To that end and looking at some of my “then” perceptions, I see books that have stayed with me over time and that I would now rate higher. Also true is the inverse… some books that I must have really enjoyed in the moment, I don’t now have much memory of. But, for sure, the books that I had rated a 5 are still a 5 :o)
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“Ask and It Is Given”
Abraham-Hicks
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“Half of a Yellow Sun”
Chimamanda N. Adichie
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“The Five People you Meet in Heaven”
Mitch Albom
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“Alentejo Blue”
Monica Ali
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“Brick Lane”
Monica Ali
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“Moral Disorder”
Margaret Atwood
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“Oryx and Crake”
Margaret Atwood
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“What the Body Remembers”
Shauna Singh Baldwin
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“Nine Parts of Desire”
Geraldine Brooks
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“The Good Earth”
Pearl S. Buck
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“Upstate”
Kalisha Buckhanon
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“Breath, Eyes, Memory”
Edwidge Danticat
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“The Funny Thing Is…”
Ellen Degeneres
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“The Inheritance of Loss”
Kiran Desai
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“Queen of Dreams”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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“The Story of Jane Doe”
Jane Doe
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“The Queen Of Subtleties”
Suzannah Dunn
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“The Memory Keeper’s Daughter”
Kim Edwards
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“Middlesex”
Jeffrey Eugenides
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“The Sunflower”
Richard Paul Evans
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“As I Lay Dying”
William Faulkner
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“White Oleander”
Janet Fitch
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“Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close”
Jonathan Safran Foer
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“Pillars of the Earth”
Ken Follett
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“My Life So Far”
Jane Fonda
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“A Million Little Pieces”
James Frey
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“My Friend Leonard”
James Frey
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“Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight”
Alexandra Fuller
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“Sweetness in the Belly”
Camilla Gibb
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“A Virtuous Woman”
Kaye Gibbons
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“Divining Women”
Kaye Gibbons
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“The Life All Around Me by Ellen Foster”
Kaye Gibbons
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“Eat, Pray, Love”
Elizabeth Gilbert
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“A Dollar Short”
Karin Gillespie
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“The Tipping Point”
Malcolm Gladwell
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“The Dog Who Rescues Cats”
Philip Gonzalez
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“The Broker”
John Grisham
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“Water for Elephants”
Sara Gruen
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“The Laments”
George Hagen
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“Holy Fools”
Joanne Harris
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“A Lotus Grows in the Mud”
Goldie Hawn
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“Sacred Time”
Ursula Hegi
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“A Long Way Down”
Nick Hornby
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“The Kite Runner”
Khaled Hosseini
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“The Lost Garden”
Helen Humphreys
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“Until I Find You”
John Irving
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“Geisha, A Life”
Mineko Iwasaki
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“The Crazed”
Ha Jin
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“All Aunt Hagar’s Children”
Edward P. Jones
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“Angels”
Marian Keyes
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“Anybody Out There?”
Marian Keyes
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“Further Under the Duvet”
Marion Keyes
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“Rachel’s Holiday”
Marian Keyes
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“Under the Duvet”
Marion Keyes
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“Watermelon”
Marian Keyes
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“The Ha-Ha”
Dave King
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“Truth & Bright Water”
Thomas King
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“Prodigal Summer”
Barbara Kingsolver
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“Confessions of a Shopaholic”
Sophie Kinsella
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“Interpreter of Maladies”
Jhumpa Lahiri
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“The Namesake”
Jhumpa Lahiri
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“I Know This Much is True”
Wally Lamb
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“Grace (Eventually)”
Anne Lamott
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“Plan B”
Anne Lamott
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“Mr. Phillips”
John Lancaster
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“Rush Home Road”
Lori Lansens
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“The Girls”
Lori Lansens
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“Inside Out”
Evelyn Lau
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“Random Family”
Adrian Leblanc
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“Mara and Dann”
Doris Lessing
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“Fruit of the Lemon”
Andrea Levy
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“Small Island”
Andrea Levy
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“The Preacher’s Daughter”
Beverly Lewis
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“Fall on Your Knees”
Ann-Marie MacDonald
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“The Way the Crow Flies”
Ann-Marie MacDonald
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“Fallen”
David Maine
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“The Book of Samson”
David Maine
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“The Preservationist”
David Maine
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“Love in the Time of Cholera”
García Márquez
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“Life of Pi”
Yann Martel
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“Self”
Yann Martel
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“The Pleasure of My Company”
Steve Martin
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“Shopgirl”
Steve Martin
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“Teacher Man”
Frank McCourt
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“Saturday”
Ian McEwan
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“The Birth House”
Ami McKay
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“A Fine Balance”
Rohinton Mistry
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“Lipstick Jihad”
Azadeh Moaveni
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“The Diviners”
Rick Moody
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“Love”
Toni Morrison
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“Runaway”
Alice Munro
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“Reading Lolita in Tehran”
Azar Nafisi
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“The Time Traveler’s Wife”
Audrey Niffenegger
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“The Wisdom of Menopause”
Christiane Northrup
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“Dreams From My Father”
Barack Obama
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“Astrid & Veronika”
Linda Olsson
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“Fat Girls and Lawn Chairs”
Cheryl Peck
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“My Sister’s Keeper”
Jodi Picoult
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“Nineteen Minutes”
Jodi Picoult
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“Picture Perfect”
Jodi Picoult
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“Plain Truth”
Jodi Picoult
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“The Measure of a Man”
Sidney Poitier
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“Knee Deep in Wonder”
April Reynolds
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“Villa Incognito”
Tom Robbins
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“The Cave”
José Saramago
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“The Double”
José Saramago
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“Succulent Wild Woman”
Sark
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“Miss American Pie”
Margaret Sartor
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“Jesus Land”
Julia Scheeres
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“Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov)”
Stacy Schiff
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“Dress Your Family In Corduroy And Denim”
David Sedaris
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“Mississippi”
Kevin Sessums
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“Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress”
Dai Sijie
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“Mr. Muo’s Travelling Couch”
Dai Sijie
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“The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency”
Alexander McCall Smith
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“On Beauty”
Zadie Smith
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“Misfortune”
Wesley Stace
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“Cane River”
Lalita Tademy
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“Red River”
Lalita Tademy
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“The Opposite of Fate”
Amy Tan
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“Saving Fish from Drowning”
Amy Tan
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“A Boy of Good Breeding”
Miriam Toews
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“A New Earth”
Eckhart Tolle
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“The Amateur Marriage”
Anne Tyler
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“Back When We Were Grownups”
Anne Tyler
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“Bombay Time”
Thrity Umrigar
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“A Map of Glass”
Jane Urquhart
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“The Stone Carvers”
Jane Urquhart
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“Amriika”
M. G. Vassanji
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“The Book of Secrets”
M. G. Vassanji
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“The Gunny Sack”
M. G. Vassanji
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“Bagombo Snuff Box”
Kurt Vonnegut
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“God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian”
Kurt Vonnegut
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“Like Shaking Hands with God”
Kurt Vonnegut & Lee Stringer
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“A Man Without a Country”
Kurt Vonnegut
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“Timequake”
Kurt Vonnegut
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“PostSecret”
Frank Warren
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“Ya-Yas in Bloom”
Rebecca Wells
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an avid reader 
