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100 Years of Solitude

11.22.63

120 Days of Sodom

1491

1984

A Brief History of Time

A Canticle for Leibowitz

A Child Called It

A Clockwork Orange

A Confederacy of Dunces

A History of the World in Ten and a Half Chapters

A Land Fit for Heroes Trilogy

A Little Life

A Naked Singularity

A People's History of the United States

A Scanner Darkly

A Series of Unfortunate Events

A Short History of Nearly Everything

A Song of Ice and Fire

A Storm of Swords

A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

A Thousand Splendid Suns

A Walk in the Woods

A World Lit Only by Fire

Accursed Kings

Alice in Wonderland

All Quiet on the Western Front

All the Light We Cannot See

All the Pretty Horses

America, the Book

American Gods

American Psycho

And then There Were None

Angela’s Ashes

Animal Farm

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

Anna Karenina

Anything Terry Pratchett, But, Mort is My Favorite

Anything Written by Robin Hobb

Apt Pupil

Artemis Fowl

Asimov's Guide to the Bible

Asoiaf

Atlas Shrugged

Bartimeaus

Batman: the Long Halloween

Battle Royale

Beat the Turtle Drum

Behind the Beautiful Forevers

Belgariad Series

Beloved

Berserk

Bestiario

Black Company

Blankets/habibi

Blind Faith

Blindness

Blood Meridian

Blood and Guts: a History of Surgery

Bluest Eye

Brandon Sanderson

Brave New World

Breakfast of Champions

Bridge to Terabithia

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: an Indian History of the American West

Calvin and Hobbs

Candide

Carrie

Cat's Cradle

Catch 22

Cats Cradle

Chaos

Child of God

Choke

Chuck Palahniuk

City of Ember

City of Thieves

Cloud

Collapse

Come Closer

Complaint

Confessions of a Mask

Contact

Conversation in the Cathedral

Cosmos

Crime and Punishment

Dan Brown

David

Dead Birds Singing

Dead Mountain: the Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident

Delta Venus

Die Räuber (the Robbers)

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

Don Quixote

Dragonlance

Dune

Dying of the Light

East of Eden

Educated

Empire of Sin: a Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans

Enders Game

Enders Shadow

Escape from Camp 14

Ever Since Darwin

Every Man Dies Alone

Everybody Poops

Everything is Illuminated

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Fahrenheit 451

Far from the Madding Crowd

Faust

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson

Feet of Clay

Fight Club

First Law

Flowers for Algernon

Flowers in the Attic

Foundation

Foundation Series

Foundation Trilogy

Frankenstein

Freakonomics

Fun Home

Galapagos

Geek Love

Gerald’s Game

Ghost Story

Go Ask Alice

Go Dog Go

Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid

Goldfinch

Gone Girl

Gone with the Wind

Good Omens

Grapes of Wrath

Great Expectations

Greg Egan

Guards! Guards!

Guns Germs and Steel

Guts (short Story)

Half a World

Ham on Rye

Hannibal Rising

Hard Boiled Wonderland

Hatchet

Haunted

Hawaii

Heart Shaped Box

Heart of Darkness

Hellbound Heart

Hellraiser

Hell’s Angels

Helter Skelter

His Dark Materials

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Hogg

Holocaust by Bullets

House of Leaves

How to Cook for Fourty Humans

How to Win Friends and Influence People

Huckleberry Finn

Hyperion

I Am America, and So Can You

I Am the Messenger

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream

I Was Dr. Mengele’s Assistant

In Cold Blood

In Search of Our Mother's Gardens

Independent People

Infinite Jest

Into Thin Air

Into the Wild

Introduction to Linear Algebra

Invisible Monsters

Ishmael

Jacques Le Fataliste

Jane Eyre

Jaunt

Job: a Comedy of Justice

John Dies at the End

John Grisham

Johnathan Livingston Seagull

Johnny Got His Gun

Jon Ronson

Journal of a Novel

Jurassic Park

Justine

L'histoire D'o

Lamb

Last Exit to Brooklyn

Les Miserables

Lies My Teacher Told Me

Life of Pi

Limits and Renewals

Little House in the Big Woods

Lockwood & Co.

