What are some good classic books that a person should read?

Question

What are some good classic books that a person should read?

Answer 1

WOW! This question made me so excited that i forgot to log on. OK. Classics... I will suggest the books by Alexandre Dumas: (1) The Three Musketeers, (2) The Man in the Iron Mask, and (3) The Count of Monte Cristo. If you have a strong grasp of French, then you can probably read it in that language, albeit English is just fine. Another French author I truly love is Victor Hugo. I've only read two of his books: (1) The Hunchback of Notre Dame- it's called differently in French and (2) Les Miserables. Now, I'm not sure if you've read those books that i've suggested, but I really found them exciting. Here's a couple by Tracy Chevalier: (1) The Girl with Pearl Earrings and (2) The Virgin Blue. As for American Literature, I would recommend the books titled: (1) A Lesson Before Dying- you might need Kleenex for this and (2) The Grapes of Wrath- my friends found this boring; it drags in the beginning. Oh, here's another: Mythology by Edith Hamilton. This book will really help you with those allusions in any great books. So, i would suggest you reading Mythology first.

Thank you so much for asking this question. All those stories just rushed back in my mind. I think I read most of those books just last year. They're really wonderful! E-mail me after you've read a couple. We can probably discuss it.

Answer 2

1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien

2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman

4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams

5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling

6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne

8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell

9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis

10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë

11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller

12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë

13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks

14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier

15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger

16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame

17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens

18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott

19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres

20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy

21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell

Answer 3

Portrait of Dorian Gray and Don Quixote

Answer 4

1. The Wind Up Bird Chronicle

2. The Little Prince

3. Barrel Fever

4. Thus Spoke Zarathustra

5. Man and His Symbols

6. The Power of Myth

7. The Elegant Universe

8. Happy Birthday Wanda June

9. Maniac Magee

10. A Wrinkle in Time

11. The Westing Game

12. The Unbearable Lightness of Being

13. Notes From Underground

14. Death be not Proud

15. A Farewell to Arms

16. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

17. Speak

18. The Stranger

19. Look Back in Anger

20. Equus

21. Siddartha

22. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

23. The Origin of Species

24. Me Talk Pretty One Day

25. A People's History of the United States

26. Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance

27. Less Than Zero

28. On Bullshit

29. Steal this Book

30. The Prophet

31. Evasion

32. Dear Mr. Henshaw

33. Call it Courage

34. Oh the Glory of it All

35. A Prayer for Owen Meany

36. The Corrections

37. Guns, Germs and Steel

38. Blameless in Abaddon

39. Norwegian Wood

40. Hard Boiled Wonderland at the End of the World

41. A Seperate Reality

42. Civil Disobediance

43. The Phantom Tollbooth

44. A Dirty Job

45. The Slaughter House Five

46. The Cat's Cradle





are some of my favorites

Answer 5

The Giver by Lois Lowry. It's considered a "young adult's" book, but it's an incredible book, winner of the Newberry Award.



Synopsis

Jonas's world is perfect. Everything is under control. There is no war or fear of pain. There are no choices. Every person is assigned a role in the community. When Jonas turns 12 he is singled out to receive special training from The Giver. The Giver alone holds the memories of the true pain and pleasure of life. Now, it is time for Jonas to receive the truth. There is no turning back.



Reviews

"In a departure from her well-known and favorably regarded realistic works, Lowry has written a fascinating, thoughtful science-fiction novel. The story takes place in a nameless, utopian community, at an unidentified future time. Although life seems perfect -- there is no hunger, no disease, no pollution, no fear -- the reader becomes uneasily aware that all is not well. The story is skillfully written; the air of disquiet is delicately insinuated; and the theme of balancing the values of freedom and security is beautifully presented."

Answer 6

Tale of Two Cities - Dickens

The Count of Monte Cristo - Dumas

Julius Caesar - Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet - Shakespeare

A Raisin in the Sun - Hansberry



That is all I can think of now.

Answer 7

Victor Hugo's 'Les Miserable' would be excellent, along with any of Loius L'Amour's books- his best would be 'The Londesome Gods' "The Counte of Monte Cristo' would be terrific also. 'the real george washington' plus 'the real thomas jefferson' would be swell. I's advise studying the Declaration and Constitution a lot as well. i hope i helped a little.

Answer 8

Picture of Dorian Gray

Answer 9

As far as American Classics I personally suggest the obvious like Gone With The Wind, Little Women, Moby Dick, Uncle Toms Cabin, Tom Sawyer, The Secret Garden, The Scarlet Letter, Harry Potter (just kidding hehe). Things like that. I'm a BIG reader and I've thoroughly enjoyed all of these books, I hope this helped some! :)

Answer 10

Gone With The Wind: Margaret Mitchell

Jane Eyre: Charlotte Bronte

Frankenstein: Mary Shelly

Dracula: Bram Stoker

Sense and Sensibility: Jane Austen

The Crystal Cave: Mary Stuart

The Handmaid's Tale: Margaret Atwood

Memoirs of a Geisha: Arthur Golden

The Joy Luck Club: Amy Tan

The Woman Warrior: Maxine Hong Kingston

Outlander: Diana Gabaldon (the first in a six book series)

Roots: Alex Haley

Little Women: Louisa May Alcott

Alice In Wonderland: Lewis Carroll

The Jungle Book: Rudyard Kipling

Animal Farm: George Orwell

Things Fall Apart: Chinua Achebe

The Cancer Journals: Audrey Lorde

The Old Man and the Sea: Ernest Hemingway

Of Mice and Men: John Steinbeck

The Color Purple: Alice Walker

Nectar in a Sieve: Karmala Markandaya

Answer 11

Catcher in the Rye

The Great Gatsby

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

A Confederacy of Dunces

Of Mice and Men

The Tempest

Billy Budd

Grapes of Wrath

The Scarlet Letter

Mutiny on the Bounty

Through the Looking Glass

Stranger in a Strange Land

Inherit the Wind

Taming of the Shrew

The Brothers Karamazov

A Night to Remember

Hamlet

The Ox Bow Incident

One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest

To Kill a Mockingbird

Death of a Salesman

Catch 22

Macbeth

The Glass Menagerie

Tom Sawyer

The Caine Mutiny

Native Son

The Fixer

Romeo and Juliet

All the King's Men

Lord of the Flies

On the Road



I think I read all these in High School....some by choice, some not. Some I enjoyed, some I did not, but they are all classics (well some more than others).

Answer 12

There are sooo many books... hummmm...



* Dante's Inferno



* Plutarch's Lives



* Pilgrim's Progress



* Imitation of Christ



* Les Miserables



*Vicar of Wake Field



* Vanity Fair



* Pride and Prejudice



* The Count of Monte Cristo



* The Left Hand of Darkness



* As I Lay Dying



* A Song of Ice and Fire



* The Lord of the Rings Trilogy



* The Hobbit



* All Quiet On the Western Front



* Beloved



* Catch-22



* Catcher in the Rye



* Heart of Darkness



* The Red Badge of Courage



* The Scarlet Letter



* A Seperate Peace



* War and Peace



* The Jungle



* To Have and To Hold



* The Princess Bride



* Frankenstein



* Any Dickens Novel



* Any H.G. Wells Novel



* Of Human Bondage



* A Passage to India



* To The Lighthouse



* Rebecca



* Animal Farm



* Lord of the Flies



* The Once and Future King



* The Man in the Iron Mask



* The Three Musketeers



* Madame Bovery



* Carmen



* Journey to the Middle of the Earth



* Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea



* The Stranger



* Death In Venice



* Steppenwolf



* Dracula



* The Picture of Dorian Gray



* Ulysses



* Angela's Ashes



* The Lady of the Lake



* The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde



* Treasure Island



* The House of the Seven Gables



* Moby Dick



* Little Women



* An American Tragedy



* Winesburg, Ohio



* The Good Earth



* This Side of Paradise



* The Great Gatsby



* The Sound and the Fury



* Any Hemingway book... X-P ( I don't like Hemingway)



* Any John Steinbeck



* Fahrenheit 451



* One Flew Over the Cockoo's Nest



* Wathership Down



* (and of course) To Kill A Mockingbird

Answer 13

Looks like you have a LOT of answers already, and I am not sure what I can add, but here are some of my favorites (some long, some short; some fiction, some non-fiction):



The Alchemist

The Little Prince

The Lord of the Rings

To Kill a Mockingbird

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Think and Grow Rich

As a Man Thinketh

Charlotte's Web

Don Quixote

Atlas Shrugged

The Fountainhead

My Experiments With Truth (Mahatma Gandhi)

Lolita

The Sun Also Rises

The Grapes of Wrath

Siddartha

The Gulag Archipelago

The Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)

Into Thin Air

Autobiography of a Yogi

The Celestine Prophecy

War and Peace

Alice in Wonderland

All of the "Oz books by L. Frank Baum

From Here to Eternity

The Brothers Karamazov

The Prophet



Have fun reading!

Answer 14

Good Classic Books

Answer 15

Death in Venice

Hamlet

MidSummers Night Dream

King Lear (These 3 will give you a decent taste if you are short on Shakespeare.)

The Natural

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Candide

The Little Prince

On The Road

The Metamorphasis

They Yellow Wallpaper

The Bell Jar

Little Women

There Eyes were Watching God

Women of Brewster Place

The Color Purple

The Stranger

Great Gatsby

The Sun Also Rises

The Grapes of Wrath

Notes from the Underground

Narrative Slave Journals

Bridge to Terabithia

The Giver

Huckleberry Finn

The Illiad

The Oddessy

Pride and Prejudice

Shogun

The Thornbirds



I am sure you read a good chunk of the American stuff. I could go on, but these will give you a good start. It's august.

Answer 16

Apart from the Nobel prize winners you can find anywhere such list... but let me give you a subjective one of my favourites:







Camus: The Stranger - This book gave me a new perspective of life



Dostoevsky: The Idiot - The Russian soul...



Fontane: L'Adultera - Great sense of humour, but not a comedy



Golding: anything by him - Perhaps my favourite writer



E. T. A. Hoffmann: Devil's Elixir, The Sandman - Want to read real mystery stories? Forget Stephen King and check out these :)



Joyce: The Portrait Of A Young Man As An Artist - Simply good



Kafka: The Trial - The best atmosphere ever



Kastner: Fabian - Great sense of humour, but a bit dark



D. H. Lawrence: Rainbow - This is where I understood what a lyrical novel means



Thomas Mann: Joseph and His Brothers - God portrayed realisticly. Very intellectual



Maugham: Moon and Sixpence - Based on Gaugin's biography



Rilke: Malte Laurids Brigge's Notes - It's like a Munch painting



Sartre: nearly anything by him - Philosophy covered with literature







U. S. favourites:



Hawthorne's short stories

Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn

Stephen Crane: The Red Badge of Courage

Jack London: Martin Eden

Fitzgerald: Tender Is the Night

Steinbeck: Grapes of Wrath



Saul Bellow and Paul Auster are good too, but they are not classic yet, I'm afraid...

Answer 17

Well they're not all classics but you should read them! Happy reading:

1. Things Fall Apart

2. The Scarlet Pimpernel

3. The Scarlet Letter

4. Nectar in a Sieve

5. A Seperate Peace

6. Tuesdays with Morrie

7. Odyssey

8. Iliad

9. The Tempest

10. Romeo and Juliet

11. Othello

12. The Count of Monte Cristo

13. The 3 Musketeers

14. Freakonomics

15. Of Mice and Men

16. The Westing Game

Answer 18

1. Lord of the Flies

2. Song of Solomon

3. Grapes of Wrath

4. The Color Purple

5. Black Boy

6. Invisible Man

7. The Joy Luck Club

8. The Good Earth

9. The Sun Also Rises

10. Autobiography of Malcolm X

11. The Bell Jar

12. Beowulf

13. MacBeth

14. Les Miserables

15. The Odyssey

16. Catcher in the Rye

17. Great Expectations

18. A Farewell to Arms

19. Catch-22

20. The Bluest Eye

Answer 19

Tortilla Flat -- John Steinbeck

Of Mice & Men -- John Steinbeck

Crime & Punishment -- Fyodor Doesteyevsky

Tale of Two Cities -- Charles Dickens

David Copperfield -- Charles Dickens

Walden -- Henry David Thoreau (philosophy more than anything)

Old Man & The Sea -- Ernest Hemmingway

Farwell to Arms -- Ernest Hemmingway

Of Human Bondage -- Somerset Maugham

Heart of Darkness -- Joseph Conrad

Ni&&er of the Narcissus -- Joseph Conrad

Alice in Wonderland -- Lewis Carroll

Picture of Dorian Gray -- Oscar Wilde

Importance of Being Earnest -- Oscar Wilde (play)

An American Dream -- Norman Mailer

Canterbury Tales -- Chaucer (just okay -- but should read)

The Divine Comedy -- Dante (or at least Inferno)

Cat's Cradle -- Kurt Vonnegut

Slaughterhouse Five -- Kurt Vonnegut

Lord of the Flies -- William Golding

Catcher in the Rye -- JD Salinger



That ought to get you more than started. There are a lot of contemporary books that aren't complete crap either. Anything by Palaukniuk would be good. David Sedaris isn't bad either.



Hope this helps.

Answer 20

If you are looking to go into education, you should consider some of the things that are not currently taught in the schools so you can have a greater impact on your future students. Think and Grow Rich by Napolean Hill is a compilation of success principals from over 500 interviews with ultra-successful individuals in the early 1900s.It was inspired by Andrew Carnegie.



How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie is another classic of personal development that can only serve you well.



James Allen wrote "As a man thinketh" around the turn of the 1900s. Another milestone of personal development.



Human nature hasn't changed, so what is in these books still applies today.

Answer 21

As for American Classics, here are my top-ten favorites:

Moby Dick

The Scarlet Letter

Tom Sawyer

Leaves of Grass

The Sound and The Fury

My Antonia

Mourning Becomes Electra

The Sirens of Titan

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

In Cold Blood



As for Non-American Classics, here are my top ten:

1984

Gulliver's Travels

Don Quixote

History of the Pelopenesian War

Tom Jones

Crime and Punishment

Madame Bovary

The Inferno

The Bhagavad-Gita

Genesis

Answer 22

Shakesphere's Sonnets

Jane Austen

Beowulf

The Bronte Sisters

Frankenstein

The Power of One

War and Peace

Anna Kerina

Reading to Lolita in Tehran (I think thats the title)

Little Women

Paridise Lost

Gullivers Travels

The adventures of Tom Saywer

Little House on the Prarie

Don Quijote (in the original spanish)

Dante's Inferno

Greek mythology

Voltaire's Candid

Utopia

Common Sense

Don Juan by Lord Byron

The book about Prince Gengi

Cantaberry Tales

Le Morte de Arthur

The Wizard of Oz

The Scarlet Letter

Moby Dick

Great Expectations

Lord of the Flies

All Quiet on the Western Front

Cyrano de Bergeraq

Answer 23

Thanks for asking this question, I've been waiting for someone to do so. Classics have kind of been my theme for the last half of the summer, and several people have recommended different ones, depending on past experiences.

