Question:
Does anyone know of any great books? give me a long list plz!!! thanks =))?
kristi p
2007-10-22 17:15:01 UTC
Does anyone know of any great books? give me a long list plz!!! thanks =))?
Thirteen answers:
2007-10-22 17:21:27 UTC
Drama The Four Dorthys- Paul Ruditis

Gossip Girl Series- Ciecly Von Ziegesar

The It Girl Series- Ciecly Von Ziegesar

The Clique Series- Lisi Harrison

A Midsummer Night's Dream- William Shakespear

Twilight; New Moon; Eclipse- Stephanie Meyer

Teach Me- R.A. Nelson

Blue Bloods; Masquerade- Melissa De La Cruz

Tuck Everlasting- Natalie Babbit

The Sisterhood of The Traveling Pants-(forgot the author)



Enjoy!
2007-10-22 21:38:43 UTC
Here are some books I like; some are great lit, and others are just for fun:



War and Peace

Anna Karenina

The World of Yesterday

The Gulag Archipelago

Faust

The Brothers Karamazov

Crime and Punishment

Don Quixote

Dante's Divine Comedy

A Tale of Two Cities

Catcher in the Rye

To Kill a Mockingbird

Pride and Prejudice

Great Expectations

the Iliad

the Odyssey

the Aeneid

Dead Souls

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Lord of the Flies

Ender's Game

Dune

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Barchester Towers

Madame Bovary

Germinal

Turn of the Screw

The Red and the Black

Candide

The Color Purple

Wuthering Heights

The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Night

To Kill a Mockingbird

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

We

1984

Fahreheit 451

Brave New World

The Good Earth

Goodbye Mr. Chips

Wheel of Time series

A Song of Fire and Ice series

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Gone With the Wind

Roots

Canterbury Tales



other classics include:

Catch-22

To the Lighthouse

Swann's Way

Ulysses

Finnegan's Wake

The Faerie Queen

The Idiot

Poor Folk

Eugene Onegin

Demons

The Double

Mrs Dalloway

Oliver Twist

Nicholas Nickleby

Paradise Lost

Jane Eyre

Sense and Sensibility

Atlas Shrugged

The Fountainhead

Beowolf



There are plenty of others out there, but these are the ones that immediately came to mind
audioworld
2007-10-22 17:37:32 UTC
Three Musketeers

Count of Monte Cristo

Around the World in 80 days

Dracula

Frankenstein

20000 Leagues Under the Sea

Tale of Two Cities

Robinson Crusoe

Swiss Family Robinson

Robin Hood

King Arthur

Stuart Little

Charlie & the Chocolate Factory

To Kill a Mockingbird

Turn of the Screw

Daisy Miller

Dr No

The Moonspinner

In Search of The Castaway

The Man in the Iron Mask

Carrie (Stephen King)

Sister Carrie

The Jungle (Upton Sinclair)

The Jungle Book

Tales of the Arabian Nights

Griims fairy Tales

The Hoax

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Spenser's Mountain

Like water for Chocolate

The Invisible Man

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Focus (Arthur Miller)

QB VII

Exodus





need anymore ask!
MNgirl@thebeach
2007-10-22 17:28:28 UTC
The Beach-Alex Garland, waaaaaaayyyyy better than the movie the beach



The Mists of Avalon-?



The Hobbit-JRR Tolkien



All Jane Austen books



East of Eden, The Grapes of Wrath-John Steinbeck



Mary Stewarts Merlin trilogy-The Crystal Cave, The Hollow Hills, The Last Enchantment



One Hundred Years of Solitude-?



I love all Anne Rice Books



Dan Browns are pretty good, The DaVinci Code and others



The Secret Garden and The Little Princess by Francis H Burnett
Phil
2007-10-22 17:25:03 UTC
Things Fall Apart

The Great Gatsby

Poisonwood Bible

Catch-22

A Street Car Named Desire

Heir Apparent

The Color of Water

Memiors of a Geisha

Homeless Bird

Huckleberry Finn

The Scarlet Letter

Animal Farm

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret

Blood Meridian

The Catcher in the Rye

Gone With the Wind

To Kill a Mockingbird

Their Eyes Were Watching God

A Passage to India

1984

The Lord of the Rings

Lord of the Flies

The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe

Red Harvest
lyremella
2007-10-22 17:26:22 UTC
A Great and Terrible Beauty & Rebel Angels

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Trickster's Choice and Trickster's Queen

The Notebook Girls

The Nature of Jade

His Dark Materials trilogy...

look them up on barne's and noble.com, and read the summaries.

there is a feature that will lead you to similar books =)

i could spend hours surfing around
syreeta
2016-05-25 01:20:13 UTC
The Time Travlers by Caroline B. Cooney there are 4 in the set 1.Both Sides of Time 2. Out of Time 3. Prisoner of Time 4. For All Time Great mystery are some by Lois Duncan she wrote the book "I know what you did last summer"
♥True love waits♥
2007-10-24 12:20:15 UTC
the Holy Bible

How Faith Works

The Prayer of Jabez & The prayer of Jabez for Teens

THe Power of the Tongue

The Tongue

THe Success Principles - How to get from Where you are to Where you want to be ( by the co-author of the chicken soup for the soul series, Jack Canfield)

The Five Love Languages

A Rose For Melinda

How To Discover Your Purpose In Life

The Purpose Driven Life & What On Earth Am I Here For?

