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These are some of my favourites, but of course there are others. I don't know if plays count, but I put down three.
Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall- Anne Bronte
The Catcher in the Rye- JD Salinger
The Importance of Being Ernest- Oscar Wilde
Frankenstein- Mary Shelley
A Doll's House- Henrik Ibsen
Northanger Abbey- Jane Austen
The Crucible- Arthur Miller
The Mayor of Casterbridge- Thomas Hardy
Sons and Lovers- DH Lawrence
Well my top ten change every day. Today its probably (in no order):
Othello-Shakespeare
Mort-Terry Pratchett
The Hobbit- Tolkien
Death of a Salesman (play)- Arther Miller
Great Expectations- Dickens
The Nightingale and the Rose (short story)- Oscar Wilde
Wuthering Heights- Emily (?) Bronte
anything by Edgar Allen Poe
Private Peaceful- Micheal Morpurgo (excellent if you like war books)
Les Miserables- Hugo (the musical of this is also absolutly amazing!)
1. The Catcher in the Rye -Salinger
2. 1984 -Orwell
3. All Quiet on the Western Front -Remarque
4. We the Living -Rand
5. The Winter of Our Discontent -Steinbeck (which is, strangely, my favorite of all his novels)
6. The Stranger -Camus
7. Candide -Voltaire
8. The Trial -Kafka
9. The Fountainhead -Rand
10. The Man Who Was Thursday -G.K. Chesterton
My favorite plays are Othello, King Lear, and Ibsen's "A Doll's House."
If we included shorter stories, I'd have "Heart of Darkness," "The Time Machine," "Anthem," and "The Old Man and the Sea."
Oh, and if we included super-short stories, I'd have to put J.D. Salingner's "A Perfect Day for Bananafish," simply because it contains my favorite sentence in all of literature. But you have to find it for yourself!
1. Anne of Green Gables
2. Little House on the praire
3. Little Women
4. Pride & Prejudice
5. Emily of New Moon
6. The Secret Garden
7. The Lion The Witch & the Wardrobe
8. Geisha
9. The Root Cellar
10. Double Spell
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Anne Of Green Gables and Pride And Prejudice, both of them are great novels.
Classicsgirl hello and welcome!
I have read most of your favourite books and liked them a lot either. :nod:
I just finished Memoirs of a Geisha and found it exceptional!!! :banana:
ElizabethSewall Hi! Yes Geisha was beautifully written, i think the book was alot better then the movie. have u seen the movie?
Pensive i see you share my Liking for Anne of Green Gables! have you read the other Anne novels in the series? :P
I read the second and third one but then I found Anne's lively character was changing as she was getting older. I would not say that it had gone but I liked her better when she was a child.
Well, I don't consider myself a pro by any means, but here are my top ten books.
Life on the Mississippi-Twain
To Kill A Maocking Bird-Lee
Nick Adams Stories-Hemingway
For Whom the Bell Tolls-Hemingway
Jungle Books-Kipling
Dune-Herbert
Brave New World-Huxley
East of Eden-Steinbeck
O Pioneers-Cather
Atlas Shrugged-Rand
Just my two cent's worth
Just teen books... OK, this is my Top 10:
- Master and Margarita - Mihaił Bułhakow
- Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
- Wuthering Heihgts - Emily Bronte
- Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
- Count of Monte Christo - Aleksander Dumas
- Faraon (Pharaoh) - Bolesław Prus (Prus was the polish writer)
- Don Kichote (I can't remember original title) - Miguel the Cervantes Saaverda
- Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
- Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
- Quo Vadis - Henryk Sienkiewicz (also polish writer)
Hi!! How are you?Quote:
Originally Posted by classicsgirl
Yes I have but I preferred the book, even though the movie was beautiful. But there were too many things left aside. What did you thought?
Mark Twain-Tom Sawyer/Huck Finn (I consider these as one book though the
latter is more important in my opinion)
Aldous Huxley-Brave New World
Fyodor Dostoevsky-The Brothers Karamazov
Mary Shelley-Frankenstein
John Steinbeck-Grapes of Wrath
Harriet Beecher Stowe-Uncle Tom's Cabin
Elie Wiesel-Night (unbelievable)
Homer-Iliad/Odyssey (I know I know. But they're both good)
Oscar Wilde-All his plays, esp., The Importance of Being Earnest
Denis Diderot-Rameau's Nephew
If we are talking about ten classic works:
1) Dostoevsky "Crime and Pinishment", "Idiot", "Brothers Karamazov"
2)Tolstoy "War and Peace"
3) Shakespeare "Hamlet" and "Macbeth"
4) Goethe "Faust"
5) Gugo "Les Miserables"
6) Kamu "Stranger"
7) Wilde "Portret of Dorian Grey"
8) Bulgakov "Master and Margarita"
9) Greene "Power and Glory"
10) Orwell "1984"
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Desiree - Anne Marie Selinko
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
Lorna Doone - R.D Blackmoore
Tess D'ubervilles - Thomas Hardy
The Monk - Charles Lewis
That Enchantress - Doris Leslie
Me, and Mr. Jeeves - PG Woodehouse
Book of Brave Deeds - Various Authors
The Bible - Various Authors
No particular order.....
The Great Gatsby-Fitzgerald
The Grapes of Wrath-Steinbeck
The Sirens of Titan or Cat's Cradle(I couldn't make up my mind)-Vonnegut
Ulysses-Joyce(to ground you in reality)
Light in August-Faulkner
The Old Man and the Sea-Hemingway
The Portrait of Dorian Gray-Wilde
Crime and Punishment-Dostoevsky
To the Lighthouse-Woolf
To Kill a Mockingbird-Lee
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
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
Realism and Russians are your favorites??? Dostoevsky fan???Very good :lol: :lol: , you're on my buudy list!! :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by tennis2622
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by grace86
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