Ten Favorite Novels

Bazarov -

I posted my top ten somewhere else didn't I? I was going to post it here also, but you beat me to it on the first four when quoting me!!

Oh well...if I already posted it here...here I am posting it:

Don Quixote
War and Peace
Crime and Punishment
Dr. Zhivago
Gravity's Rainbow
The Fountainhead
The Sotweed Factory
The Hamlet
On the Road
Ulysses

I know I posted it somewhere else...cant seem to find the thread at the moment...oh, by the way Bazarov...your enthusiam for Don Quixote made it jump to number one on my books to read for summer list.

The Idiot by Dostoevsky
Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky
The Tale of Two Cities by Dickens
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Red and the Black by Stendhal
Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky
Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
The Prince by Nicoolo Machiavelli

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Originally Posted by tennis2622

The Idiot by Dostoevsky
Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky
The Tale of Two Cities by Dickens
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Red and the Black by Stendhal
Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky
Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
The Prince by Nicoolo Machiavelli

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Realism and Russians are your favorites??? Dostoevsky fan???Very good :lol: :lol: , you're on my buudy list!! :lol:

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Originally Posted by grace86

Bazarov -

I posted my top ten somewhere else didn't I? I was going to post it here also, but you beat me to it on the first four when quoting me!!

Oh well...if I already posted it here...here I am posting it:

Don Quixote
War and Peace
Crime and Punishment
Dr. Zhivago
Gravity's Rainbow
The Fountainhead
The Sotweed Factory
The Hamlet
On the Road
Ulysses

I know I posted it somewhere else...cant seem to find the thread at the moment...oh, by the way Bazarov...your enthusiam for Don Quixote made it jump to number one on my books to read for summer list.

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Page 10, post #150 on this thread. About Don Quixote, you won't regret, either you'll laugh to his acts or will be thinking about his great minds and thoughts.

Jane Eyre- C Bronte
Brave new world- A Huxley
Madame Bovary- G Flaubert
Vanity Fair- W M Thackeray
Farenheit 451- R Bradbury
L´assommoir- E Zola
Waiting for Godot- S Beckett
Sophies world- J Gaarder
Tess of the Durbervilles- T Hardy
The hunchback of Notre Dame- V Hugo

I've loved some of these selections, despised a few, and agreed with others. Here is my top 10, for better or worse, in no particular order.

1. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
2. 1984, by George Orwell
3. Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
4. Elmer Gantry, by Sinclair Lewis
5. The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammett
6. The Prisoner of Zenda, by Anthony Hope
7. Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson
8. The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, by Howard Pyle
9. Dracula, by Bram Stoker
10. In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote

Hi, I would recommend some books by Indian authors.

1. Suitable Boy -- Vikram Seth
2. A Fine Balance -- Rohinton Mistry
3. The Crow Eaters -- Bapsi Sidhwa (Pakistani writer)
4. Difficult Daughters -- Manju Kapur
5. Chokher Bali -- Rabindranath Tagore

-madhuri :thumbs_up

Just a side note here:
As a general rule, I read novels for entertainment--even the classics. If there is social commentary, or educational import, or spiritual enlightenment contained therein, excellent; all of these things are important, and may be readily soaked in along with the story.
But if it's not entertaining then I feel that it has somehow failed on some level. Without an engaging story, one might as well read a history or philosophy tome.

I've really enjoyed seeing what others have on their top ten lists.
Although I agree with many of the posted suggestions, I now have
a ton of "must reads" !!! Here are a few more that may or may not have
been posted before.
Journey to the East - Hermann Hesse
Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger
The Keys of the Kingdom - A.J. Cronin
I, Claudius - Robert Graves
Rememberance of Things Past (seven volumes or parts) - Marcel Proust
Main Street - Sinclair Lewis
The Virginian - Owen Wistar
Poetry of WB Yeats and ee cummings

i would highly recommend edgar allen poe's work
the iliad
the odyssey both homer
dante's divine comdey dante alighieri
things by hemingway and dickens

even though thats not ten thats just what iwould recommend .. i have not read much yet but im on my way! :banana: :D :nod:

Ahah, someone must have moved my post that is on page 10. I posted that when Mitopeia started (her?) introduction thread and asked about 10 must read classics. Hmm, that makes sense. Okie dokie, thought I was going crazy for a minute...no, I do not like to repeat myself :D

Thanks for answering!! I will consider alot your lists to make mypersonal "library"!! If u want to discuss about books, poems, or anything else mi e-mail is: [email protected]
Thanks take care!! :)

Some of my favorite books

1. Alice in Wonderland
2. The Crucible
3. Frankenstein
4. Robinson Crusoe
5. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
6. Les Misérables
7. The Jungle Book
8. A Midsummer Night's Dream
9. Catcher in the Rye
10. Jurassic Park

Only 10?? Tricky, there's so many books out there which have influenced me. Well, here goes:

1. The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini) - without doubt one of the most powerful novels I have ever read, filled with beautiful imagery and language, but also the most horrific acts committed by man's inhumanity to man, and how the bonds we make between friends, lovers etc can be as destructive as they are constructive.

2. The Diary of Anne Frank

3. Eugene Onegin (Alexander Pushkin) - one of Pushkin's finest, a tale of friendship and betrayal which results in pain and the realisation that our actions cannot always be put right, no matter if we repent.

4. The Odyssey (Homer)

5. Paradise Lost (John Milton)

6. Kitchen (Banana Yoshimoto) - a beautiful little book which deals with people and emotion, specifically grief following the loss of a loved one. Yoshimoto's writing is sensitive and will connect with anyone who has ever suffered the loss of a loved one or friend.

7. To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)

8. Dr Zhivago (Boris Pasternak)

9. The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown) - more to be a part of the experience than for anything else, it's a good novel but maybe not in the same league as the other novels mentioned above.

10. The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov) - Pure brilliance.

You will not find many European/Russian classics here... I do not really read or study those even though I have tried.
In no particular order!

1.Blindness, Jose Saramago
2.Wind Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami
3.A Personal Matter, Kenzaburo Oe
4.One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
5.The Divine Comedy, Dante.
6.Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
7.A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
8.Don Quixote, Cervantes
9.The Iliad, Homer
10.The Bible. (I am not a Christian but I still recommend this because it is a basis for so much literature!)

Recently I have read Watership Down by Adams and it took my breath away so I would like to update my list to add this book as well.

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Originally Posted by Scheherazade

In no particular order:

1. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

2. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

3. Watership Down by Richard Adams

4. Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck

5. Lord of the Flies and/or Free Fall by Golding

6. The Crucible by Miller

7. Decameron by Boccaccio

8. The Plague by Camus

9. The Trial by Kafka

10. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Wilde


Here are some other books in contension (for me):

The Stranger by Camus, Pygmalion by Shaw, Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson, Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky, Pride and Prejudice by Austen, Brave New World by Huxley, Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes, The Old Man and The Sea by Hemingway
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