Bible Promises To Live By

Bible Promises
LK
2007-10-22 17:33:45 UTC
"All the Pretty Horses" by Cormac McCarthy (adventure when two youths set out on horseback to go south)



"One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (classic favorite; a big book but well, very well worth the time)



"Teacher Man" by Frank McCourt (a true story written by a prize-winning Irish storyteller and ex-teacher of high school classes in New York City)



"The Glass Castle" by Jeanette Walls (true story, great writing)



"She's Come Undone" by Wally Lamb (good book about a young girl with a lot of problems and how they're dealt with)



"Good Omens" by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett (the cover blurb says "never has the apocalypse been so funny")



"Anansi Boys" by Neil Gaiman (part funny, part very serious...all nicely fantastic)



"The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd (another young girl tries to find her way)



"Ellen Foster" by Kaye Gibbons (same)



"The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger (a classic, this one about a troubled boy trying to find his way)



"The Shipping News" by Annie Proulx (a family must move and the father adjust to a whole new way of life as his kids do the same...)



and many more!
Jess H
2007-10-22 18:40:53 UTC
Anything by Jasper Fforde. (Very clever author.)

http://www.jasperfforde.com/



"Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte

"Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte

Anything by Edgar Allen Poe

"The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austin

(Anything by Jane Austin)

"Age of Innocence" by Edith Wharton

Homer's "Odyssey"

"Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain

"The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde
rose p
2007-10-22 17:36:41 UTC
a great and terrible beauty series

twilight series

harry potter series

anything by meg cabot

silver kiss

blodd and chocolate

a walk to remember

the notebook-(seriously those two are real books)
Ivana Cracker
2007-10-22 17:31:50 UTC
ANYTHING Dean Koontz or Jackie Collins, Except Koontz's Frankenstein series, not into those. But I can't list them all because there are so many but I have read them ALL, seriously.
Mark D
2007-10-22 17:35:01 UTC
This is my reading list from my personal site.



http://www.markysf.com/books.htm



"The Namesake: A Novel" - Jhumpa Lahiri



Jhumpa Lahiri's debut story collection, Interpreter of Maladies, took the literary world by storm when it won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000. Fans who flocked to her stories will be captivated by her best-selling first novel, now in paperback for the first time. The Namesake is a finely wrought, deeply moving family drama that illuminates this acclaimed author's signature themes: the immigrant experience, the clash of cultures, the tangled ties between generations. The Namesake takes the Ganguli family from their tradition-bound life in Calcutta through their fraught transformation into Americans. On the heels of an arranged wedding, Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli settle in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where Ashoke does his best to adapt while his wife pines for home. When their son, Gogol, is born, the task of naming him betrays their hope of respecting old ways in a new world. And we watch as Gogol stumbles along the first-generation path, strewn with conflicting loyalties, comic detours, and wrenching love affairs. With empathy and penetrating insight, Lahiri explores the expectations bestowed on us by our parents and the means by which we come to define who we are.



*"The Hero's Walk" - Anita Rau Badami



In a small, dusty town in India, Sripathi Rao struggles as a copywriter to keep his family afloat in their crumbling ancestral home. But his mother berates him for not becoming a lawyer, his son prefers social protest to work, his unmarried sister seethes with repressed desire, and his wife, though subservient, blames him for refusing to communicate with their daughter Maya, who defied tradition, rejecting her proper Brahmin fiancé for a Caucasian husband. Then a phone call brings tragedy: Maya and her husband have been killed in an accident leaving Sripathi to be their daughter's guardian. Sripathi reluctantly travels to Vancouver to bring the child back to India. Nandana has not spoken a word since her parents' death. Terrified, she resists her distant grandfather. Filled with guilt about his daughter but unable to express his feelings, Sripathi finds everything in his life falling apart. But with Nandana's arrival, his world slowly, unexpectedly, finds new hope. The Hero's Walk is a remarkably intimate novel that fills the senses with the unique textures of India. With humor and keen insight, Anita Rau Badami draws us into her story of the graceful heroism of the ordinary.



"Tamarind Mem" - Anita Rau Badami



A beautiful and brilliant portrait of two generations of women. Set in India's railway colonies, this is the story of Kamini and her mother Saroja, nicknamed Tamarind Mem due to her sour tongue. While in Canada beginning her graduate studies, Kamini receives a postcard from her mother saying she has sold their home and is travelling through India. Both are forced into the past to confront their dreams and losses and to explore the love that binds mothers and daughters everywhere.



*"Life of Pi" - Yann Martel



The son of a zookeeper, Pi Patel has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior and a fervent love of stories. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes.



The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and Richard Parker, a 450-pound Bengal tiger. Soon the tiger has dispatched all but Pi, whose fear, knowledge, and cunning allow him to coexist with Richard Parker for 227 days while lost at sea. When they finally reach the coast of Mexico, Richard Parker flees to the jungle, never to be seen again. The Japanese authorities who interrogate Pi refuse to believe his story and press him to tell them "the truth." After hours of coercion, Pi tells a second story, a story much less fantastical, much more conventional--but is it more true?



*"The Famished Road" - Ben Okri



In the decade since it won the Booker Prize, Ben Okri's Famished Road has become a classic. Like Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children or Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, it combines brilliant narrative technique with a fresh vision to create an essential work of world literature.



The narrator, Azaro, is an abiku, a spirit child, who in the Yoruba tradition of Nigeria exists between life and death. The life he foresees for himself and the tale he tells is full of sadness and tragedy, but inexplicably he is born with a smile on his face. Nearly called back to the land of the dead, he is resurrected. But in their efforts to save their child, Azaro's loving parents are made destitute. The tension between the land of the living, with its violence and political struggles, and the temptations of the carefree kingdom of the spirits propels this latter-day Lazarus's story.



"Sputnik Sweetheart" - Haruki Murakami



The scenario is as simple as it is uncomfortable: a college student falls in love (once and for all, despite everything that transpires afterward) with a classmate whose devotion to Kerouac and an untidy writerly life precludes any personal commitments-until she meets a considerably older and far more sophisticated businesswoman. It is through this wormhole that she enters Murakami's surreal yet humane universe, to which she serves as guide both for us and for her frustrated suitor, now a teacher. In the course of her travels from parochial Japan through Europe and ultimately to an island off the coast of Greece, she disappears without a trace, leaving only lineaments of her fate: computer accounts of bizarre events and stories within stories. The teacher, summoned to assist in the search for her, experiences his own ominous, haunting visions, which lead him nowhere but home to Japan-and there, under the expanse of deep space and the still-orbiting Sputnik, he finally achieves a true understanding of his beloved. A love story, a missing-person story, a detective story-all enveloped in a philosophical mystery-and, finally, a profound meditation on human longing.



