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The Princess Bride (1973)(filmed 1987). Goldman introduces a brilliant cocktail of characters including the most beautiful woman in the world, the gentle giant, the avenging swordsman, the evil Sicilian, the torture-loving Count, and the King's ex-Miracle Man, to weave an adventure story with healthy portions of romance, wit, and heroism. |
William Goldman |
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Neverwhere (1997). A wild story set in a bizarre and chilling underground London. Neverwhere begins innocently enough: It's the story of Richard Mayhew, a plain man with a good heart. Unhappy in love and in life, Richard is thrust into a dark and evil world when he stops to help a young girl he finds bleeding in the street. |
Neil Gaiman |
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Alice's Adventures In Wonderland (1865). The classic tale of that ever-curious little girl who tumbled down a rabbit hole into Wonderland has enchanted readers for nearly 140 years, and will continue to do so for a long time to come. This book is a timeless classic. |
Lewis Carroll |
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The Lord Of the Flies (1954). Boys twelve years old and younger find themselves on a deserted island. They find a group leader named Ralph. It doesn't take long for young boys to turn barbaric. In a time of war in the outside world that they no longer live in, they develop their own war in their own world. Lord of the Flies tells the story of the struggle to stay alive when there are no rules or boundaries. |
William Golding |
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Dracula (1897) . This is an awesome tale of a bloodthirsty vampire. An extremely famous book, written by an interesting author. The books has later been filmed, in a movie directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
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Bram Stoker |
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Thomas Covenant - The Unbeliever (1977). The first, second, and third chronicles of Thomas Covenant is a series of 11 books.
Thomas Covenant, a nondescript man whose wife and son have fled after he is diagnosed with leprosy, is mystically and unwillingly transported to the Land in a time of crisis. He wears a wedding ring of white gold -- metal found nowhere else in the Land -- that is a talisman of indescribably powerful sorcery, making him a wild card in the war against the Despiser.
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Stephen Donaldson |
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The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)(TV-movie 2004.) The book starts in an amusement park, in Freddy’s Free Fall, which is a new ride, where Eddie was killed. The book describes his journey to Heaven, and the people he meets there. |
Mitch Albom |
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Interview With the Vampire (1976, filmed in 1994).This is a big cult book. A vampire, in San Francisco, tells her story to an interviewer. The vampire is tired of life. At the end of the interview, the interviewer begs to be turned into a vampire .. |
Anne Rice |
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The Chronicles of Amber (1970). Amber and the Courts of Chaos are the only two true worlds; all others, including our Earth, are but "shadows" of the tension between them. Royals of Amber (and in the second series, the equivalent Chaos nobility) can freely travel through the shadows and alter them, but they cannot alter Amber itself. Wonderful reading!
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Roger Zelazny |
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Sabriel (1995). After receiving a cryptic message from her father, Abhorsen, a necromancer trapped in Death, 18-year-old Sabriel sets off into the Old Kingdom. Fraught with peril trickery, her journey takes her to a world filled with parasitical spirits, Mordicants, and Shadow Hands. Unlike other necromancers, who raise the dead, Abhorsen lays the disturbed dead back to rest.
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Garth Nix |
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Dragonlance Chronicles (1984). This is a large series of fantasynovels, with over 190 novels printed, and is accompanied by a supplemental campaign setting in the Dungeons & Dragons style. |
Weis & Hickman |
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Artemis Fowl (2001). Twelve-year-old Artemis Fowl is the most ingenious criminal mastermind in history. With two trusty sidekicks in tow, he hatches a cunning plot to divest the fairyfolk of their pot of gold. The series combines folklore, fantasy, and a fistful of high-tech funk in an outrageously devilish book. |
Eoin Colfer: |
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The Lovely Bones (2002).
In 1973, a 14-year-old girl named Susie Salmon is raped, murdered, and dismembered by a neighbor. Over the next few years she watches from a personalized heaven as her family and friends deal with their grief. An exploration of loss and mourning . |
Alice Sebold |
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Ella Enchanted (1997)(Filmed 2004). Tells the story of Ella of Frell, who at birth was given the gift of obedience by a fairy. Ella soon realizes that this gift is also a curse, for how can she truly be herself if at anytime anyone can order her to hop on one foot, or cut off her hand, or betray her kingdom'and she'll have to obey? With princes, ogres, giants, wicked stepsisters, and fairy godmothers..
