I am not a big sci fi fan---but Ender's Game was great! I really, really enjoyed it!Quote:
Originally Posted by Dark Muse
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I am not a big sci fi fan---but Ender's Game was great! I really, really enjoyed it!Quote:
Originally Posted by Dark Muse
1.The Inferno- Dante
2.Romeo and Juliet- Shakespeare
3.The Bible
4.The Republic- Plato
5.The Catcher in the Rye- Salinger
6.Catch-22- Heller
7.On the Road- Kerouac
8.The Metamorphoses- Ovid
9.Lolita- Nabokov
10.Andromache- Racine
My pick is kind of a mixed bag or all time greats and personal faves. I'm not particularly fond of Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Cervantes, Homer, Austen, etc. Most people prefer Hamlet, but I'm going to go with R&J for being Shakespeare's best.
You should definitely try Ender's Game. That's considered his best book.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dark Muse
1) Great Expectations - Dickens
2) Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
3) Lolita - Nabokov
4) Madame Bovary - Flaubert
5) Dracula - Stoker
6) Lord of the Flies - Golding
7) Invisible Man - Ellison
8) Ulysses - Joyce
9) The Enormous Room - Cummings
10) 1984 - Orwell
Man i posted this a long time ago!Quote:
Originally Posted by Niamh
Be more like;
Persuasion
Bitterbynde Saga by Cecilia Dart Thornton
Hellfire by Mia Gallagher
North and south by Elizabeth gaskell
East of Eden
Merlin Trilogy
Artemis Fowl
His Dark Materials
Deirdre of the Sorrows
Candide by Voltaire
1.Lord of the flies
2.1984
3.And then there were none
4.Treasure Island
5.Inheritence saga
6.The chronicles of Narnia
7.The BitterBynde saga
8.Children of the red king saga
9.A midsummer night's dream
10. Artemis fowl saga
In truth I love just about all the books I've read.
1. A prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
2. The end of Mr Y by Scarlett Thomas
3. Special topics in calamity physics by Marisha Pessl
4. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
5. Faust - Der Tragödie erster Teil by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
6. Der Proceß by Franz Kafka
7. North & South by Elizabeth Gaskell
8. The shadow of the wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
9. Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
10. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoj
Um, that isn't a novel :)Quote:
Originally Posted by mortalterror
Mine, I dunno (but in no particular order)
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Les Enfants Terribles by Jean Cocteau (which is probably actually a novella)
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgeson Burnett
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
1984 by George Orwell
Today I noticed that I had placed The Divine Comedy amongst my top ten novels as well...:blush::D
1.The Red and the black by Stendhal
2.Lost Illusions by Honore de Balzac
3.Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
4.Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevski
5.Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
6.War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
7.Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
8.Jane Eyre- Charlotte Bronte
9.The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
10.The Egyptian by Mika Waltari
So it's my ten. But I think that that list soon will change, because I have a lots of books which I want to read...
I was about to point that out actually! :):lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by johann cruyff
books everyone should read:
- Demian, Herman Hesse
- Ishmael, Daniel Quinn, a book that will change your view of the world
- Original Wisdom, Robert Wolff
- Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
- 1984
- The Catcher in the Rye
- Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury
- Maus, Art Spielgman
- The World According to Garp, John Irving
- Griffin and Sabine
What Kafka's Crow said. (Two hemispheres together make a world.)Quote:
Originally Posted by Kafka's Crow
I will add a list beyond the necessity of reading EVERYTHING by the above two authors first:
Franz Kafka- Pick one (the third hemisphere lol...:lol:)
Arno Schmidt- everything translated (currently 3 Volumes)
Jorge Louis Borges-- Fictions
Virginia Woolf -- To The Lighthouse
Joseph Conrad-- Pick any of his Majors
Marcel Proust-- In Search of Lost Time
David Foster Wallace-- Essays
Joyce--- Dubliners or POTAAAYM
I dunno, for the last two, maybe a major work by any 2 of: Camus, Hemingway, Nabakov, Pynchon, Bernhard, Mann, Tolstoy, or Barthelme's short stories...depending on how well grounded in the classics (or Literary IQ) the reader of the list of suggested books is intended for...
hmm here's my top ten.
Finnegans Wake-James Joyce
The Brothers Karamazov-Fyodor Dostoevsky
Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man-James Joyce
Lolita-Vladimir Nabokov
Crime and Punishment-Fyodor Dostoevsky
Ulysses-James Joyce
Lord of the Flies-William Golding
The Island of Dr.Moreau by H.G. Wells
The Stranger-Albert Camus
Pale Fire-Vladimir Nabokov
half my list is the same three writers. I need to get out more often!
Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel
Bely - Petersburg
Cervantes - Don Quixote
Rulfo - Pedro Paramo
Proust - Swann's Way
Saint-Exupéry - Terre des hommes ("Sand, Wind and Stars", hate the title translation)
Döblin - Berlin Alexanderplatz
Aquin - Next Episode
Nabokov - Lolita
Gide - The Counterfeiters
Hmmmyeah...
1. The Picture of Dorian Gray-Oscar Wilde
2. Crime and Punishment-Fyodor Dostoevsky
3. The Trial- Franz Kafka
4. Animal Farm-George Orwell (Not sure if this is a full-blown novel, due to length)
5. Tale of Two Cities- Charles Dickens
6. The Count of Monte-Cristo- Alexandre Dumas
7. The Stranger- Albert Camus
8. Moby Dick- Herman Melville
9. Frankenstein- Mary Shelley
10. Heart of Darkness- Joseph Conrad
These are the some novels I think all should read,
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Tess of the d`Urbervilles by Thomas Hard
The Picture of Dorain Gray by Oscar Wild Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hamingway
Boy by Roald Dahl
If you remove To Kill a Mockingbird, I can state safely that I agree on all points.
