top 10 for me? Here they are:
1. of course the Holy Bible
2. Les Miserables
3. Hamlet
4. Old Man and the Sea
5. Beowulf
6. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
7. Lament
8. Scent of Apples
9. Noli Me Tangere
10. El Filibusterismo
Scent of Apples is written by Bienvenido Santos, Filipino-American fictionist, poet and nonfiction writer.
Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo are novels written by Jose Rizal, National hero of the Philippines....
Just proud being a Filipino so I included them in my list...
Sons and Lovers
Women in Love
Les Miserables
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Hamlet
The Mayor of Casterbridge
A Tale of Two Cities
Passage to India
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Frankenstein
"It's so mysterious, the land of tears."
Chapter 7, The Little Prince ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
My 15:
1. Lord of the Flies.
2. Of Mice and Men.
3. Notes from Underground.
4. The Wars (Timothy Findley).
5. To Kill A Mockingbird.
6. The Little Prince.
7. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer.
8. Animal Farm.
9. Macbeth.
10. King Lear.
11. Night (Elie Wisel).
12. The Stranger (Albert Camus).
13. Canterbury Tales.
14. The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
15. Mrs. Dalloway.
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." - Robert Frost
I relished these (and reputedly laudable):
1.A Study in Scarlet
2.Richard III
3.Julius Caesar
4.Don Quixote
5.The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes
6.Hard Times
7.The Count Of Monte Cristo
8.Art Of Worldly Wisdom
Last edited by wilbur lim; 09-27-2008 at 12:21 AM.
Oh, cool!Originally Posted by Dark Muse
10 other nominations:
1) Lord of the Rings ~ J.R.R. Tolkien
2) Women in Love ~ D.H.Lawrence
3) The Hunchback of Notre Dame ~ Victor Hugo
4) 1984 ~ George Orwell
5) Crime and Punishment ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
6) The Idiot ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
7) One Hundred Years of Solitude ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
8) The Portrait of an Artist as a Young man ~ James Joyce
9) The Waves ~ Virginia Woolf
10) Oliver Twist ~ Charles Dickens
Full many a gem of purest ray serene
The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear:
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
From Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard ~ Thomas Gray
Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse
Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
A separate reality - Carlos Castaneda
À la recherche du temps perdu (In search of lost time) - Marcel Proust
Journey to Ixtlán - Carlos Castaneda
1984 - George Orwell
Rayuela (Hopscotch) - Julio Cortázar
Cien años de soledad (One hundred years of solitude) - Gabriel García Márquez
El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha) - Miguel de Cervantes
Faust - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Although I am new, I would still like to make my contribution if I may:
1. Lolita by Nabokov
2. The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky
3. Silence by Endo
4. Dubliners by Joyce
5. Tropic of Cancer by Miller
6. In Search of Lost Time by Proust
7. As I Lay Dying by Faulkner
8. Darkness at Noon by Koestler
9. Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck
10. Mansfield Park by Austen
Keroac - On The Road,
Orwell - 1984,
Joyce - Ulysses,
Burroughs - Naked Lunch,
Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby,
Bukowski - The Post Office
Here we go:
The Fountainhead
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1984
The Catcher in the Rye
The Great Gatsby
You choose The Fountainhead? I love you LOL.
And I LOVE your usename.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
Hey Muse. Are you asking for ten choices now? I had originally given five as you had asked.
LET THERE BE LIGHT
"Love follows knowledge." – St. Catherine of Siena
My literature blog: http://ashesfromburntroses.blogspot.com/
Yes, I am asking for 10 new choices now
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
Some of my favs have been mentioned countless times already, so I'm mentioning some here that I know may not have been mentioned.
1. The Kite Runner ~ Khaled Hosseini
2. A Thousand Splendid Suns ~ Khaled Hosseini
3. Miguel Street ~ V.S. Naipaul
4. Charley ~ Joan G. Robinson
5. Emily of New Moon ~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
6. Teacher Man ~ Frank McCourt
7. For One More Day ~ Mitch Albom
8. The Good Earth ~ Pearl S. Buck
9. To the Lighthouse ~ Virginia Woolf
10. Zaatar Days, Henna Nights ~ Maliha Masood
"My warm hands have made the paper limp,
So that its feel reminds me of slept-in sheets: comfortable and safe"
"All these things I say... I say them because I want you to know, I don't ever want to regret afterwards that I didn't say enough, I would rather say too much." ~ Samuel Selvon
Heh, Thanks
-Roark
In no particular order...
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Anne of Green Gables by L.M.Montgomery
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