*"Red Earth and Pouring Rain: A Novel" - Vikram Chandra



Setting 18th- and 19th-century Mogul India against the open highways of contemporary America and fusing Indian myth, Hindu gods, magic and mundane reality, this intricate first novel is a magnificent epic that welds the exfoliating storytelling style of A Thousand and One Nights to modernist fictional technique. Abhay, an Indian college student studying in the U.S. but home on vacation in Bombay, shoots a scavenging monkey; the dying creature reveals itself to be the reincarnation of Sanjay Parasher, a fiery, iconoclastic 19th-century poet and freedom-fighter against British rule. To remain alive, the monkey strikes a deal with the gods: he must keep Abhay's family entertained each day by telling stories of his former lives. Around this fanciful premise, Indian novelist Chandra has built a powerful, moving saga that explores colonialism, death and suffering, ephemeral pleasure and the search for the meaning of life. Through the monkey's tales, we learn of Sanjay's lethal estrangement from his best friend, Sikander, an Anglo-Indian warrior who serves the British; of the suicide of Sikander's mother, Janvi, who throws herself on a funeral pyre after her English husband gives away their daughters to missionaries; of Sanjay's avenging showdown in London with Dr. Paul Sarthey, renowned orientalist and murderous imperialist. Abhay also narrates his own sprawling tale about his drive across the U.S. with two alienated fellow students, providing a dramatic contrast between America's throwaway pop culture and India's ancient, venerated ways, bound up with the concepts of dharma (right conduct), karma and reincarnation. This is an astonishing and brilliant debut.



"Prague: A Novel" - Arthur Phillips



A novel of startling scope and ambition, Prague depicts an intentionally lost Lost Generation as it follows five American expats who come to Budapest in the early 1990s to seek their fortune. They harbor the vague suspicion that their counterparts in Prague have it better, but still they hope to find adventure, inspiration, a gold rush, or history in the making.



"Love and Longing in Bombay" - Vikram Chandra



Note: This is the only book on the list that is a collection of short stories as opposed to being a novel.



Welcome to the Fisherman's Rest, a little bar off the Sasoon Dock in Bombay where Mr. Subramaniam spins his tales for a select audience. This is the setting for Vikram Chandra's collection of seven short stories, Love and Longing in Bombay, and Subramaniam is Chandra's Scheherezade. In these stories, Chandra has covered the gamut of genres: there is a ghost story, a love story, a murder mystery, and a crime story, each tale joined to the others by the voice of the elusive narrator. In "Shakti," a discussion about real estate leads to the story of a soldier who must exorcise a ghostly child from his family home. In the final story, "Shanti," a young woman's despair about the state of the country becomes a springboard for a tale of love and hope. Love and Longing in Bombay is a mesmerizing collection, filled with fully rounded characters and stories that resonate long after the book is back on the shelf. Chandra's prose is luminous, his tales satisfying. Scheherezade would be impressed.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.



*"Lullaby" - Chuck Palahniuk



Ever heard of a culling song? It's a lullaby sung in Africa to give a painless death to the old or infirm. The lyrics of a culling song kill, whether spoken or even just thought. You can find one on page 27 of Poems and Rhymes from Around the World, an anthology that is sitting on the shelves of libraries across the country, waiting to be picked up by unsuspecting readers.



Reporter Carl Streator discovers the song's lethal nature while researching Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, and before he knows it, he's reciting the poem to anyone who bothers him. As the body count rises, Streator glimpses the potential catastrophe if someone truly malicious finds out about the song. The only answer is to find and destroy every copy of the book in the country. Accompanied by a shady real-estate agent, her Wiccan assistant, and the assistant's truly annoying ecoterrorist boyfriend, Streator begins a desperate cross-country quest to put the culling song to rest.



Written with a style and imagination that could only come from Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby is the latest outrage from one of our most exciting writers at work today



"Atonement: A Novel" - Ian McEwan



Ian McEwan's symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative and the provocation we have come to expect from this master of English prose.



On a hot summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses a moment's flirtation between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, the son of a servant and Cecilia's childhood friend. But Briony's incomplete grasp of adult motives-together with her precocious literary gifts-brings about a crime that will change all their lives. As it follows that crime's repercussions through the chaos and carnage of World War II and into the close of the twentieth century, Atonement engages the reader on every conceivable level, with an ease and authority that mark it as a genuine masterpiece.



"The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay" - Michael Chabon



This brilliant epic novel set in New York and Prague introduces us to two misfit young men who make it big by creating comic-book superheroes. Joe Kavalier, a young artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdiniesque escape, has just smuggled himself out of Nazi-invaded Prague and landed in New York City. His Brooklyn cousin Sammy Clay is looking for a partner to create heroes, stories, and art for the latest novelty to hit America the comic book. Inspired by their own fears and dreams, Kavalier and Clay create the Escapists, The Monitor, and Luna Moth, inspired by the beautiful Rosa Saks, who will become linked by powerful ties to both men.



"Memoir from Antproof Case: A Novel" - Mark Helprin



In a mountain garden in Brazil, an old American is writing his memoirs, placing the pages carefully in his antproof case. As he reminisces we learn he was a World War II ace who was shot down twice, an investment banker who met with popes and presidents, a multimillionaire, a man who was never not in love. He spent his adolescence in an insane asylum in Switzerland; he was the thief of the century, a murderer, and a protector of the innocent. And all his life, he waged a valiant, losing, one-man battle against the world's most insidious enslaver: coffee.



