Here are my 10, in no particular order.
1. Walden
2. Watchmen
3. Republic
4. Lord of the Rings
5. My Antonia
6. Lonesome Dove
7. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
8. Oedipus Rex
9. Desert Solitaire
10. Preacher
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Here are my 10, in no particular order.
1. Walden
2. Watchmen
3. Republic
4. Lord of the Rings
5. My Antonia
6. Lonesome Dove
7. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
8. Oedipus Rex
9. Desert Solitaire
10. Preacher
- La terre by zola
- La bete humaine by zola
- A thousand splendid suns by hosseini
- L'assomoir by zola
- La ventre de paris by zola:flare::alien:;)
1. The Brother's Karamazov-- Dostoevsky
2. Don Quixote-- Cervantes
3. Crime and Punishment-- Dostoevsky
4. Les Miserables-- Hugo
5. In Search of Lost Time-- Proust
6. Jude the Obscure-- Hardy
7. Ulysses-- Joyce
8. Notes From the Underground-- Dostoevsky
9. Invitation to a Beheading-- Nabokov
10. A Tale of Two Cities --- Dickens
11. The Idiot-- Dostoevsky
12. Fathers and Sons-- Turgenev
13. War and Peace-- Tolstoy
14. The Satanic Verses --- Rushdie
15. Gargantua and Pantagruel-- Rabelais
Sometimes A Great Notion - Ken Kesey
The Grapes Of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
VALIS - Philip K. Dick
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Wind Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis
Homage To Catalonia - George Orwell
For Whom The Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
Tender Is The Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
I know i'm going to think of some obviously missed favourites almost immediately.
Iliad and Odyssey - Homer
Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe (considered to be the first novel)
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman - Laurence Sterne
Madame Bovary - G. Flaubert
James Joyce - Ulysses
En Attendant Godot - Samuel Beckett
The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
À la recherche du temps perdu - Marcel Proust
Les Fleurs du mal - Charles Baudelaire
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Originally Posted by andave_ya
Mere Christianity
The Odyssey
Beowulf
The Pickwick Papers
Home and the World.
When will this be collected?
Well I have been just hagning back and waiting to give everyone a chance to vote who wants to. And then once things grew quiet around her over a period of time, I will begin to put the list together. I have an offsite list that I keep with the titile of each book that has been nominated and a tally of how many votes it has recivied.
The Count of Monte Cristo
Les Miserables
Crime and Punishment
Siddhartha
Cat's Cradle
Dracula
Goodbye Mr Chips
Christmas Carol
To kill a Mocking Bird
Lord of the Flies
Oh, I will also add other votes 'cause I remember I had problems first time!Quote:
Originally Posted by bazarov
Fathers and Sons
Master and Margarita
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Anna Karenina
The Dervish and The Death
Idiot
Eugene Onegin
The Bible
1984
Dead Souls
Impressive, I know :lol::lol:
I added at least 10 books from this thread on my must ''read in next several months'' list. Thank you!
The Count of Monte-Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Silk by Alessandro Baricco (Translated by Ann Goldstein)
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
And if short stories count…
The yellow wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin
The Trial - Franz Kafka.
The Castle - Kafka.
The Stranger/Outsider - Albert Camus.
Crime and punishment - Dostoyevsky
Amerika or The man who disappeared - Kafka
Hi am kinda new here as although ive been a member for ages ive never actually posted! anyway these are my top 5 books (though not in order as i cant decide! :p )
Jane Eyre
Pride and Prejudice
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Persuasion
The Mists of Avalon
Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens
The Time Traveler's Wife Audrey Niffenegger
The Great Gatsby F.Scott Fitzgerald
With not too many books read yet I might look back at this in amusement in a few years but for now this is the best I can do :)