Sarah Avery rated Beloved: 5 stars
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Beloved is a 1987 novel by the American writer Toni Morrison. Set after the American Civil War, it tells the …
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Writer of epic and contemporary fantasy. Winner of 2015 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award. Escaped academic.
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Sarah Avery rated A Confederacy of Dunces: 5 stars
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole's hero is one Ignatius J. Reilly, "huge, obese, …
Sarah Avery rated Their Eyes Were Watching God: 5 stars
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
I loved Jonah's Gourd Vine -- thought some of her short stories very fine -- and feel that this measures …
Sarah Avery rated Mules and men: 5 stars
Sarah Avery rated In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: 5 stars
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens by Alice Walker (A Harvest book)
Sarah Avery rated The red tent / Anita Diamant.: 4 stars
Walden and Civil Disobedience (150th Anniversary) (Signet Classics) by Henry David Thoreau
Henry Thoreau's "Walden" is a book about escaping from civilization in order to embrace your spiritual life
Sarah Avery rated Metamorphosis: 5 stars
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himself transformed (metamorphosed) into a large, monstrous insect-like …
Sarah Avery rated All Quiet on the Western Front: 5 stars
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
All Quiet on the Western Front (German: Im Westen nichts Neues, lit. 'In the West Nothing New') is a novel …
Sarah Avery rated Northanger Abbey: 4 stars
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey is both a perfectly aimed literary parody and a withering satire of the commercial aspects of marriage among …
Sarah Avery rated Song of Solomon: 5 stars
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Song of Solomon is a 1977 novel by American author Toni Morrison, her third to be published. It follows the …
Sarah Avery rated Charlotte's Web: 5 stars
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
Wilbur, the pig, is desolate when he discovers that he is destined to be the farmer's Christmas dinner until his …
Sarah Avery rated The Odyssey (Penguin Classics): 5 stars
The Odyssey (Penguin Classics) by Homer
The Odyssey (/ˈɒdəsi/; Greek: Ὀδύσσεια, Odýsseia) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, …
Sarah Avery rated Secret Garden (Children's Classics): 5 stars
Secret Garden (Children's Classics) by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret Garden has awakened the spirits of four generations of children to the hope of growth and rebirth as …
Sarah Avery rated History of the Peloponnesian War: 5 stars
History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Thucydides Thucydides, John J. Owen, and 1 other
A history of the war between Athens and Sparta, along with both of their allies and colonies. The author was …