10 Life Changing Novels

A Listmania! list by A.Salinas "Pretty Vacant" (Toronto,CA)
 
The Time Traveler's Wife
1.  The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
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  "Don't let the movie ruin this amazing novel. One of the best love stories ever told."
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Unbearable Lightness Of Being
2.  Unbearable Lightness Of Being by Milan Kundera
The list author says:
  "What will you choose: heaviness or lightness?"
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Modern Classics Mrs Dalloway
3.  Modern Classics Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
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  "A novel of unparalleled beauty. Woolf captures the fragility of life: aging, love, death, war --- the meaninglessness of it all. No other novel captures the human condition as well as Mrs. Dalloway."
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Brave New World
4.  Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
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  "An unheeded warning about the dangers of comsumerism. Hold up a mirror and see yourself."
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Nineteen Eighty Four
5.  Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell
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  "A must read for anyone interested in political rhetoric. A chilling reflection of our own world: "We've always been at war with Eastasia""
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Mother Night: A Novel
6.  Mother Night: A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut
The list author says:
  "As Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. best put it: "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be""
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Slaughterhouse-Five
7.  Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The list author says:
  "All there is left to say after a massacre is "Poo-tee-weet?""
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Wide Sargasso Sea
8.  Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
The list author says:
  "A beautiful exploration of the fine line between love and hate; sanity and madness. A must read for anyone interested in post-colonial literature."
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The Bell Jar
9.  The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The list author says:
  "No other novel captures anxiety and depression as well as Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar."
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Invisible Cities
10.  Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
The list author says:
  "The most imaginative novel ever written."
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