Lolita

Looking for Trouble

Lord Foul’s Bane

Lord of the Flies

Lyddie

Malazan Book of the Fallen

Maldoror

Manufacturing Consent: the Political Economy of the Mass Media

Man’s Search for Meaning

Mark Twain’s Autobiography

Maus

Meditations

Megamorphs (series)

Mein Kampf

Memnooch the Devil

Metro 2033

Michael Crichton

Middlesex

Mindhunter

Misery

Mistborn

Moby Dick

Mrs. Dalloway

My Side of the Mountain

My Sweet Audrina

Nacht über Der Prärie (night over the Prairie)

Naked Lunch

Name of the Wind

Neuromancer

Never Let Me Go

Neverwhere

New York

Night

Night Shift

Norwegian Wood

Notes from Underground

Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea

Of Mice and Men

Of Nightingales That Weep

Ohio

Old Mans War

Old Mother West Wind

On Heroes and Tombs

On Laughter and Forgetting

On the Road

One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest

One Hundred Years of Solitude

One of Us

Painted Bird

Patrick Rothfuss

Perfume: the Story of a Murderer

Persepolis

Pet Sematary

Peter Pan

Pillars of the Earth

Poisonwood Bible

Pride and Predjudice

Ready Player One

Rebecca

Red Mars

Red Night (series)

Red Shirts

Red Storm Rising

Redwall

Replay

Requiem for a Dream

Revenge

Riftwar Saga

Ringworld

Roald Dahl

Rolls of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Round Ireland with a Fridge

Running with Scissors

Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes

Sapiens, a Brief History of Humankind

Scary Stories to Read in the Dark

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

Schindler’s List

Sein Und Zeit

Shades of Grey

Sharp Objects

Shattered Dreams

Sherlock Holmes

Sho-gun

Siddhartha

Sisypho

Skin and Other Stories

Slaughterhouse Five

Smoke & Mirrors

Snow Crash

Soldier Son

Sometimes a Great Notion

Sphere

Starship Troopers

Stiff, the Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Storied Life of A.j. Fikry

Stormlight Archives

Story of the Eye

Stranger in a Strange Land

Surely, You're Joking

Survivor Type (short Story)

Suttree

Swan Song

Tale of Two Cities

Tales of the South Pacific

The Alchemist

The Altered Carbon Trilogy

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

The Art of Deception

The Art of Fielding

The Art of War

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation

The Autobiography of Henry Viii

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

The Beach

The Bell Jar

The Bible

The Bloody Chamber

The Book Thief

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

The Brothers Karamazov

The Call of Cthulu and Other Weird Stories

The Cask of Amontillado (short Story)

The Catcher in the Rye

The Chronicles of Narnia

The Clown

The Color out of Space

The Communist Manifesto

The Complete Fiction of H.p. Lovecraft

The Count of Monte Cristo

The Curious Case of the Dog in the Night Time

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime

The Dagger and the Coin

The Damage Done

The Dark Tower

The Declaration of Independence, the Us Constitution, and the Bill of Rights

The Devil in the White City

The Dharma Bums

The Diamond Age

The Dice Man

The Discworld Series

The Dresden Files

The Elegant Universe

The First Law Trilogy

The Forever War

The Foundation Trilogy

The Gentleman Bastard Sequence

The Geography of Nowhere

The Girl Next Door

The Girl on the Milk Carton

The Giver

The Giving Tree

The God of Small Things

The Grapes of Wrath

The Great Gatsby

The Great Gilly Hopkins

The Hagakure

The Half a World Trilogy

The Handmaid’s Tale

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

The Hiding Place

The History of Love

The Hobbit

The Hot Zone

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

The Hyperion Cantos

The Jaunt

The Jungle

The Key to Midnight

The Killing Star

The Kingkiller Chronicles

The Kite Runner

The Last Question (short Story)

The Lies of Lock Lamora

The Little Prince

The Long Walk

The Lord of the Rings

The Lottery (short Story)

The Lovely Bones

The Magicians

The Magus

The Martian

The Master and Margarita

The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect

The Monster at the End of This Book

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

The Music of Eric Zahn (short Story)

