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Gloria Avner’s Ten Favorite Books

Gloria Avner

The Seat of the Soul by Gary Zukav

The Seat of the Soul by Gary Zukav

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

My Name Is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok

The Crack in the Cosmic Egg by Joseph Chilton Pearce

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

Jane Eyre by Chalotte Bronte

Light in August by William Faulkner

The Theater and its Double by Antonin Artaud

The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell

Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

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Gloria Avner

Gloria Avner is a painter and poet living in Key Largo, Florida. She attended Berkeley in the days of the Free Speech Movement, lived in London and journeyed to Morocco and India. For many years she ran a gallery of tribal art.

Author: Gloria Avner Tags: top ten Category: On Literature, Your Top Ten Books January 14, 2014

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