Male Top 10 favourite books and Female Top 10 favourite books

[rimbaud]

Female

The brothers karamazov
Fight club
Perfume
Idiot, Crime and punishment, The gambler...
Complete works by Arthur Rimbaud including season in hell and iluminations +poetry
Wuthering Heights by Bronte
Les Miserables by Hugo

[Three Sparrows]

Um...I wont include any thing except books(no drama, poetry) because otherwise my brain will just crash.
I have not read boat loads of books, so my list may be not as diverse...
Female

Bible
The Brothers Karamazov
Crime and Punishment
Lord Jim
Lord of the Rings
Demons
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Les Misrables
Bleak House
Persuasions
To the Light House
Rappacinni's Daughter
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Dead Souls

Okay, maybe that's enough for now. (Hamlet, Hamlet, Hamlet)

[Jason Lycurgus]

Male

In no particular order

The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky
The Idiot by Dostoyevsky
The Sound and the Fury by Faulkner
Absalom, Absalom! by Faulkner
The Complete Short Stories by O'Connor (not sure this counts)
The Trial by Kafka
Heart of Darkness by Conrad
Winesburg, Ohio by Anderson
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by McCullers

[My name is red]

I'm amazed at how many people love the idiot by dostoyevski.I thought it was really weak and didn't feel like a 'dostoyevski' work.Not bad but i just didin't find anything to love about it.so I'm curious what did you feel and what i missed.May be i'll consider reading it one more time.Does anybody else feel the same way as me?

[grotto]

Male;
No Particular order.

Siddhartha- Hesse
To a God Unknown – Steinbeck
Mysteries – Hamsun
Jude the Obscure Hardy
Crime and Punishment – Dostoyevsky
Narcissus and Goldmund – Hesse
Neils Lyhne – Jacobsen
Thus Spoke Zarathustra – Nietzsche
The Idiot - Dostoyevsky
Beware of Pity – Zweig

I loved the Idiot. Funny thing is, every time a see a discussion of the Idiot here, I always read what people see and am amazed that I saw something so completely different. Maybe because I read it without the prejudice of others opinions first, I don’t know, to me the book is beautiful.

[pjjrfan1]

Male
The Brothers Karamazov. Dostoevsky
Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck
Huckleberry Finn, Twain
The Plague, Camus
Brave New World, Huxley
Animal Farm, Orwell
The Old man and the Sea, Hemingway
The river and the Gauntlet, marshall
the Godfather, Puzo

[Griffith]

Male.
Aleatory order.

The Idiot
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
The Brothers Karamazov
Iliad
Odyssey
The Lusiads
Crime and punishment
Father Goriot
The Lord of the Rings
The Red and the Black

It´s unbeliavable the low quality of the user´s list. Kafka?? Kafka was an idiot that, just for being a jew and to have had a tragic death was hyped as a brilliant writer. Which can its books be classified as masterpieces? Any book of this moron can be written by a ten year-old child, since she has some talent.

Everyone try to read the real literature works and not the works of deceivers.

[DanielBenoit]

Male

No particular order

Ulysses - James Joyce
Dubliners - James Joyce
Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
Henry IV - William Shakespeare
To Kill a Mockingbird - Ann Harper
Godel, Escher, Bach - Douglas Hoffstander
Notes from the Underground - Fydor Dostoyevsky
Crime and Punishment - Fydor Dostoyevsky
The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka

It´s unbeliavable the low quality of the user´s list. Kafka?? Kafka was an idiot that, just for being a jew and to have had a tragic death was hyped as a brilliant writer. Which can its books be classified as masterpieces? Any book of this moron can be written by a ten year-old child, since she has some talent.

Everyone try to read the real literature works and not the works of deceivers.

Oh no you didn't!

I almost forgot to add the Metamorphosis to my list!

I'm amazed at how many people love the idiot by dostoyevski.I thought it was really weak and didn't feel like a 'dostoyevski' work.Not bad but i just didin't find anything to love about it.so I'm curious what did you feel and what i missed.May be i'll consider reading it one more time.Does anybody else feel the same way as me?

Yes and no.
I'm currently in the process of reading The Idiot right now, and as with all of Dostoyevsky's works, I find it deeply moving and powerful. But I understand your feeling; it isn't a very 'Dostoyevskian' work, and I think that is because Dostoyevsky wanted to express the ideal human being, a Christ-like figure, as oppose to the existential hero.

[Griffith]

The idiot is the best book of Dostoyevsky. This book demonstrate, in a brilliant way, the psychological character of the prince Míchkin. In a society degenerated by capitalism, a human being fair, honest and romantic could only be considered idiot. The Dostoyevsky´s experience in the western countries of Europe make him conscious of the russian delay in comparison with the high industrialized countries. In spite of such delay, the Russia maintained its superiority in the spiritual field. In this book, he try to hinder the possible spiritual decadence of Russia and he also tries to eliminate that cancer of the mesmerizing European culture. Only amateurs that don´t know nothing of art cannot apreciate this book.

[mona amon]

Female

These are my favourites, not in any particular order-

Jane Eyre
Villette
Ulysses
Huckleberry Finn
Lolita
Don Quixote
The Harry Potter Series
The Bible

[Delarge]

Male

The Brothers Karamazov
Crime and Punishment
Also Sprach Zarathustra
Der Prozess
Vangede Billeder (a novel by a danish writer)
War and Peace
Istanbul
The Liar (a novel by a danish writer)
Tugt og utugt i mellemtiden (a novel by a danish writer)
Die Leiden des jungen Werthers

[My name is red]

The idiot is the best book of Dostoyevsky. This book demonstrate, in a brilliant way, the psychological character of the prince Míchkin. In a society degenerated by capitalism, a human being fair, honest and romantic could only be considered idiot. The Dostoyevsky´s experience in the western countries of Europe make him conscious of the russian delay in comparison with the high industrialized countries. In spite of such delay, the Russia maintained its superiority in the spiritual field. In this book, he try to hinder the possible spiritual decadence of Russia and he also tries to eliminate that cancer of the mesmerizing European culture. Only amateurs that don´t know nothing of art cannot apreciate this book.

That's kind of offensive

[rimbaud]

I agree that The Idiot is a master piece but I wouldn't call it Dostoevsky greatest work, the man is a genius and has only great work. anyway, I do not think that there is anything offensive in the book, but if you meant the reply "Only amateurs that don´t know nothing of art cannot apreciate this book" yes it is offensive.
and absolutely not true. if art is something that everyone can consume in the same way it wouldn't be art.

[Delarge]

@ MNIS/Griffith:
and definetely not how I read the book. Why put the whole Europe/Russia - Industialized/conservative country into the context?
When I read it, I didn't just think of it as taking place in Russia, but more like a universal story about an evil man (Mysjkin) doing harm to himself and his friends/loved ones because he's incapable of being a human beeing with all the flaws that comes with it. For all I care it could just aswell have taken place in Europe or present day.

[Griffith]

I agree that The Idiot is a master piece but I wouldn't call it Dostoevsky greatest work, the man is a genius and has only great work.

Which would be the best?? Crime and punishment?? Anyway, Dostoyevsky was a real genious. It´s really difficult to choose "the greatest masterpiece".