Katherine Paterson wrote this novel, if I remember correctly - one of my favorite fiction stories from childhood. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Pensive
Printable View
Katherine Paterson wrote this novel, if I remember correctly - one of my favorite fiction stories from childhood. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Pensive
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho - ahhh, the possibilities
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez - the definition of patience
The Death of Ivan Illyich by Leo Tolstoy - is it too late to change
Don Quixote by Miquel de Cervantes - return to chivalry or insanity...to live
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo - when are you free from your past
The Peoples History of the United States by Howard Zinn - what you didn't learn in school
1. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte ...........
i dont think i must explain why it is a 'must read book'
2. The Anti-christ - Nietzsche .........one of the best critics about the christian religion
3. Anything by E.A.Poe ...........one of the world's best narrators
4. The picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde...........
a timeless study about the youth maniac
5. Les liaisons dangereuses - C. de Laclos..........the best and importanced book of the french literature
6. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen ..... entertaining and funny
7. MacBeth - Shakespeare.........very tragically
8. Julie or the new Heloise - Rousseau .......after 7 months i haven't finished it yet , but i think its a big achievement to write such a boring book !
9. Les jeux sont faits - Sartre ..........a great love story, i love this book !
10. The glow - Sandor Marai............poetic and also a little bit sad
The Tanakh/The Holy Scriptures
The Koran
Evangeline
A Tale of Two Cities
Pilgrims Progress
Shakespeare - at least a few.....
The Illiad/The Odyssey
The Travels of Marco Polo
The Merck Manual
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
In no particular order:
-I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb ( a must read especially if you are of Italian descendency)
-One Hundred Years Of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
-The Poisonwood Bible by Barbra Kingsolver
-Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
-The Knight Of Masion Rouge by Alexandre Dumas
-East Of Eden by John Steinbeck
-1984 by George Orwell
-Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
-Fortune's Rocks by Anita Shreve
And my all-time favorite, an honest-to-gosh modern epic that's got it all...
-The Stand by Stephen King
Another must read for Italians is The Birth Of Venus by Sarah Dunant.
Science Fiction
Rank # Book title Author Other information
1 Dune Frank Herbert $
2 Foundation Isaac Asimov $
3 Rendezvous with Rama Arthur C. Clarke $
4 Speaker of the Dead Orson Scott Card
5 Ender’s Game Orson Scott Card $
6 Otherland Tad Williams !
7 Neuromancer William Gibson
8 Hyperion Dan Simmons
9 2001: A Space Odyssey Arthur C. Clarke $
10 Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams $
11 Fountains of Paradise Arthur C. Clarke
12 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
13 Illustrated Man Ray Bradbury
14 Light of the Other Days Arthur C. Clarke
15 Starship Troopers Robert A Heinlein
Fantasy
Rank # Book title Author Other information
1 Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien $
2 A Song of Ice and Fire George R. Martin $
3 The Mists of Avalon Marion Z. Bradley !
4 The Once and Future King T.H. White !
5 The Ancient One T.A. Barron
6 Crystal Cave Mary Stewart $
7 Watership Down Richard Adams
Other (Trashy Thrillers)
Rank Book title Author
1 The Simple Truth David Baldacci
2 The Firm John Grisham
3 Inca Gold Clive Cussler
4 The Pelican Brief John Grisham
5 Atlantis Found Clive Cussler
Historical Fiction
Rank # Book title Author Other information
0 Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
1 To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
2 A Separate Peace John Knowles
3 Flowers for Algernon Daniel Keyes
4 Number the Stars Lois Lowry
5 Exodus Leon Uris
6 Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens
7 Moby Dick Herman Melville
8 Call of the Wild Jack London
9 Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger
10 Great Expectations Charles Dickens
11 As the Crow Flies Jeffrey Archer !
12 Wish you Well David Baldacci
13 Ivanhoe Sir Walter Scott
Key
! - Very long
$ - Has a series which is good and worth reading
In no particular order:
The old man and the sea -Hemingway
The Dubliners -James Joyce
Death of a salesman -i forgot but i'm sure someone knows who wrote this
Brave new world -Huxley
The Anead -Homer
Poems by W.B Yeats (does this count? I mean his later poems, that is, if this counts)
Kidnapped -Stevenson
Rebecca -Du Morier
The adventures of Sherlock Holmes - I can't remeber anything tonight
Viper's Tangle - Mauriac
This list will probably change for me month by month as I read more... but I love the stuff thats here... I should go back and re-read some of it.
Pride and Prejudice
Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time Series (favourite fantasy - prefered the films of lord of the rings to the books, as in parts it read as some kind of boys' own thing)
The Three Musketeers
The Black Magician Trilogy
Nicholas Nickleby
Richard III
Hamlet
Frankenstein
Paradise Lost
The Faerie Queene
wich is a must-read dickens book?
I've only read oliver twist, and think i shoulf read another one.