The books I heard most often mentioned would have to be Jane Eyre and Pride and Prejudice. Other novels by Jane Austen have also been recommended. I've personally wanted to read Dante's Inferno for quite a while but haven't gotten there. I don't know if you consider these classics, but recently I've gotten into The Great Gatsby and Catcher in the Rye. Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray is amazing in my opinion, but I'm an Oscar Wilde fan.

That's my short summary of some choices! Hope they help! If you've already read all of them, then you're way ahead of me. I'll let you know if others come to mind!

Answer 24

Cen Anos de Soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

El amor en los tiempos del colera (Love in the Time of Cholera) - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

La Casa de los Espiritus (The House of Spirits) - Isabelle Allende

Como Agua Para Chocolate (Like Water for Chocolate) - Laura Esquivel

Ana Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Don Quixote de la Mancha (Don Quixote) Miguel de Cervantes

Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Dangerous Liasons) - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

The Prince - Machiavelli

The Canterbury Tales - Chauncer

Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

The Divine Comedy - Dante

The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Ulysses - James Joyce

Le Morte Darthur - Thomas Malory

Ivanhoe - Walter Scott

Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence

The Republic - Plato

Oedipus Rex and Antigone - Sophocles

Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson

The Illiad and The Odessey - Homer

Dracula -Bram Stroker

Gulliver's Travels - Johnathan Swift

Around the World in 80 Days - Jules Verne

The Picture of Dorian Grey and The Importance of being Ernest - Oscar Wilde

The Art of War - Sun Tzu

Siddhartha - Herman Hesse

The Pillow Book - Sei Shonagon

The Tale of Genji - Maurasaki Shikibu

Dream of the Red Chamber - Cao Xueqin

Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe

Cry the Beloved Country - Alan Paton

Answer 25

You're in the philosophy section, a classic book could be anything.



Voltaire

Aristotles Politics

Plato's Republic

Machiavelli's Prince

Marquis De Sades Justine

Kant, berkely, Hume, Descartes, Locke Shopenhauwer, Sartre, Marx, Hegel, Mills, Adams, you name it we read them all.

Somehow i don't think that is what you want.

I also do't think you want to read any of my Business or Legal ecumen.

Let's go to Literature.

Frankenstein

Dracula

The Hunch Back Of Notre Dame

Illusions

The Outsiders.

Black Like Me

Lord Fauntleroy

Catcher in the Rye

Fahrenheit 451

The french Leiutenants Woman

The Great Gatsby

The Three Muskateers

Nostradamus

The lives of John Lennon

The Jungle Book

The Jungle

Idylls of the King

Hamlet

Romeo and Juliet

Merchant of Venice

MacBeth

King Lear

Alice and Wonderland

Lord of the Rings

Time machine

childhoods End

Walden

On Man And nature

Victory

Heart of darkness

Illiad

Odyssey

Huckleberry Fynn

The Scarlett Letter

Democracy In America

Koran

Iching

Meditations with the Dhali Lama

King James bible

Catholic Bible

Greek Orthodox Bible

Answer 26

Are you going to be able to read everything recommended here? >g< Find an extremely accurate account of the Bible, so you get the full story. After that, go to your librarian for suggestions. You can also ask a professor of literature at a local college or university. There are SO many good suggestions and sources, so good luck! Don't just limit yourself to reading the classics during this time period. Continue to read them throughout your life and you'll be surprised at how wide open your mind will be!

Was Shakespeare recommended? Chaucer? Alice Hoffman? John Steinbeck? Pearl S. Buck? D. H. Lawrence? Ernest Hemingway? Virginia Wolfe? Edgar Allan Poe? e.e.cummings? Frank L. Baum? Eric Jerome Dickey? Maya Angelou?

How about “War & Peace"? “Anna Karenina”? “Great Expectations”? “The Great Gatsby”? “The Great Escape”? “Lost Horizon”? “All's Quiet on the Western Front”?

Leo Tolstoy's “War & Peace”? Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar"? Homer's "The Iliad and the Odyssey"? Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?

The choice is yours and the world of books is wide open! I love to read, so I’m glad someone else shares the same passion. Ironically out of a family of seven, I’m the only reader.

Remember: “Learn to Read; Read to Learn.”

Answer 27

I did the same thing a few years ago and I really enjoyed a lot of the classics that I read. As fate would have it, I ran into a list of previously banned classics.



Some of the banned classics were:



Lady Chatterly's Lover

Johnny Got His Gun

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

To Kill a Mockingbrid



Some other that I read:



The Jungle

The Pearl

Call of the Wild

Tom Sawyer/Huck Finn

The Bell Jar

Call it Courage

Of Mice and Men

Catcher and the Rye

Old Yeller

Uncle Toms Cabin

Answer 28

Catcher in the Rye, Catch 22, Little Women, Gone with the Wind, Great Expectations, Anything by Emerson and Thoreau, 1984, Tom Sawyer books, Iliad and the Odyssey, Diary of Anne Frank, The Little Prince, Call of the Wild, Grapes of Wrath, Flowers for Algernon.....





I enjoyed the Iliad and the Odyssey the most from the "have to read" list. Once you figure out the "old English", it was full of fantasy, adventure and drama.



You can probably get a better list at your local library or bookstores. They are in tuned with the school requirements and usually have a list available.

Answer 29

Dune - Complete Works

Forever War

White Mans Burden

The Scarlet Letter

War of the Worlds

Time Machine

The Count of Monte Cristo

anything alexander dumas

Eat a bowl of tea

Transitive Vampire

Complete Works of Aristotle

2001 Space oddessy

Lord Of the Flies

Nothing by mark twain

Heart of Darkness

Ching I

The Tao fo Pooh

The Te of Piglet

1984

Plum wine Drunkard

Othello

Hamlet

King Lear

the comedy of errors

Potrait of Dorian Gray

Nechomachian Ethics

The Bell Curve

A Peoples History of the United States

The Art of War

The Book of Five Rings

anything by Virgina Wolfe

Paradise Lost

Dante's Inferno

The Iliad

The Oddessy

Metamorphesis

Rhyme of the ancient Mariner (complete)

Totsi

Roots

anything by Chaucer

anything by Hemingway

anything by Poe

Brothers grimm Praire Tales

The Emerald Tablets of Thoth



I could continue...but thats enough for now

Answer 30

Virgina Wolfe

Charles Dickens

Jane Austen

Moby Dick

Jules Vernes

Molière

Kurt Vonnegut

Edgar Allan Poe

William S. Burroughs

George Orwell

Oscar Wilde

Answer 31

AUTHORS and BOOK TITLES



Patrick Suskind, Perfume

Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

J.K Rowlings, (The Harry Potter books)

Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

Leon Uris, Exodus

Albert Camu, The Stranger

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night

Rick Warren, The Purpose-Driven Life

Paolo Coelho, The Alchemist

Steinbeck, The Pearl

William Golding, Lord of the Flies

William Makepeace,Vanity Fair

Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund

Alexander Dumas, Three Musketeers

William Shakespeare, Hamlet

William Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet

William Shakespeare, Macbeth



just BOOKS



The Bible

The Diary of Anne Frank

The Scarlet Letter

The Color Purple

The Little Prince



just AUTHORS



Virgina Wolfe

Charles Dickens

Jane Austen

Moby Dick

Jules Vernes

Molière

Kurt Vonnegut

Edgar Allan Poe

William S. Burroughs

George Orwell

Oscar Wilde

Answer 32

Last summer I read a book by Harold Bloom, who is a highly regarded figure in world of literature. He has written many books on many different authors, but for someone in your shoes "Genius" would be the best place to start. There he outlines a list of 100 great literary genius and really gives you a taste of each author. In my opinion it is a great book and I feel as if I am "well-read" just by reading this book (I know I am not). But I am in the same position as you and have used Bloom's book as a starting point for me. Even though I do not enjoy Dicken's with Bloom's guidance I was atleast able to appreciete the work and enjoy from an artwork's stand point. At this point I am really enjoying Kafka and he has quickly in the last few months become a favorite. Also being even aware of the great overlooked poets like Hart Crane will increase your awareness of literature. I am going to recommend a random book and that would be Stephan Hawking's "A Brief History of Time". I have not been forced to read any books being graduate student for mathematics, but as a purely recreational activity I have increased my love of reading classic literature by reading Bloom and reading the texts he recommends.

Answer 33

Farewell to Arms

Sun Also Rises

Great Gatsby

American Tragedy

Winesburg, Ohio

Counterlife

Native Speaker

Interpreter of Maladies

Kite Runner

White Teeth

On Beauty

When We Were Orphans

Red Badge of Courage

Awakening

Middlemarch

Go Tell It On the Mountain

Steppenwolf

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Tender is the Night

Confessions of Nat Turner

The Collector

Beloved

Color Purple

Meridian

All the Pretty Horses

Recognitions

J.D.

Answer 34

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What are some good classic books that a person should read?

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Answer 35

If you have read all the books listed in everyone's Answers, you have earned the right to pick certain genres or authors. I now read Larry McMurtry, and everything Civil War. If you want a historical challenge, try Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain's The Passing of the Armies. It chronicles the last few weeks/days of the American Civil War,giving insights and events not in your history book. You probably know Chamberlain as the Hero of Little Round Top at Gettysburg.

Answer 36

I loved:

The Odyssey, Homer. The story is fantastic and I loved the rhythm of the words it was like a song.



Moby Dick, Herman Melville. I found the language a bit difficult (English is not my mother tongue) but what I love about this book is the way the author juggles with so many whale related subjects at the same time. I found the ending anti-climatic, a classic example of the road being more important than the destination.



One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia-Marquez. I'm not sure if it looses something in translation but it is a fantastic novel.

Answer 37

Moby Dick

Grapes of Wrath

The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged ( both by Ayn Rand)

For what I consider the "next step" after Harry Potter, read the His Dark Materials trilogy by Phillip Pullman. These books are: The Golden Compass; The Subtle Knife; and The Amber Spyglass

Also get a grounding in mythology and fairy tales. A lot of what's being written for young adults right now are "post-literate" pieces that either rework fairy tales or go on to speculate what happens after "happily ever after." Same with mythology: not just the Greeks and Romans, but Norse--and definitely Arthurian legend, too.

Answer 38

Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood,

and it's prequel, Little Angels everywhere

A Million Little Pieces,

Catcher in the Rye

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

The Color Purple

When God Was a Woman

Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All

The Wisdom of Florence Scovel Shinn

Cheaper by the Dozen

Answer 39

The Scarlet Letter by Nathanial Hawthorne

Gone With the Wind by Margert Mitchell

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

Exodus by Leon Uris

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

My Antonia by Willa Cather (all of her books are wonderful)

The Good Earth by Pearl S Buck

Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Burns



Other Classics worth your time:

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

A Room With a View & Howard's End by EM Forester

Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austin



And my personal favorite author is Faniie Flagg her most well known book is Fried Green Tomatos at the Whistle Stop Cafe, but all of her books are funny, easy to read and great.



Happy reading.

Answer 40

1) Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

2) Adventures of Aladin

3) Monkey King

4) Edelweiss Snow Queen

5) Brothers Grimm

6) Elves and The Shoemaker

7) Emperor's New Clothes

8) Goldilocks and The Three Bears

9) Hansel and Gretel

10) Golden Goose

11) Hare and The Tortoise

12) Seven Voyages of Sinbad

13) Puss In Boots

14) Pied Piper of Hamelin

15) Narcissus

16) Musicians of Bremen

17) Thumbelina

18) Ugly Duckling

19) Tyll Ulenspigel

20) Snow Maiden

Answer 41

To Kill a Mockingbird, Pilgrims Progress, Moby Dick, Fherinheit 451, Martian Cronicles, A Raisin in the Sun, Pride and Predujuice, Lord of the Flies, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The Natural, anything Shakespear read...ect

Answer 42

My favorite classics are:



Paradise Lost, by John Milton

The Art of War, by Sun-Tzu

The Bible or Al Qur'an

Beyond Good and Evil, by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, by Lewis Carol

This Side of Paradise, and The Great Gatsby, both by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Catcher In the Rye, by J.D. Salinger

Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck

The Iliad and the Odyssey, by Homer

Le Morte D'Arthur, by Thomas Malory

A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens





I like these too but I don't think they're considered 'classics':



The Giver, by Lois Lowry

Escape From Warsaw, by Ian Serraillier

The Man In the High Castle, by Philip K. Dick

The Universe In a Nutshell, by Stephen Hawking



These are some that I've read but they didn't impress me too much. Even so, they're definitely worth reading:



The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee

The Divine Comedy or Dante's Inferno, by Dante Alighieri

The Prince, by Niccolo Machiavelli

Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, or anything else by Shakespeare

The Kama Sutra, by Vatsyayana

A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens

East of Eden, by John Steinbeck

Ordinary People, by Judith Guest



Finally, these are a few that I'm going to read soon:



1984, by George Orwell

The World Is Flat, by Thomas L. Friedman

The Hot Zone, by Richard Preston

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, by Jules Verne

Answer 43

I love 18-early 20th c. british novels. Some I've read:

Vicar Of Wakefield and She Stoops to Conquer, Oliver Goldsmith. Both are short and VERY sweet.



Loved The Italian and A Sicilian Romance by Anne Radcliffe. Both very stylized Gothic romances, very exciting.



Hard Times by Charles Dickens is not one you tend to see in a lot of college reading lists, but it's le only Dickens novel I DO like.



All of the works of Elizabeth Gaskell. Mary Barton is tragic; Cranford is so funny you'll be dropping tears! Wives and Daughters is one of the most naturally written novels about feminine life I've ever read.



Any of the short works of Henry James-- His very delicate style

is best savored in small doses! (The Golden Bowl, I'm sorry to say, is his most difficult and uncomfortably written novel.)



Siegfried Sasoon's Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man is an amazing autobiography of a man whose world is changing right before his eyes.



Puddin'head Wilson, and all of Twain's travelogues are essential.