*"In the Skin of a Lion" - Michael Ondaatje



Bristling with intelligence and shimmering with romance, this novel tests the boundary between history and myth. Patrick Lewis arrives in Toronto in the 1920s and earns his living searching for a vanished millionaire and tunneling beneath Lake Ontario. In the course of his adventures, Patrick's life intersects with those of characters who reappear in Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning The English Patient.



*"Running in the Family" - Michael Ondaatje



In the late 1970s, Michael Ondaatje returned to his native island of Sri Lanka. Recording his journey through he druglike heat and intoxicating fragrances of the "pendant off the ear of India", Ondaatje simultaneously retraces the baroque mythology of his Dutch-Ceylonese family. It is a story of broken engagements and drunken suicide attempts, of parties where exquisitely dressed couples tango in the jungle, a tale whose actors pursue lives of Baudelairean excess with impeccable decorum.



"Coming Through Slaughter" - Michael Ondaatje



Bringing to life the fabulous, colorful panorama of New Orleans in the first flush of the jazz era, this book tells the story of Buddy Bolden, the first of the great trumpet players--some say the originator of jazz--who was, in any case, the genius, the guiding spirit, and the king of that time and place.



"Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book" - Maxine Hong Kingston



A fifth-generation Californian feels alien to both his Chinese heritage and the American culture that stereotypes him and others of his race . "The long-awaited novel by the author of China Men and The Woman Warrior is outrageously clever, surrealistically imaginative, mordantly witty and funny



*"China Men" - Maxine Hong Kingston



The author chronicles the lives of three generations of Chinese men in America, woven from memory, myth and fact. Here's a storyteller's tale of what they endured in a strange new land.



"Trash" - Amy Yamada



In her U.S. debut, popular Japanese author Yamada employs dialog and lengthy flashbacks to tell a disturbing and bleak tale of life in New York City. While handcuffed to a bed, young Koko reflects on her relationship with Rick, her black live-in lover; her inability to avoid a parental role with Rick's son; the messy lives of her friends; and her growing need to feel comfortable and safe in a treacherous society. In relating the breakup of Koko and Rick, Yamada hashes out the plight of females who need to be loved, alcoholics who self-destruct in their inability to change their existences, and children who want stability but get only fear and selfishness from adults. Strictly speaking, this is a difficult novel to read because even in hope there is despair. Additionally, the amoeba-like characters are incapable of focusing on anything but their own needs and problems.



*"Amrita" - Banana Yoshimoto



After losing her beautiful younger sister, a celebrated actress, to suicide, Sakumi falls down a flight of stairs and loses her memory to a head injury. Struggling to remember whom she loves and what she lost, she embarks on a unique emotional journey, accompanied at times by her dead sister's lover, at others by her clairvoyant kid brother. This is the story of Sakumi's remarkable expedition through grief, dreams, and shadows to a place of transformation and the discovery of a soul.



*"Kitchen" - Banana Yoshimoto In this translation of a best-selling novel first published in Japan in 1987, the young narrator, Mikage, moves into the apartment of a friend whose mother is murdered early in the tale. What seems like a coming-of-age melodrama quickly evolves into a deeply moving tale filled with unique characters and themes. Along the way, readers get a taste of contemporary Japan, with its mesh of popular American food and culture. Mikage addresses the role of death, loneliness, and personal as well as sexual identity through a set of striking circumstances and personal remembrances. "Moonlight Shadows," a novella included here, is a more haunting tale of loss and acceptance. In her simple and captive style, Yoshimoto confirms that art is perhaps the best ambassador among nations.



*"NP" - Banana Yoshimoto



A celebrated Japanese writer has committed suicide, leaving behind a collection of stories written in English, N.P. But the book may never be published in his native Japan: each translator who takes up the ninety-eighth story chooses death too -- including Kazami Kano's boyfriend, Shoji. Haunted by Shoji's death, Kazami is inexorably drawn to three young people whose lives are intimately bound to the late writer and his work. Over the course of an astonishing summer, she will discover the truth behind the ninety-eighth story -- and she will come to believe that "everytking that had happened was shockingly beautiful enough to make you crazy."



*"The Passion" - Jeanette Winterson



Note: While I have listed four of Winterson's books, she is one of my favorite authors.



"Set during the tumultuous years of the Napoleonic Wars, The Passion intertwines the destinies of two remarkable people: Henri, a simple French soldier, who follows Napoleon from glory to Russian ruin; and Villanelle, the red-haired, web-footed daughter of a Venetian boatman, whose husband has gambled away her heart. In Venice's compound of carnival, chance, and darkness, the pair meet their singular destiny. In her unique and mesmerizing voice, Winterson blends reality with fantasy, dream, and imagination to weave a hypnotic tale with stunning effects."



*"Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit" - Jeanette Winterson



Innovative in style, its humour by turns punchy and tender, Jeanette Winterson's first novel, Oranges are Not the Only Fruit is a few days ride into the bizarre outposts of religious excess and human obsession. It's a love story, too. Winterson's adaptation of the novel was an internationally acclaimed television drama awarded a BAFTA for best drama and an RTS award in the same year; the Prix Italia; FIPA D'Argent at Cannes for best script; The Golden Gate in San Francisco and an ACE Award at the Los Angeles television festival.



*"Sexing the Cherry" - Jeanette Winterson



In the reign of Charles II, Jordan and his mother, the Dog-Woman, live on the banks of the stinking Thames, where they take in sights ranging from the first pineapple in London to Royalist heads on pikes. As a young man, Jordan leaves to travel the world, seeking wonder and knowledge, and learns that every journey conceals another within it. Sexing The Cherry celebrates the power of the imagination as it playfully juggles with our perceptions of history and reality; love and sex; lies and truths; and the twelve dancing princesses who lived happily ever after, but not with their husbands.



