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laurzam rated Frog and Toad: 5 stars
laurzam rated The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: 5 stars
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Jay Rubin, Haruki Murakami
Japan’s most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writers with this heroically imaginative novel, …
laurzam rated Name of the Rose: 5 stars
Umberto Eco: Name of the Rose (1994, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company)
Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
It is the year 1327. Franciscans in an Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, but Brother William of Baskerville’s investigation …
laurzam rated General in His Labyrinth: 5 stars
laurzam rated The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: 5 stars
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is the first of six books in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy …
laurzam rated The Invisible Life of Addie Larue: 3 stars
V. E. Schwab: The Invisible Life of Addie Larue (EBook, 2020, Tor Books)
The Invisible Life of Addie Larue by V. E. Schwab
France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever and is cursed …
laurzam rated The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches: 4 stars
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna
As one of the few witches in Britain, Mika Moon knows she has to hide her magic, keep her head …
laurzam rated The Four Winds: 3 stars
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah, Laura Vidal Sanz
Texas, 1921. A time of abundance. The Great War is over, the bounty of the land is plentiful, and America …
laurzam rated The Count of Monte Cristo: 5 stars
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel written by French author Alexandre Dumas …
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente (duplicate)
"One of the most extraordinary works of fantasy, for adults or children, published so far this century."―Time magazine, on the …
Eragon by Christopher Paolini
Eragon is the first book in The Inheritance Cycle by American fantasy writer Christopher Paolini. Paolini, born in 1983, began …
laurzam rated Picture of Dorian Gray, The by Oscar Wilde Leather Bound: 5 stars
laurzam rated The little prince: 5 stars
The little prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Little Prince (French: Le Petit Prince, pronounced [lə p(ə)ti pʁɛ̃s]) is a novella by French aristocrat, writer, and aviator …
laurzam rated The tale of Despereaux: 5 stars
The tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
The adventures of Desperaux Tilling, a small mouse of unusual talents, the princess that he loves, the servant girl who …