Henry Adams (yes, President John Quincy Adams' grandson and John Adams' great-grandson) wrote a novella called Democracy that is a remarkable comment on American government in the late 19th c.



Hope this helps... You won't read many of these in a lecture course, so you've probably only heard of most of them in passing. I found some of them after asking a librarian what Jane Austen migh have read. Others were in history and poli sci classes in which the content was more important than the writer.

Answer 44

Read Beowulf. Not only is it the oldest existing text written in English, it's also a really good story.

If you're into adventure stories you'll be glad you read it.



Read Dracula, it started a fad that's lasted one and a half centuries.



Read Treasure Island. It's more of a kids book but it's still a good read. It's influenced pretty much every book and movie about pirates that came after it.



Read Tom Sawyer. It's THE piece of American Literature that everyone should be familiar with. Great story, good writing and insanely well developed characters.

Answer 45

Wow!

I feel kind of redundant listing anything, you've probably covered it!

I do have a few that I enjoyed:

Gone With The Wind

To Kill A Mockingbird

Oliver Twist

A Tale of Two Cities

(most all of Dickens)

Carl Sandburg

Rudyard Kipling

John Steinbeck

Poe

Some recent authors I enjoy -

John Grisham

Dean Koontz

Stephen King

Nora Roberts

Nicholas Sparks

Ridley Pearson

Belva Plain

Happy reading! :)

Answer 46

The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

Seize the day, Saul Bellow

Lord of the Flies, William Golding

Lust for Life, Irving Stone

The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho

Dracula, Bram Stoker

Answer 47

The Scarlett Letter, Great Expectations, Frankenstien, The Great Gatsby, The Bell Jar- Sylvia Plath



The first three are books that I had to read in highschool and enjoyed a lot the last two are ones I picked up on my own and loved, though the Bell Jar isn't considered a classic I still recommend it to everyone.

Answer 48

Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier (not exactly a classic, but a fantastic book anyway)

Paradise Lost by John Milton

Canterbury Tales by Chaucer

Anything by Shakespeare

Edgar Allen Poe

wow there are so many that I'm thinking of now. you're going to have a lot to read!

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Crucible by Arthur Miller

Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas

Ivanhoe

and all the other ones people on here have suggested

Answer 49

I see a lot of "adult" books others have listed, but not as many children's classics. You may be grown, but don't leave behind the classics of childhood or you will have less chance of connecting with children, which will help if you are getting a master's in Education. My personal favorites (some of them "new classics" are:

The Borrowers series by Mary Norton

The Indian and the Cupboard series by Lynne Reid Banks

The Wrinkle in Time series by Madeleine L'Engle

The Harry Potter books by J. K. Rowling

and anything by L. J. (Lisa Jane) Smith, Christopher Pike, Louis Sachar, Jerry Spinelli, Dr. Seuss and Ray Bradbury, as well as the series of books tied in to popular TV serieses like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel.

You will discover that these child and young adult books often employ magic and have sequels or are in serieses, both of which appeal to the young mind that wants everything to work out, hoping to be helped by magic, and wishes everything could continue on forever. That is what you need to keep in mind as you learn about education.

Answer 50

Well, I'm sure you've got quite a list already. Here are some "Classics" I've enjoyed:



-- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirig. This book, published in 1974, has become a so-called classic. It delves into ideas of technology and man, man and society, philosophy (VERY good insights that are accessible to the uninitiated), and a (very) little about Zen and motorcycles. It's one of the best books I've read, and it's definately on my "read it before you die" list.



-- Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. This has shaped opinions on politics, economics, and business in a major way. Written during the tail end of the Great Depression and published 16 years after it's inception in the early 1950s, this book delves head-on into issues of socialism, capitalism, industrialism, romance, ethics, philosophy, and many other things. This woman has started a major school of thought around her ideas that continue strongly today. Rand's ideas are the mother of Objectivism, which is loosely tied to humanist and rationalist ideas. One of Rand's close followers and associates at the Collective was Alan Greenspan. This woman's work probably has more to do with your ability to live a middle-class life and get a master's degree than you ever could have imagined.



-- You've probably read The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway. If not, pick this one up and read it in a day or two. Wow, what a powerful punch!



-- You should probably be familiar with Chaim Potok and some of his works. I don't know if his works would ever hit any classics lists, but in light of the crux of Israel's position in world politics for the last 60 years, and in view of the probable continuation of this pattern for the next 60 years, Potok's work definately hits near the top of my reading priorities. His books, The Chosen and The Promise, are best known, but I named my son after his character Asher Lev (My Name Is Asher Lev and The Gift of Asher Lev). He writes of the Jewish condition and has been an active voice for all to understand the Jewish voice in this world--that if jewish culture falls into secularism then Hitler will have won. I am not Jewish, but I strongly recommend starting with one of his novels and seeing where he takes you. I just read Old Men at Midnight, a collection of three interlaced short-stories. It was published just prior to his death in 2002.



Of course, if you really want to know what you're "supposed to have read," you'll want to focus on Columbia University's classics list, taught as their Core Curriculum. For my education, I enjoy reading something that is generally ascribed as "classic" and then branch out from there. My education becomes much more fascinating and engaging this way. You'll find a beginning place here: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/index.php



Most of the links below are Wikipedia articles, which you could have looked up yourself, but are certainly worth a glance.

Answer 51

William Makepeace,Vanity Fair

Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund

Alexander Dumas, Three Musketeers

William Shakespeare, Hamlet

William Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet

William Shakespeare, Macbeth

Answer 52

Well the best I have read...

Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand

Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain

Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut

Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien

Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

Thus Spake Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche

Time Enough for Love - Robert Heinlein

Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie

Dostoevsky

Odyssey - Homer

Answer 53

Stranger in a Strange Land (Heinlein) is on my top 10 list, as well as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Tom Stoppard).



On my reading list is The Histories by Herodatus, the first book on history ever written, as well as A Divine Comedy.



The Complete Works of William Shakespeare is a must.

I may learn more spanish so that I can read Don Quijote, and perhaps Arabic to read the Koran.

Answer 54

There is a book from a Venezuelan author called Miguel Otero Silva, the book is called: "Casas Muertas". That book is read in high school here in Venezuela in almost all schools. It is short and it is about the agony of a town that is condemn to be forgotten.The town was an agricultural town but after the economy changed to petroleum, it started to decay. I read it and I liked it.

As you read it, you may want to do some research about the history in Venezuela during the governing time of Juan Vicente Gomez.

If you read it, e-mail me and tell me!;-)

Also,you have to read The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux (a French author), that book is a classic.

Answer 55

Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice, Gone With the Wind, 1984, Animal Farm, Shakespeare, The Federalist Papers, The US Constitution and Declaration of Independence, A History of the English Speaking Peoples by Winston Churchill.

Answer 56

Get Ye to one of those hole-in-the-wall bookstores manned by some eccentric gender ambiguous clerk and ask for Anthologies. Big thick collections of three or four writers or those that have four or five stories by the author, You mention French - - - one of my most insightful reads was a 'Collection of French Sci-Fi," the book had examples of stories from the early eighteen hundreds, a story by Jules Verne, on through the turn of the Twentieth Century. Another great anthology contained (s) Five books by Edna Ferber. Ignore the horrible Hollywood renditions of Showboat or So Big or Giant or Cimarron go to the source. EDNA FERBER is a gateway to the America's History while writing Modern Stories set at the turn of the 20th Century deep into the 1950's. HERMAN MELVILLE is actually best approached via 'TYPHEE' and "WHITE JACKET,' save "MOBY DICK' for when you are laid in hospital with Coma. JOHN CHRISTOPHER is an underrated author - - - his young adult series 'The White Mountains trilogy,' often collected in one volume while his Adult Disaster books established many of the conventions of the genre. GERMAN - - - see Gunther Grass especially 'Dog Years' and 'The Tin Drum,' but actually he is much more accessible through a collection of essays. That is all my pontificating but one final plea, buy or borrow SHORT STORY collections, they are your StarGate your Portal to Writers Worldwide. Peace.

Answer 57

Think and Grow Rich

As a Man Thinketh

Charlotte's Web

Don Quixote

Atlas Shrugged

Answer 58

These are just a few off the top of my head...I dunno if they'd be considered classic literature, but in order to be considered well-read I would say you should read them...

Little Women

The Good Earth

The Scarlet Pimpernel

The Tao of Pooh/The Te of Piglet (I think that's what it's called)

Memoirs of a Geisha

Animal Farm

Lord of the Flies (excellent book)

Vanity Fair

Anne of Green Gables series

The Cronicals of Narnia

The Lord of the Rings

Where the Red Fern Grows

To Kill a Mockingbird

I know Why the Caged Bird Sings

The Color Purple

Black Beauty

Answer 59

Moby Dick

Jules Vernes

Molière

Kurt Vonnegut

Edgar Allan Poe

William S. Burroughs

Answer 60

I looked at Project Gutenberg's Top 100 list and picked out the ones I remember reading and liking:



Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Pride & Prejudice, Sense & Sensibility and Emma, by Jane Austin

The Time Machine and War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells

Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Connecticutt Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and others by Mark Twain

The Wizard of Oz and sequalae by L. Frank Baum

Dracula by Bram Stoker

War & Peace (no kidding!) by Leo Tolstoy

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll

Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas pere

Paradise Lost by John Milton

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

A Christmas Carol, Great Expectations and much else by Charles Dickens

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

Les Miserables (I read it in English) by Victor Hugo

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Too many to list by Oscar Wilde



Not from Project Gutenberg, but among my other favorite authors are Louisa May Alcott, Frances Hodgson Burnett, and other long ago authors who were theoretically writing for children, or for adults to read to children. They wrote adult-level English, but if the main character was a child, it was considered a children's book. Mark Twain and L. Frank Baum are of that category, too. Some of the best books in the world come from what people read to their children in times past.

Answer 61

This is only one person's opinion:



The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas pere

Les Miserables: by Victor Hugo

A Separate Peace by John Knowles

The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Utopia by Thomas More

For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

Answer 62

War and Peace

Wuthering Heights

Jane Eyre

Anna Karenina

Gone With the Wind

The Grapes of Wrath

Of Mice and Men

The Pearl (even tho its easy)

The Red Pony (even tho its easy)

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, plus The Hobbit

Memoirs of a Geisha

The Joy Luck Club

The Kitchen God's Wife

The Hundred Secret Senses

Answer 63

There are so many but I'll just start you out with a few,that i enjoy

"The Iliad" and "the Odyssey" by Homer,

"The Prince" by Machiavelli,

"The great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald,

"The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan,

"Sherlock Holmes" all of them By sir Aurthur Conan Doyle,

"mien Kampf" by Adolf Hitler(not the most attractive author but a very important historical text,

"The time machine" by H.G Wells,

"The Pit and the Pendulum" by Edgar Allen Poe,

"1984" by George Orwell,

"what is the third estate?"by Emmanuel Sieyes,

"A midsummer nights dream" by Shakespeare

Poetry by authors Yeats and Keats

: and for more modern but definitely important reading try, "When victims become killers:colonialism, nativism, and the genocide in Rwanda" by Mahmood Mamdani.

Answer 64

I'm very non-traditional, but these are the books that I've remembered the most long after finishing reading them:



1. Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury)

2. A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court (Twain)

3. The Stand (King)

4. 1984 (Orwell)

5. Slaughterhouse-Five (Vonnegut)

6. Lord of the Flies (Golding)

7. Animal Farm (Orwell)

8. Dune (Herbert)

9. Naked Lunch (Burroughs)

10. The Catcher in the Rye (Salinger)



Enjoy!

Answer 65

The best books I ever read that I was required to read were all from the same class:



Silence - Endo Shusaku, about missionaries in Japan a couple centuries ago



To Destroy You is no Loss - Joan Criddle, about the Communist take-over of Cambodia



Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe, about village life in Africa



All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque, about WWI



That was by far the best history class I ever had!

Answer 66

You have an amazing list here and probably move than you can get to. I was too lazy to read all of the suggestions but I noticed a shortage of poetry.

Be sure to read Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman. Americas greatest poet.

Find time for Emily Dickinson, Edna St.Vincent Millay, WH Auden and old Robert Frost.



I will put Chaos into fourteen lines'



I will put Chaos into fourteen lines

And keep him there; and let him thence escape

If he be lucky; let him twist, and ape

Flood, fire, and demon --- his adroit designs

Will strain to nothing in the strict confines

Of this sweet order, where, in pious rape,

I hold his essence and amorphous shape,

Till he with Order mingles and combines.

Past are the hours, the years of our duress,

His arrogance, our awful servitude:

I have him. He is nothing more nor less

Than something simple not yet understood;

I shall not even force him to confess;

Or answer. I will only make him good.



-- Edna St. Vincent Millay



School children should say this every morning at the beginning of the day instead of the pledge of allegiance.



'I Hear America Singing'



I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear,

Those of mechanics, each one singing his as it would be blithe and strong,

The carpenter singing his as he measures his plank or beam,

The mason singing his as he makes ready for work, or leaves off work,

The boatman singing what belongs to him in his boat, the deckhand singing on the steamboat deck,

The shoemaker singing as he sits on his bench, the hatter singing as he stands,



The woodcutter's song, the ploughboy's on his way in the morning, or at noon intermission or at sundown,

The delicious singing of the mother, or of the young wife at work, or of the girl sewing or washing,

Each singing what belongs to him or her and to none else,

The day what belongs to the day --- at night the party of young fellows, robust, friendly,

Singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs.



-- Walt Whitman

Answer 67

Hermann Hesse: The Glass Bead Game



Hermann Hesse: Das Glasperlenspiel

Answer 68

Please forgive me if I repeat any of the previous answers. There were so many that I didn't read them all. I would recommend:



1) La Divina Commedia by Dante Alighieri

2) The Alchemist by Paolo Coelho

3) Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

4) La Ley Del Amor by Laura Esquivel

5) Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi

6) La Coscienza di Zeno by Italo Svevo

7) Unberable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

8) Rachel Papers by Martin Amis

9) Oranges are not the only fruit by Jeanette Winterson

10) Possession by AS Byatt

11) Fat Woman's Joke by Fay Weldon

12) The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart

13) A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

14) Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh

15) Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe

16) Perfume by Patrick Suskind

17) The Decameron by Boccaccio

18) The Source by James Mitchener

19) Arrancame la vida by Angeles Mastretta

20) Orlando Furioso by Ariosto



I left out the really obvious ones like the Illiad, any Shakepeare, Chaucer, Milton, Hawthorne, Salinger etc. I am sure you have already read all of those.

Answer 69

This recommendation is not a Classic, but I think it will help you succeed in life and I wish someone had told me about it when I was young.



