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To: Stephanie32
If you liked 1984 then check out Brave New World from Aldous Huxley.

Everyone has recommended such great books! I enjoy the Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child Agent Pendergast series, Cabinet of Curiosities, Still Life With Crows, Book of the Dead, Wheel of Darkness, etc. I haven't read them all. They aren't deep literature or anything, but they are crime stories with a little bit of a supernatural twist. Still Life With Crows is my favorite.

Douglas Preston just wrote a true crime book, The Monster of Florence and if you like true crime I highly recommend it.

You mentioned you like nonfiction that reads like fiction, In Cold Blood by Truman Capote practically invented the genre and it's still one of the best. I downloaded it on audiobook and the narrator is incredible.

271 posted on 07/27/2008 3:12:20 PM PDT by retrokitten (Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. Mother Teresa)
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To: retrokitten; Stephanie32

Thank you, they sound really absorbing. Everyone SURE has recommended great books and the list is still growing.
I read In Cold Blood too and really liked it. It’s funny how you get scared but like it, isn’t it? :-)


292 posted on 07/27/2008 5:07:45 PM PDT by Stephanie32
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