The Name of the Wind & the Wise Man's Fear

The Necronomicon

The New Age of Adventure: Ten Years of Great Writing

The Night Circus

The Nightmare Box

The Odyssey

The Omnivore's Dilemma

The Orphan Master’s Son

The Outsiders

The Painted Bird

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

The Phantom Tollbooth

The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Pit and the Pendulum

The Plague

The Prince

The Prince of Tides

The Princess Bride

The Prophet

The Queen’s Gambit

The Rape of Nanking

The Red Dwarf

The Republic

The Rifter Saga

The Road

The Satanic Verses

The Screwtape Letters

The Secret History

The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel

The Selfish Gene

The Shining

The Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer

The Silmarillion

The Sirens of Titan

The Six Wives of Henry the 8th

The Solitude of Prime Numbers

The Speaker of the Dead

The Stars My Destination

The Stormlight Archive

The Story of My Tits

The Stranger

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck

The Suspicions of Mr. Witcher

The Tao of Pooh

The Things They Carried

The Time Machine

The Time Traveller’s Wife

The Tin Drum

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green

The Wasp Factory

The Wind Up Bird Chronicle

The Wind-up Bird Chronicle

The World According to Garp

The Yellow Wallpaper

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Things Fall Apart

Thirsty

This Blinding Absence of Light

Tiger!

Time Enough for Love

To Kill a Mockingbird

To Say Nothing of the Dog

Toni Morrison

Too Many Magicians

Traumnovelle

Tuesdays with Morrie

Tuf Voyaging

Undeniable

Under Plum Lake

Universe in a Nutshell

Unwind

Uzumaki

Various

Village Life in Late Tsarist Russia

Walden

War & Peace

War and Peace

Warriors: Bluestar’s Prophecy

Watchers

Water for Elephants

Watership Down

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

We Need to Talk About Kevin

Wheel of Time

When Rabbit Howls

Where the Red Fern Grows

Where the Sidewalk Ends

Why I Am Not a Christian

Why People Believe Weird Things

Wizards First Rule

Wool

World War Z

Worm

Wuthering Heights

You Can Choose to Be Happy

Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

#some of these are fucked up #but #all the better

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lionteck11 · 3 years ago

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stanbiassorters · 4 years ago

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Bruno Mars

In the last 10 years we have seen Bruno Mars storm the charts left right and centre. He achieved his first #1 single with B.o.B with the classic “Nothin’ on You” and has achieved countless #1′s since. He has certainly put his name out there into the music universe, and his releases always nab the attention, not only of his fans, but the general public worldwide also. Most recently, of course, his absolute storm trooper of a hit with Mark Ronson, “Uptown Funk”.

However, Bruno Mars has more than those huge #1′s up his sleeve, because even those that didn’t quite reach the #1 spot, all have smash hit written all over them. What’s your favourite you ask? Time to find out.

Click the link on the photo to find out and tweet us your results @stanbiassorters!

#bruno mars #24k magic #uptown funk #bias sorter

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news-mashable-yahoopartner-blog · 8 years ago

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Let us now remember 11 of Michelle Obama's coolest moments

After eight years of Barack and Michelle Obama serving as America’s warm, hip and understanding parents, the moment has finally arrived — the Trump takeover.

While there's no doubt we'll miss President Obama forgetting his phone, telling dad jokes and passionately singing at every chance he gets, this inauguration day will require an extra box of tissues because we also have to say farewell to the coolest first lady of all time — Michelle Obama.

SEE ALSO: Michelle Obama tears up during final speech as first lady

From the moment we saw Michelle give her husband a congratulatory fist bump after he clinched the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008, we knew we were in for a treat.

With her passion for education, exercise initiatives, sick dance moves and epic rap skills, FLOTUS has raised the bar for women both in and out of the White House.

Here's a look back at a few of the most spectacular moments she's gifted us over the years, in no particular order.

1. That time she went shopping at CVS with Ellen

Shopping has never looked so fun.

Ellen recently took Michelle to CVS Pharmacy to pick up a few necessities and teach her how to survive in the real world once she leaves the White House.

While the two perused magazines, bought Sasha Obama some headphones and attempted to give CVS employees back scratches, we were all busy wishing we were lucky enough to score an invite.

Here's hoping we'll run into the Obama's at our nearby CVS in 2017.

2. Her Tuskegee University commencement address

Obama delivered the commencement speech at Alabama's Tuskegee University, a historically black college, in 2015.

Rather than simply touch upon the power of education, FLOTUS highlighted the challenges and discrimination the black community has faced and overcome throughout the years, herself and her husband included.

Obama got real about the "many sleepless nights" she's endured as a result of the racist actions of others, and as she has done so many times before, spoke to remind black people in America of their immense worth.

3. Her mom dancing

Michelle came, she danced, she conquered. She danced her way into the White House alongside Barack and Beyoncé and hasn't stopped showing off her smooth moves since.