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Gail Carson Levine |
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On a Pale Horse (1983).The first book in his "Incarnations of Immortality" series,where the author weaves an incredible world of magic, science, incarnations and the everyday tortures that people experience. The series is extremely intriguing, in that it discusses the usual incarnations Death, Time, Fate, War, Nature, Evil and Good from a new point of view.
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Piers Anthony |
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Charlie & the Chocolate Factory (1964) (Latest movie version 2005). For the first time in a decade, Willy Wonka, the reclusive and eccentric chocolate maker, is opening his doors to the public--well, five members of the public to be exact. The lucky five who find a Golden Ticket in their Wonka chocolate bars will receive a private tour of the factory, given by Mr. Wonka himself. For young Charlie Bucket, this a dream come true. Marvelous!
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Roald Dahl |
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The Once & Future King (1958). This is an Arthurian fantasy novel. The Sword in the Stone chronicles Arthur's raising by his foster father Sir Ector, his rivalry and friendship with his foster brother Kay, and his initial training by Merlyn, a wizard who lives through time backwards. |
T. H. White |
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The Time Traveler's Wife (2003)(Film planned to be released in 2008). This is more a love story than a science fiction story. Henry has this condition that catapults him back and forth in his and Clare's past.
The author writes a truely awe inspiring love story that leaves us gasping for more. A really great story, with beautiful and engaging characterizations.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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Outlander (1992). After being separated by seven years of World War II, Claire and Frank Randall return to the Scottish Highlands for a second honeymoon. Left to her own devices while her husband immerses himself in historical pursuits, Claire inadvertently enters a circle of standing stones and is plunged back 200 years to a Scotland on the verge of the second Jacobite uprising.
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Dianna Gabaldon |
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Left Behind (1995). Suddenly the most alarming event in mankind's history comes to pass: millions upon millions world-wide have vanished, the dead and alive, born and unborn—many right before people's eyes. Frantic "survivors" of the disappearances begin to search for their friends and families as well as answers to what's happened.
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LaHaye & Jenkins |
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Life of Pi (2001). No matter how widely you read, you've never encountered anything like this improbable story. The author has woven a tale of animal and human behavior, weather and the open sea into a believable adventure that fascinates and captivates the reader. Pi is an observant and clever fellow who confronts reality face-to-face, day by day. |
Yann Martel |
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Memory, Sorrow & Thorn Series (Trilogy) (1988) . The story takes place in a an alternative 10th century Britain. In the Hayholt, a castle older by far than the kingdom of Erkynland, Prester John, the king, is dying. He will be succeeded to by his eldest son, Elias - and Elias' advisor Pryrates, the evil priest and magician. Great reading! |
Tad Williams |
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One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) (Norwegian review here.) Nobel Prize Winner Garcia Marquez tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. It is a rich and brilliant chronicle of life and death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. Love and lust, war and revolution, riches and poverty, youth and senility — the variety of life, the endlessness of death, the search for peace and truth — it is all here! Brilliant!
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
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A Clockwork Orange (1962) (Norwegian review here). Alex is the 15-year-old leader of his gang of "droogs" thriving in the ultraviolent future as prophetically imagined by Burgess. Speaking a bizarre Russian-derived slang, Alex and his friends freely pillage and slash their way across a nightmarish urban landscape until Alex is captured by the judicial arm of the state. He then becomes their prized guinea pig in a scientific program to completely "redeem" him for society. Great books, extremely well written. You must read it!
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Anthony Burgess |
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The Alchemist (1995). This story, dazzling in its simplicity and wisdom, is about an Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago who travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of treasure buried in the Pyramids. Along the way he meets a Gypsy woman, a man who calls himself king, and an Alchemist, all of whom point Santiago in the direction of his quest. No one knows what the treasure is, or if Santiago will be able to surmount the obstacles along the way. |
Paulo Coelho |
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