"The Artist's Way"(You don't have to be an artist for this one"

"The Road Less Traveled"



They will make you strong enough to read all those classics with a great fresh and open mind. Best wishes for a happy and very successful life.

Answer 70

I'm sure you've read all of Poe, i always liked the wallpaper by Edith War ton. She also wrote the "Old Maid". If you are looking for novels Andrew Greeley is good, so is Ma eve Binchey. If you like more espionage type stuff Robert Ludlum and Jeffery Archer are both good. I've forgotten who wrote "Story of an Hour" and Desiree's Baby. Both are good short stories. I personally have been reading C. S. Lewis, Chronicles of Narnia, am on last book. I hate to see Narnia end!!!!

Answer 71

Im required to read the following

To Kill A Mockingbird ***my fav in the whole world!!!

The Old Man And The Sea ***boring

The Pearl *** strange but yet interesting

Secret Garden *** Slow moving

Black Beauty *** typical classic

The Color Purple *** wonderfully written

Anne of Green Gables *** so so

The adventures of TOm Sawyer *** very adventurous

HOPE THIS HELPED!

Answer 72

British Classics



At least one Dickens - if you've never read any, Great Expectations is probably best for a beginner

At least one Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice is probably the most entertaining read.

At least one Bronte sister novel - I'd go for Jane Eyre because I hate Wuthering Heights but that may just be me.

At least one George Orwell - 1984 has the most contemporary resonance.

At least one Shakespeare play - it's probably best to actually see one live and then read the text for the nuances you missed.

At least one Lewis Carroll - best be Alice in Wonderland. If you can find an annotated edition, with the originals of the things he was parodying, it's more fun.

And if you want to study or specialise in literature, it's worth getting a King James Version of the Bible, because English Literature is steeped in its cadences.



That I reckon is the bare minimum



French



At least one Victor Hugo - Les Miserables actually made me want to go and storm a barricade.

At least one Moliere - I like Tartuffe but that's mere personal choice

At least one Satre OR Camus - The Outsider is short and depressing, some of the others are long and depressing.

Madame Bovary - I disliked it but it's certainly powerful.



I am a specialist in Dickens, so if you have any questions, email me.

Answer 73

War and Peace, Crime and Punishment, The Once and Future King, The Postman, HG Wells. Anything by Mark Twain. Classics are gret, but I feel it is very important to really expand your horizons and read anything and everything. Grapes of Wrath, Raisins in the Sun - there are so many that the list could encompass a life time of reading. Plato.



Enjoy and read it all, expand your mind, open your soul and feed your heart.



Matt

Answer 74

War and Peace, by Tolstoy is a must, he was a great writer and philosopher(Gandhi was one of his students\disciples)... or Master and Margarita, by Bulgakov... and for fun "The Alchemist", by Paolo Coelho... great book for children, and also adults.



Erich Kaestner's "Fabian"(German) is written more then half century ago, that matches into any time... the story is short, but not in it's philosophy, or irony. I would suggest German writers of, before, while and postwar time. They are very clear, real and full of wisdom. The stories might appear more then actual.



Personally i love the stories about Hodjah Nasreddin (not sure about spelling)... he is a famous Persian figure, between Sufi and Fool... the stories are more then funny, simple and wise.

Answer 75

To Kill a Mocking Bird

Catcher in the Rye

In Colds Blood

The Old Man and the Sea

Tom Sawyer

The Adventures of Huckelberry Finn

Answer 76

Rather than go with any of the classics American or otherwise, why don't you explore authors who wrote great fiction and non-fiction in the last thirty years. Mitchner would top my list for fiction. For non-fiction it is a matter of your taste. Since you are a 'well read individual' as you say, utilize that special lens to help you critique, for better or worst, some non-fiction writers. Give it a shot!

Answer 77

Some Latin American clasics:



Anything by Julio Cortazar and Jorge Luis Borges

'Pedro Paramo' and 'El Llano en Llamas' by Juan Rulfo.

'Bestiario' by Juan Jose Arriola

Anything from Octavio Paz (mexican Nobel prize)



And since you've got such an extensive list I will not give you a new one. Besides... gotta admit I am answering a little to help out, and a lot to get this useful list of classics handy for myself as well!

Answer 78

All of Shakespeare

All of the Oedipus trilogies

The Odyssey

The Iliad

Le Petit Prince ( I am sure you read that one if you know French)

The Five People you Meet in Heaven (recently a best-seller)

The Lois Lenski books

The Laura Ingalls Wilder books

These are a few of the ones I enjoy immensely.

Answer 79

When I was in college, one class required an anthology of american literature. It was about 2000 pages, but for the life of me I cannot find the title. It included short stories and poems and essays. While I cannot find reference to the particular one that i read, I think it is what helped me to be a well-read individual able to converse on a wide variety of topics.



Some of my favorites:

The Bell Jar- Plath

Metamorphosis - Kafka

Emerson -- Everything he wrote

Waldens Pond - Thoreau

On the Road - Kerouac

Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

Story of O - Battaille

Answer 80

In addition to many others listed, I would add some books

that defined the science fiction genre:



"The Time Machine" - HG Wells

"Stranger in a Strrange Land" - CS Lewis

"Farenheit 451" - Ray Bradbury

"I Robot" - Isaac Azimov

"Childhood's End" - Arthur C. Clarke

"The Man Who Sold the Moon" - Robert Heinlein



and as others have said: "Frankenstein" - Mary Shelley

Answer 81

Huckleberry Finn

Tender is the Night

Grapes of Wrath

An American Tragedy

Slaughter-House Five

Catch-22

Answer 82

Life With Father by Clarence Day, also sequels to that.

Everything by Max Shulman. He wrote humorous novels about during the WWII era, and he wrote Dobie Gillis also. Pearl S. Buck who also wrote under the pseudonym "John Sedges", but I'm sure you've read hers. Also everything by Eudora Welty. And Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books are really not juvenile at all, they are full of historical information. Add The Foxfire Books to the list also!

Answer 83

you go girl!!

The lists above are quite complete but you are going for a Masters in Education. So don't forget Children's Literature. If you received your BA in Education you've probably taken a Childrens Lit course. Middle School titles include: Bridge to Terabithia, Wrinkle in Time, Island of the Blue Dolphins, Holes, Tuck Everlasting, Huck Finn, A Wind in the Willows, The Black Stallion....I'm sure you've got extensive lists from school and you can always ask the librarian. I find for myself lately I've been enjoying historical fiction. I like to compare the author's ideas to actual events in history. The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory is about King Henry the VIII and I find it terribly fascinating. Good luck and thanks for an intelligent question on Answers.

Answer 84

Please read The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck and The Pearl by Steinbeck. Both great stories about what happens when people get greedy. The Little Prince, Farenheit 451, The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein (kids book, but so worth it.) The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne. Lord of the Flies by William Golding.

Answer 85

The Modern Library Association posts a list of the top 100 books of the century; the NY Times just listed the top 25 books of the last 25 years; you can also check out Pulitzer, Nobel, and Orange Prize lists online.



Some of my favorite classics: East of Eden (Steinbeck), Anna Karenina (Tolstoy), Their Eyes Were Watching God (Hurston), Beloved (Toni Morrisson), 100 Years of Solitude (Marquez).

Modern classics: Housekeeping (Marilyn Robinson), Bel Canto (Ann Patchett), Brick Lane (Monica Ali)

Answer 86

Jane Austen -- Pride and Prejudice/Northanger Abbey



Samuel Richardson -- The History of Sir Charles Grandison (get the one edited by Sharp as that edition clearly connects to Austen)



Dangerous Liasons



The Stranger by Calmut (read it in French, if possible)



Madame Bovary (get the



Heart of Darkness by Conrad -- it is the most widely taught text



Things Fall Apart



Siddartha (get a modern version with a lot of notes showing the influence in literature)



D.H. Lawrence shoet stories.

Answer 87

1. A Tale of Two Cities

2. Great Expectations

3. The Canterbury Tales

4. Macbeth

5. Romeo and Juliet

6. Beowulf

7. Of Mice And Men

8. Animal Farm

9. Charlotte's Web(don't laugh- it teaches very good moral lessons)

10. To Kill A Mockingbird

11. Huckleberry Finn



I have read all of these, and all of them were required reading when I was in school. I enjoyed them all, but I have to say Great Expectations was my very favorite. It has many twists and turns, and Dickens has a unique way of relating all the characters to one another. It is a breath of fresh air to read.

Answer 88

Little Women

Jane Eyre

Pride and Prejudice

Silas Marner

A Tale of Two Cities

The Scarlet Letter

Gone With the Wind

North and South

Answer 89

Cyrano de Bergeraq, Odisey, Don Quixote de la Mancha, King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, Decameron, The Divine Comedy.

Answer 90

I love The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath and The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. A newer book that I really liked is Prozac Nation by Elizebeth Wurtz

Answer 91

This is my reading list that I adapted from the San Diego State University required reading list for a masters in literature.



American

•Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

•Henry David Thoreau, Selected Writings, to include Walden and "On Civil Disobedience"

•Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

•Emily Dickinson, Final Harvest: Emily Dickinson’s Poems, ed. Thomas E. Johnson

•Stephen Crane, Selected Writings, to include The Red Badge of Courage and selected short stories (e.g., "The Blue Hotel" and "The Open Boat") and poems

•Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

•T. S. Eliot, "The Waste Land";

•William Carlos Williams, The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams (vol. 1), ed. A. Walton Litz and Christopher MacGowan;

•Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, ed. Arnold Rampersad and David Roessell;

•Marianne Moore, Selected Poems

•F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

•William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

•Eugene O’Neill, The Emperor Jones, Desire Under the Elms, Long Day’s Journey Into Night

•Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

•Allen Ginsberg, Howl! And Other Poems;

•Robert Lowell, Life Studies;

•Adrienne Rich, The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems New and Selected, 1950-1984

•Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

•William T. Vollmann, The Rifles

British



•Beowulf (Seamus Heaney verse translation)

•Chaucer, General Prologue, Knight’s Tale, Miller’s Prologue and Tale, Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale, The Franklin’s Tale, Prioress’s Tale, Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale, Nun’s Priest’s Tale

•Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

•John Donne, Songs and Sonnets, "The Holy Sonnets"

•Shakespeare, Hamlet, King Lear, Twelfth Night, Sonnets: 18, 20, 29, 30, 55, 73, 116, 129, 130, 144, 146

•Milton, Paradise Lost

•Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels

•English Romantic Poets: An Anthology, ed. Stanley Applebaum (Dover Thrift Edition)

•Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

•Charles Dickens, Hard Times

•James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

•Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

•Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot, Endgame

•Fay Weldon, The Heart of the Country

Childrens



•FAIRY TALES. Charles Perrault: The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods. Little Red Riding-hood. Blue Beard. Cinderella, or The Little Glass Slipper. Mme Le Prince de Beaumont: Beauty and the Beast. The Brother’s Grimm: Snow-white. The Frog Prince. Hansel and Grethel. Aschenputtel. Rupunzel. The Sleeping Beauty. Hans Christian Andersen: The Snow Queen: A Tale in Seven Stories. The Little Mermaid. The Princess and the Pea. The Little Match Girl. The Swineherd. The Emperor’s New Clothes. The Ugly Duckling. Joseph Jacobs: Jack and the Beanstalk. Molly Whuppie.

•Lewis Carroll: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

•Mark Twain: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

•Kenneth Grahame: The Wind in the Willows

•L. Frank Baum: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

•Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe

•Joanna Spyri: Heidi

•PICTURE BOOKS: Beatrix Potter: The Tale of Peter Rabbit; Dr. Seuss: The Cat in the Hat; Maurice Sendak: Where the Wild Things Are

•E. B. White: Charlotte’s Web

•Russell Hoban: The Mouse and his Child

•Banana Yoshimoto: Kitchen; and Francesca Lia Bloch: Weetzie Bat

•Mildred Taylor: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

•Sandra Cisneros: The House on Mango Street

•J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

Comparative



•Homer, The Odyssey

•Murasaki, The Tale of Genji (Seidensticker translation, the single-volume Vintage Classics abridged version)

•The Poems of the Late T’Ang (ed. A.C. Graham)

•Tales of the Thousand and One Nights (Penguin Classics edition, trans. Dawood)

•Dante, The Divine Comedy ("Inferno" and "Purgatorio")

•Cervantes, Don Quixote (Part One)

•La Fayette, The Princess of Cleves (either the Walter J. Cobb translation or the Perry/Lyons translation)

•Moliere, Tartuffe and The Misanthrope (Wilbur translation, if possible)

•Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

•Dostoevski, Notes from Underground

•Ousmane Sembene, God’s Bits of Wood

•Emecheta, The Joys of Motherhood

•Calvino, If on a winter’s night a traveler

•Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

Answer 92

"The White Man's Bible" By Ben Klassen

http://www.wcotr.com/holybooks/wmb.html



"Natures Eternal Religion" Ben Klassen

http://www.wcotr.com/holybooks/ner.html



"Mein Kampf" Adolf Hitler

http://www.solargeneral.com



"The Turner Diaries" Dr. William Pierce

http://www.solargeneral.com



"Salubrious Living"

http://www.wcotr.com/holybooks/sl.html



"Might Is Right" By Ragnar Redbeard

http://www.resist.com





Rahowa

Answer 93

A lot of the books listed here that I have seen in the answers already given are great books. I am particularly fond of reading Shakespeare myself, but when looking at truly influential pieces of literature you must not leave out "The Giving Tree" by Shel Silverstein. I know it sounds silly but it truly is a lovely short story that covers greed, life, the human condition, and unconditional love. Good luck, and happy reading!!

Answer 94

Please check here for a list of the top 100 greatest books of all times: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,1061037,00.html



I'm have been looking at taking British Literature and it requires reading Beowulf, Sir Garwin and the Green Knight. I have also been required to read The Scarlet Letter, To Kill a Mockingbird, Gullivars Travels, Frankenstein, The Pearl, Where the Red Fern Grows, Little Women.



My favorite book of all time is To Kill a Mockingbird. You must read this.

Answer 95

The Missing Millionaire

By Emily Rodda

Answer 96

1. The Lillies Of The Field - William Barrett

2. The Sun Also Rises - Hemingway

3. To Kill A Mockingbird - Lee



I could go on, but these are just a few examples you may not have read yet, or should re- read as an adult.

