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My favorite books: To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee), Cherry (Mary Karr), The Velveteen Rabbit (Margery Williams), Narcissus And Goldmund (Hermann Hesse), The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis), The Diary of Anne Frank (Anne Frank), Feeling Good (David D. Burns, M.D.), The Liars Club (Mary Karr), The Junie B. Jones children's series (Barbara Park), Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston), The Book of Virtues (William J. Bennett), The Moral Compass (William J. Bennett), Books I'm currently reading: The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald), Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain), Books I'd like to read: Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain), The Godfather (Mario Puzo), Heroes In Blue and Gray (Robert E. Alter), Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell), On The Road (Jack Kerouac), One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (Ken Kesey), Brave New World (Aldous Huxley), The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway), The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton), A Dance to the Music of Time (Anthony Powell), The Golden Notebook (Doris Lessing), Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon), A Handful of Dust (Evelyn Waugh), Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden), The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter (Carson McCullers), Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison), The Man Who Loved Children (Christina Stead), Someplace to be Flying (Charles de Lint), Play It As It Lays (Joan Didion), The Sheltering Sky (Paul Bowles), The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (John le Carre), The Day of The Locust (Nathanael West), The Old Man and The Sea (Ernest Hemingway), The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne), Snow Falling on Cedars (David Guterson), The Hobbit (JRR Tolkien), Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry (Mildred Delois Taylor), A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith), The Giver (Lois Lowry), The Mermaid Chair (Sue Monk Kidd)