And Then There Were None1 review
Agatha Christie

Pocket, 1980

Brilliant...Don't Miss It!

And Then There Were None, the brilliant masterwork by the much imitated Agatha Christie is a complicated yet accessible murder mystery. Ten guests arrive at an island, each with a different secret, and each uniquely mysterious. When all the guests have gathered, a mysterious voice, U.N. Owen??? ...
  
  











  



  
A Passage to India (Penguin Classics)1 review
E.M. Forster

Penguin Classics, 2005

A Must Read, But It's No Ulysses

Forster's novel is a classic. it appears on all "Top 100" lists, for list maniacs, but it is not really all that great. I can certainly think of a good many novels I'd rather read or reread. In the film version, the novel's exotic setting springs to life, of course, and that is 99% of the novel's ...
  
  











  



  
Case of the Secret Scribbler (Mcgurk Mystery #6)
E. W. Hildick

Simon Pulse, 1983

On the basis of a clue found in a library book, the McGurk detectives search for the perpetrator and the victim of a crime they think will be committed in three days.
  
  











  



  
The Wayward Bus (Penguin Classics)25 reviews
John Steinbeck

Penguin Classics, 2006

Really great book!

+ Ride with Steinbeck
+ Steinbeck's Style Is Effective

I really enjoyed this book! Among other things I like about Steinbeck, that all persons have faults as well, even the ones you like. And they are very interesting characters. And its very easy to read.
  
  











  



  
Jane Eyre (Signet Classics)595 reviews
Charlotte Brontė

Signet Classics, 1997

Best Book in the World!

+ This Particular Version
+ Touching
+ Please Skip Erica Jong's Intro!
+ None Like It
  
  











  



  
On the Banks of Plum Creek (0644000503)
Laura Ingalls Wilder

Harper Trophy Books, 1971

This is "On the Banks of Plum Creek" by Laura Ingalls Wilder, published 1971 by Harper Trophy Books, ISBN 0644000503, 340 Pages, Yellow Hardcover, with a picture of Laura running in a field printed in color on the cover as shown, and with Green Lettering printed on the spine (title & author), as well as a Green Field printed on the back cover. This is ONLY this exact title, author, publisher, ...
  
  











  



  
Private eye,
John Dennis Fitzgerald

T. Nelson, 1974

Ten-year-old Wally Stone turns his natural ability to find things and solve problems into a lucrative private detective business.
  
  











  



  
Rebecca
Daphne Du Maurier

Pocket Books, 1943
  
  











  



  
As I Lay Dying190 reviews
William Faulkner

Vintage, 1991

Homegoing

+ A Grim, Morbid, and Compelling Tale
+ Now I can get them teeth...
+ As I Lay Dying
  
  











  



  
Thale's Folly19 reviews
Dorothy Gilman

Ballantine Books, 2000

Just a nice book

+ the very best kind of folly . . .
+ "Thale's Folly" Review

The previous readers have done a good job of reviewing, so I won't repeat. I just want to say that my wife and I thought this is one of the best books written. This along with Nun in the Closet, of course.
  
  











  



  
Mrs. Dalloway154 reviews
Virginia Woolf

Harcourt, 2002

Perfect in every way

+ Clarissa's Day
+ Woolf' Best
+ Better the second time around
  
  











  



  
The Warriors (The Kent Family Chronicles)6 reviews

Signet, 2005

The Best Yet !!!

+ The Warriors (The Kent Family Chronicles)
+ awesome, read all 8, the story gets better and better....
+ Great As Usual
  
  











  



  
Lolita (Everyman's Library Classics)19 reviews
Vladimir Nabokov

Everyman's Library, 1992

Still stirs the imagination after all these years.

+ Sublimely beautiful
+ "Lolita"
+ Controversial, haunting and somehow strangely compelling
  
  











  



  
Candide135 reviews

Bantam Classics, 2003

All is for the best in this world

+ magnum opus
+ Classic of world literature
+ More than just satire. A statement about the Human Condition
+ The beginnings of nihilism
  
  











  



  
The Tower, the Mask, and the Grave
Betty Smartt Carter

Shaw Books, 2000

On a chilly Illinois night, the secretary of a famous theologian hosts a Christmas party...and never shows up. When Virginia Falls and her friend Stephen pursue six suspects, they uncover not only a crime, but a heart as dark as the grave.
  
  











  



  
The Wild Palms12 reviews
William Faulkner

Vintage, 2000

Buy it, read it

+ If it doesn't have punctuation in the title, it's not really Faulkner
+ Modernist Faulkner
+ "The Wild Palms"--used as a meditation by Thomas Merton
  
  











  



  
Salem's Lot8 reviews
Stephen King

Signet, 1976

Revival of the Vampire

+ Loved it - true classic vampire book. But...
+ Importing Vampires in Maine: A Dreadful Business!
+ My first Stephen King book - but not the last!
+ Stephen King's best
  
  











  



  
Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery4 reviews
John Gregory Brown

Quill, 1995

One of the best books I've read

+ GREAT book!
+ Wonderful read

I completely disagree with the Kirkus review.It would be nice if all books that were coming out today were as beautifully written, as innovative and as heartwarming--eventually--as this one. Oftentimes, you get a book that's been given outstanding reviews and it isn't worth a damn. This is quiet ...
  
  











  



  
Frankenstein
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Signet Classics, 1965
  
  











  



  
Henry Reed, Inc. (Puffin Books)15 reviews
Keith Robertson

Puffin, 1989

great summer reading

+ my son loved henry reed books when he was 5-8
+ Great for kids who are too old for kids books
+ An Adventure Book