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Right Ho, Jeeves

★★★★★
Wooster is at Brinkley Court, trying to get Gussie Fink-Nottle away from newts long enough to get him hitched, while also trying to mend his cousin Angela's love life and saving his Aunt Dahlia's cook Anatole.

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

★★★★★
Alice falls into the rabbit-hole and has several adventures involving some very unusual characters

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Very Good, Jeeves

★★★★★
A collection of short stories related by Wooster where Jeeves rescues him and his friends from the after effects of their hare-brained schemes

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Peter Pan; or, The Boy Who Woundn't Grow Up

★★★★☆
Peter Pan, and the little fairy Tinker Bell lead the Darling children to the magical world of Neverland

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The Inimitable Jeeves

★★★★★
The supreme gentleman's gentleman continues working his magic to extricate his employer and his friends out of sticky situations

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My Man Jeeves

★★★★★
A collection of short stories which include among the first appearances Bertie Wooster and his superlative valet Jeeves

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The Mysterious Affair at Styles

★★★★★
The first novel by Dame Agatha, and also the first in which the iconic Poirot makes an appearance

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The Alchemist

★☆☆☆☆
A young shepherd follows his dreams, quite literally, and learns alchemy along the way.

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Little Women

★★★☆☆
A coming-of-age novel set around the American Civil war, detailing the lives of four sisters from childhood to womanhood.

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Flowers for Algernon

★★★★★
A diary of an intellectually challenged young man detailing his experience being part of an experimental procedure to increase his intelligence

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The Left Hand of Darkness

★★★★★
In a world far away, and a culture even further away, one human works to bridge the chasm of differences

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Fahrenheit 451

★★★★★
Guy Montag burns books, and all other such illegal commodities. But when he is exposed to a world where people didn’t live in fear, Montag re-examines his life

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A Murder is Announced

★★☆☆☆
Miss Marple decodes a very complicated murder which is preceded by an announcement of the murder in the local newspaper, replete with location, date and time.

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The Scarlet Letter

★★☆☆☆
In Puritan America, a young woman is accused of adultery, and is sentenced to wear the letter “A” on her outfit...

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The Stepford Wives

★★★★★
Joanna moves to beautiful Stepford with her family, it seems almost too good to be true. It is.

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A Christmas Carol

★★★★★
A classic which has lent so much to our everyday parlance, and likely started the very concept of “Christmas Spirit”

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