Answer 97

I see the list is almost exhausted in the non-fiction department, however, I shall give you my shortest list. !) Ego, Hunger and Aggression by Frederick Sigmund Perls published 1947 and 2) Private Property and Communism by Karl Marx written in 1844



http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/comm.htm



It's a critical work in every sense of the word, in human history.



http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/ch04a.htm



I can't find the book Ego Hunger and Aggression itself on the net but there are plenty of book retailers.....73 dollars for a paper back? I suggest you try a library.



Ego, Hunger and Aggression: A Revision of Freud's Theory and Method by Frederick S. Perls (Paperback - Aug 1992)





Used & new from CDN$ 63.83







Here are some other sites.

http://www.positivehealth.com/permit/Articles/Regular/litt50.htm



http://www.gestalt.org/yontef.htm



http://www.gestalttherapy.net/welcome/index.html

Answer 98

The Count of Monte Cristo is definitely a book that is worth reading. It kept me reading. Also try My Prison Without Bars, the Pete Rose Story. Even if your like me and not a big fan (of both the game or Pete Rose), it is an interesting read. I can go on and on about good books to read. But you will probably get bored just reading the titles to make a decision.

Answer 99

Please read John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, Joseph Heller's Catch 22, I loved many childrens classics that I think enlarged my vocabulary and gave me a love of reading like Black Beauty and Through the Looking Glass. The most boring book by far that I had to read was the Scarlet Letter-avoid it at all costs. Have you read the Good Earth by Pearl Buck? Another great one.

Answer 100

The Sherlock Holmes stories.



Wonderfully well written books from the Victorian age of England.



Written By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Answer 101

American classics specifically?



Last of the Mohicans (I forget the author's name);



Treasure Island/The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde/Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson



Tom Sawyer/Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain



Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder



The Jungle by Upton Sinclair



Native Son by Richard Wright



The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood



There are lots more, but you only have so much time. :)

Answer 102

Going on your international theme...



Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare

The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden



To name a few :)

Answer 103

The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

any and all Jane Austen

The Thorn Birds

Rebecca by Daphen DuMaurier



are my favorites

Answer 104

Five Smooth Stones by Anne Fairbairn

The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler

Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt

Peyton Place by Grace Metalious

Answer 105

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Art of War by Sun Tzu

Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

The Histories by Herodotus

Psychology of the Unconscious by Carl Jung

Common Sense by Thomas Paine

Gallic Wars by Julius Caeser

The Prince by Machiavelli

Revolutionibus by Copernicus

...

Answer 106

Don Quijote de La Mancha by Cervantes

The Count of Montecristo by Alexandre Dumas

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Answer 107

Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell and Little Women by Louisa May Alcott were and are probably my favorite classic books. There are probably hundreds that you could choose from but I think you will probably get enough answers on here to pick a few that you really want. Good luck with your studies and God Bless.

Answer 108

I am reading The Hidden Hand by E.D.E.N Southworth. I think it should be a classic.



I also love

Treasure Island-Robert Louis Stevenson

Anything by Mark Twain

C.S. Lewis

Laura Ingalls Wilder

L.Frank Baum (if you are looking for a light hearted adventure)

Anya Seton

Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott

Answer 109

Anything by William Styron: The Confessions of Nat Turner, Sophie's Choice and Darkness Visible.

Answer 110

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen is awesome. I'm in the middle of reading Emma so far that book is pretty good (also written by Jane Austen. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens is good too. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott is very entertaining as well.

Answer 111

I agree with most of the other suggestions. I would like to add Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry. I don't ordinarily go for westerns but this one was fantastic!



Also try:

Plainsong by Kent Harupf (a simple, beautiful story set in the plains of Colorado)



Jane Smiley's books



The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (you may never eat meat again)



The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck



The Diary of Anne Frank



Songs in Ordinary Time by Mary McGarry Morris



Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury



The Stand by Stephen King (yes, Stephen King. I consider this his masterpiece)



Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz



In Cold Blood by Truman Capote



Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger



There are tons more! Reading is a lifelong process. Enjoy yourself and continue to expand your horizons.



Good luck to you.

Answer 112

Catcher In The Rye

Black Beauty

The Great Gatsby

Answer 113

I would imagine you have read anything I can think of, but here is a brief list:

To Kill A Mockingbird

A Raisin in the Sun

Grapes of Wrath

The Great Gatsby

Gone with the Wind

Brave New World





Just about anything by Dickens or Twain. I also love Poe.

Answer 114

Tom Robbins, Still Life With A Woodpecker

Answer 115

The Anarchist Cook Book.

Answer 116

I found that reading Ralph Waldo Emerson's essays was life changing. Of course everyone should read the Bible. I find the logic of Western philosophers illogical so I can't recommend any

of them. I do think that educated people should read about the philosophy of Determinism. It doesn't make sense and it's not true, but it is one of the core beliefs of sociologists and Liberal thought in the U.S. Basically, it asserts that a person can not make decisions that are contrary to his/her environment. That the "root cause" of people's problems and of crime is those peoples sociological situation. That no one is responsible for his/her own actions.

Answer 117

I Know Am Not Like Some Big Person...But You Really Shuold Read Agatha Christie...Anything By Her Is Just Absolutely Amazing

Answer 118

try these little kid and older kid books all of these are all classics either new or old



the happy lion

the happy lioness

if you give a mouse a cookie

if you bring a mouse to school

if you bring the mouse to the movies

if you give a pig a pancake

if you give a moose a muffin

the adventures of tom sawyer

the adventures of huckleberry finn

because of winn-dixie

oliver twist (not completely american but oh well)

the bfg

charlie and the chocolate factory

pretty much anything by roalhd dahl

and look at teenage books by big authors.



hope i helped

Answer 119

My favourite classic is 'Pride and Prejudice' by Jane Austen, it was great! I also liked 'Emma' though i must warn you that it is pretty slow so you might like reading it with some other lighter material. I would also recommendo you 'The Catcher in the Rye' by JD Sallinger, it can be pretty light aswell as complex.

In spanish I would recommend you 'Cien Años de Soledad' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, it is simply brilliant if you like that kind of stuff (realismo magico). of the same genre I would also recommend 'Pedro Paramo' by Juan Rulfo.

Answer 120

Dear Sarah,



I recommend that you visit the Random House publishing website and look at their "100 Best" works - while surely subjective, these lists would be an excellent starting point! Be sure not to neglect the true "Classics" - Homer's works, Dante, Virgil, Boccacio, Plato, Aristotle, etc.



-j.

Answer 121

Encarta Encyclopedia has Litrature Gides for about 120 books all of them are great classics. Check out that list. Each book is fully explained and you will get a good idea of how well you will like the book.

Answer 122

Did anyone mention the works of Willa Cather? One of the great American authors, and female! Song of the Lark, Death Comes to the Archbishop, O Pioneers, and many more. She was a master writer.

Answer 123

I`ll tell you what- `A Brief History in Time` by Stephen Hawking is real eye opener. No Physics et al and he takes you through billions of years in only a hundred pages or so. Except for the Spin Theory chapter, it`s quite an enjoyable read,irrespective of your beliefs.

Also do re-read `The Dark Side`-A mild horror by Stephen King.

Answer 124

At the risk of being beaten by purists, the Harry Potter series is on its way to becoming a classic series. Yes, they're easy to read and yes they're kids books, but it is The Outsiders and Charlotte's Web, and they're books everyone should read. So those are my 3 (or 8, depending on how you look at it) suggestions. Enjoy!

Answer 125

Grapes of Wrath-fav,1984,Bula Land & Bula Land II,Raisen in the Sun, Of Mice and Men, anything by Twain &Steinbeck,King James Bible, and try some youth books about history and youth problems.Gest wishes and keep reading. I've gone to large print now but I'm still reading!

Answer 126

j.d. salinger

last of the mohicans

to kill a mockingbird

black boy

invisible man

toni morrison

maya angelou

ray bradbury

animal farm

1984

lady chatterly's lover

count of monte cristo

jane austen (i don't like her, but she's worth trying)



ya know, the list goes on....

i'm trying to think of what i have read....



here's what i do:

i go to a bookstore and hit the literature section. then, i look for easy fun reads and classic reads. then, i alternate. i read a classic, then i read a fun read.

there are soooooo many calssic reads out there that you can't even think of a list, so i see them at the store and think, "oh, yes, i should read that."



i have an eglish degree and i always felt i wanted to be "well-read", so i started my little system!



also, when you do this, you discover new classics. for me, i found delicious reads like, white oleander, memoirs of a geisha, and the life of pi.



so, visit the store and you will find almost endless titles of books to help you become "well read".



ENJOY!

Answer 127

Jonas's world is perfect. Everything is under control. There is no war or fear of pain. There are no choices. Every person is assigned a role in the community. When Jonas turns 12 he is singled out to receive special training from The Giver. The Giver alone holds the memories of the true pain and pleasure of life. Now, it is time for Jonas to receive the truth. There is no turning back.

Answer 128

The Catcher in the rye.

I know why the Caged Bird Sings.

On trial for my country.

Pentimento.

Wuthering Heights.

Liberty and sexuality.

The Prophet.

Their eyes were watching God.

So long a letter.

Before the Mayflower.

Shakespeare behind bars.

Iron John.

Women who run with wolves.

Answer 129

Anna Karenina

The Art of War

Vanity Fair

any Shakespeare

any Hemingway

the Bible

Answer 130

Alice In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll

Answer 131

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

the Hobbit

the Chronicles of Narnia

Answer 132

-To Kill A Mocking Bird

-The Giver

-Alice in Wonderland

-Little Women

-Farenheit 451

-Where the red fern grows

-The Phantom of the Opera

-The Girl With A Pearl Earring

-I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

-Five People You Meet in Heaven

-Robinson Crusoe

-Moby Dick

-Heidi

Answer 133

I'd go for Laclos' 'Les Liasons Dangreuses' (Dangerous Liasons), Dosteyevsky's 'Note from the Underground', Wuthering Heights and the short stories of Guy De Maupassant.



And if you're feeling adventurous 'Maldorer' by Comte De Lautremont

Answer 134

Gone With the Wind is my favorite by far. I can't count how many times I read it before I got out of high school. My favorite that I was "made to read" was I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, and another that was really good was Night by Elie Wiesel.

Answer 135

I would suggest To Kill A Mockingbird, Old Man Of The Sea, House On Mango Street, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Fahrenheit 451, Lord of the Flies, Great Expectations, Huckleberry Finn, Pride and Prejudice and Little Women.

~God bless

Answer 136

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Answer 137

A Woman of Substance by Barbara Taylor Bradford - A true classic and incredible, a must read for all women

Answer 138

Gone with the Wind

To Kill a Mockingbird

A Separate Peace

Mythology

The Iliad

Tale of Two Cities

Romeo and Juliet

Answer 139

Two novels that are great and you would enjoy reading are The original book of " The Count Of Monte Cristo," and "Dantes Inferno," which is also in Italian which gives you a fuller translation of the book but not only that is superceded with two more outstanding novels in that collection.

Answer 140

Well I'm not college educated or a big reader either, but my DH reads a lot. He highly recommends the authors Ayn Rand and George Orwell. His all time favorites are 1984 and Fountainhead. Hope you enjoy them.

Answer 141

Harry Potter

Answer 142

Shakespeare; both the plays and the poems

Chaucer; the Canterbury tales

Jules Verne; 20,000 leagues under the sea

H.G.Wells; The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds

Answer 143

I liked Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and The Picture of Dorian Gray.The Art of War by Sun Tzu is pretty good too but it's mostly a guidebook instead of a novel, but I see it as a more manly version of Chicken Soup for the Soul.

Answer 144

I go by authors that are worthwhile...



Hesse

Nabakov

Joyce

Hemingway

Austen

Kafka

Murakami

Calvino

Faulkner

David Foster Wallace

John Barth

Doestoevsky

Ian Banks

William Gibson

Raymond Carver

Emily Bronte

Flannery O'Conner

Annie Proulx

Edward Gorey

JK Rowling

Gunter Grass

Shakespeare





And any and all short stories you can get your hands on!



Happy Reading!

Answer 145

I do not kow if it is a classic but I have never been able to get through:

"A Tale of Two Cities"

So I always add it to any list hoping that some day I will read it.

also I love

"Watership Down"



"Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it."

Answer 146

Little Woman or Where the Red Fern grows are a must read. But they may be a bit easy to read as far as challenge goes, considering the fact that they ARE kids books.

Answer 147

Patrick Süsskind: Das Parfüm

Answer 148

Great Gatsby

Atlas Shrugged

To Kill a Mockingbird

Odyssey

The Jungle (upton sinclair)

Crucible & Death of Salesman

Joy Luck Club

Macbeth

RIme of Ancient Mariner

Rape of the Lock (pope)

The Once and Future King (white)



the american library association puts together a list of the best books of all time. it is updated from time to time but I'd recommend looking there. as my list as well as the others are a list of our subjective experiences; whereas the ALA would be a little more objective in selecting.



http://www.ala.org/ala/pio/piopresskits/lcsignuppresskit/alaresources.html



best of luck to you in your endeavor.

Answer 149

I suggest you feed your mind with "Noli me Tangere" and it's sequel " el Flilibusterismo" by the National Hero of the Philippines, Jose Rizal. These are very good books settled in the Philippines during the Spanish era. Jose Rizal fought the Spaniards with his writings and these books were one of his weapons. His writings was one of the causes of success in drawing the Spaniards away. Thus you can say "The pen is mightier than the sword".

Answer 150

Silas Marner : The Weaver of Raveloe is a novel by George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans) which was first published in 1861.



Really great book!!!

Answer 151

Gone with the Wind , Little Women, Pride and Prejudice, Moby Dick , Tom Sawyer, Romeo and Juliet , Oliver Twist, and The JUngle Book!

Answer 152

The bell jar by Sylvia Plath, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Answer 153

Well im not sure but have you read like Anastasia or any american heros aka like Diana aka king Charels ex-wife or Pocahontas or stuff that is related or even Bibels from all the religions and from other contries like France German very sorrry but i dont know any authors.

Answer 154

John Steinbeck.... but more than grapes of wrath..... East of Eden is AMAZING... the winter of out discontent is supposed to be one of his best books also...

don quixote is great.. especially when read in it's original spanish version, because a lot is lost in translation.... the color purple.... Ivanhoe! Everyone has to read Ivanhoe! The awakening by kate chopin, the red badge of courge by stephen crane, the scarlet letter by nathanial hawthorn, a farewell to arms-hemingway, their eyes were watching god--Zora Neale hurston,

the chosen- chaim potok, the jungle-Upton Sinclair,NATIVE SON!!! by Richard Wright!



I had to read a few of these for class, and other I just read because they were good! Hope you enjoy the list if you haven't already read them all! Happy REading!

