Printable View
My top ten reccomendations:
1: Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
2: A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
3: The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
4: Anything by William Shakespear
5: Dracula by Bram Stoker
6: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
7: Phantom by Susan Kay
8: Wicked by Gregory MaGuire
9: The Iliad by Homer
10: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
suggestions:
the odyssey
the big sleep
birdsong :thumbs_up
trainspotting (nothing to do with trainspotting!!)
1984
lord of the rings
fight club
medea (euripides' version)
cider with rosie
mrs dalloway
macbeth
the witches/charlie and the chocolate factory :p
wuthering heights
Well, everyone should read The Bible.
Now for a top ten list in no particular order:
1.) Mark Twain--The Innocents Abroad
2.) Oscar Wilde--Portrait of Dorian Grey
3.) Edgar Alan Poe--Complete Stories and Poems
4.) H.P. Lovecraft--Shadows Over Innsmouth
5.) H.G. Wells--War of the Worlds
6.) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle--The Sherlock Holmes Cannon
7.) J.R.R. Tolkien--The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
8.) Mark Twain--The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
9.) Lewis Carroll--Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass
10.) Roger Zelzany--The Amber Series
The above list reflects my own views not those of, etc. etc. :lol: :lol: :lol:
ten interesting books...no top though...they're all great stuff:
1-o. wilde...the portret of d.g.
2-e. cioran...on the hights of dispair
3-f.m.dostoiewsky...crime and punishment
4-f.m.dostoiewsky...the brothers karamazov
5-l. tolstoy...war and peace
6-homer... the iliad
7-j.w.goethe...faust
8-v.hugo...les miserables
9-g.flaubert... madame bovary
10-v.nabokov... lolita
...i can't believe i didn't mention shakespeare... and many others...well, "alea jacta est!"
The Lord of Light by Zelzany is vastly better; I would even classify it as great literature.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pendragon
Add to list:
Crime and Punishment: Fyodor Dostoevsky
To Kill A Mocking Bird: Harper E. Lee
(in no particular order)
The Bell Jar-Sylvia Plath(I first read this about a year ago and it's one of my absolute favourite books I've read as a teenager-but it's dark and disturbing-so you have been warned-lol:))
1984-George Orwell
Animal Farm-George Orwell
Madame Bovary-Gustave Flaubert
War and Peace-Leo Tolstoy
The Odyssey-Homer
Prometheus Bound and Other Plays-Aeschylus
Frankenstein-Mary Shelley(include also her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley's-Collected Works)
Wuthering Heights-Emily Bronte
Great Expectations-Charles Dickens
There are far too many good books that I've read that I couldn't possibly come up with a top 10 list that would satisfy me. These are the most readily that spring to mind, ordered by authors' last names:
1. Charles Dickens - Great Expectations
2. Arthur Conan Doyle - The Complete Sherlock Holmes
3. Alexandre Dumas - The Count of Monte Cristo
4. Guy Gavriel Kay - The Lions of Al-Rassan
5. William Golding - Lord of the Flies
6. Daniel Keyes - Flowers For Algernon
7. James A. Michener - Chesapeake
8. J.D. Salinger - Catcher in the Rye
9. Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina
10. Connie Willis - Doomsday Book
If I had to make a top ten, these would be my recommendations:
1. Jane Eyre-Charlotte Bronte
2. Wuthering Heights-Emily Bronte
3. Great Expectations-Charles Dickens
4. Middlemarch-George Eliot
5. Pride and Prejudice-Jane Austen
6. Anna Karenina-Leo Tolstoy
7. Madame Bovary-Gustave Flaubert
8. Dracula-Bram Stoker
9. Frankenstein-Mary Shelley
10.Tess of the D'Urbervilles-Thomas Hardy
But I would rather make a top 20 list!! ;)
A CAPOTE READER by Truman Capote, DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP by Willa Cather are my faves
1. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
2. Persuasion by Jane Austen
3. Vanity Fair by Wlliam Thackery
4. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith (A 1930's book)
5. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
6. Tess of d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
That's all I think think of for now!
the future- "Brave New World"
how the world came to be "Ismael"
Emotional "great expectations"
Thrills "Count of Monti Cristo"
Something about math "Golden Ratio"
1. Finnegans Wake - James Joyce
2. Woman in the Dunes - Kobe Abe
3. Confession of a Mask - Mishima Yukio
4. Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
5. If On a Winter's Night a Traveler - Italo Calvino
6. In Search of Lost Time - Marcel Proust
7. Look Homeward, Angel: A Story of the Buried Life - Thomas Wolfe
8. Absalom, Absalom! - William Faulkner
9. Ulysses - James Joyce
10. New Arabian Nights - Robert Louis Stevenson
1. Ödön von Horvath „Youth without God“
2. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach „The Child of the Parish“
3. Oscar Wilde „Lord Arthur Savile‘s Crime“
4. Goethe „Faust“
5. Umberto Eco „The Name of the Rose“
6. Alexandre Dumas „Camille“
7. Shakespeare „Hamlet“
8. Aldous Huxley „Brave New World“
9. Agatha Christie „Ten little indians“
10. Emil Strauß "Freund Hein"
My Top Ten
1:Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
2:Harry Potter by JK Rowling
3:The mill on the floss by George Eliot
4:Bridge to Terabithia by......(I have forogtten then author's name but the story was very good as I remember)
5:Heidi by Jonathan Sypri
6:The hobbit by JRK Tolikien
7:Rebecca by Dephne Du Maurier
8:Vanity Fair
9:Ann of the Green Gables (I love Anne Shirley's character. She is such a lovely and a cute girl)
10:Roots by Alex Halley
I love these books and I will always recommend everyone to read these novels. These are great.....atleast in my opinion :)