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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