The authors name is Katherine Paterson.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pensive
I liked the book as well. I've heard that it has been banned by some groups in america, but i don't understande why, 'cause i dont find it provocative.
1. Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
2. A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
3. Candide - Voltaire
4. Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
5. The Three Musketeers - Alexander Dumas
6. The Belgarid/Malloreon - David Eddings
7. Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo
8. Cireno de Bergerac - Rostand (I think, too lazy to check)
9. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
10. Cosette - Laura Kalpakian
Anybody reading "the order of things" by- m.Foucoult
I thought already did a list like this a few months ago.Yes, I checked and it's actually on page six.It's pretty much the same.But there are so many great books I could add, and keep going on and on, till the list becomes more like a top 50 or more!So I'll just add another a few for you which I've read over the last couple of years.I would suggest you try and read a few of these at least once.
I read my previous list again:
(In no particular order)
The Bell Jar-Sylvia Plath
1984-George Orwell
Animal Farm-George Orwell
Madame Bovary-Gustave Flaubert
War and Peace-Leo Tolstoy
The Odyssey-Homer *also add The Illiad (I actually read that a few months after The Odyssey)
Prometheus Bound and Other Plays-Aeschylus ( must also attempt to read Prometheus Unbound, the lyrical drama, in Four Acts, by Shelley as well, which is actually where my signature comes from).
Frankenstein-Mary Shelley ( also try reading her other later novels such as The Last Man) and Percy Bysshe Shelley's ( my favourite Romantic poet) complete poems.
Wuthering Heights-Emily Bronte
Great Expectations-Charles Dickens
More additions you can add, which missed before:
(In no particular order)
Anna Karenina-Leo Tolstoy
Ulysses- James Joyce
The Waves, Mrs.Dalloway, and Orlando- Virginia Woolf
The Aspern Papers, and Washington Square- Henry James
Pride And Prejudice, and Mansfield Park- Jane Austen
Jane Eyre, and The Professor- Charlotte Bronte
Dracula- Bram Stocker
Paradise Lost- John Milton
The Scarlet Letter- Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Picture of Dorian Gray- Oscar Wilde
The Strange Case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde- Robert Louis Stevenson
Robinson Crusoe and The Journel of the Plague Year- Daniel Defoe
Oedipus Rex and other plays- Sophocles
Medea and other plays- Euripides
Metamorphoses- Ovid
All works of Shakespeare.My favourites include: The Tempest, Macbeth, Othello, Hamlet, A Midsummers Night's Dream, and Romeo and Juliet.
....I could continue all day;).
*I also really like Edmund Spenser's The Faery Queene which is already mentioned above.
Matilda, for Dickens I would recommend Great Expectations ( my personal favourite), Nicholas Nickleby ( I was surprised how much I enjoyed this), A Tale of Two Cities ( read it at least once, and especially if you have studied the French Revolution or interested in those times); others include David Copperfield ( worth reading as the main character is partially modelled on Dickens himself ), and also The Old Curiosity Shop, which is quite a nice, sweet, thrilling, and intriguing read, though often accused of too much sentimentality ( which I kind of agree, in certain parts), but interestingly it was apparently the most popular work by him during his own era.I would suggest you start with The Pickwick Papers ( 1836-37), move on to Nicholas Nickleby (1838-39), which he considered his first real attempt at the novel, and then The Old Curiosity Shop ( 1840-41).After this try A Tale of Two Cities (1859) and Great Expectations ( 1860-61).Finally, if you enjoyed any of those you may wish to further extend your Dickens library and include Hard Times (1854), Our Mutal Friend ( 1864-65), Little Dorrit (1855-57), Barnaby Rudge (1841), Martin Chuzzlewit (1843), Bleak House ( 1851-53), and The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1869-70), though this last one was left unfinished due to his passing.The well known Christmas Books may also be appropriate for this time of the year.Enjoy reading!;)
Hmm...I have to say the other posters made excellent choices, here's my list:
1. Mourning Becomes Electra-Eugene O'Neill
2. 1984-George Orwell
3. A Lost Lady-Willa Cather
4. The Great Gatsby-F. Scott Fitzgerald
5. The Bridges of Madison County-James Waller
6. Animal Farm-George Orwell
7. The Pearl-John Steinbeck
8. Of Mice and Men-John Steinbeck
9. The Joy-Luck Club-Amy Tan
10. at least one of Moliere's many plays, as old as they are they still seem culturally relevant and very comedic.
well i dont kno if anyone has already said these because i couldnt be bothered to read all the posts (he he) but . . .
Captain Corelli's mandolin - Louis de Bernieres
Fantastic novel, most people say the first 100 pages are incredibly boring but in my opinion they are the best bit. actually very funny
All Jane Austen - im a sucker for a romance, he he just cant resist.
and Hardy is just an incredible writer, amazing descriptions. Tess is probably my favourite
The picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Wilde is at his best here, really makes you think. I found it fascinating
Also a good play to read is Lysistrata -Aristophanes just make sure you find a decent translation.