth 5 3.73 1939 The Day of the Locust
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]]> The Moonstone 6138
This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the definitive 1871 edition.]]> 528 Wilkie Collins 0375757856 Siddharth 5 3.90 1868 The Moonstone
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average rating: 3.90
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]]> The Brothers Karamazov 4934
This award-winning translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky remains true to the verbal inventiveness of Dostoevsky’s prose, preserving the multiple voices, the humor, and the surprising modernity of the original. It is an achievement worthy of Dostoevsky’s last and greatest novel.]]> 796 Fyodor Dostoevsky 0374528373 Siddharth 5 4.38 1879 The Brothers Karamazov
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average rating: 4.38
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rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Godfather (The Godfather, #1)]]> 22034
Almost fifty years ago, a classic was born. A searing portrayal of the Mafia underworld, The Godfather introduced readers to the first family of American crime fiction, the Corleones, and their powerful legacy of tradition, blood, and honor. The seduction of power, the pitfalls of greed, and the allegiance to family—these are the themes that have resonated with millions of readers around the world and made The Godfather the definitive novel of the violent subculture that, steeped in intrigue and controversy, remains indelibly etched in our collective consciousness.]]> 428 Mario Puzo Siddharth 5 4.39 1969 The Godfather (The Godfather, #1)
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average rating: 4.39
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rating: 5
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]]> The Last Don 364089
The Last Don is Domenico Clericuzio, a wise and ruthless old man who is determined to see his heirs established in legitimate society but whose vision is threatened when secrets from the family's past spark a vicious war between two blood cousins.

The Last Don is a mesmerizing tale that takes us inside the equally corrupt worlds of the mob, the movie industry, and the casinos where beautiful actresses and ruthless hitmen are ruled by lust and violence, where sleazy producers and greedy studio heads are drunk on power, where crooked cops and desperate gamblers play dangerous games of betrayal, and where one man controls them all.]]> 512 Mario Puzo 0345412214 Siddharth 4 3.87 1996 The Last Don
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average rating: 3.87
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rating: 4
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]]> Fools Die 22035 "A page-flipping tale of power, brutality and glamour (Library Journal) from the bestselling author of The Godfather.

Played out in the underground worlds of high-stakes gambling, publishing, and the film industry, this epic thriller follows two brothers, Merlyn and Arite, as they delve into the dangerous underbelly of American life. From Las Vegas to New York to Hollywood, there is one thing that remains constant: organized crime and the law are simply two sides of the same coin...]]> 531 Mario Puzo 0451160193 Siddharth 4 3.76 1978 Fools Die
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]]> The Simple Truth 830791 544 David Baldacci 0446607711 Siddharth 4 4.05 1998 The Simple Truth
author: David Baldacci
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average rating: 4.05
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rating: 4
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]]> Total Control 226791 720 David Baldacci 0446604844 Siddharth 5 4.06 1996 Total Control
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average rating: 4.06
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]]> The Winner 113138 The Dream

She is twenty, beautiful, dirt-poor, and hoping for a better life for her infant daughter when LuAnn Tyler is offered the gift of a lifetime, a $100 million lottery jackpot. All she has to do is change her identity and leave the U.S. forever.

The Killer

It's an offer she dares to refuse...until violence forces her hand and thrusts her into a harrowing game of high-stakes, big-money subterfuge. It's a price she won't fully pay...until she does the unthinkable and breaks the promise that made her rich.

