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68 reviews
Jenna Blum

Harvest Books, 2005

A stunning evocation of the Holocaust
I just finished this wonderful book, and can't add much to what other favorable reviews have said. I loved it. I was touched by the characters. The mother-daughter relationship is beautifully and realistically rendered. The horrors of life in Nazi Germany were so painful that I had to stop reading at times. The ending offered some hope for healing while at the same time recognizing the near ...

Life of Pi

1808 reviews
Yann Martel

Harvest Books, 2003

An Astonishing Read
Every so often, a book finds you, instead of the other way around, and this was very much the case when I came across "Life of Pi". It is a book that asks deeply philosophical and religious questions, while giving you a handful of answers that are subtle and mysterious. In this fantasy-like (and very grown-up) story, our hero, Pi Patel, finds himself stranded on a boat, in the middle of the ...

The Four Loves

68 reviews
C.S. Lewis

Harvest Books, 1971

All loves in Love
Within this work, Mr. Lewis is quick to point out the inherent difficulty with regard to the concept of love facing individuals whose native tongue is English. That is, it is easily recognized that there exists an extreme deficit when one applies the same word to describe the sentiment shared with one's spouse, as well as their favorite food. In such extreme cases of difference in terms of the ...

Chosen by a Horse

114 reviews
Susan Richards

Harvest Books, 2007

Loved it!!!
Great book. Well writen and easy to read. Didn't want to put it down. If you love and care for and about horses.....you'll LOVE this book. Give it a try!!

Merle's Door: Lessons from a Freethinking Dog

138 reviews
Ted Kerasote

Harvest Books, 2008

The best of a thousand
I've read a thousand books, and most I'd consider good as I try to be discriminating with my reading. By good, I mean in the sense that I've been delighted, enriched, made to laugh out loud, and shown countless insights into living and this life we share. With no reservation, I count Merle's Door my favorite. No doubt the author's singleness, his passion for the outdoors, and his home ...

Blindness (Harvest Book)

343 reviews
Jose Saramago

Harvest Books, 1999

"If you can see, look. If you can look, observe."
"Blindness" is my first reading of anything by Saramago. After thumbing through it in the bookstore and looking at its sheer density, seeming lack of dialog, paragraphs, and usual punctuation, I decided to leave it alone, until now. This tale of a pandemic of blindness in an anonymous country is absolutely terrifying. Randomly the white blindness comes and a nation is transformed. The thin ...

The Little Prince

269 reviews

Harvest Books, 2000

Too cool
My son read this book in school and he absolutely LOVED it. For those people who are just reading for leisure, there is very bitter satire in this book. This is fun to find. There is also a very inspiring theme.

The Time Traveler's Wife

1619 reviews
Audrey Niffenegger

Harvest Books, 2004

A beautiful love story
TTW brings beauty and meaning to philosophical questions. So many metaphors about life, love and everything in between are intertwined in the pages. Though it may have some technical and mechanical faults, thematically, it's flawless. It brought me to tears and to laughter and back again. Mot importantly, it reminded me to embrace all who love me, especially my own true love.

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

91 reviews
Mohsin Hamid

Harvest Books, 2008

I tried to love you, but had to leave you...
This is an excellent novel about Changez, a Pakistani man who earns his way through an Ivy League school at the side of his more privileged American counterparts. He meets Erica, an American girl that is overwhelmed with her own demons of a betrothed and his untimely death. Changez gains a highly sought after position with a prestigious firm in NYC. He is becoming the "American Dream" during the ...

Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts

55 reviews
Carol Tavris, Elliot Aronson

Harvest Books, 2008

I wanted to stand up and applaud this book
If there was ever a book that cuts to the heart of some of the major issues that confront our world this is it. It speaks to the individual & the marital couple, it speaks to the psychotherapy community, the judicial system, the healthcare system & goes on, I dare say, to speak to world leaders about a path, albeit a difficult one, to peace. To add to the credibility of this book, there was ...

