Joshua Byrd rated The orchid thief: 5 stars
The orchid thief by Susan Orlean
First Ballantine edition published by arrangement with Random House, Inc.
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Joshua Byrd rated High Fidelity: 5 stars
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
Rob does. He keeps a list, in fact. But Laura isn't on it - even though she's just become his …
Joshua Byrd rated In Cold Blood: 5 stars
Joshua Byrd rated Norwegian Wood: 5 stars
Norwegian Wood by Jay Rubin, Haruki Murakami
Toru, a quiet and preternaturally serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young …
Joshua Byrd rated The little prince: 5 stars
The little prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
For readers who would like a quick reminder of the book and its main storyline, here is a summary of …
Joshua Byrd rated The Prince: 5 stars
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
The Prince (Italian: Il Principe [il ˈprintʃipe]; Latin: De Principatibus) is a 16th-century political treatise written by Italian diplomat and …
Joshua Byrd rated Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?: 4 stars
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill. Somewhere among the hordes of humans out there, …
Joshua Byrd rated A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: 4 stars
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is a memoir by Dave Eggers released in 2000. It chronicles his stewardship of …
Joshua Byrd rated Eating animals: 5 stars
Eating animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years oscillating between omnivore and vegetarian. But on the brink …
Joshua Byrd rated Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: 5 stars
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
A new novel by the author of Everything Is Illuminated introduces Oskar Schell, the nine-year-old son of a man killed …
Joshua Byrd rated Everything Is Illuminated: 5 stars
Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man -- also named Jonathan Safran Foer -- sets out to …
Joshua Byrd rated The importance of being earnest and other plays: 5 stars
Joshua Byrd rated Tao Te Ching: 5 stars
Tao Te Ching by Laozi
The Tao Te Ching (UK: , US: ; simplified Chinese: 道德经; traditional Chinese: 道德經; pinyin: Dàodé Jīng [tâu tɤ̌ tɕíŋ] …
Joshua Byrd rated Heart of Darkness: 5 stars
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness (1899) is a novella by Polish-English novelist Joseph Conrad. It tells the story of Charles Marlow, a …
Joshua Byrd rated Where the wild things are: 5 stars
Where the wild things are by Maurice Sendak
This is an inspired children's book about a boy's passage through tempestuous aspects of life.
Max, a naughty little boy, …