From boogieing with Storm Troopers to mom dancing with Jimmy Fallon and taking the stage with the stars of So You Think You Can Dance, Michelle wasn't afraid to bust a move and encourage others to do the same.

And while the world may have grown weary of Michelle's favorite 2014 jam — Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars' "Uptown Funk" — we will never grow tired of watching her dance to it.

4. Whenever she promoted healthy eating in a fun way

Has a turnip ever looked more appealing to anyone? No.

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From her clever "Turnip for What" Vine to singing with the Muppets and grocery shopping with Billy Eichner and Big Bird on Funny or Die's "Billy on the Street," no effort to show children the benefits of healthy eating was too silly for Michelle Obama.

Also, TBT to that time she competed with Jimmy Fallon in the Let's Move Fitness Challenge.

5. Her Mannequin Challenge with LeBron James and the Cavs

FLOTUS balls so hard that she had no problem enlisting the help of the 2016 NBA Champions, the Cleveland Cavaliers, to create one of the most praise-worthy Mannequin Challenges ever. Too 👏 cool 👏 for 👏 words.

6. Her inspirational speech at the DNC

When they go low, Michelle Obama has always gone high. As her time as first lady neared its end, she and her husband put their best efforts forward to assist Hillary Clinton in her own presidential campaign.

At the Democratic National Convention, FLOTUS's legendary New Hampshire speech moved Americans, lifting them up during a grim and sensitive time.

Obama spoke shortly after the Washington Post released a video from 2005 showing Trump and Today show co-host Billy Bush talking about women with extremely lewd language.

Though Trump's misogynistic comments towards women had been a topic of discussion throughout the campaign, FLOTUS addressed his most recent offense to the world, explaining, "it has been a week of profound contrast" and assuring the nation, "the measure of any society is how it treats its women and girls."

This speech embodies Obama's strength and ideals, and will undoubtedly go down in history.

7. Any time she wore an outfit, ever

First lady and fashion icon? Does it get any better?

FLOTUS absolutely slayed the fashion game every chance she got, from the inaugural balls to state dinners and holidays, Obama turned heads whether she was wearing Versace or sequin-covered Converse.

The Obamas celebrating Halloween 2015 (left) and attending their 13th and final state dinner in Oct. 2016 (right).

Image: Mashable composite/Ap images

8. When she destroyed Trump with a simple tap of her microphone

No one has quite mastered the art of taking down Donald Trump like Michelle Obama. During her epic campaign efforts on behalf of Hillary Clinton and without even mentioning Trump by name, Obama managed to address his debate complaints of a "faulty microphone."

"When she gets knocked down, she doesn't complain, she doesn't cry foul," Obama said about Clinton, before tapping her microphone to signal a reference to Trump.

Bow down to the queen.

9. When she dominated Carpool Karaoke

James Corden's White House tour ended in the best possible way: with Michelle Obama belting out Stevie Wonder and Beyoncé songs. The only way the commute could get any cooler is if Missy Elliott herself dropped by to sing "This Is For My Girls" — oh wait ...

10. When she guest-starred on some of our favorite TV shows

As a leading political figure in the world, Michelle Obama didn't limit herself to press conferences and the occasional talk show like many before her have done.

Instead, she took her love of pop culture and graced our television screens with guest appearances on everything from the Season 6 finale of Parks and Rec to an episode of Nashville (sort of). In addition to NCIS, the first lady has appeared in many children's shows as well, such as Disney’s Jessie, Sesame Street and iCarly.

Michelle Obama casually high-fiving Leslie Knope on Parks and Rec.

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11. That time she created a Snapchat account and met Rory Gilmore

In an effort to promote her "Let Girls Learn" initiative, Obama got hip with the kids and created a Snapchat account. Just let that sink in.... our first lady created a Snapchat account, which she then used to announce she would be appearing on James Corden's Carpool Karaoke, and THEN (in case that wasn't cool enough,) used the platform to document a casual hang out with Rory from Gilmore Girls.

A photo posted by Gilmore Girls (@gilmoregirlsslay) on Jun 22, 2016 at 12:38pm PDT

Yep, Alexis Bledel made all of our dreams come true by visiting the White House and bringing FLOTUS a bunch of books and Pop-Tarts on camera. What a time to be alive.

Thanks for the memories, Michelle. We'll miss you.

BONUS: Michelle Obama tears up during final speech as first lady

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