Any great book's you'd like to reccomend?

[Conn]

hey I'm trying to find new books to read so if you have any suggestions put them down, title, author, genre. Thank you.

[dramasnot6]

Some classics for you:

Nineteen Eighty Four- George Orwell, Sci-fi
Mists of Avalon-Marion Zimmer Bradley, Fantasy
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley, Sci-fi
Crime and Punishment -Dotstoyevsky
Metamorphosis-Kafka
The Good Earth-Pearl S.Buck

[toni]

Okay. More on Classic Lit :D

Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
The Masque of Red Death - Edgar Alllan Poe
The Green Mile - Stephen King (Science Fiction)
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Stardust - Neil Gaiman

[jon1jt]

i'll offer one that seems to get left out and yet is up there with Catcher in the Rye:

Separate Peace, John Knowles

(and Metamorphosis by Kafka and 1984...yes, those are great books! :)

[dramasnot6]

I love the Importance of Being Earnest, Lord of the Flies and The Picture of Dorian Gray too toni! :thumbs_up
*smacks head* How could i forget Catcher and the Rye? Well if your reccomendation can compete with JD Salinger I will definetly have to pick it up :D

Also:
Cat's Cradle- Kurt Vonnegut
The house on the strand AND Rebecca by Daphne de Maurier(she's a really fun author)

[vili]

I think it would have helped if Conn had mentioned what sort of literature s/he is after. There simply are so many good works there. :)

But let me just mention one of my personal favourites, Patrick White. His novel Voss is a good starting point. It is an exceptionally powerful story of passion between an explorer and a young woman, who are separated in geographical terms but strongly united on a totally different level. It is also perhaps White's most accessible novel.

Other novels by White to consider as good starting pieces are Riders in the Chariot and A Fringe of Leaves. Riders is an exploration of the metaphysical and the religious in the very heart of everyday life, and beautifully mixes the spiritual with the mundane. A Fringe of Leaves, meanwhile, is concerned with a multiplicity of issues but especially so with different environments and societies. The prose in it is also perhaps the most gentle of all of White's novels.

[THX-1138]

the kite runner by Khaled Hosseini

http://www.amazon.com/Kite-Runner-Khaled-Hosseini/dp/1594480001

[EAP]

Sure.

Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chobsky

Better then Catcher in the Rye and A Seperate Peace combined together.

[Conn]

Commenting on vili's post I'm not looking for anything thats similar to what I've read before I'm trying to expand my reading comprehension so I just want to see general novels and personal favorites

[andave_ya]

I'm new here, but I just wanted to add Dorothy L. Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey books, if you're at all into British cozies. These books are not classics. One of the things I love most about them is that they are chock full of references to classical literature, mostly Homer, so every time I read the books, there is something new for me to understand as I grow older and read and learn more. Am I making sense? They are not for everyone, simply because it takes a certain kind of temperament to enjoy them. If you're interested, I could tell you more. I can go on forever on Lord Peter!

[Riesa]

The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski

[Boogie]

Assuming you've read all the classics, here are just two I like,

Stephen King/Peter Straub's The Talisman is one of my favorite books about an epic journey. It's like a small side trip through a part of the world of Narnia or Lord of the Rings.

Lewis Carroll's Alice's adventures in wonderland, although a children's book, I consider a short must read if you haven't before.

[the Last 13]

although not necessarily classics or what everyone else is suggesting still good books and great reads

*the short story -riding the bullet- by stephen king ...can be found in everything's eventual which is good all around
*the tomorrow series (tomorrow, when the war began)- by john marsden
*Interview with the vampire, the vampire lestat and queen of the damned...Anne Rice (obviously)
*falling by fire - teena booth
*born to rock- gordon korman
*The Sword of Truth series- by terry goodkind

yeah...I'll post more when I remember them...not that I cant think of any more good books....just cant use my brain right now to think of them....

[amuse]

am finally reading Les Mis - love it. should have read the translato's intro but didn't, which made jumping in much simpler. great read by Hugo.

agree with Mists of Avalon wholeheartedly, Bradley's Thendara House is also good. so are the prequels to M of A
The Voyage by Charles Morgan is worthy and completely beautiful
The Killer Angels (gettysburg tale) by Michael Shaara
The Sketch Book - Washington Irving
War and Peace (kinda goes without saying, though) also, The Death of Ivan Ilych - Tolstoy, Count Leo
The Last Unicorn - Peter S. Beagle
Roots - Alex Haley
two short stories generally found in one book: Farmer Giles of Ham and Smith of Wooton Major - Tolkien
anything by George MacDonald, but especially his short tales (as opposed to novels)
Chyme and Punishment, Dostoyevsky...make that Crime :D
The Bread Winners forget who wrote it...hold on - Anzia Yezierska

[JaneEyre1986]

i'll offer one that seems to get left out and yet is up there with Catcher in the Rye:

Separate Peace, John Knowles

(and Metamorphosis by Kafka and 1984...yes, those are great books! :)

I agree with all 4 of those!

Also, a book I can barely get my nose out of: Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt. And anything by Maya Angelou.

[Jean-Baptiste]

I think you ought to read A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, and To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, and Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini, and Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, and Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya, and Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell, and Love by Toni Morrison, and The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain, and The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard by Anatole France, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey, and Kim by Rudyard Kipling, and Walden by Henry David Thoreau, and Father's and Sons by Turgenev, and The Farmer's Daughters by William Carlos Williams, and The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton, and Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., and Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre, and The Shadowline by Joseph Conrad, and Candide by Francois Voltaire, and The Fall by Albert Camus, and The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake, and Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor, and...have fun with them. :wave:

[wcbookwormosu]

I'd seriously recommend Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Simply because its one of the most engaging piece of literature out there. Something else I would recommend is The Alienist by Caleb Carr. It's a very good book, but it contains some graphic material in it, so i wouldn't recommend it the the faint at heart.

[Mrs Dickens]

A Tale of Two Cities - By Charles Dickens

The Bitterbynde Trilogy:

The Ill Made Mute

The Lady of Sorrows

The Battle of Evernight

All of the above are written by Cecilia Dart-Thornton

[ennison]

Patrick White 'Tree of Man'
R C Hutchinson 'Testament'
W Golding 'The Inheritors'