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Jasper Fforde is the author of “The Eyre Affair” and six other Thursday Next novels. The British writer’s latest novel, “Red Side Story,” is a sequel to 2009’s “Shades of Grey,” set in a dystopian U.K. where social standing is determined by the ability to see color.
‘True Grit’ by Charles Portis (1968)
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‘The Tailor of Gloucester’ by Beatrix Potter (1903)
‘Tintin in Tibet’ by Hergé (1959)
‘West With the Night’ by Beryl Markham (1942)
‘The Little Prince’ by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1943)
‘The Reason Why: The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade’ by Cecil Woodham-Smith (1953)
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