*"Written on the Body" - Jeanette Winterson



The most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. Winterson chronicles the consuming affair between the narrator, who is given neither name nor gender, and the beloved, a complex and confused married woman. "At once a love story and a philosophical meditation."--New York Times Book Review.



*"Raj: A Novel" - Gita Meta



Jaya Singh is the intelligent, beautiful, and compassionate daughter of the Maharajah and Maharani of Balmer. Raised in the thousand-year-old tradition of purdah, a strict regime of seclusion, silence, and submission, Jaya is ill-prepared to assume the role of Regent Maharani of Sirpur upon the death of her decadent, Westernized husband. But Jaya bravely fulfills her duty and soon finds herself thrust into the center of a roiling political battle in which the future of the kingdom is at stake . . . and her own future as well.



*"One Hundred Years of Solitude" - Gabriel Garcia Marquez



One of the 20th century's enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world, and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize-winning career.The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. It is a rich and brilliant chronicle of life and death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the noble, ridiculous, beautiful, and tawdry story of the Buendía family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin America. Love and lust, war and revolution, riches and poverty, youth and senility -- the variety of life, the endlessness of death, the search for peace and truth -- these universal themes dominate the novel. Whether he is describing an affair of passion or the voracity of capitalism and the corruption of government, Gabriel García Márquez always writes with the simplicity, ease, and purity that are the mark of a master. Alternately reverential and comical, One Hundred Years of Solitude weaves the political, personal, and spiritual to bring a new consciousness to storytelling. Translated into dozens of languages, this stunning work is no less than an accounting of the history of the human race.



*"Love in the Time of Cholera" - Gabriel Garcia Marquez



In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermino Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs--yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, nine months, and four days after he first declared his love for Fermina, he will do so again.



With humorous sagacity and consummate craft, García Márquez traces an exceptional half-century story of unrequited love. Though it seems never to be conveniently contained, love flows through the novel in many wonderful guises--joyful, melancholy, enriching, ever surprising.



*"The Master and Margarita" - Mikhail Bulgakov



Mikhail Bulgakov's devastating satire of Soviet life was written during the darkest period of Stalin's regime. Combining two distinct yet interwoven parts-one set in ancient Jerusalem, one in contemporary Moscow-the novel veers from moods of wild theatricality with violent storms, vampire attacks, and a Satanic ball; to such somber scenes as the meeting of Pilate and Yeshua, and the murder of Judas in the moonlit garden of Gethsemane; to the substanceless, circus-like reality of Moscow. Its central characters, Woland (Satan) and his retinue-including the vodka-drinking, black cat, Behemoth; the poet, Ivan Homeless; Pontius Pilate; and a writer known only as The Master, and his passionate companion, Margarita-exist in a world that blends fantasy and chilling realism, an artful collage of grostesqueries, dark comedy, and timeless ethical questions.



"The Unconsoled" - Kazuo Ishiguro



If you've read Kafka (especially The Castle) the solution to this riddle will be easy to explain: The Unconsoled is a modern-day Kafka-esque dream-world social commentary on the individual and society. As with Kafka, the theme is alientation of the individual from society, others, and himself. Ishiguro delves into the question of why we are often so incapable when it comes to interacting with the people we care most about. In the words of a song from the musical Chess the theme is: 'How can I love you so much, yet make no move?' Ishiguro's cast is comprised of parents and children, husbands and wives, who because of their own human weakness find it almost impossible to say the simplest of things, or make the simplest of actions, and thereby allow their relationships to deteriorate -- slowly, frustratingly, continuously.



"The Honk and Holler Opening Soon" - Billie Letts



The neon sign had seemed appropriate when the Honk and Holler Opening Soon was being built. But twelve years later, the once-busy highway outside Sequoyah, Oklahoma, is little-traveled, and "opening soon" is a tired joke. Today the sign is as battered and beaten as the cafe and its owner, Caney Paxton, a Vietnam War veteran who hasn't ventured outside since its opening. The characters who drift in and out of the Honk don't change much: Molly O, a four-times married earth mother who recognizes a wounded spirit when she meets one; Life Halstead, a widower who eats three meals a day in the cafe so he can be near Molly O; Hooks Red Eagle, Soldier Starr, and Quinton Roach, Cherokee veterans of World War II; and Bilbo and Peg Porter--Bilbo steadily puffing his smokes while Peg struggles for breath through her oxygen mask. With Christmas only days away, their lives are to be forever changed with the arrival of Vena Takes Horse, a Crow woman on a quest, and Bui Khanh, a Vietnamese refugee looking for home. A story that crackles and sizzles like burgers on a red-hot grill, The Honk and Holler Opening Soon captures a small town's prejudice and tolerance, violence and big-heartedness. It convinces us that dark clouds can really have silver linings. And it leaves us hungry for more writing from Billie Letts and the Oklahoma she portrays with so much vitality and love.



"That Old Ace in the Hole: A Novel" - Annie Proulx



From Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Annie Proulx comes That Old Ace in the Hole, an exhilarating story brimming with language, history, landscape, music, and love. Bob Dollar is a young man from Denver trying to make good in a bad world. Out of college and aimless, Dollar takes a job with Global Pork Rind, scouting out big spreads of land that can be converted to hog farms. Soon he's holed up in a two-bit Texas town called Woolybucket, where he settles into LaVon Fronk's old bunkhouse for fifty dollars a month, helps out at Cy Frease's Old Dog Café, and learns the hard way how vigorously the old Texas ranch owners will hold on to their land, even when their children want no part of it.



Robust, often bawdy, strikingly original, That Old Ace in the Hole traces the waves of change that have shaped the American West over the past century -- and in Bob Dollar, Proulx has created one of the most irrepressible characters in contemporary fiction.



*"Beloved" - Toni Morrison



Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe's new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. Filled with bitter poetry and suspense as taut as a rope, Beloved is a towering achievement.



