The Kite Runner2517 reviews Khaled Hosseini Riverhead Trade, 2004 Ki + Wonderful + Fantastic + powerful and moving + Could Not Put it Down             Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae656 reviews Steven Pressfield Bantam, 2005 Buy this book!!! + Fine historical novel + Captivating! + A Great Great Read             Catch-22832 reviews Joseph Heller Simon & Schuster, 1996 Lighthearted and comical, yet dark and meaningful + 25 words or less + Incredible + Great Characters Living With Death             Number the Stars (Yearling Newbery)708 reviews Lois Lowry Yearling, 1990 The Run Away + STILL my favorite book of all time! + Wonderful book + A Holocaust tale appropriate for younger readers + Hitler             MIDDLESEX JEFFREY EUGENIDES BLOOMSBURY, 2003             The Great Gatsby1119 reviews F. Scott Fitzgerald Scribner, 1999 As American as apple pie... + The Summer of '22 + The Great Gatsby + An intimate, touching story that deserves its praise while still being thoroughly relevant despite its age; a solid "A" + Gatsby Believed in the Green Light             The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay597 reviews Michael Chabon Picador, 2001 The Most Super of All Powers + Chabon vents his issues + Great Fiction + Comic history in the making             A Thousand Splendid Suns1307 reviews Khaled Hosseini Riverhead, 2007 Enthralling... + Very touching + Very good BOOK + Excellent Story             The Other Boleyn Girl827 reviews Philippa Gregory Touchstone, 2003 Enjoyed the book, much better than the movie + The Other Boleyn Girl + Great read!! + Wonderful Story + The Other Boleyn Girl             Girl with a Pearl Earring789 reviews Tracy Chevalier Plume, 2001 suprisingly good + Beautiful + Loved it + One of the best books I've ever read + mysterious story, great taste             The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton Aegypan, 2006 Newland Archer and May Welland have just announced their engagement to New York society, and the match seems perfect -- until Archer meets Countess Olenska, a sharp, beautiful woman in the midst of a divorce . . . it's for good reason this book won Edith Wharton Pulitzer Prize. "Is it -- in this world -- vulgar to ask for more? To entreat a little wildness, a dark place or two in the soul?" ...             The Bonesetter's Daughter307 reviews Amy Tan Putnam Adult, 2001 A Stunning Read + Mother/daugher generational must read + Classic Tan + Into the Orient, across generations. + I loved this story !             Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress: A Novel220 reviews Dai Sijie Anchor, 2002 entertaining + Worth the reading! + Re-education for dummies fast, easy read. Liked the characters, made you think, laugh, and smile. Overall an enjoyable read.             The First Man In Rome145 reviews Colleen McCullough Arrow Books, 1991 More Addictive than Crack Cocaine + Excellent writing. + Amazing book + Very much like a drug... + A true epic             All Quiet on the Western Front456 reviews Erich Marie Remarque Little, Brown and Company, 1929 A Great Work + "A line, a short line, trudges off into the morning." + Murder on the Western Front + A must for any student or non-specialist general reader             Orlando Virginia Woolf Penguin, 2006             Green Darkness83 reviews Anya Seton Chicago Review Press, 2005 Spellbinding! + Great Book + Haunting and Unforgettable I absolutely LOVED this book. I can't figure out why there are so many bad reviews, especially the ones claiming boredom! This is one of Anya Seton's MOST engrossing!             Slaughterhouse-Five708 reviews Kurt Vonnegut Dial Press Trade Paperback, 1999 Like Beethoven's Fifth Piano Concerto. + A highly creative and simultaneously amusing and thought-provoking novel that hammers home its themes; "A-" + One of the best + Slaughterhouse-Five             The Book Thief437 reviews Markus Zusak Black Swan, 2008 Beautiful, Poignant, Touching + For middle school through middle age and then some + Great Book for Any Season! + amazing + Haunting             The Pillars of the Earth1300 reviews Ken Follett Macmillan Publishers Ltd, 2007 Great choice by Oprah + A must read + Simply Brilliant + A page-turner about cathedral construction? YES!