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My BookLists

• To-Read (Top 10 of 83)
  • Around the World in 80 Days
    by Verne, Jules
  • The Art of War
    by Sun Tzu
  • Bartleby the Scrivener
    by Melville, Herman
  • The Beast in the Jungle
    by James, Henry
  • Belinda
    by Edgeworth, Maria
  • Beyond Good and Evil
    by Nietzsche, Friedrich
  • The Birth-Mark
    by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
  • The Black Cat
    by Poe, Edgar Allan
  • The Black Monk
    by Chekhov, Anton
  • Bleak House
    by Dickens, Charles
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  • Moby Dick
    by Melville, Herman
  • Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
    by Verne, Jules

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Question of the Week - Question of the Week #28: For Adults Only

I read 20000 Leagues Under the Sea when I was about nine or ten. I loved the way the language worked in that book - everything was so intricate and somewhat exhausting, but it started a lifelong love affair with the classics. I read Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, George Eliot, Dickens, Melville - though I didn't really get into Jane Austen until recently and I've fallen in love with Pride and Prejudice.

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Question of the Week - Question of the Week #5: Which was "the one?"

I remember several books from when I was a kid. I remember being terribly, terribly determined to march all the way through Born Free at age 7 (which I did!), and being horrified and fascinated by Anne Frank, but I think it was Jules Verne's 20000 Leagues Under the Sea that really cemented my love of books.

I posted this topic 12 months ago. Replies (14)