*"Tar Baby" - Toni Morrison



Recorded Books expands the Morrison audiobook collection by revisiting the Nobel prize winner's early works. Her debut novel, The Bluest Eye, explores the impact of racism and poverty on adolescent Pecola Breedlove. Surrounded by images of white iconsDShirley Temple, Mary Jane, and the classic family from Dick & Jane readersDPecola is tormented by both her family and peers. Alcoholism, rape, and humiliation drive her into the relative safety of madness where she finally finds the only bit of self-worth, believing her eyes are truly the bluest. In 1981's Tar Baby, Morrison deals with a different set of cruelties. The six major characters are her most diverse, and the conflicts are both realistic and symbolic, embodying the opposition of wealth and poverty, youth and age, male and female, black and white, in a microcosm of society found on a Caribbean island. Lynne Thigpen again expertly captures the richness of the author's characters, descriptions, and language.



*"Song of Solomon" - Toni Morrison



Song of Solomon explores the quest for cultural identity through an African American folktale about enslaved Africans who escape slavery by fleeing back to Africa. The novel tells the story of Macon "Milkman" Dead, a young man alienated from himself and estranged from his family, his community, and his historical and cultural roots. Author Toni Morrison, long renowned for her detailed imagery, visual language, and "righting" of black history, guides the protagonist along a 30-year journey that enables him to reconnect with his past and realize his self-worth.



*"Their Eyes Were Watching God" - Zora Neal Hurston



At the height of the Harlem Renaissance during the 1930s, Zora Neale Hurston was the preeminent black woman writer in the United States. She was a sometime-collaborator with Langston Hughes and a fierce rival of Richard Wright. Her stories appeared in major magazines, she consulted on Hollywood screenplays, and she penned four novels, an autobiography, countless essays, and two books on black mythology. Yet by the late 1950s, Hurston was living in obscurity, working as a maid in a Florida hotel. She died in 1960 in a Welfare home, was buried in an unmarked grave, and quickly faded from literary consciousness until 1975 when Alice Walker almost single-handedly revived interest in her work.



Of Hurston's fiction, Their Eyes Were Watching God is arguably the best-known and perhaps the most controversial. The novel follows the fortunes of Janie Crawford, a woman living in the black town of Eaton, Florida. Hurston sets up her characters and her locale in the first chapter, which, along with the last, acts as a framing device for the story of Janie's life. Unlike Wright and Ralph Ellison, Hurston does not write explicitly about black people in the context of a white world--a fact that earned her scathing criticism from the social realists--but she doesn't ignore the impact of black-white relations either:



It was the time for sitting on porches beside the road. It was the time to hear things and talk. These sitters had been tongueless, earless, eyeless conveniences all day long. Mules and other brutes had occupied their skins. But now, the sun and the bossman were gone, so the skins felt powerful and human. They became lords of sounds and lesser things. They passed nations through their mouths. They sat in judgment.



One person the citizens of Eaton are inclined to judge is Janie Crawford, who has married three men and been tried for the murder of one of them. Janie feels no compulsion to justify herself to the town, but she does explain herself to her friend, Phoeby, with the implicit understanding that Phoeby can "tell 'em what Ah say if you wants to. Dat's just de same as me 'cause mah tongue is in mah friend's mouf."



Hurston's use of dialect enraged other African American writers such as Wright, who accused her of pandering to white readers by giving them the black stereotypes they expected. Decades later, however, outrage has been replaced by admiration for her depictions of black life, and especially the lives of black women. In Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston breathes humanity into both her men and women, and allows them to speak in their own voices.



*"London Fields" - Martin Amis



In this very British tale, femme fatale Nicola Six manipulates racist, sexist scoundrel Keith Talent and well-mannered, naive Guy Clinch as an omniscient narrator/novelist spies on the trio in order to develop his book. "Relentlessly bitter, often brutally funny, hypnotically readable, it may also be quite opaque in places to an American readership.



In this sprawling, gritty, ambitious work, Amis relates two murders in the making. One is the self-orchestrated extinction of Nicola Six, who persuades one of her lovers to kill her. The second is the murder of Earth itself, whose fate seems intricately bound up with Nicola's. Wildly funny with a rough London setting, this book is by one of England's most brilliant young writers.



"The Rachael Papers" - Martin Amis



In his uproarious first novel Martin Amis, author of the bestselling London Fields, gave us one of the most noxiously believable -- and curiously touching -- adolescents ever to sniffle and lust his way through the pages of contemporary fiction. On the brink of twenty, Charles High-way preps desultorily for Oxford, cheerfully loathes his father, and meticulously plots the seduction of a girl named Rachel -- a girl who sorely tests the mettle of his cynicism when he finds himself falling in love with her.



"Dead Babies" - Martin Amis



Sparkling might not be the first adjective that springs to mind to describe a novel packed with the concentrated disgust which Dead Babies contains. Nevertheless, Martin Amiss version of the bleak and wrecky future that awaits a sex-and-drug-addicted society is so fizzing with style, so busy with verbal inventiveness, that the adjective is impelled upon one." -- Julian Barnes



If the Marquis de Sade were to crash one of P. G. Wodehouse's house parties, the chaos might resemble the nightmarishly funny goings-on in this novel by the author of London Fields. The residents of Appleseed Rectory have primed themselves both for a visit from a triad of Americans and a weekend of copious drug taking and sexual gymnastics.



There's even a heifer to be slugged and a pair of doddering tenants to be ingeniously harassed. But none of these variously bright and dull young things has counted on the intrusion of "dead babies" -- dreary spasms of reality. Or on the uninvited presence of a mysterious prankster named Johnny, whose sinister idea of fun makes theirs look like a game of backgammon.



