I've seen a lot of great lists, but personally I missed Thomas Paine's works, Musil's Mann ohne Eigenshaften and some more of Umberto Eco's works :D
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I've seen a lot of great lists, but personally I missed Thomas Paine's works, Musil's Mann ohne Eigenshaften and some more of Umberto Eco's works :D
I´ve just realized how many good books I must read! Thanks for the sugestions!
Some of my favourites (don´t know if they´re all classics, but I hope you enjoy them):
- Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
- East of Eden - John Steinbeck
- Lord of the Rings - Tolkien
- Foundation Trilogy - Isaac Asimov
- Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
- Exodus - Leon Uris
- The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
- Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
- Illusions - Richard Bach
- The Power of Myth - Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers
I´ve noticed no one mentioned any brazilian author... We have very good authors, and very good books. I have some suggestions of good books I have read and found out that have translations in english:
- The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas (Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas) and Dom Casmurro - Machado de Assis (his best novels, and, if available, read his short stories, they are really good and full of fine social irony)
- A Time to Meet (Encontro Marcado) - Fernando Sabino
- Captains of the Sands (Capitães da Areia) and Sea of Death (Mar Morto) - Jorge Amado (stories of stray-kids and sailors in Bahia, very touching)
- Family Ties (Laços de Família) and Revelations of one world (A descoberta do mundo) - Clarice Lispector (both are short stories, very good - she´s got some good novels, too)
- Time and the Wind (O Tempo e o Vento) and Incident in Antares (Incidente em Antares) - Erico Veríssimo (the first is a trilogy telling a family´s story in the south of Brasil through two centuries, and the second is a very funny story about a strike of the grave-diggers and the awakening of seven recently dead people in protest... imagine...;D)
And, from Portuguese literature, my suggestion is the poetry of Fernando Pessoa, especially with the heteronymous Alberto Caeiro, very good!
Well, you will find out that brazilian literature has not only Paulo Coelho...
As you'll notice, I am real big on the classics
no order...
steinbeck-of mice and men
stevenson-treasure island
wilde-portait of dorian gray
faulkner-the sound an the fury
dumas-the count of monte cristo
My top 15, in order:
1) Bleak House, Dickens
2) Invisible Man, Ellison
3) Crime and Punishment, Dostoyesvsky
4) Moby Dick, Melville
5) Great Expectations, Dickens
6) For Whom the Bell Tolls, Hemingway
7) One Hundred Years of Solitude, Garcia Marquez
8) A Farewell to Arms, Hemingway
9) Of Human Bondage, Maughm
10) Love in the Time of Cholera, Garcia Marquez
11) Swann's Way, Proust
12) The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway
13) All Quiet on the Western Front, Remarque
14) Hard Times, Dickens
15) Wind-Up Bird Chronicles, Murokami
Hey, theres nothing wrong with that! The books are classics for a reason. This is an avenue of life in which I believe conformity is most justified.Quote:
As you'll notice, I am real big on the classics
Crime and Punishment - Dostoyesvsky
The Idiot - Dostoyevsky
The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoyevsky
The Caine Mutiny - Herman Wouk (thats just sentamentalism)
King Lear - William Shakespeare (it can be considered a book? Thats how I read it)
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc - Mark Twain
Magister Ludi - Herman Hess
The Zork Chronicles - George Effinger (in all seriousness)
The Confessions of Saint Augustine
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
(The list must be composed of books we've read, right?)
Some of my favourites :
Proust - In Search of Lost Time
Kafka - The Trial
Woolf - Mrs Dalloway
Borges - Collected Fictions
Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises
Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
García Márquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude
Amado - Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
Céline - Journey To The End Of The Night
Gide - The Counterfeiters
My list is short but anyway...
1. Samuel Langorne Clemens (M.T) - Roughing It
2. Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights
3. Jack London - Seawolf/Martin Eden/Smoke Bellew
4. Oscar Wilde - The Picture Of Dorian Gray/The Ballad Of Reading Gaol (poetry)
5. Valerio Massimo Manfredi - ALEXANDER The Ends Of Earth
6. Bruce Lee The Warrior Within (sorry, I forgot the author's name)
7. Yaroslav Gashek - The Adventures Of The Courageous Soldier Shveik (a must read!)
8. Dostoevsky - The Gambler
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Of course tastes are different, some may hate my list.
I´ve read it too, and it´s very good and funny, full of recipes, but it´s not one of my favourites. I prefer Sea of Death (Mar Morto), it made me cry...Quote:
Some of my favourites :
Amado - Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
Fantastic literature is not what I prefer, but that was good.Quote:
García Márquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude
Well, it´s better start to read some suggestions of this thread, they are very good indeed...
here some of my favourites
a summer - william shakespeare
one hundred years of solitude - gabriel garcia marquez
the ghost - danielle steel
the da vinci code - dan brown
ana karenina - leo tolstoy
les miserables - victor hugo
safo biography - alexander krislov
life is a dream - pedro calderon de la barca
Wuthering Heights - emily bronte
the impostor - jane feather
perfume - patrick suskind
the eight - katherine neville (this one is great)
ummmm and some more i think....
A FAREWEL TO ARMS Ernest Hemingway
WAR AND PEACE Leo Tolstoy
ULYSSES James Joyce
THE PAINTED BIRD Jerzy Kosinski
ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST Ken Kesey
A SEPARATE PEACE John Knowles
THE HOBBIT J.R.R. Tolkien
THE BELL JAR Sylvia Plath
THE CATCHER IN THE RYE J.D. Salinger
FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS Ernest Hemingway
Hi!! In your opinion wich is the 10 "u have to have" list?? This will really help me to complete my libary... Thanks!! Take care
Hola Mitopeia! Bienvenidos a LitNet! I think there is a thread around here somewhere with "must have classics" You might want to look that one up. But I can help out a little bit here if you want...just some suggestions:
1. Don Quixote - Cervantes (I have heard a lot of good things about this one, but have yet to read it myself...it is sitting on the shelf saying read me!!)
2. War and Peace - Tolstoy
3. Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
4. Dr. Zhivago - the author eludes me right now
5. Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
6. The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
7. The Sotweed Factory - James Barth
8. The Hamlet - William Faulkner (I think LitNet book club reads a lot of his stuff)
9. On the Road - Jack Kerouac
10. Ulysses - James Joyce
This is all I can think of at the moment...provided you can get through these books...they are very rewarding...my daddy helped me with this list. Hope this helps.
1 "A Farewell to Arms" by Hemingway
2 "Crime & Punishment" by Dostoevsky
3 "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" by Joyce
4 "Light in August" by Faulkner
5 "1984" by Orwell
6 "The Grapes of Wrath" by Steinbeck
7 "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" by Hunter S. Thompson
8 "The Catcher in the Rye" by Salinger
9 "Factotum" by Bukowski
10 "Metamorphosis" by Kafka
Don Quixote is definitly one of the best book I've ever read!!! Boris Pasternak wrote Dr. Zhivago. Nobody said nothing about Brothers Karamazov :lol: :lol: :lol: (see July book), for me a much better then CiP, actually the best ever!Quote:
Originally Posted by grace86
here's a few,To Kill A Mockingbird the author wrote only one book and retired pity,superb plot,Tom Sawyer,I'm still a bit of this boy no matter how hard I try to grow up,The Bible of course and I most reccomend Ecclesiastes,Les Miserables,The Hunchback of Notre Dame,The Old Man and The Sea,Gullivers Travels