Answer 155

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Answer 156

Die Klavierspielerin (The Piano Teacher) by Elfriede Jelinek, she is from my home country Austria and won the Nobelprize in literature in 2004.

Teaching piano daily at the Vienna Conservatory is all that remains of Erika Kohout's once promising career. Lately, however, her love for her star student, Walter Klemmer, is disrupting both her well-ordered professional life and her emotionally rigorous world at home with Mother. This neurotic love triangle, in which violence is confused with love, evolves toward inevitable breakdown as Erika finally defies Mother and, through Klemmer, excites chaotic passions. With her facility for metaphor and stylish narrative, Austrian Jelinek bears comparison to Schmidt and Boll at their best. Hers is a powerful debut in English;

If you can try to read it German, it is fantastic.

Answer 157

George Orwell's 1984

Silas Marner

To Kill A Mockingbird

Gone With The Wind

Moby Dick

Answer 158

the bronte sisters' books are a must then comes charles dickens, if nothing else great expectations and oliver twist, if not all of them. Catch 22 is a great book that you need to pick up if you haven't already. the Picture of Dorian Gray was good and ive heard that the importance of being Earnest is good as well.

Answer 159

If you haven't read Dante's Inferno or Stoker's Dracula I recommend them. I wasn't forced to read them. I actually bought The Inferno. Also Moby Dick and The Odyssey are pretty good. I've also read some Shakespear, but those were for classes. Hope these were helpful.

Answer 160

A good histoy of horse racing is Wild Ride, I bought it at Amazon. I did a paper for history and it came out well. Also a good one fiction was Stevevn Kings Thinner. Both kept my interest thoughout. Tartuff was good, but The Glass Managerie I think was better.

Answer 161

You've already been given many titles that are great. I'm not sure that I saw:



The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver

We The Living, Ayn Rand

Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neal Hurston



Enjoy!

Answer 162

Die Marchen der Bruder Grimm

I, Robot by Isaac Asimov

Eye of the World by Robert Jordan

Answer 163

This is not a classic but i think every one should read The five people you meet in heaven by Mitch Albom it was a #1 New York times bestseller adn it's a good read.

Answer 164

Catch 22

Answer 165

The Human Comedy - William Saroyan

Answer 166

My favorites from school were Crime and Punishment, Les Miserables, 1984, Animal Farm, Moby Dick, Tale of Two Cities, Innocents Abroad(or anything by Mark Twain), anything by Pearl Buck, anything by Wharton and anything by Tayler Caldwell. I have forgotten some but these should keep you busy for a bit.

Answer 167

Things Fall Apart ; The Phantom of the Opera ; The Crucible ; Antigone

Answer 168

Little House on the Prairie. Little Woman. Anything by the Brontes. Anything by Charles Dickens or Ernest Hemingway.

Answer 169

I have a B.A. in English and an M.S. in teaching English and I recommend, Gatsby, The Odyssey, The Illiad, Dr. Seuss', The Places You'll Go, The Bible and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas .

Answer 170

Try some European writers like: Kafka "Process"

Brecht's "Mother Courage and her children", Flaubert "Madam Bovary", Victor Hugo "Les Miserables" or "Hunchback of Notre Dame", Stendhal "Red and Black", Ibsen, Emily Bronte, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Mesha Selimovic "Hasanaginca"....



This might give you a good start with some European classics.

Answer 171

I began my M.Ed program and reading Lit. books weren't necessary, but it was personally helpful. These 3 books have helped opened up my world view. Usually, studying will limit one's world view b/c we are pressured to fully know everything on the major at hand. It will drain you. As your studies make you feel stagnant and robotic, press on with these 3 books. I hope it helps.



"The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath. It'll open you up mentally, spiritually, emotionally, and physically. "The Journey" by Billy Graham. "The Iceman Cometh" by Eugene O'Neill. It's a play. The summer will go by fast with these three books and you will have spent the best days of your hot summer with these thought provoking books on love, life, death, and illusion.

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Secret Garden

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"The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway, "Utopia" by Sir Thomas More, "Animal Farm" by George Orwell, "The Mill on the Floss" by George Eliot, "Adam Bede" by George Eliot, Short Fiction of Sarah Orne Jewett and Mary Wilkins Freeman, "Death in Venice and Other Stories" by Thomas Mann, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe, "Sister Carrie" by Theodore Dreiser, of course, throw in some Shakespeare "The Comedy of Errors", "Macbeth" , and "As You Like It" are a few books I'd like to suggest.



Have a good read!

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i know this book is not a classic but i love it. Its called a "Child Called It" and the rest of his books. The auther is Daved Pletlzer(i think that is how u spell it) but gone with the wind, black beauty, how to kill a mocking bird are also some good books too!

Answer 175

From one reader to another, I would definitely, definitely, definely suggest:



Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Master and Margarita by Mihail Bulgakov

Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenyev

Eyeless in Gaza by Aldous Huxley

Jazz by Toni Morrison

The Fatal Eggs by Mihail Bulgakov (it's short and FUNNY!)

Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany (it's science fiction and RAUNCHY AND literate as heck.)

Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book by Maxine Hong-Kingston (I LOVE THIS BOOK!!!!!)

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Frankenstein. What a great book considering how young Mary Shelly was.

Kurt Vonnegut. He is such a great author. Crazy. He doesn't make sense all the time, but that's okay!

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1984

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wow, you already have over 300 answers but I thought I'd add a couple anyway:

Spies by Michael Frayn

Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham



also read some biographies and auto biographies of people you are interested in.

Happy Reading! (or should I say Good Luck!?

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I recommend Bertrand Russel, History of Western Philosophy. All within a nutshell

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Here are just a few I recommed, but forgive me, I don't know all of the authors:

"Cash" by Johnny Cash (even if you're unfamiliar)

"The unbearable likeness of being"

"East of Eden"by John Steinbeck

"Plainsong"

"Until we have faces"by C.S. Lewis

"Gone with the wind"

"Angels and Demons"by Dan Brown (and NOT because it's pop)

"Cat's Craddle"

"Slaughter House Five"

"Bambogo Snuff Box"

-all by Kurt Vonnegut

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Carlos Fuentes La muerte de Artemio Cuz. Amazing Book.

Pio Baroja Niebla

(I was a Spanish language and literature major)

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Gone With the Wind , Call of the Wild , A Tale Of Two Cities , Lord Jim , Read them all and loved them !

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Wuthering Heights

Les Miserables

Little Women

To Kill a Mockingbird

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I've skimmed through the lists that other people have given and I agree with all of them, but don't recall seeing one that I had to read and write a paper for a scholarship contest....."The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand. Good luck getting through that one. It is quite a challenge.

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Things remembered Past...proust

Ulyeses.....joyce

Sidartha....hese

Mumbo Jumbo...ried

Crying of Lot G....Pynchon

Moby Dick...Melvile

Huck Finn....twain

Anna Karinniana...tolstoy

on the road....koeruak

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"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by: Douglas Adams. It's a good book to read to be a well rounded person and it has humor also. I've been made to read a lot of junk but it's not worth recalling.

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The overall best classical book is "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe!

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Mark Twain...Huckleberry Finn, Essays He has writen

Langston Huges....Poems, Short Stories, Essays

Dickens...

Poe

Shakespare

Aristole

Homer

Tolstov

Sir Doyle

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Noli Me Tangere & El Filibusterismo by Jose Rizal

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Lord of the ring, Pride and Prejudice, Silas Marner, The Tenant of Welfare Hall, Emma, To kill a mockingbird, Stuff by shakespeare..etc

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A Confederacy of Dunces & Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

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Fahrenheit 451, The giver

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Don't know if anyone's mentioned this or not, but there's a pretty cool site called librarything(dot)com that allows you to enter in your personal library and then it shows you the collections of other people who have the same books you do. Kinda like Amazon, but more "Web 2.0"-ish.

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Tale of Two Cities



The Odyssey



Withering Heights



David Copperfield



The Christmas Carol



War and Peace .... really this is a great read...no kidding

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The Brothers Karamozov by Doestoevsky.

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Atlas Shrugged --- Ayn Rand

Animal Farm ---- Geoge Orwell

Unintended Consequences --- John Ross

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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen



I love Elizabeth Bennett!

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Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson

(i'm not sure whether it's a classic, but it got a newberry medal and it was really, really good)

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Anything by Charles Dickens, Gustave Flaubert, plays by Shakespeare and John Gray (Don't look back in anger). They reflect the mood of the society in a particular era.

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Some of my favorites...



Madame Bovary - Flaubert

Of Human Bondage - Maugham

Brave New World - Huxley

Anything by Shakespeare

Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand



I mostly read non-fiction, philosophy.

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Ok...



The Scarlet Letter (USA)



Canterbury Tales (UK)



El Poema del Mio Cid (Spain)



El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (Spain)



Lazarillo de Tormes (Spain)



El Gibaro (Puerto Rico)



Edgar Allan Poe, and Oscar Wilde stories



La Casa de Bernarda Alba (Latin American)



La Familia de Pascual Duarte (Latin American)



those are some... you can start from there, if you want. GOOD LUCK!

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Sometimes A Great Notion by Ken Kesey.

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One of my favorite American Classics is The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain. It is a really good one.

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Anything by Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway, or Scott Fitzgerald.

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Huckleberry Finn

Call of the Wild

White Fang

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Classics:

To Kill a Mocking Bird,

Lord of the Flies

Jane Eyre

Catcher in the Rye

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The story takes place in a nameless, utopian community, at an unidentified future time. Although life seems perfect -- there is no hunger, no disease, no pollution, no fear -- the reader becomes uneasily aware that all is not well. The story is skillfully written; the air of disquiet is delicately insinuated; and the theme of balancing the values of freedom and security is beautifully presented."

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I think a good book to read for college would be Utopia. Its a book by Thomas More and is very old so would be a very impressive read. And it was written in England. Check it out, it would look very impressive.

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I don't know who the author is but I read the book Fallen Angels when I was in school. Its about airmen in the Vietnam war. It was a great book.

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Pamela is a british novel that is actually considered the first novel ever. And it's a really good book. It's all letters written by a maid about her master.

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To Kill A Mockingbird

Where the Red Fern Grows

A Matter of Miracles



I think....that those are some pretty good books....

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Well,..cool that you are a reader I would recommend...

John Milton-Paradise lost

Anna Karenina-

Victor Hugo-Les miserables

Isaac Asimov-Foundation

Laurence Stern-

Joseph Conrad---mmm

I am from colombia..if interested in Latin american authors you can try these:

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Mario Vargas llosa

German Castro Caycedo..

Jorge Isaacs---

you can look. for several titles..

enjoy

Answer 213

I loved Ethan Frome and The Great Gatsby..

I aplogize if I did not even spell the name of the first book mentioned correctly;I prefer to read popular fiction and non-fiction.

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You should read Wuthering Hights.It is a British love story,written in the British language.I forget the author,but it is a very good book.

Answer 215

George Orwell's "1984"/ "Native Son" Langston Hughes& "The old man and the sea" Earnest Hemingway

Answer 216

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I just started reading "Lord of the Flies" because i was required. It sounds like a stupid book, yea, but it got really interesting.



Say, its not about flies at all! Its about 2 young boys who find themselves stranded on an island, they meet with other boys they find and start civilization. But trouble's a foot.



Though you'll probably never read my answer, because there are just SOOO many answers there, i thought i'd give you a head's up.

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Answer 217

"Balthasar and Blimunda", by Jose Saramago. It's the best love story you'll ever read. A close second is "Love in the Age of Cholera", by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Answer 218

I have come to the conclusion that most of fiction is trash

and the only true story is that of God.

I am tired of being "forced" to please "society" and being politically

correct.

This whole world is insane, and I pray for a miracle daily.

We all do the same things over and over and expect differnt results: that is insanity. And american schools are brainwashing cults as well. There's some truth for you.

Answer 219

Jack London's "Call of the Wild", with your extensive studies you have probably read this already, I think that I read it in the 7th grade, But I loved this book!

Answer 220

Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibson.



You may have already read it since you've graduated. I'm just reading it now.

Answer 221

The first "classic" novel that I read was Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson...

Answer 222

Wow, you certainly have a lot of answers. Well here are my 2 cents.



I would recommend one book to you. It is:



Author: Franz Kafka



Title: The Metamorphosis



Cheers

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"Moby Dick" - Herman Melville

"Heart of Darkness" - Joseph Conrad

"The Turn of the Screw" - Henry James

"Principles of Psychology" - William James

"Canterbury Tales" - Chaucer

"Decameron" - Baccaccio

"Inferno" "Purgatorio" "Paradisio" - Dante

"Remembrance of Things Past" - Proust

All the works of Samuel Beckett

All the works of Mark Twain

"The Gambler" "Crime and Punishment" - Doestoievski

"War and Peace" - Tolstoy

"The Odyssey" "The Iliad" - Homer

The 27 plays of Shakespeare

"The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus" - Marlowe

"She Stoops To Conquer" - Congrieve

"The Art of War" - Sun Tzu

"The Arms of Krupp" "Gather, Darkness" - Wm. Manchester

"The Federalist Papers"

"The Pentagon Papers"

"The Faerie Queen" - Spenser

"Howl" - Ginsberg

That is enough for now, I believe.

Answer 224

To Kill A Mockingbird is a really good one.

Robinson Crusoe is one of my favorites.

Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan

Dracula by Bram Stoker

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Anything by Mark Twain, Beowulf, anything by Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck

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D.H. Lawrence (British) SONS AND LOVERS

E.M. Forster (British) A PASSAGE TO INDIA and A ROOM WITH A VIEW

Gustave Flaubert (French) MADAME BOVARY

Choderlos de Laclos (French) LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES

Albert Camus (French) L'ETRANGER

Leo Tolstoy (Russian) WAR AND PEACE

Fyodor Dostoevsky (Russian) CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

Boris Pasternak (Russian) DR. ZHIVAGO



Try starting with those.

Answer 227

Just go to a salvation army or used book store and try to save old classics such as Steinbeck, and Hemingway and so on.