The Winner

For if LuAnn Tyler comes home, she will be pitted against the deadliest contestant of all: the chameleonlike financial mastermind who changed her life. And who can take it away at will...]]> 513 David Baldacci 0446522597 Siddharth 4 4.07 1997 The Winner
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]]> The Chimney Sweeper's Boy 104507 Bestselling and critically acclaimed novelist Gerald Candless dies suddenly, and leaves behind a wife and two doting daughters. To sort through her grief, his daughter Sarah puts aside her university studies and agrees to write a biography of her famous father. But as she begins her research and pulls back the veil of his past, her life is slowly torn a terrible logic begins to unfold that explains her mother's remoteness, her father's need to continually reinvent himself -- and sheds shocking light on a long-forgotten London murder.]]> 344 Barbara Vine 1416531939 Siddharth 3 3.73 1998 The Chimney Sweeper's Boy
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]]> On the Road 70401 307 Jack Kerouac 0140042598 Siddharth 5 3.63 1957 On the Road
author: Jack Kerouac
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average rating: 3.63
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]]> The Invisible Man 17184 192 H.G. Wells 0451528522 Siddharth 5 3.63 1897 The Invisible Man
author: H.G. Wells
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average rating: 3.63
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rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea]]> 33507 269 Jules Verne 076072850X Siddharth 5 3.92 1869 Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
author: Jules Verne
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average rating: 3.92
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]]> <![CDATA[The First Commandment (Scot Harvath, #6)]]> 206197 416 Brad Thor 1416543791 Siddharth 5 4.24 2007 The First Commandment (Scot Harvath, #6)
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average rating: 4.24
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]]> Takedown (Scot Harvath, #5) 206193 416 Brad Thor 0743271181 Siddharth 5 4.27 2006 Takedown (Scot Harvath, #5)
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average rating: 4.27
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]]> <![CDATA[The Lost World (Professor Challenger, #1)]]> 10155 272 Arthur Conan Doyle 0812967259 Siddharth 5 3.91 1912 The Lost World (Professor Challenger, #1)
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]]> The Complete Sherlock Holmes 188572
The sign of four --

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes : A scandal in Bohemia ; The red-headed league ; A case of identity ; The Boscombe Valley mystery ; The five orange pips ; The man with the twisted lip ; The adventure of the blue carbuncle ; The adventure of the speckled band ; The adventure of the engineer's thumb ; The adventure of the noble bachelor ; The adventure of the beryl coronet ; The adventure of the copper beeches --

Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes : Silver blaze ; The yellow face ; The stock-broker's clerk ; The "Gloria Scott" ; The Musgrave ritual ; The Reigate puzzle ; The crooked man ; The resident patient ; The Greek interpreter ; The naval treaty ; The final problem --

The return of Sherlock Holmes : The adventure of the empty house ; The adventure of the Norwood builder ; The adventure of the dancing men ; The adventure of the solitary cyclist ; The adventure of the priory school ; The adventure of Black Peter ; The adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton ; The adventure of the six Napoleons ; The adventure of the three students ; The adventure of the golden pince-nez ; The adventure of the missing three-quarter ; The adventure of the abbey grange ; The adventure of the second stain.

Volume 2. Introduction / by Loren D. Estleman --

The hound of the Baskervilles --

The valley of fear --

His last bow : The adventure of Wisteria Lodge : The singular experience of Mr. John Scott Eccles ; The tiger of San Pedro ; The adventure of the cardboard box ; The adventure of the red circle ; The adventure of the Bruce-Partington plans ; The adventure of the dying detective ; The disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax ; The adventure of the devil's foot ; His last bow --

The case-book of Sherlock Holmes : The adventure of the illustrious client ; The adventure of the blanched soldier ; The adventure of the Mazarin stone ; The adventure of the three gables ; The adventure of the Sussex vampire ; The adventure of the three Garridebs ; The problem of Thor Bridge ; The adventure of the creeping man ; The adventure of the lion's mane ; The adventure of the veiled lodger ; The adventure of Shoscombe old place ; The adventure of the retired colourman.]]> 1796 Arthur Conan Doyle Siddharth 5 4.50 1887 The Complete Sherlock Holmes
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]]> The Phantom of the Opera 480204 The Phantom of the Opera is a riveting story that revolves around the young, Swedish Christine Daaé. Her father, a famous musician, dies, and she is raised in the Paris Opera House with his dying promise of a protective angel of music to guide her. After a time at the opera house, she begins hearing a voice, who eventually teaches her how to sing beautifully. All goes well until Christine's childhood friend Raoul comes to visit his parents, who are patrons of the opera, and he sees Christine when she begins successfully singing on the stage. The voice, who is the deformed, murderous 'ghost' of the opera house named Erik, however, grows violent in his terrible jealousy, until Christine suddenly disappears. The phantom is in love, but it can only spell disaster.