"Time's Arrow" - Martin Amis



Amis attempts here to write a path into and through the inverted morality of the Nazis: how can a writer tell about something that's fundamentally unspeakable? Amis' solution is a deft literary conceit of narrative inversion. He puts two separate consciousnesses into the person of one man, ex-Nazi doctor Tod T. Friendly. One identity wakes at the moment of Friendly's death and runs backwards in time, like a movie played in reverse, (e.g., factory smokestacks scrub the air clean,) unaware of the terrible past he approaches. The "normal" consciousness runs in time's regular direction, fleeing his ignominious history.



*On the Road - Jack Kerouac



Note: These two books are starting points to Kerouac. Since I am a huge fan I will not belabor you with the complete list of his works.



The most famous of Jack Kerouac's works, is not only the soul of the Beat movement and literature, but one of the most important novels of the century. Like nearly all of Kerouac's writing, On The Road is thinly fictionalized autobiography, filled with a cast made of Kerouac's real life friends, lovers, and fellow travelers. Narrated by Sal Paradise, one of Kerouac's alter-egos, On the Road is a cross-country bohemian odyssey that not only influenced writing in the years since its 1957 publication but penetrated into the deepest levels of American thought and culture.



"The Subterraneans" - Jack Kerouac



Blistering prose that races from the inner workings of a story that hides in the recesses of its own device. Kerouac's work begins as mere scribble, but arises into its own typewritten form of Derwellian musings, none of which can be found easily. Just as late film director René Cardonas could present an existential presence in clear yet infantile scenery, Kerouac brilliantly describes the impermanance of romantic endeavors, be they emersed in splendour, despair, or paraisic longing. Spanish literary critic José Fernandez once suggested that if we read the initial passages out loud, we can feel the nightmarish Guajardian tone that Jack Kerouac intended to convey; he speaks the truth, for this is one literary landmark that reveals itself with greater clarity when performed as spoken word. The undertow suggested in the form of the young hipster woman brings an oddly misunderstood romantic optimism; it's as if "Pierroth le Fou" and Popitekus combined their own stories to create this Beat masterpiece. This is essential reading for the admirer of the Beat Generation.



*"White Noise" - Don Delillo



White Noise captures the particular strangeness of life in a time where humankind has finally learned enough to kill itself. Naturally, it's a terribly funny book, and the prose is as beautiful as a sunset through a particulate-filled sky. Nice-guy narrator Jack Gladney teaches Hitler Studies at a small college. His wife may be taking a drug that removes fear, and one day a nearby chemical plant accidentally releases a cloud of gas that may be poisonous. Writing before Bhopal and Prozac entered the popular lexicon, DeLillo produced a work so closely tuned into its time that it tells the future.



Winner of the National Book Award, White Noise was immediately hailed as Don DeLillo's "breakout novel" when it first appeared in 1985. The novel entertains a wide array of compelling topics and concerns with consummate agility. Study this spot-on satire of post-war America.



"Americana" - Don Delillo



In search of his roots, a successful but unhappy TV executive takes off for the heartland of America. "This first novel is peopled with characters alienated not only from one another, but from themselves. It has the smell of staleness and despair. It is also, with its deadly accurate observations, its veracious dialogue, and its consistency of view, brilliantly written,"



"Cosmopolis" - Don Delillo



It is an April day in the year 2000 and an era is about to end. The booming times of market optimism -- when the culture boiled with money and corporations seemed more vital and influential than governments -- are poised to crash. Eric Packer, a billionaire asset manager at age twenty-eight, emerges from his penthouse triplex and settles into his lavishly customized white stretch limousine. Today he is a man with two missions: to pursue a cataclysmic bet against the yen and to get a haircut across town. Stalled in traffic by a presidential motorcade, a music idol's funeral, and a violent political demonstration, Eric receives a string of visitors -- experts on security, technology, currency, finance, and a few sexual partners -- as the limo sputters toward an increasingly uncertain future.



*"The Fire Next Time" - James Baldwin (Note: I could easily list every novel, short story, or play that Baldwin wrote in the must read category. Personally, I simply see him as one of the greatest American writers to have lived and published. I list these two to simply get him on the list.)



A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, the book is an intensely personal and provocative document. It consists of two "letters," written on the occasion of the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, that exhort Americans, both black and white, to attack the terrible legacy of racism. Described by The New York Times Book Review as "sermon, ultimatum, confession, deposition, testament, and chronicle...all presented in searing, brilliant prose," The Fire Next Time stands as a classic of our literature.



*"Go Tell it on the Mountain" - James Baldwin



Baldwin said, "is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else." Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a novel that has established itself as an American classic. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem one Saturday in March of 1935. Baldwin's rendering of his protagonist's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understand themselves.



The following are two top 100 novels lists from the Random House site.



http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100bestnovels.html



ULYSSES by James Joyce

THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald

A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce

LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov

BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley

THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner

CATCH-22

DARKNESS AT NOON by Arthur Koestler

SONS AND LOVERS by D.H. Lawrence

THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck

UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry

THE WAY OF ALL FLESH by Samuel Butler

1984 by George Orwell

I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves

TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf

AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY by Theodore Dreiser

THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers

SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut

INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison

NATIVE SON by Richard Wright

HENDERSON THE RAIN KING by Saul Bellow

APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA by John O'Hara

U.S.A. (trilogy) by John Dos Passos

WINESBURG, OHIO by Sherwood Anderson

A PASSAGE TO INDIA by E.M. Forster

THE WINGS OF THE DOVE by Henry James

THE AMBASSADORS by Henry James

TENDER IS THE NIGHT by F. Scott Fitzgerald

THE STUDS LONIGAN TRILOGY by James T. Farrell

THE GOOD SOLDIER by Ford Madox Ford

ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell

THE GOLDEN BOWL by Henry James

SISTER CARRIE by Theodore Dreiser

A HANDFUL OF DUST by Evelyn Waugh

AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner

ALL THE KING'S MEN by Robert Penn Warren

THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY by Thornton Wilder

HOWARDS END by E.M. Forster

GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN by James Baldwin

THE HEART OF THE MATTER by Graham Greene

LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding

DELIVERANCE by James Dickey

A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME (series) by Anthony Powell

