well, though i cant recall all of my ten favorites (guess i have much more in the list) ...but there are certain novels which i enjoyed immensely. they are..
- Great Expectations
- Wuthering Heights
-A fine balance
- War and Peace
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
-The monk who sold his Ferrari
To write down only 10 books is really kinda hard, there are so many more I would recommend.
G. Flaubert - Madame Bovary
M. Proust - In search of lost time (greatest series of books ever written)
G.G. Marquez - One houndred years of solitude
L. Tolstoy - Anna Karenina (prefer it over War and Peace)
J. Joyce - Ulysses (hard one, but once you're done you'll always love it)
A. Camus - The Plague (this book had a huge influence on me, definitly got to read it again some time soon)
J. P. Sartre - No Exit/Huis Clos
F. Nietzsche - Thus spoke Zarathustra
F. M. Dostoyevsky - Any of his "great novels" is amazing, though I personally liked The Idiot the most. I can't even tell how much I admire this guy.
Dante Alighieri - Divina Commedia
There are dozens of other books to add, but it's down to 10.
I haven't read a huge number of novels, so this isn't a definitive list; just a list of favorites that come to mind.
Proust - In Search of Lost Time (certainly the greatest novel I have read)
Nabokov - Lolita, Ada, and Pale Fire (works of genius, all three)
Kafka - The Trial
Joyce - Ulysses (difficult, but worth it)
Tolstoy - Anna Karenina
Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment
Robbe-Grillet - Jealousy
Beckett - The Unnameable
That's ten.
Goodness, I'm not sure if I have ten favorites, but I'll list a few books here that I absolutely adore (I have recently started to expand my reading horizon, which mostly includes classics. Until then, here are fantasy/etc novels that I love.)
The Shining by Stephen King
The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice
The Book Thief by Markus Kusak
The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
Twilight + The Host by Stephenie Meyer
Originally Posted by Sakah
I loved The Book Theif it was a wonderful read and really engaging. You should try Interview with a Vampire Ann Rice it is also great
Subject to change and in no particular order;
i/ The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (Tolkien)
ii/ [What currently exists of] The Gentleman Bastard Sequence (Lynch)
iii/ Watership Down (Adams)
iv/ Lolita (Nabokov)
v/ Gertrude and Claudius (Updike)
vi/ Man and Superman (Shaw)
vii/ True and False (Mamet)
viii/ Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (Barrett) !
ix/ Hamlet in Purgatory (Greenblatt)
x/ Slaughterhouse Five (Vonnegut)
Interview with the Vampire is wonderful.
Watership Down.
The Sound and the Fury
Rabbit, Run
In Cold Blood ( why has this not been mentioned!? )
I get the feeling Capote isn't very well regarded here. I like his work anyway, especially Breakfast At Tiffany's.
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1. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
2. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
3. Hunger by Knut Hamsun
4. The Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun
5. Faust (part 1 and 2) by J.W.von Goethe
6. The Trial by Franz Kafka
7. Kafka On the Shore by Haruki Murakami
8. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
9. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
10. Kimen by Tarjei Vesaas
Here are my 10 favourites, not particularly listed in any order:
Fyodor Dostoyevsky Crime & Punishment
Albert Camus The Stranger
George Orwell 1984
Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse 5
Jack Kerouac On the Road
Douglas Coupland Generation X
Jeffery Eugenides The Virgin Suicides
Irvine Welsh Ecstasy
Bret Easton Ellis American Psycho
Ernest Hemingway The Sun Also Rises
I loved, The Virgin Suicides and American Psycho.
The Virgin Suicides was actually the first book I ever read (outside of education), and American Psycho was the second
I really liked how it left you feeling.. i don't know.
The girl's suicides left you feeling, well left me feeling really... freaked out i guess.
My top ten for the moment(it might change as soon as tomorrow)in no particular order:
Midnight's Children-Salman Rushdie
A Portrait of An Artist as a Young Man-James Joyce
1984-George Orwell
Great Expectations-Charles Dickens
War and Peace-Leon Tolstoy
Sophie's World-Jostein Gaarder
Seeing-Jose Saramago
Short Stories-Dino Buzzati
The Institute of Time Regulation-Ahmet Hamdi Tanpynar
All Quiet on the Western Front-Erich Maria Remarque
I tried to pick representatives for different epoches,styles and messages.It would be better to start with classics,like Dickens,but if you want a fast read,Remarque would be perfect.
You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.
James Joyce
It is a fatal miscarriage, so ill to order affairs, as to pass for a fool in one company, when in another you might be treated as a philosopher. Jonathan Swift
Swan Song by Robert McCammon
The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
A Game of Thrones by George R.R Martin
A Storm of Swords by George R.R Martin
Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong
The Prestige by Christopher Priest
The Stand by Stephen King
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Shining by Stephen KIng
Boy's Life by Robert McCammon
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