I would like to hear what are the best books you have read so far this year?
There are so many good ones, and personally, I find it hard to put just a few, but I would love to hear all your favourite reads for 2005!
The Best books of 2005:What are your favourite books you have read this year?...............
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Some of my favorites that I have read this year are Narcissus and Goldmund,Light in August,Barrabus, Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, but the my two favorites I've read this year are The Glass Bead Game and Samuel Beckett's trilogy:Molloy,Malone Dies, and The Unnamable.
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
Hermann Hesse
Demian
Time travellers wife, The curious incident of the dog in the nighttime, The Hyperion Cantos...
there were others but these are the ones I can think of that are definetly 2005
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Actually the craze of reading books has gripped me this year thats why my favourite books are those which i read this year specially Mill on the floss, Wuhtering Heights, Bridge to Terabithia, Vanity Fair and Pride and Prejusdist. (on some places I did not like it but it was good)
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I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew.
This year I have not done so much readings. The best ones are: 'A portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' by Joyce, 'The Day after Tomorrow' by Allan Folson, 'A Farewell to Arms' by Hemingway.
Oh! life you'r but hell
Oh! hell you'r but in me
When I'v lost your love
I'm lost in an ocean of destiny
Yikes, difficult to say . . .
Fiction books: Anna Karenina and War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, Middlemarch by George Eliot, The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence, The Black Sheep by Honoré de Balzac, Diary Of A Dope Fiend by Aleister Crowley, and, what I read now, The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky, I can see as one of my favorite books of the year (if not one of my favorites of all time).
Non-fiction books: The Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre, Art Objects by Jeanette Winterson, Groundwork for the Metaphysic of Morals by Immanuel Kant, and Sex, Time, and Power and Art and Physics by Leonard Shlain.
As for poetry, the list would extend too far.
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My favourite reads for this year, so far, were:
Girl with a Pearl Earring-Tracy Chevalier
The Age of Innocence-Edith Wharton
Frenchman's Creek-Daphne DuMaurier
Rebecca-Daphne DuMaurier
The Ghost Writer-John Harwood
The Enchanted April-Elizabeth Von Arnim
House of the Seven Gables-Nathaniel Hawthorne
Where Angels Fear to Tread-E.M Forster
And all my usually beloved classics, by the 19th century Brits!
Tamsin - Peter S. Beagle
Hyperion - Dan Simmons
Amber Chronicles - Roger Zealzny
My Antonia - Willa Cather
Circle of Friends - Maeve Binchy
The Giver - Louis Lowry
Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury
Bridge to Terebithia - Katherine Patterson
I have to say that Sons and Lovers is one of the best books I have read so far this year.
Bless your heart, sub!Originally Posted by subterranean
Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence I would have to call one of my favorite novels of all time!
This calls for a dancing banana -
Sons and Lovers was an interesting book. I loved the 'son' parts but the 'lover' parts bored me to tears. I am thinking of giving the 'lover' parts a retry since I read the book nearly three years ago and my tastes have evolved a great deal over that time.
Favourite books of the year? Hmmm......there's been too many!
Off the top of my head
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
A Passage to India - EM Forster
Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis
The Jewel in the Crown - Paul Scott
Life Isn't all Ha Ha Hee Hee - Meera Syal
Birdsons - Sebastien Faulkes
Poems of Christina Rossetti
Why, thank you Mono. Indeed it's a great novel
Bless your heart, sub!
Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence I would have to call one of my favorite novels of all time!
This calls for a dancing banana -
A Passage to India
Life of Pi
Complete Novels of Carson McCullars. My favorite was The Clock Without Hands followed closely by The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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