I think To Kill a Mockingbird should be mandatory. The world would be a more empathetic place.
Why not "To Kill a Mockingbird"? Its a great novel i think.
I think it may be my unnecessary-- in my opinion-- and extraneous exposure to "racial literature". By the time we had reached To Kill A Mockingbird I found myself sadly without a care in the world, as I had encountered so many of the same. TKaM doesn't stand out to me at all as anything more than a quintessential southern novel, and for a novel to be regional is not enough for me to concede its greatness.
This is not, of course, to say that I am not empathetic. I do care about the issue, but the book was too trite by the time I had arrived at it, not a year ago.
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Originally Posted by Snowqueen
According to this thread, Crime and Punishment should be there as well.
A baker's dozen. Sorry, couldn't limit myself to ten:
Huckleberry Finn
The Brothers Karamazov
Blood and Guts in Highschool [Kathy Acker]
Heart of Darkness
Vanity Fair
The Sun Also Rises
A Personal Matter [Kenzaburo Oe]
Jane Eyre
Summer Rain [Marguerite Duras]
Nausea
Molloy/Malone Dies/The Unnamable
Naked Lunch
Tender is the Night
Finally some Beckett love. That's what I'm talkin' about...Quote:
Originally Posted by blp
Am I really the first in 26 pages? Oy. And people wonder what's wrong with the world today...Quote:
Originally Posted by promtbr
Ah, OK, no I'm not then.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kafka's Crow
Well! Tallon and prendrelemick didn't mind. So what would you what would you suggest Dr. Hill?
I'm a Steinbeck fanatic:
Please read
Grapes of Wrath
East of Eden
Of Mice and Men
They aren't classified "classics" yet, but if I had to list my personal library favorites, they would include:
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Hotel New Hampshire
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Last Days of Summer
Everything is Illuminated
Boy's Life
Samauri's Garden
Kafka on the Shore
Interesting, Kafka On The Shore is by far the worst Murakami novel i've read. He seems to have hit his zenith with The Wind-up Bird Chronicle.
I read One Hundred Years of Solitude when I was about 12, I was so confused :D I remember thinking "wow, this is a crazy book", but I finished it and still remember most of it now. I really should reread it :)Quote:
Originally Posted by jbailey
4/10 and 2 are awful!? I am bad.Quote:
Originally Posted by Snowqueen
well, though i cant recall all of my ten favorites (guess i have much more in the list) ...but there are certain novels which i enjoyed immensely. they are..
- Great Expectations
- Wuthering Heights
-A fine balance
- War and Peace
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
-The monk who sold his Ferrari
To write down only 10 books is really kinda hard, there are so many more I would recommend.
G. Flaubert - Madame Bovary
M. Proust - In search of lost time (greatest series of books ever written)
G.G. Marquez - One houndred years of solitude
L. Tolstoy - Anna Karenina (prefer it over War and Peace)
J. Joyce - Ulysses (hard one, but once you're done you'll always love it)
A. Camus - The Plague (this book had a huge influence on me, definitly got to read it again some time soon)
J. P. Sartre - No Exit/Huis Clos
F. Nietzsche - Thus spoke Zarathustra
F. M. Dostoyevsky - Any of his "great novels" is amazing, though I personally liked The Idiot the most. I can't even tell how much I admire this guy.
Dante Alighieri - Divina Commedia
There are dozens of other books to add, but it's down to 10.
I haven't read a huge number of novels, so this isn't a definitive list; just a list of favorites that come to mind.
Proust - In Search of Lost Time (certainly the greatest novel I have read)
Nabokov - Lolita, Ada, and Pale Fire (works of genius, all three)
Kafka - The Trial
Joyce - Ulysses (difficult, but worth it)
Tolstoy - Anna Karenina
Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment
Robbe-Grillet - Jealousy
Beckett - The Unnameable
That's ten.
Goodness, I'm not sure if I have ten favorites, but I'll list a few books here that I absolutely adore (I have recently started to expand my reading horizon, which mostly includes classics. Until then, here are fantasy/etc novels that I love.)
The Shining by Stephen King
The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice
The Book Thief by Markus Kusak
The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
Twilight + The Host by Stephenie Meyer
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Originally Posted by Sakah
I loved The Book Theif it was a wonderful read and really engaging. You should try Interview with a Vampire Ann Rice it is also great
Subject to change and in no particular order;
i/ The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (Tolkien)
ii/ [What currently exists of] The Gentleman Bastard Sequence (Lynch)
iii/ Watership Down (Adams)
iv/ Lolita (Nabokov)
v/ Gertrude and Claudius (Updike)
vi/ Man and Superman (Shaw)
vii/ True and False (Mamet)
viii/ Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (Barrett) !
ix/ Hamlet in Purgatory (Greenblatt)
x/ Slaughterhouse Five (Vonnegut)
Interview with the Vampire is wonderful.
Watership Down.
The Sound and the Fury
Rabbit, Run
In Cold Blood ( why has this not been mentioned!? )
I get the feeling Capote isn't very well regarded here. I like his work anyway, especially Breakfast At Tiffany's.
1. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
2. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
3. Hunger by Knut Hamsun
4. The Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun
5. Faust (part 1 and 2) by J.W.von Goethe
6. The Trial by Franz Kafka
7. Kafka On the Shore by Haruki Murakami
8. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
9. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
10. Kimen by Tarjei Vesaas