readingrecsfromjoy rated Ocean at the End of the Lane: 5 stars
Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in is long …
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readingrecsfromjoy rated The Day the Crayons Quit: 5 stars
readingrecsfromjoy 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 …
readingrecsfromjoy rated Frankenstein: 5 stars
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Obsessed with creating life itself, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, which he shocks …
The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales by Jon Scieszka
The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales is the ultimate in fractured fairy tales. Not only do the …
American Gods (en español): American Gods (Brainstorming) by Neil Gaiman
Released from prison, Shadow finds his world turned upside down. His wife has been killed; a mysterious stranger offers him …
readingrecsfromjoy rated Two Boys Kissing: 4 stars
Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan
New York Times bestselling author David Levithan tells the based-on-true-events story of Harry and Craig, two 17-year-olds who are about …
readingrecsfromjoy rated A Swiftly Tilting Planet: 5 stars
A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle (Wrinkle in Time (Digest) (3) Time quintet ; bk. 3)
The Murry and OKeefe families enlist the help of the unicorn, Gaudior, to save the world from imminent nuclear war. …
readingrecsfromjoy rated The Left Hand of Darkness: 5 stars
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
"One of my favorite novels is The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K Le Guin. For more than 40 …
readingrecsfromjoy rated The Handmaid's Tale: 5 stars
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
A gripping vision of our society radically overturned by a theocratic revolution, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid's Tale has become one …
readingrecsfromjoy rated Number the stars: 5 stars
Number the stars by Lois Lowry
In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps …
readingrecsfromjoy rated Da heng xiao zhuan: 5 stars
F. Scott Fitzgerald: Da heng xiao zhuan (Chinese language, 1974, Jin ri shi jie she)
Da heng xiao zhuan by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate – a marvelous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life …
readingrecsfromjoy rated The Giver: 5 stars
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other …
readingrecsfromjoy rated Coraline: 5 stars
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
When Coraline steps through a door to find another house strangely similar to her own (only better), things seem marvelous. …
readingrecsfromjoy rated Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats: 5 stars
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot’s playful cat poems have delighted readers and cat lovers around the world ever since they were first …