Leroux's work, with characters ranging from the spoiled prima donna Carlotta to the mysterious Persian from Erik's past, has been immortalized by memorable adaptations. Despite this, it remains a remarkable piece of Gothic horror literature in and of itself, deeper and darker than any version that follows.]]> 360 Gaston Leroux 0060809248 Siddharth 5 3.98 1910 The Phantom of the Opera
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]]> <![CDATA[Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories]]> 251688 Holly Golightly knows that nothing bad can ever happen to you at Tiffany's.

In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Capote created a woman whose name has entered the American idiom and whose style is a part of the literary landscape—her poignancy, wit, and naïveté continue to charm.

It's New York in the 1940s, where the martinis flow from cocktail hour till breakfast at Tiffany's... And nice girls don't, except, of course, Holly Golightly. Pursued by Mafia gangsters and playboy millionaires, Holly is a fragile eyeful of tawny hair and turned-up nose, a heart-breaker, a perplexer, a traveler, a tease. She is irrepressibly 'top banana in the shock department', and one of the shining flowers of American fiction.

Also included are three of Capote's best-known stories:
• House of Flowers - Ottilie is entranced by a beautiful young man, and leaves her life and friends to live with him and his old grandmother, who seems to hate her.
• A Diamond Guitar - Hear the story of the prized possession of a younger prison inmate, a rhinestone-studded guitar.
• A Christmas Memory - A poignant tale of two innocents—a small boy and the old woman who is his best friend—whose sweetness contains a hard, sharp kernel of truth.]]> 142 Truman Capote Siddharth 5 3.87 1958 Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories
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]]> In Cold Blood 168642
As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, he generates both mesmerizing suspense and astonishing empathy. In Cold Blood is a work that transcends its moment, yielding poignant insights into the nature of American violence.]]> 343 Truman Capote 0679745580 Siddharth 5 4.08 1966 In Cold Blood
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]]> We the Living 668 Ayn Rand's first published novel, a timeless story that explores the struggles of the individual against the state in Soviet Russia.

First published in 1936, 'We the Living' portrays the impact of the Russian Revolution on three human beings who demand the right to live their own lives and pursue their own happiness. It tells of a young woman’s passionate love, held like a fortress against the corrupting evil of a totalitarian state.

'We the Living' is not a story of politics, but of the men and women who have to struggle for existence behind the Red banners and slogans. It is a picture of what those slogans do to human beings. What happens to the defiant ones? What happens to those who succumb?

Against a vivid panorama of political revolution and personal revolt, Ayn Rand shows what the theory of socialism means in practice.

Ayn Rand (1905–1982) was born in pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg to a prosperous Jewish family as Alisa Rosenbaum. When the Bolsheviks requisitioned her family's business, they fled to the Crimea, and she later moved to America as soon as she was offered the chance. After beginning her writing career with screenplays, she published the novel 'We the Living' in 1936. Her status was later established with 'The Fountainhead' (1943) and her magnus opus, 'Atlas Shrugged' (1957). Also a prolific non-fiction writer, as well as the founder of the philosophical school of Objectivism, she has had an unequivocal impact on both literature and culture, regardless of one's perspective of her works.]]> 464 Ayn Rand 0451187849 Siddharth 5 3.94 1936 We the Living
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]]> The Fountainhead 2122
This modern classic is the story of intransigent young architect Howard Roark, whose integrity was as unyielding as granite...of Dominique Francon, the exquisitely beautiful woman who loved Roark passionately, but married his worst enemy...and of the fanatic denunciation unleashed by an enraged society against a great creator. As fresh today as it was then, Rand’s provocative novel presents one of the most challenging ideas in all of fiction—that man’s ego is the fountainhead of human progress...

“A writer of great power. She has a subtle and ingenious mind and the capacity of writing brilliantly, beautifully, bitterly...This is the only novel of ideas written by an American woman that I can recall.”—The New York Times]]> 704 Ayn Rand Siddharth 5 3.87 1943 The Fountainhead
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]]> Atlas Shrugged 662 This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world and did. Was he a destroyer or the greatest of liberators?

