Into the Forest127 reviews Jean Hegland Dial Press Trade Paperback, 1998 The best book I've read this year! + captivating story of one potential future Follow the lives of Nell and Eva, two sisters forced to face life in an eerie and horrific apocalyptic world. The authors descriptive first person narrative brings all of the emotions to the surface which grips the reader through this entire book. She also creates a warm and seductive landscape ...             The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel560 reviews Margaret Atwood Anchor, 1998 I wasn't expecting this!!!! + A 21st century 1984 by George Orwell + Great Review This book was written very well. I had the creeps while I was reading it. It reminded me of the movie "Children of Men" and the book "The Giver". The entire time I was reading this book, I kept thinking of a certain female vice presidential candidate. I am afraid that she would love the form of ...             Possession: A Romance213 reviews A.S. Byatt Random House, 1991 An instant classic + Great Book -- Maybe Too Detailed for Us Average Readers [48][T] + A bold conception in a literally dense narrative + stunning             In the Country of Last Things28 reviews Paul Auster Penguin (Non-Classics), 1988 The Power of Hope + Horror tale with a twist + Austere Auster As Always + Live and let write in the "Country"             The Scarlet Letter (Penguin Classics)406 reviews Nathaniel Hawthorne Penguin Classics, 2002 A wonderful piece of literature, however + One of the best novels ever + Sin, Redemption + Hawthorne's Masterpiece + Useful for AP Lit             Athena7 reviews John Banville Vintage, 1996 Open To Interpretation + Bizarre Baroque + Snail-Trail + Language that sings + Landscapes of devotion & desolation             Lolita449 reviews Vladimir Nabokov Vintage, 1989 A road movie of the mind + Beautiful writing confronts crude subject matter--A masterpiece + Upends your preconceptions and prejudices + Which book did you read? + The Most Beautiful Novel Ever Written             1984 (Signet Classics)1380 reviews George Orwell New American Library, 1961 A Warning, A Prediction...A Terrifying Truth + Ninteen-Eighty-Four: Still a Classic + Perfectly Horrific + Still Relevant + Timeless classic on the dangers of communism/big government             The Bell Jar486 reviews Sylvia Plath Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006 The most famous book you've never read + how did I miss this one?? + Believe the Hype + "To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream."             The Awakening353 reviews Kate Chopin Avon, 1982 How long have I been asleep? + A Statement on Non-Traditional Sensibilities + Lovely + not so simple, not so obvious             Night: A Novel Edna O'Brien Mariner Books, 2001 Edna O'Brien's classic novel NIGHT takes us through one long, sleepless night with Mary Hooligan. From the center of her bed, "a four poster no less," Mary recalls her fertile past, from her childhood in the Irish countryside to the love affairs she has confronted since leaving for English shores. Wistful, wanton, this erotic reverie shows O'Brien to be one of the foremost heirs to modernism. ...             Ceremony: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)127 reviews Leslie Marmon Silko Penguin Books, 2006 A MASTERPIECE + Breath-taking + Ceremonies can heal + Surprising read + Ceremony             Mrs. Dalloway153 reviews Virginia Woolf Harvest Books, 1990 Better the second time around + Perfect in every way + Clarissa's Day + Woolf' Best + Woolf in Her Prime             The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel241 reviews Milan Kundera Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1999 great + I lived in this book those days + Mystical Love + great but not the best             Power: A Novel5 reviews Linda Hogan W. W. Norton & Company, 1999 True "Power" + My Favorite Book of the Year + The best book I've read in years + A lyrical, well-plotted story of tribe and environment             Being Dead: A Novel113 reviews Jim Crace Picador, 2001 "You're dead. That's it. Adieu. Farewell." + Being Dead is writing at its finest + Being Dead Is Quite Spirited + Alive             Beyond Black: A Novel24 reviews Hilary Mantel Picador, 2006 Savage beauty + Great book. Something to sink your teeth in + From the banal to the mundane - a quick overview of today's spiritualists This book is a beautifully crafted view into a place that few of us may ever choose to go. At least, I hope so for our sakes. It begins with a slow and friendly pace, touring us through its not always pleasant characters' lives. By the time it ends, I felt I had a stake in what happened and was ...             Beloved87 reviews Toni Morrison Vintage, 2004 Raw & Powerful + Oh My God! Are You Kidding Me? Toni's Morrison's Beloved is a hard, frustrating, and emotionally draining piece of literary art. Saying this, her prose is written like something I've never read. She throws you in the middle of the narrative and does not tell you why her characters are saying or acting like they are. It is a ...             The Virgin Suicides394 reviews Jeffrey Eugenides Grand Central Publishing, 1994 Time in a Bottle + Jorie's Reads on The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides + this is a true story "... they were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived -- bound, in other words, for life." The Virgin Suicides is not just a story of the loneliness of being female. It is also a story of the loneliness of life and understanding what it is to be female; the ...             Emma (Penguin Classics)208 reviews Jane Austen Penguin Classics, 2003 Emma Woodhouse + Romantic Mystery + A Good Start To My Austen Book Craze + Comedy of Errors on a Georgian Stage