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Stalwart rated The City & the City: 5 stars
The City & the City by China Miéville
When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to …
City by Clifford D. Simak, David W. Wixon
City is a 1952 science fiction fix-up novel by American writer Clifford D. Simak. The original version consists of eight …
Stalwart rated Master and Margarita: 5 stars
Master and Margarita by Katherine Tiernan O'Conner, Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov, Diana Lewis Burgin, and 1 other
The battle of competing translations, a new publishing phenomenon which began with One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, …
Stalwart rated Starship Troopers: 4 stars
Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein, Patrick Imbert, Éric Picholle, and 1 other
Stalwart rated Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: 5 stars
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
"The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called 'yourself.'"One of the most important and influential books of the …
Stalwart rated The Maltese Falcon: 5 stars
The Maltese Falcon by Molly Thomas-Hicks, Dashiell Hammett (The big read)
Stalwart rated On the road: 4 stars
On the road by Jack Kerouac
Story of two restless young men in the late 1940s who cross and recross America, encountering parties, girls, drugs, loneliness …
Stalwart rated The Importance of Being Earnest: 5 stars
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on …
Stalwart rated Hell's Angels: 5 stars
Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson
This is an in depth examination of the notorious motorcycle club and its members. Thompson was allowed extraordinary access to …
Stalwart rated 2001: A Space Odyssey: 4 stars
2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke (Space Odyssey, #1)
On the Moon, an enigma is uncovered.
So great are the implications of this discovery that for the first time …
Stalwart rated Under the Greenwood Tree: 4 stars
Thomas Hardy: Under the Greenwood Tree (1999, Oxford University Press)
Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy (Oxford World's Classics)
Under the Greenwood Tree is the story of the romantic entanglement between church musician, Dick Dewey, and the attractive new …
Stalwart rated Thomas Hardy: 4 stars
Stalwart rated The Sign of Four Arthur Conan Doyle: 5 stars
The Sign of Four Arthur Conan Doyle by Arthur Conan Doyle, Arthur Conan Doyle, Arthur Conan Doyle, and 1 other
The Sign of the Four (1890), also called The Sign of Four, is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes written …
Stalwart rated The Hound of the Baskervilles: 5 stars
Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles (2001, Devon Books)
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
In this classic mystery set in 19th-century England, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are faced with discovering the truth behind …