Adult Challenged Books

 

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1. The adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Author:
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
Average Rating:
3.5 stars
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Description:
A feisty young boy fakes his own death to escape his abusive father and heads off down the Mississippi River with his newfound friend Jim, a runaway slave. The adventures of a mischievous young boy and his friends growing up in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century.

2. Brideshead revisited: the sacred and profane memories of Captain Charles Ryder

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Author:
Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
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Captain Charles Ryder, stationed at Brideshead, recalls his boyhood associations with the odd but charming members of an English noble family.

3. The kite runner

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Author:
Hosseini, Khaled
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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The perennial bestseller-now available as a sensational new graphic novel.

Since its publication in 2003, nearly 7 million readers have discovered The Kite Runner. Through Khaled Hosseini's brilliant writing, a previously unknown part of the world was brought to vivid life for readers. Now, in this beautifully illustrated graphic novel adaptation, Hosseini brings his compelling story to a new generation of readers.

4. The kite runner

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Author:
Hosseini, Khaled
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
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Traces the unlikely friendship of a wealthy Afghan youth and a servant's son, in a tale that spans the final days of Afghanistan's monarchy through the atrocities of the present day. An epic tale of fathers and sons, of friendship and betrayal, that takes us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the atrocities of the present day. The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy Afghan youth and the...

5. Of mice and men

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Author:
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
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In the California's 1930', two unlikely friends, Lenny and George, dream of owning a farm together. Now that they've landed a job on a farm in the Salinas Valley, the dream seems within their grasp. But, the boss' son has a flirtatious wife and a few minutes alone with her dashes all hope of their leading a normal life.

6. A prayer for Owen Meany

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Author:
Irving, John, 1942-
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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In the summer of 1953, two 11-year-old boys--best friends--are playing in a Little League baseball game in New Hampshire. One of the boys hits a foul ball that kills his best friend's mother. Owen Meany believes he didn't hit the ball by accident. He believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after 1953 is extraordinary and terrifying.

7. Ulysses

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Author:
Joyce, James, 1882-1941
Average Rating:
3 stars
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James Joyce's novel Ulysses is said to be one of the most important works in Modernist literature. It details Leopold Bloom's passage through Dublin on an ordinary day: June 16, 1904. Causing controversy, obscenity trials and heated debates, Ulysses is a pioneering work that brims with puns, parodies, allusions, stream-of-consciousness writing and clever structuring. Modern Library ranked it as number one on its list of the twentieth

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8. Women in love

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Author:
Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Widely regarded as D. H. Lawrence's greatest novel, Women in Love continues where The Rainbow left off, with the third generation of the Brangwens. Focusing on Ursula Brangwen and her sister Gudrun's relationships-the former with a school inspector and the latter with an industrialist and then a sculptor- Women in Love is a powerful, sexually explicit depiction of the destructiveness of human relations.