There are those books you wish you could forget so you could read them again for the first time.
Then there are the books that deserve repeat-reads five, ten, twenty times. Tory loves reading — old
books and new, classic and obscure. Here are just a few of her go-to reads — including her all-time
favorite, Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude. From there, it’s about
heroes, humor, stories you just can’t forget and then some.

  1. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  2. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
  3. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
  4. Black Dahlia by James Ellroy
  5. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
  6. The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
  7. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  8. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
  9. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
  10. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
  11. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
  12. The Postman Always Rings Twice by James Cain
  13. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  14. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
  15. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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