POINT COUNTER POINT by Aldous Huxley

THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway

THE SECRET AGENT by Joseph Conrad

NOSTROMO by Joseph Conrad

THE RAINBOW by D.H. Lawrence

WOMEN IN LOVE by D.H. Lawrence

TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller

THE NAKED AND THE DEAD by Norman Mailer

PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT by Philip Roth

PALE FIRE by Vladimir Nabokov

LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner

ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac

THE MALTESE FALCON by Dashiell Hammett

PARADE'S END by Ford Madox Ford

THE AGE OF INNOCENCE by Edith Wharton

ZULEIKA DOBSON by Max Beerbohm

THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy

DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP by Willa Cather

FROM HERE TO ETERNITY by James Jones

THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLES by John Cheever

THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess

OF HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset Maugham

HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad

MAIN STREET by Sinclair Lewis

THE HOUSE OF MIRTH by Edith Wharton

THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET by Lawrence Durell

A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA by Richard Hughes

A HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS by V.S. Naipaul

THE DAY OF THE LOCUST by Nathanael West

A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway

SCOOP by Evelyn Waugh

THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE by Muriel Spark

FINNEGANS WAKE by James Joyce

KIM by Rudyard Kipling

A ROOM WITH A VIEW by E.M. Forster

BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh

THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH by Saul Bellow

ANGLE OF REPOSE by Wallace Stegner

A BEND IN THE RIVER by V.S. Naipaul

THE DEATH OF THE HEART by Elizabeth Bowen

LORD JIM by Joseph Conrad

RAGTIME by E.L. Doctorow

THE OLD WIVES' TALE by Arnold Bennett

THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London

LOVING by Henry Green

MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN by Salman Rushdie

TOBACCO ROAD by Erskine Caldwell

IRONWEED by William Kennedy

THE MAGUS by John Fowles

WIDE SARGASSO SEA by Jean Rhys

UNDER THE NET by Iris Murdoch

SOPHIE'S CHOICE by William Styron

THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles

THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE by James M. Cain

THE GINGER MAN by J.P. Donleavy

THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS by Booth Tarkington



ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand

THE FOUNTAINHEAD by Ayn Rand

BATTLEFIELD EARTH by L. Ron Hubbard

THE LORD OF THE RINGS by J.R.R. Tolkien

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee

1984 by George Orwell

ANTHEM by Ayn Rand

WE THE LIVING by Ayn Rand

MISSION EARTH by L. Ron Hubbard

FEAR by L. Ron Hubbard

ULYSSES by James Joyce

CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller

THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald

DUNE by Frank Herbert

THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS by Robert Heinlein

STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND by Robert Heinlein

A TOWN LIKE ALICE by Nevil Shute

BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley

THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger

ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell

GRAVITY'S RAINBOW by Thomas Pynchon

THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck

SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut

GONE WITH THE WIND by Margaret Mitchell

LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding

SHANE by Jack Schaefer

TRUSTEE FROM THE TOOLROOM by Nevil Shute

A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY by John Irving

THE STAND by Stephen King

THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN by John Fowles

BELOVED by Toni Morrison

THE WORM OUROBOROS by E.R. Eddison

THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner

LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov

MOONHEART by Charles de Lint

ABSALOM, ABSALOM! by William Faulkner

OF HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset Maugham

WISE BLOOD by Flannery O'Connor

UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry

FIFTH BUSINESS by Robertson Davies

SOMEPLACE TO BE FLYING by Charles de Lint

ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac

HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad

YARROW by Charles de Lint

AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS by H.P. Lovecraft

ONE LONELY NIGHT by Mickey Spillane

MEMORY AND DREAM by Charles de Lint

TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf

THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy

TRADER by Charles de Lint

THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY by Douglas Adams

THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers

THE HANDMAID'S TALE by Margaret Atwood

BLOOD MERIDIAN by Cormac McCarthy

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess

ON THE BEACH by Nevil Shute

A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce

GREENMANTLE by Charles de Lint

ENDER'S GAME by Orson Scott Card

THE LITTLE COUNTRY by Charles de Lint

THE RECOGNITIONS by William Gaddis

STARSHIP TROOPERS by Robert Heinlein

THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway

THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP by John Irving

SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES by Ray Bradbury

THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE by Shirley Jackson

AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner

TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller

INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison

THE WOOD WIFE by Terri Windling

THE MAGUS by John Fowles

THE DOOR INTO SUMMER by Robert Heinlein

ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE by Robert Pirsig

I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves

THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London

AT SWIM-TWO-BIRDS by Flann O'Brien

FARENHEIT 451 by Ray Bradbury

ARROWSMITH by Sinclair Lewis

WATERSHIP DOWN by Richard Adams

NAKED LUNCH by William S. Burroughs

THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER by Tom Clancy

GUILTY PLEASURES by Laurell K. Hamilton

THE PUPPET MASTERS by Robert Heinlein

IT by Stephen King

V. by Thomas Pynchon

DOUBLE STAR by Robert Heinlein

CITIZEN OF THE GALAXY by Robert Heinlein

BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh

LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner

ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST by Ken Kesey

A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway

THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles

SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION by Ken Kesey

MY ANTONIA by Willa Cather

MULENGRO by Charles de Lint

SUTTREE by Cormac McCarthy

MYTHAGO WOOD by Robert Holdstock

ILLUSIONS by Richard Bach

THE CUNNING MAN by Robertson Davies

THE SATANIC VERSES by Salman Rushdie


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