June 29, 2011

What should I read next?

Obviously, we have our work cut out for us as far as reading goes this summer.  But, I saw this website and thought it was a fun resource if I ever found myself without something to read.  Out of curiosity, what are your favorite books?  What books does it suggest when you type in your favorite book?

Just for fun I put in Anna Karenina and this is what it suggested:

Anton Chekhov, J. Douglas Clayton, Ronald Wilks - Ward Six and Other Stories, 1892-1895 (Penguin Classics)
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Nikolai Gogol, R. Wilkes, Ronald Wilks - Diary of a Madman (Classics S.)
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Vladimir Nabokov, Dmitri Nabokov - Glory (Twentieth Century Classics S.)
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Plato, Henry Desmond Pritchard Lee - Timaeus and Critias
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Vladimir Nabokov, Dimitri Nabokov - Collected Stories (Penguin Modern Classics)
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F.M. Dostoevsky, Ignat Avsey - The Village of Stepanchikovo (Penguin Classics)
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Lawrence Sterne - Tristram Shandy
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Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin, Rosemary Edmonds - The Queen of Spades: The Negro of Peter the Great;Dubrovsky;the Captain's Daughter (Classics S.)
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Vladimir Nabokov, Dmitri Nabokov - King, Queen, Knave (Penguin Modern Classics)
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Henrik Ibsen, Peter Watts - Ghosts: A Public Enemy; When We Dead Wake (Classics S.)
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Easton Ellis Bret - Less Than Zero (A Format)
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Horace, Betty Radice, W.G. Shepherd - Odes (Classics S.)
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Paul Theroux - The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas
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F.M. Dostoevsky - " Poor Folk (Classics S.)
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Henrik Ibsen, Peter Watts - Peer Gynt: A Dramatic Poem (Classics S.)
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Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev, Rosemary Edmonds - Fathers and Sons (Classics S.)
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Victor Pelevin, Andrew Bromfield - The Life of Insects
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Sei Shonagon - The Pillow Book (Classics S.)
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James Joyce, Jeri Johnson - Ulysses (Oxford World's Classics)
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N. Kazantzakis - The Last Temptation of Christ
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T.S. Eliot, Nicholas Bentley - Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
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Mikhail Bulgakov, Diana Lewis Burgin, Katherine Tiernan O'Conner - The Master and Margarita
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Jose Saramago - The Cave
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James D. Watson, Steve Jones - The Double Helix: Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
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Alexander Pushkin, Michael Basker, John Bayley, Charles Johnston - Eugene Onegin (Penguin Classics)
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Lewis Carroll, Martin Gardner, John Tenniel - The Annotated Alice
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Irving Stone - The Agony and the Ecstasy
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Edgar Allan Poe, Derek Strange - Short Stories (Simply Stories: Level 2)
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Mario Vargas Llosa, Mario Vargas Llosa, Helen R. Lane - Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
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Hans Christian Andersen, Tiina Nunnally, Jackie Wullschlager - Fairy Tales (Penguin Classics)
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Mario Vargas Llosa, Mario Vargas Llosa, Edith Grossman - The Feast of the Goat
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Herman Melville, Andrew Delbanco - Moby-dick: Or, The Whale: Or, the Whale (Penguin Classics)
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Mikhail Bulgakov, Simon Franklin, Michael Glenny - The Master and Margarita (Everyman's Library Classics)
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Vladimir Nabokov - Pnin (Penguin Modern Classics)
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Edmond Rostand, Christopher Fry - Cyrano De Bergerac (Oxford World's Classics)
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Milan Kundera, Suzanne Rappaport - Laughable Loves
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F.M. Dostoevsky, David McDuff - The Idiot (Penguin Classics)
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Jean Rhys, Andrea Ashworth - Wide Sargasso Sea (Penguin Modern Classics)
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Washington Irving - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories (Penguin Classics)
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Niven Larry - Neutron Star
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Evelyn Waugh - A Handful of Dust (Penguin Modern Classics)
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Graham Greene, Zadie Smith - The Quiet American
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Niccolo Machiavelli, Peter Bondanella, P. Bondella, Mark Musa - The Prince (Oxford World's Classics)
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Nikolai Gogol, Robert A. Maguire - Dead Souls (Penguin Classics)
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Fyodor Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Ralph Parker - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Penguin Modern Classics)
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Erich Maria Remarque, Brian Murdoch - All Quiet on the Western Front
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John Steinbeck, Jay Parini - Travels with Charley: In Search of America (Penguin Modern Classics)
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Rudyard Kipling - Just So Stories (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Anonymous, Jack Zipes, Richard Francis Burton - The Arabian Nights: The Marvels and Wonders of the Thousand and One Nights

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