Ten Favorite Novels

[mortalterror]

1.The Inferno- Dante
2.Romeo and Juliet- Shakespeare
3.The Bible
4.The Republic- Plato
5.The Catcher in the Rye- Salinger
6.Catch-22- Heller
7.On the Road- Kerouac
8.The Metamorphoses- Ovid
9.Lolita- Nabokov
10.Andromache- Racine

My pick is kind of a mixed bag or all time greats and personal faves. I'm not particularly fond of Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Cervantes, Homer, Austen, etc. Most people prefer Hamlet, but I'm going to go with R&J for being Shakespeare's best.

[Drkshadow03]

I read Homebody by Orson Scott Card and enjoyed it. I haven't read anything else of his yet though

You should definitely try Ender's Game. That's considered his best book.

[SnipSnap]

1) Great Expectations - Dickens
2) Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
3) Lolita - Nabokov
4) Madame Bovary - Flaubert
5) Dracula - Stoker
6) Lord of the Flies - Golding
7) Invisible Man - Ellison
8) Ulysses - Joyce
9) The Enormous Room - Cummings
10) 1984 - Orwell

[Niamh]

1. Persuasion- Jane Austen
2. Hellfire- Mia Gallagher
3. The Alchemist- Paulo Coelho
4. East of Eden- John Stienbeck
5. Utterly Monkey- Nick Laird
6. Merlin Trilogy- Mary Stewart
7. Artemis Fowl- Eoin Colfer
8. His Dark materials- Philip Pulman
9. Deirdre of the Sorrows- J.M.Synge
10. Jane Eyre- Charlotte Bronte

Man i posted this a long time ago!
Be more like;
Persuasion
Bitterbynde Saga by Cecilia Dart Thornton
Hellfire by Mia Gallagher
North and south by Elizabeth gaskell
East of Eden
Merlin Trilogy
Artemis Fowl
His Dark Materials
Deirdre of the Sorrows
Candide by Voltaire

[Ethan Roy]

1.Lord of the flies
2.1984
3.And then there were none
4.Treasure Island
5.Inheritence saga
6.The chronicles of Narnia
7.The BitterBynde saga
8.Children of the red king saga
9.A midsummer night's dream
10. Artemis fowl saga

In truth I love just about all the books I've read.

[Guinivere]

1. A prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
2. The end of Mr Y by Scarlett Thomas
3. Special topics in calamity physics by Marisha Pessl
4. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
5. Faust - Der Tragödie erster Teil by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
6. Der Proceß by Franz Kafka
7. North & South by Elizabeth Gaskell
8. The shadow of the wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
9. Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
10. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoj

[kelby_lake]

2.Romeo and Juliet- Shakespeare

Um, that isn't a novel

Mine, I dunno (but in no particular order)

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Les Enfants Terribles by Jean Cocteau (which is probably actually a novella)
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgeson Burnett
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
1984 by George Orwell

[johann cruyff]

Today I noticed that I had placed The Divine Comedy amongst my top ten novels as well...

[Agatha]

1.The Red and the black by Stendhal
2.Lost Illusions by Honore de Balzac
3.Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
4.Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevski
5.Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
6.War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
7.Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
8.Jane Eyre- Charlotte Bronte
9.The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
10.The Egyptian by Mika Waltari

So it's my ten. But I think that that list soon will change, because I have a lots of books which I want to read...

[kelby_lake]

Today I noticed that I had placed The Divine Comedy amongst my top ten novels as well...

I was about to point that out actually!

[Leaver]

books everyone should read:
- Demian, Herman Hesse
- Ishmael, Daniel Quinn, a book that will change your view of the world
- Original Wisdom, Robert Wolff
- Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
- 1984
- The Catcher in the Rye
- Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury
- Maus, Art Spielgman
- The World According to Garp, John Irving
- Griffin and Sabine

[promtbr]

Dostoevsky and Samuel Beckett , the two hemispheres of my imaginative world! I

What Kafka's Crow said. (Two hemispheres together make a world.)

I will add a list beyond the necessity of reading EVERYTHING by the above two authors first:

Franz Kafka- Pick one (the third hemisphere lol...)

Arno Schmidt- everything translated (currently 3 Volumes)

Jorge Louis Borges-- Fictions

Virginia Woolf -- To The Lighthouse

Joseph Conrad-- Pick any of his Majors

Marcel Proust-- In Search of Lost Time

David Foster Wallace-- Essays

Joyce--- Dubliners or POTAAAYM

I dunno, for the last two, maybe a major work by any 2 of: Camus, Hemingway, Nabakov, Pynchon, Bernhard, Mann, Tolstoy, or Barthelme's short stories...depending on how well grounded in the classics (or Literary IQ) the reader of the list of suggested books is intended for...

[Jeremiah Jazzz]

hmm here's my top ten.

Finnegans Wake-James Joyce
The Brothers Karamazov-Fyodor Dostoevsky
Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man-James Joyce
Lolita-Vladimir Nabokov
Crime and Punishment-Fyodor Dostoevsky
Ulysses-James Joyce
Lord of the Flies-William Golding
The Island of Dr.Moreau by H.G. Wells
The Stranger-Albert Camus
Pale Fire-Vladimir Nabokov

half my list is the same three writers. I need to get out more often!

[Etienne]

Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel
Bely - Petersburg
Cervantes - Don Quixote
Rulfo - Pedro Paramo
Proust - Swann's Way
Saint-Exupéry - Terre des hommes ("Sand, Wind and Stars", hate the title translation)
Döblin - Berlin Alexanderplatz
Aquin - Next Episode
Nabokov - Lolita
Gide - The Counterfeiters

Hmmmyeah...

[Dr. Hill]

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