The Places In Between

140 reviews
Rory Stewart

Harvest Books, 2006

Rory, Babur and Babur
I understand and concur to a qualified extent with some of the less than glowing reviews here. Yes, the prose is sparse. Yes, our author doesn't seem to talk very much about himself. Yes, Tom Bissell's review in the NYT is ridiculously encomiastic...."a novelist's sense of character"...??? I wonder what particular novelist Mr. Bissell had in mind. But to counter these criticisms, I would ...

Flowers for Algernon: Student Edition

434 reviews
Daniel Keyes

Harvest Books, 2004

I read this as a child
I read this as a child and just seeing the book again brought such memories of how it affected me. I highly recommend this book. I will definately read it again. It is very thought provoking and emotional.

The Seven Storey Mountain

94 reviews
Thomas Merton

Harvest Books, 1999

a treasure, and immortal
"The Seven Storey Mountain" is that rarest of gems: an articulate book about a lifelong spiritual quest. Its author, Thomas Merton, tells the story of his life, how his vague unease about spiritual questions eventually led him not only to Catholicism but to the narrow walls of a Trappist monastery in Kentucky. The writing is rich and thoughtful. Whatever your opinion of Merton's ...

A Pig in Provence: Good Food and Simple Pleasures in the South of France

6 reviews
Georgeanne Brennan

Harvest Books, 2008

Fantastic read
This is a fantastic story about one woman's introduction to and exploration of life in Provence. The book takes you on a culinary journey through the region, with beautiful introductions to specialties of the area. Each chapter features a different major Provence food: truffles, goat cheese, garlic, etc and ends with a recipe that has been featured in the narrative. For those who want ...

To the Lighthouse

169 reviews
Virginia Woolf, Eudora Welty (Introduction)

Harvest Books, 1989

An insightful, sensitive reading.
The idea of Virginia Woolf's fiction being read aloud effectively has struck me as an impossibility. The very interiority of Woolf's style seemed to suggest that readers hear the narrative voice within themselves. This reading proves me dead wrong. Virginia Leishman's reading--and interpretation--added much to my passion for a novel I have always loved. Readers--and listeners--new to Virigina ...

Le Petit Prince (French Language Edition)

68 reviews
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Harvest Books, 2001

Incroyable!
This is probably one of the best books I have ever read. We read it in my fourth year french class, right before graduation. It is such a simple tale wherein lies a deep and meaningful message. It is open for interpretation, which is part of what makes it so great. You really have to think in order to gather the entire message. I hope to purchase the french version soon.

The Whistling Season

50 reviews
Ivan Doig

Harvest Books, 2007

Great Reading Group Book!
Our PAGES (Prose-Adoring Girls' Enlightenment Society) Reading Group read and discussed The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig. We absolutely recommend it to book clubs for a very delightful read and a lively, interesting discussion about life in the early 20th century West, one-room school education, and the details of the book, itself. We rate this book 4.5 stars. A couple of things that may ...

All the King's Men

174 reviews
Robert Penn Warren

Harvest Books, 1996

The Web Of Things
I put off reading this novel for almost twenty years from when it was first recommended to me for the simple reason that I dismissed as a "political" novel and, ergo, not of the first water. - How wrong can a prospective reader be?!? - To begin, this is not a "political" novel, per se, and the character of Willie Stark, as compared with the odyssey of Jack Burden, not very gripping. As another ...

The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need

101 reviews
Andrew Tobias

Harvest Books, 2005

Great startup guide for investors
Years ago, when I had a stock portfolio dropped in my lap, with no idea of the difference between a stock or a bond, a growth fund or an index fund, this book rescued me from the fear of investing. I became a lifetime investor with a degree of confidence that I would not allow my money to be taken over by the wims of the brokerage firms, who's primary goal is making money for themselves. A well ...

Free to Choose: A Personal Statement

76 reviews
Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman

Harvest Books, 1990

Life transforming
Friedman was a genius. He was also the most articulate and fearless advovate for freedom. It seems that most are willing to give a little here and there for their pet projects. He was not. This is the best argument for the economic power that comes from freedom as well as the advantages for the individual. Over the long hall it is also the only way to prevent the loss of all freedoms. Read ...

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