Actualy i didnt wait to see Forrester to begin read books, but here's my list:
1)Iliad/Odyssey- HOMER
2)The Raven- EDGAR ALAN POE
3)1984-GEORGE ORWEL
4)The Name Of The Rose (brilliant!!!)-UMBERTO ECO
5)And finally,100 years of solitude-GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUES
(the hidden 6th book(!) AVALON LANDING by WILLIAM FORRESTER!!!
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1). The Amber Spyglass - Phillip Pullman
2). David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
3). The Road - Cormac Mccarthy
4). The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
AND of course
5). Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire(Still the best one) - JK Rowling
1. To Kill a Mockingbird-Harper Lee
2. A Time to Kill-John Grisham
3. A Thousand Splendid Suns-Khaled Hosseini
4. Nathan's Run-Nicholas Evans
5. Gone With the Wind-Margaret Mitchell
Here they are, in no particular order:
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Sound And The Fury by William Faulkner
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
1- The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas) <<I was so disappointed when I finished this book - I almost decided to just reread it it was so good
2- Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
3- The Outsiders (S E Hinton)
4- A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
5- Catcher in the Rye (J D Salinger)
We all deserve to die, even you Mrs. Lovett even I!
Hamlet
The Catcher in the Rye
Frankenstein
Wuthering Heights
Heart of Darkness
Fight Club by Chuck Palahnuik
The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
A Scanner Darkly by Phillip K. Dick
Angry Moon by Terril Lankford
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (Probably misspelled but love the book nonetheless)
I certainly don't want to sound pretentious and pick only classics but I think that's probably what you're after (classics, not pretension!) :p
My preferred genres are true crime and biographies but if we're talking brilliant fiction you can't go past:
(1) To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
(2) My Name Is Asher Lev - Chaim Potok
(3) All Quiet On The Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
and non-fiction:
(4) The Onion Field - Joseph Wambaugh - *heartbreaking*
(5) In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
Do yourself a favour and check them out. You won't be sorry!!!
Hell is other people - Sartre
1) To Kill a Mocking Bird
2) Dune
3) LotR (I count them as one)
I have noticed that a Lot of people will list the classics, and while there is nothing wrong with them, or they would Not be classics, it would be Nice to see people reccomend Books that are More Modern , and maybe NOT from " the established" classics List..so with that in mind I present..
1. Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
2. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
3. Cold as Ice by Charles Sheffield
4. Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress
5. Foundation, Second Foundation and, Foundation & Empire by Isaac Asimov.
I Include three books as one, because technically they were not written as novels, but as connected novella's and short stories, they are connected thematically, and the only reason for how they were divided were economically based.. Not based on internal structure. If Published today chances are they would all be One Novel.
On number 2, I preferr the recently released Unexpurgated version that never saw the light of day in Heinlein's lifetime... almost a full third of the book was edited out, because the publisher did not think anyone would buy a science fiction book that big.
Each of these books made the list for me , because Not only are the themes different , and not so often explored , but the way in which they were explored showed enormous genius. The Kind of Novels, you pick up... read to the last sentence, and having read that final line, all you can do is go..' wow."
Jane Austen, Persuasion
Rudyard Kipling, Kim
Dumas, Count of Monte Cristo
Fitzgerald, Great Gatsby
Kinsella, Shoeless Joe
Jewett, County of the Pointed Firs
These are some of the books I keep re-reading.
1. Watership Down
2. Fear and loathing in Las Vegas
3. The Devils Horsemen
4. The boys from Brazil
5. The hounds of Baskerville
Sorry forgot the authors
Richard Adams - Watership down
Hunter a Thompson - fear and loathing
James Chambers The devils horsemen
Ira Levin - boys from Brazil
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - the hounds of Baskerville