Answer 228

as u are interested in classic books.u can go thru the writings of kalil gibran,the lebanon writer.he is such a great fellow,whose words were so soothig to heart.u first have to read "the broken wings" by gibran.its so fantastic.good luck

Answer 229

The Great Gatsby

Answer 230

Dear Sarah;

if you like novels,you should read some of the english literature they are useful and sophisticated but they quiet interesting but that is according to your own taste,you can read: Pride & Prejudice"for jane austen",My fair lady "for george bernard shaw"

you may also read sense and sensibility and emma for "jane austen" it's lovely . you should read some scientific encyclopedia

(they are useful) , but as you like;you can choose other.you can read about series that you see on television and also you must read some books for PAULO COHELO ,he is great novelist

you should read "Al chemist" and "the zahir" they are interesting and wonderful, full of new things and his style is lovely and not complicated . i wish you good luck :)

need any thing else ? just contact me

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The Godfather - Mario Puzo

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reading is way better the book maintains u thinking therefore you get more detail in what folks are thinking and you also have more imagination

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Reading the reserve instead of seeing the movie is the ultimate way to see what the author meant. Reading uses your creativeness, hones your reading skills, and can transform your life vocabulary

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The Giver is an amazing book. One of my favorites. Not a classic, but still an amazing book.

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Anne of the Green Gables

I Think it's a series of eight books on Anne

Answer 236

I think that Nikki on page 3 has the best books listed on there... and then there are a few on the first page that were very good too...

Answer 237

It depends on what sort of writing you like. Read anything by Oscar Wilde, Chekhov, Turgenev, Alexandre Dumas pere, Virgina Woolf-anything!

Answer 238

Gone with the wind

Wuthering Heights

Pride and Prejudice

The Phantom of the Opera...



These are my top faourites of the classics

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Wow, just when I was starting to think that everyone on Yahoo Answers was a complete moron...there are some very "well-read" people here.



Almost everything I was going to say was already said, so I'll just say: read anything by Kurt Vonnegut. :)



Oh! Also read Anais Nin. I'm just starting to read her diary...brilliant.

Answer 240

Treasure Island and Gone with the Wind

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one, congrads on speaking more than the pope, lol. the phantom of the opera was a great movie, so the book must be good, and my sis read the book and loved it. dracula is good, edgar allan poe, pablo neruda (i think that's how its spelled), if ur into poetry. jane eyre, although u prob read it alredy. and although tom sawyer is a "classic", i found it really boring, same w/ huckleberry finn. but a conneticut yankee in King Arthur's court is good.

Answer 242

Catcher In The Rye

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A Tree Grows In Brooklyn. I'm on the same mission as you, this is a fabulous book.

Answer 244

Anything by Julio Cortezar, he was brilliant. I read his books in English but I believe they were originally written in Spanish. Its hard to describe his work, but its quite experimental and a bit surreal.

Answer 245

Things fall apart

The killmaster series "Nick Carter"

Try some African literature authors:

Wole Soyinka, Chinwa Achebe...

Answer 246

You can try Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo by Philippine National hero Jose Rizal. It's originally written in Spanish so you should be able to understand it. =)

Answer 247

Doestovesky's "Crime and Punishment," "The Brothers Karamazo"; Kafka's "Metamorphosis," Chopin's "The Awakening," Wilde's "Dorian Grey," Dante's "Inferno," Austen's "Pride and Prejudice," and anything Edgar Allan Poe. Just to name a few.

Answer 248

Many, many. A Tree Grows inBrooklyn, The Color of Water; a black mans's tribute to his white mother; Grapes of Wrath among countless others

Answer 249

1984

El Cid

Wuthering Heights

Moby Dick

Animal Farm

Answer 250

Many Graduate school web sites will have a list of liteature you should have read. My first suggestion would be to look there

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The Grapes of Wrath

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Where the red fern grows

Ethan frome

Of Mice & Men

The Great Gatsby

Answer 253

I doubt if this is a classic but it is my favorite book of all times..Love to read too

Wish You Well by David Baldacci enjoy

Answer 254

Old man and the sea, by John Steinbeck, Reason why a person should read it...I have no idea, but in high school it was required reading. Why should I be the only one tortured by this book...

Answer 255

Wind in the willow it's a huge book

and try some other ones in barnes

and noble look them both on yahoo

or google which ever you prefer.

Answer 256

What about Wilkie Collins or Ernest Hemingway. Ask the Library too. They can give you a better idea.

Answer 257

The Davinci Code and Pride & Prejudice.

Answer 258

wow did you ever get a whole lot of help god bless this mess as my great grandmother would chime every chance that it would fit into place properly enough.. so all i got to say is personally Little woman is a personal fav and the Hobbit is good too however do you know about the authors selection of HIS FAV'S? it is a little collection of three of his best Sellers----TRIPS IN TIME---PROPHESIES FORETELLING ONES SOUL SELF----CIRCLES OF HEADSTONES OF STONEHENGE---THE HOBBIT--THE HOBBIT REVISED VERSION THAT Came out 7-8-2003 GOOD READING TO YA LOOKS LIKE A SPEED READING CL;*** WOULD NEXT BE ON YOUR LIST !!! ha ha ha

Answer 259

The Life of Pi

The Little Prince

too many books, too little time

Answer 260

Great Expectations, Crime aand Punishment, War and Peace,Don Quiote, The Onion Eaters, That should be a good start. Good Luck they all helped me a lot...

Answer 261

John Steinbeck "Of Mice and Men"

Grapes of Wrath



Robinson Crusoe

To Kill a Mockingbird

and of course my all time LEAST favorite Hamlet.

Answer 262

I recommend you in French:

"Le rouge et le noir" by Stendhal

"L'étranger" by Albert Camus.

"La peste" by Albert Camus

"Mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée" by Simone de Beauvoir

“Le tour du monde en 80 jours” by Jules Verne

"Les fleurs du mal" by Baudelaire



In Spanish:

"Don Quijote de la Mancha" by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.



I think these bookes are going to be helpful for you. I "was made to read" the ones in French, in my french course; the one is Spanish is considered to be one of the best books in this language.

Answer 263

It can be hard to get through for some people, but an EX-BF Poli-Sci Major always said everyone should read War and Peace at one point in their life... and after I read it years ago...... I agree..... =)



Best of luck

Answer 264

Of Mice And Men, Mine Kumph

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"The Thorn Birds"

The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho

"Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri

"The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

Stories by O.Henry

Answer 266

I personally love the Count of Monte Cristo!

Answer 267

* The Three Musketeers



* Madame Bovery



* Carmen



* Journey to the Middle of the Earth



* Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea



* The Stranger



* Death In Venice



* Steppenwolf



* Dracula

Answer 268

The Da Vinci Code, The Bible, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Romeo and Julieta, Number of the Stars and other top sellers.

Answer 269

To Kill A Mocking Bird

Answer 270

Absolutely, read The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck, if your haven't had to read it already. I've re-read it so many times since the first read & it just gets better & better.

Answer 271

Moby Dick, anything by Mark Twain, Heart of Darkness, by Conrad, and of course, no one can consider herself well read without a knowledge of the Bible.

Answer 272

"Wuthering Heights" and "Bewolf"...it was supposed to be a reading assignment for my junior class in High school but I switched schools and never got the chance to read them. I think they would be really good assignment books.

Answer 273

Why do people that have the answer, constantly seek affirmation? Nice resume. My answer a new classic,The Stand. Old classic natch/ GWTW

Answer 274

The Catcher in the Rye

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I am sure you read a good chunk of the American stuff. I could go on, but these will give you a good start. It's august.

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The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

Answer 277

Try some readings by Cortazar and also Buzzatti if you want to be well-read in international literature.

Answer 278

Personally, I loved to read Frankenstein! I am young, but I was interested and stayed interested until the very last page :)

Answer 279

Little Women, Of mice and men,To Kill A Mockingbird,

good and easy

They made us read them in 10th grade

Answer 280

The 3 musquetears (whatever u spell it) and Crime and punishment were books i was made to read that turned out to be really nice. Also, "the 12 chairs" and its sequel "the little golden calf" by ilf and petrov :)..really funny russian novels..U should also try (though i dunno if it's quite a classic..) books by kurt vonnegut - my fav was "the cat's craddle". enjoy :)

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The Qur'an. It would clear most of the propaganda stuff which you would find in the media.Try Yusuf Ali or Marmaduke Pickthall's translation.

Answer 282

"To Kill a Mockingbird"

"The Grapes of Wrath"

"Julius Ceaser"

"20,000 Leagues Under the Sea"



Their great books.

Answer 283

Jane Eyrr (I think that's how you spell it...)

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle (I really like this one...it's scary)

Pilgrim's Progress (I read the abridged version)

Answer 284

My favorite book is The Great Gatsby.

Answer 285

"Das Kapital" by Karl Marks

"A Brief History of Time" by Stephan Hawking

Answer 286

Go to barnes and noble and look at their value classics section. All the books are 4.99, and they are all great pieces of literature.

Answer 287

I highly recommend that you read the Diary of Ann Frank.

Answer 288

Exodus, by Leon Uris

Answer 289

Emma: Jane Austen

Little Doritt: Dickens





that's all I know lol

Answer 290

DEAR SARAH,



I WILL ADMIT THAT I LOOKED AT EVERYONE ELSES

ANSWER AND CHEATED A LITTLE. I DID NOT WANT

TO GIVE YOU THE TITLES TO BOOKS OTHERS WOULD

HAVE GIVEN. THERE WERE LOTS OF GOOD ONES

MANY YOU HAVE PROBABLY ALREADY READ.

TRY THESE:



A COPY OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION

THE DAVINCI CODE

THE GREEK PLAYS BY SOPHOCLESE

HELTER SKELTER BY CHARLES MANSON

AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST i WILL HAVE TO RECOMMEND...

THE LATEST ISSUE OF PENTHOUSE

Answer 291

My favoriet book of all time, surely you've read it.



J.D. Salinger

Catcher in the Rye



Holden Caufield is the man!

Answer 292

Moby Dick; Don Quiote; Frankenstien; Dracula; Journey to the West (Chinese); Romance of the three Kingdoms (Chinese)

Answer 293

Try all fo Charles Dickens Books..I am sure yu will enjoy them.Good Luck

Answer 294

Anything Jane Austen, but most noteworthy is Pride & Prejudice.

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Flowers for Algernon

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Mein Kampf.

Answer 297

I SPEAK SWAHILI, spent four years in the JUMGLES OF AFRICA, with the swasi people, ( and FREDDY FENDER IS ON THE RADIO) IF HE BRINGS YOU HAPPINES"

anyway,after high school bought a one way ticket, to never never land, the only white person in the entire village.

speak spanish, GERNMAN, LATIN. ITALIAN,

Answer 298

War and Peace is absolutely the greatest book ever. We is another good one if you liked 1984.

Answer 299

Check out anything by Octavio Paz

Longitude by Dava Sobel, its at least historic and short and fascinating.

Answer 300

some non western books:



zen mind beginners mind

the heart of understanding

moon in a dewdrop



these books can help you get outside the limitations of western thought.

Answer 301

Read the Count of Monte Cristo it is amazing.

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Black Rain - Japanese author I can't remember



Midnight's Children - Rushdie



any of the Russians

Answer 303

'les misérables' par hugo

'germinal' par zola

'mort à credit' por celine

'cien años de soledad' por marquez

'the brothers karamazov' and 'crime and punishment' by dostoyevsky

'grapes of wrath' by steinbeck

'Nectar in a Seive' by Kamala Markandaya



if u write german very well, write me if u want - i cud use some help. [e-mail]



have u checked out PROJECT GUTENBERG? they have thousands of online novels.

Answer 304

well i think Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugg by Ayn Rand are two must read......besides that Great expectations by charles Dickens and pride n prejudice by Jane Austen are also good

Answer 305

Grapes of Wrath

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like many have said--OF MICE AND MEN! it's les than 150 pages long, in the small-cover version, i'm almost sure, and it's an awesome read if not a bit sad.

Answer 307

Le "Histoire d'O" es tres bien. Lu lui en français si vous pouvez.



If not, it is called "The Story of O" by Pauline Reage.

Answer 308

You have gotten so many of the ones that I would have told you to read that it would be redundant for me to add, however I would say that if you have not read "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand you really should read it.

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Where the Red Fern Grows. I know it's a children's novel, but it's really good...classic.

Answer 310

Moby Dick, Beowulf, Great Expectations, and Brave New World were my favorites.

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* Carmen



* Journey to the Middle of the Earth



* Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea



* The Stranger



* Death In Venice



* Steppenwolf



* Dracula

Answer 312

Catcher in the Rye

Answer 313

i don't think it is a very difficult book to read, but you should definately read it, "angel unaware". It was my grandmother's book that i read, and it was her mother's before that, so it would definately be old enough to be called a classic

Answer 314

Jane Eyre, Rebecca and Wuthering Heights are a few of my favorites...

Answer 315

Hi, read the Prabhupada books, you can find in this books many knowledge and this books are very friendly.



Regards



Frank

Answer 316

sister soulijah- the coldest winter ever

its not classic but i recommend 2 anybody also any carl webber books like baby momma drama, preacher's son,exc..

Answer 317

Be sure to include some Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

Answer 318

any jane austen, victor hugo, agatha christie,alexandre dumas,sir arther connan doyle,charles dickens,charolotte bronte,emily bronte ,anne bronte, jrr tolkien,cs lewis, jm berry , peter everson, lm montgomery, sojourny weaver,emily dickens , harriet beecher stowe ,man there are soo many amazing books i know but i can't remember anymore right now!!

lol, but definatly read the "count of monte cristo", my best fav!!!

Answer 319

Shakespere.

Answer 320

any thing by Alexander Dumas...He wrote 3 musketeers, Any thing by Mark Twain, and Phantom of the Opera

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shakespeare, obviously, voltaire [especially candide], evelyn waugh books, the poems of t. s. eliot, etc. then there's the really boring classics, like anna karenina, war and peace, and les miserable. not to say they're not good...

Answer 322

The only one that comes to my mind is Gone with the Wind.

Answer 323

"The Purpose-Driven Life" by Rick Warren

Answer 324

incarnations of immortality all 5 of the Arther piers Anthony

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my fave book is a book i read a long time ago in 4th grade. its caled number the stars i read it over and over. it doesnt take that long to read but its about life in Copenhagen Denmark during WWII

Answer 326

Where the Red Fern Grows is an incredible story.

Answer 327

to kill a mockingbird

little women

little men

jane eyre

charlotte's webb

animal farm

1984

the red badge of courage

the pearl

of mice and men

the count of monte cristo

war and peace

the red pony

Answer 328

I absolutely enjoyed gone with the wind by margret mitchell!

Answer 329

A book which is a reference point for a great deal of literary works, the Bible.

Answer 330

I had to read to kill a mockingbird and Great Expectations for school. Please could you send me a message of some of the books you’ve read cause I haven’t read that many.

Answer 331

ok, sad thing is, im still in high school, ive got 3 years left, and ive read about 80% of the above mentioned books.