Why did he have to fight his battle, not against his enemies, but against those who needed him most, and his hardest battle against the woman he loved? What is the world’s motor — and the motive power of every man? You will know the answer to these questions when you discover the reason behind the baffling events that play havoc with the lives of the characters in this story.

Tremendous in its scope, this novel presents an astounding panorama of human life — from the productive genius who becomes a worthless playboy — to the great steel industrialist who does not know that he is working for his own destruction — to the philosopher who becomes a pirate — to the composer who gives up his career on the night of his triumph — to the woman who runs a transcontinental railroad — to the lowest track worker in her Terminal tunnels.

You must be prepared, when you read this novel, to check every premise at the root of your convictions.

This is a mystery story, not about the murder — and rebirth — of man’s spirit. It is a philosophical revolution, told in the form of an action thriller of violent events, a ruthlessly brilliant plot structure and an irresistible suspense. Do you say this is impossible? Well, that is the first of your premises to check.]]> 1168 Ayn Rand 0452011876 Siddharth 5 3.67 1957 Atlas Shrugged
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]]> The Adventures of Augie March 11908 586 Saul Bellow 0143039571 Siddharth 5 3.83 1953 The Adventures of Augie March
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]]> Sons and Lovers 32071 "She was a brazen hussy."

"She wasn't. And she was pretty, wasn't she?"

"I didn't look ... And tell your girls, my son, that when they're running after you, they're not to come and ask your mother for you - tell them that - brazen baggages you meet at dancing classes"

The marriage of Gertrude and Walter Morel has become a battleground. Repelled by her uneducated and sometimes violent husband, delicate Gertrude devotes her life to her children, especially to her sons, William and Paul - determined they will not follow their father into working down the coal mines. But conflict is evitable when Paul seeks to escape his mother's suffocating grasp through relationships with women his own age. Set in Lawrence's native Nottinghamshire, Sons and Lovers is a highly autobiographical and compelling portrayal of childhood, adolescence and the clash of generations.]]> 654 D.H. Lawrence Siddharth 5 3.65 1913 Sons and Lovers
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]]> Roughing It 38747 560 Mark Twain 0743436504 Siddharth 5 3.86 1872 Roughing It
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]]> Life on the Mississippi 99152 The book that earned Mark Twain his first recognition as a serious writer...

Discover the magic of life on the Mississippi.

At once a romantic history of a mighty river, an autobiographical account of Mark Twain's early steamboat days, and a storehouse of humorous anecdotes and sketches, Life on the Mississippi is the raw material from which Twain wrote his finest novel: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn .

"The Lincoln of our literature." (William Dean Howells)]]> 384 Mark Twain 0451528174 Siddharth 5 3.86 1883 Life on the Mississippi
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]]> <![CDATA[The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling]]> 99329

   • Includes a chronology, suggestions for further reading, notes, glossary, and an appendix of Fielding's revisions
   • Introduction discusses narrative tecniques and themes, the context of eighteenth-century fiction and satire, and the historical and political background of the Jacobite revolution
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.]]> 975 Henry Fielding 0140436227 Siddharth 5 3.75 1749 The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
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]]> Great Expectations 2623
Pip must discover his true self, and his own set of values and priorities. Whether such values allow one to prosper in the complex world of early Victorian England is the major question posed by Great Expectations, one of Dickens's most fascinating, and disturbing, novels.

This edition includes the original, discarded ending, Dickens's brief working notes, and the serial instalments and chapter divisions in different editions. It also uses the definitive Clarendon text.]]> 544 Charles Dickens 0192833596 Siddharth 5 3.79 1861 Great Expectations
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]]> Animal Farm 7613 Librarian's note: This an alternate cover for: 9780452284241

George Orwell's timeless and timely allegorical novel—a scathing satire of a downtrodden society’s blind march towards totalitarianism.

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”

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.

When Animal Farm was first published, Stalinist Russia was seen as its target. Today it is devastatingly clear that wherever and whenever freedom is attacked, under whatever banner, the cutting clarity and savage comedy of George Orwell’s masterpiece have a meaning and message still ferociously fresh.]]> 129 George Orwell Siddharth 5 3.90 1945 Animal Farm
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