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Windy recommends four books about Chicago:
- The Cliff-Dwellers (1893), by Henry Blake Fuller
- Sister Carrie (1900), by Theodore Dreiser
- The Pit (1903), by Frank Norris
- The Jungle (1906), by Upton Sinclair
"Bipolar Writer" recommends:
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
- Macbeth by William Shakespeare
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
- Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Cheryl recommends:
- The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
- The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
- The Shadow Line by Joseph Conrad
- Uncle Silas by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
- Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Sarah recommends five children's classics:
- Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol
- Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
- The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
Cheryl recommends:
- Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
- A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy
- Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens
- No Thoroughfare by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins
- Green Mansions by William Henry Hudson
Elias recommends:
- Dracula by Bram Stoker
- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Irving Washington
- The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
- Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley
- Le Morte d'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory
Adam recommends:
- Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton
- Walden by Henry David Thoreau
- Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Imitation of Christ by Thomas A Kempis
- Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Charles recommends:
- Zendyne by Han Li Thorn
- Tokyo Zero by Marc Horne
- Accelerando by Charles Stross
- Everyone In Silico by Jim Munroe
Lainey recommends:
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- Emma by Jane Austen
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Kate recommends:
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
- Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare
Mudasser recommends:
- Relativity - The Special and General Theory by Albert Einstein
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- Pillars of Society by Henrik Ibsen
Louie recommends:
- Five titles by H. Rider Haggard.
- Ayesha
- Cleopatra
- Eric Brighteyes
- King Solomon's Mines
- She
Cheryl recommends:
- The Law and the Lady by Wilkie Collins
- The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
- O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
- The Odd Women by George Gissing
- Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Nirmal recommends:
- The Wrecker by R L Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne
- Dead Men Tell No Tales by E W Hornung
- Arsene Lupin by Edgar Jepson and Maurice Leblanc
- Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini
- Coral Island by R M Ballantyne
Jemaeux recommends:
- Sintram and His Companions by Friedrich De La Motte Fouque
- Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas DeQuincey
- Love and Life by Charlotte M Yonge
- Undine by Friedrich De La Motte Fouque
- Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
Victor recommends:
- Fanny Hill by John Cleland
- Hamlet by Wm. Shakespeare
- Scorched Earth by Walter D. Petrovic
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
- Rob Roy by Walter Scott