Answer 332

In this day and age, "1984" and "Animal Farm," both by George Orwell, come to mind.

Answer 333

I think Mark Twain books might be ok

Answer 334

Hope these help...



-The island of dr moreau

-The food of the gods

-The mysterious island

-The village in the treetops

-Swiss family Robinson

-Before adam

- Frankenstein

-Five weeks in a balloon

-The invisible man

-The time machine

Answer 335

Tuck everlasting

Answer 336

You should try Barnes and Nobles they have a bunch of good classics.

Answer 337

The Great Gastby it is a great movie and a great book read it it's nice

Answer 338

Interesting discussion!

Answer 339

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Answer 340

A-List by Zoey Dean

Answer 341

A seperate peace

Answer 342

Little Women I heard was a very very good book.

Answer 343

you sure read a lot of books but have you tried reading the bible?

that one's really a classic.

Answer 344

This is not a classic, but you should definely read 'The Prince'

Answer 345

Tolkien's lord of the rings is a good place to start

Answer 346

only good classic book i read was to kill a mockingbird and we had to read taht for freshman year i liked it but was quite boring.



also i like other books

Answer 347

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (probably already read it)



The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (probably already read that one too)

Answer 348

A great book is "sons and Lover" D.H. Lawrence

Answer 349

anything by Dickens is good,

Jane Austin

Emily Bronte

George Elliot

Answer 350

1776 by David McCullough. one of the best american history novels i have ever read.

Answer 351

It's a quick read, but "Animal Farm" is worth a look.

Answer 352

piesele de Karagiale sau vrei numai Americane

imi pare rau ,traiesc in alta tara

complimente

do you live in Romania?

Answer 353

The Great Gatsby...

Answer 354

Matlida or a seirous of fortune events

Answer 355

I really loved reading How to Kill a Mockingbird, which teaches not to judge one by their color of their skin.

Answer 356

Jane Erye is a great book.

Answer 357

i would just pick any book. and what ever i gat is what i would read. you never know what could happen. for example,you could find a new author you really like.

Answer 358

pride and prejudice by jane austin, jane eyre by charlotte bronte, wuthering heights by emily bronte. Great expectations by charles dickens,

Answer 359

Charley Skedaddle! If u dont read it your missing one heck of a story!

Answer 360

Anne of green gables

Answer 361

Holy shnikees! How do you people have the time to read? I barely have time to go to the restroom. Then again, that is the only time I get to browse my magazines....

Answer 362

wow. there are so many good classic,s out there . like the waltons. to kill a mockingbird. hawithha. westwerd bound . and many others as well .?

Answer 363

The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham

A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia De Burgos by Julia De Burgos

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

The Picture Of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Night by Elie Wiesel

The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe

Beloved by Toni Morrison

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

A Separate Peace by John Knowles

Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

The Story of My Life by Helen Keller

The Awakening by Kate Chopin

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Time and Again by Jack Finney

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Sybil by Flora Schreiber

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Cousin Bette by Honore De Balzac

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

1984 by George Orwell

The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

The Sound and The Fury by William Faulkner

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Emma by Jane Austen

On The Road by Jack Kerouac

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

Many of the books come in different languages so you could read them that way or in English broaden your horizens.

Answer 364

dante's Inferno



Alexander Dumas

Homer

Answer 365

Shakespeare's books and POems.They are simply wonderful

Answer 366

Jane Eyre-- that's such a romantic book!

Answer 367

the bible,best book ever written,and the best guide for our footsteps

this book is a letter from our heavenly father,he made us shouldn't we take instruction from him

Answer 368

where the red fern grows! an all time classic, garunteed to make you cry at the end.

Answer 369

Have you read Les Miserables? That is a really good one.

Answer 370

a tale of two cities, maybe shakespeare's.......n' also roald dahl's ' the wonderful story of henry sugar' n' 'switch *****'......although he's not catogoried in the classics, his works are still worth reading.... :)

Answer 371

War and Peace...its a very good book.

Answer 372

I loved pride and prejudiced and the Scarlett letter.

Answer 373

To kill a mockingbird and the great Gatsby(i think thats how it spelled)

Answer 374

Right now i am reading Roots

Answer 375

1984 by george orwell, the merchant of venice by shakespeare haha those are the only two i remember from high school but i like george orwell's animal farm as well.



- jd salinger's catcher in the rye and franny and zooey

- ayn rand's atlas shrugged, anthem and fountainhead

- i absolutely love anything from khalil gibran

- fahrenheit 451 by ray bradbury

- gonzo journalists like hunter s. thompson

- electric kool-aid acid test by tom wolfe

- please kill me by legs mcneil

- clockwork orange by anthony burgess

- speed and kentucky ham by william s burroughs jr.

- slaughterhouse-five by kurt vonnegut jr

Answer 376

War & Peace

Answer 377

libro de Sidartha de Herman Hesse, es muy bueno en el lenguaje que sea...

Answer 378

i will always remember reading George Orwells "Animal Farm" and "1984". in high school i couldn't believe that any of that would come about and it did...

Answer 379

you mayhave read some of these...Moby Dick, The crucible, the Count of Monte Cristo,

Answer 380

the westing game and coraline twovery good books

Answer 381

Of mice n men.

Tale of two cities.

Something about the holocaust.

Answer 382

I had many of the ones Molly suggsted -

Answer 383

the classic Nancy Drew series they are so good!

Answer 384

pride and prejudice, to kill a mockingbird, jane eyre, gone with the wind, of mice and men, and the color purple were great!

Answer 385

You should go to the Library

Answer 386

well since ur mature enough so read"to kill a mocking bird,and harry potter books.

Answer 387

animal farm and 1984 both by orwell

Answer 388

Where the red fern grows

Grapes of wrath

A tree grows in brooklin

***Lonesome dove***

Answer 389

the return of the native

brothers karamazov

wuthering heights

robinson crusoe

etc.

Answer 390

Hemingway "Old Man and the Sea" "To Have and Have Not"

Answer 391

alice and wonderland and alice through the looking glass, the last unicorn, the unicorn chronicles

Answer 392

"to kill a mockingbird"



"of mice and men"



also, "tuesdays with morrie" is very good.



sorry, i cant remember the authors, but you can easily find them. they're very well known!

Answer 393

to kill a mockingbird, gone with the wind, the sun also rises, to name a few

Answer 394

I love the book, to kill a mockingbird.

Answer 395

refer library

Answer 396

incident at hawks hill is my favorite book of all time

Answer 397

tuesdays wit morrie,to kill a mocking bird,the davinci code,the three people you meet when you go to heaven

Answer 398

of mine and men lol thats an ol skool book lol

Answer 399

i would say any book by george orwell. especially 1984.

Answer 400

Candide;

The Little Prince.

Hope it'll help.[somehow? :)]

Answer 401

just read READER'S DIGEST. It has lots of true stories that are useful for all ages.

Answer 402

Any book that catches your eye!

Answer 403

Shakespeare and Bronte...

Answer 404

i would revccomend

FLOURS FOR ALGERNON

WAR OF THE WORLDS

THE INVISIBLE MAN

THE HARRY POTTER SERIES

A SERIES OF UNFORTUNET EVENTS



if that doesn't help you i hear that sci-fi novels make you think clearly or smarter

Answer 405

poisionwood bible

grapes of wrath

of mice and men

the mirror of her dreams

Answer 406

a tree grows in brooklyn

Answer 407

the number one book you should read is like water for chocolate





it is my fave. ^_^

Answer 408

Pride and Prejudice is my personal favortie.

Answer 409

one flew over the kookoo's nest

Answer 410

when i was little i read wishbone it was interesting but if not that then maybe the lemony snicket books

Answer 411

try Romeo and Juliet

Answer 412

statistics, because numbers are the most logical science.

Answer 413

the prince

by niccolo machiavelli

Answer 414

ralph waldo emerson - self reliance

Answer 415

the canterbury tales, beowulf, and animal farm

Answer 416

Frankinstine! i have not read it yet but my frieds tell me it is great.

Answer 417

last of the mohicans it's my fav and the movie is gr8t

Answer 418

i LOVE Jane Eyre by Charlotte brontte (i think that is how u spell her name)

kira-kira

Answer 419

well remember it doesn't really matter what other's think about the book you should take a like personalaty book quiz........then you'll find what you like..... :)

Answer 420

where the red fern grows

Answer 421

My secret life. Call of the wild. Fanny Hill.......Marley and me.. Death be not proud.

Answer 422

http://www.time.com/time/2005/100books/the_complete_list.html

Answer 423

roots by alex haley

Answer 424

well me harry potter books or mmm......Wenny has wings it'my life story i lost my baby sis

Answer 425

u sound really really smart.hmm i dont know there are soo many to chose from

Answer 426

the good earth. - by pearl s buck

Answer 427

its the summer honey u should be hanging out with ur friends don't be worrying about that stuff yet!

Answer 428

i personally love charles dickens' work... read them all!! =)



btw, you're insane... too many languages... lol jk have fun!

Answer 429

The color purple

Answer 430

play boy - especially january first issues. dont miss it. OK??

Answer 431

because of winn dixie

Answer 432

dantes inferno

Answer 433

chronicles of narnia

Answer 434

l'etranger by albert camus

Answer 435

definitely pride and prejudice

Answer 436

bridge to terabiethia

Answer 437

3 blind mice

Answer 438

CUBA THE NOVEL ITS GREAT ITS SO INTERSETING AND FUN AND FUNNY

Answer 439

little women





nancy drew

Answer 440

KIDNAPPED BY ROBERT LOUS STEVESON

Answer 441

to kill a mockingbird

Answer 442

to kill a mockingbird

Answer 443

Kill! Kill! Kill! by Finka Furtano

Answer 444

johnny tremain is a fantastic book .

This story of a tragically injured young silversmith who ends up hip-deep in the American Revolution is inspiring, exciting, and sad. Winner of the prestigious Newbery Award in 1944, Esther Forbes's story has lasted these 50-plus years by including adventure, loss, courage, and history in a wonderfully written, very dramatic package. It's probably not great for little guys but mature 11-year-olds or older will find it a great adventure.



From AudioFile

Forbes's 1944 Newbery Medal-winning novel of a fourteen-year-old silversmith's apprentice chronicles the beginnings of the revolution in the American Colonies. In these days of quick-paced action, the multi-layered story may not be fast-moving enough for some listeners. Cassidy gives a rather pedestrian reading though the dialogue is quite sprightly. Her pauses separate each speaker so that changes of intonation are unnecessary. A more dramatic reading might easily destroy Forbes's delicate pacing. This introduction to American history is a classic and Cassidy's rendition is acceptable. S.B.S. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.



Book Week

"This is Esther Forbes at her brilliant best. She has drawn the character of Johnny with such sympathy and insight that he may take his place with Jim Hawkins, Huck Finn and other young immortals." --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.



Review

"This is Esther Forbes at her brilliant best. She has drawn the character of Johnny with such sympathy and insight that he may take his place with Jim Hawkins, Huck Finn and other young immortals." --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.



Book Description

Johnny Tremain, a young apprentice silversmith, is caught up in the danger and excitement of 1775 Boston, just before the Revolutionary War. But even more gripping than living through the drama of Revolutionary Boston is the important discovery Johnny makes in his own life.



Card catalog description

After injuring his hand, a silversmith's apprentice in Boston becomes a messenger for the Sons of Liberty in the days before the American Revolution. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.



From the Publisher

A story filled with danger and excitement, Johnny Tremain tells of the turbulent, passionate times in Boston just before the Revolutionary War. Johnny, a young apprentice silversmith, is caught up in a dramatic involvement with James Otis, John Hancock,and John and Samuel Adams in the exciting currents and undercurrents that were to lead to the Boston Tea Pary and the Battle of Lexington -- and finally, a touching resolution of Johnny's personal life.

Johnny Tremain is a historical fiction at its best, portraying Revolutionary Boston as a living drama, through the shrewd eyes of an observant boy.



Inside Flap Copy

A story filled with danger and excitement, Johnny Tremain tells of the turbulent, passionate times in Boston just before the Revolutionary War. Johnny, a young apprentice silversmith, is caught up in a dramatic involvement with James Otis, John Hancock,and John and Samuel Adams in the exciting currents and undercurrents that were to lead to the Boston Tea Pary and the Battle of Lexington -- and finally, a touching resolution of Johnny's personal life.



Johnny Tremain is a historical fiction at its best, portraying Revolutionary Boston as a living drama, through the shrewd eyes of an observant boy.



Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.

On rocky islands gulls woke. Time to be about their business. Silently they Rooted in on the town, but when their icy eyes sighted die first dead fish, Am bits of garbage about the ships and wharves they began to scream and quarrel.



The cocks in Boston back yards bad long before cried the coming of day. Now the hens were also awake, scratching, clucking, laying eggs.



Cats in malt houses, granaries, ship holds, mansions and hovels caught a last mouse, settled down to wash their for and deep. Cats did not work by day.

In stables, horses shook their halters and whinnied.



In barns, cows lowed to be milked.



Boston, slowly opened its eyes, stretched, and woke. The sun struck in horizontally from the cad, flashing upon weathervanes -- brass cocks and arrows, here a glass-eyed Indian, there, a copper grasshopper - and the bells in the steeples cling-clanged, telling the people, it was time to be up and about.



In hundreds of houses sleepy women woke sleepier children Get up and to work. Ephraim, get to the pump, fetch Mother water Ann, got to the barn, milk the cow and drive her to the Common. Start the fire Silas. Put on a dean shirt, James. Dolly, it you aren't up before I count ten...



And so, in a crooked little house at the head of Hancock' on crowded Fish Street, Mrs. Lapham stood at the foot of a ladder leading to the attic where her fathe-in-law's apprentices slept. These boys were luckier than most apprentices. Their master was too feeble to climb 1adders; the middle-aged mistress too stout. It was only her bellows that could penetrate to their quarters -- not her heavy hands.



"Boys?"



No answer.



"Dove?"



"Coming, ma'am! Dove turned over for one more snooze.



Frustrated, she shook the ladder she was too heavy to climb. She wished she could shake "them limbs of Satan."

Answer 445

pride and prejudice

Answer 446

TO KILL A MOCKING BIRD and LITTLE PRINCESS

Answer 447

well here is one

1.HOOT

2.THE THIEF

3.SEX WITH LESBO [BUT IT IS IN SPANISH

Answer 448

the Bible

Answer 449

you should read LITTLE WOMAN

Answer 450

The Bible. =)

Answer 451

the notebook

Answer 452

HARRY POTTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 453

CUJOE