In your opinion, of course.
2006-06-13 09:37:12 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Kai - I know that. What I'm after are at least your 5 most essential novels. If you've read widely over the course of your life, there must be at least 5 novels that you can identify as having had a major impact on your thinking. That's what I want.
2006-06-13 09:42:27 · update #1
Troll and Christina have great lists.
2006-06-13 09:47:22 · update #2
"Crime and Punishment" would be on my list. Aside from "The Catcher In The Rye", I think it's the most powerful novel I've read. That's a great pick.
2006-06-13 09:58:38 · update #3
Ulysses is at the top of a lot of lists. I'll be the first to admit that Joyce intimidates me. With the exception of Dubliners, I find his writing to be irritatingly incomprehensible to mere mortals such as myself. I read the first 3 pages of Ulysses once. That was enought to convince me that I wasn't quite up to it. Finnegan's Wake? Not a chance.
2006-06-13 11:02:17 · update #4
Catcher In The Rye
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
The Canterbury Tales
The Jungle
Uncle Tom's Cabin
anything by Dickens
2006-06-13 09:43:44 · answer #1 · answered by trollunderthestairs 5 · 5⤊ 3⤋
Ulysses by Joyce
Lolita by Nabokov
The Stranger by Camus
1984 by Orwell
Notes for the Underground by Dostoesvky
Honorable mentions
Origin of Species by Darwin
Crime and Punishment/Brothers Karamazav by D
Animal Farm
Old Man and the Sea/The Sun also Rises
Finnegans Wake (try reading this!)
2006-06-13 10:51:10 · answer #2 · answered by johngrobmyer 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible
Plato's Republic
Machiavelli's The Prince
Eliot's The Waste Land
Shakepeare's Complete Works
2006-06-13 11:15:25 · answer #3 · answered by dontresca 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To Kill A Mockingbird; The Catcher in the Rye; 1984; Animal Farm; and Gone With the Wind
2006-06-13 10:11:41 · answer #4 · answered by thursday84 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Jungle
1984
Of Mice and Men
Animal Farm
Little Women
To Kill a Mocking Bird
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Pride and Prejudice
The Grapes of Wrath
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Lord of the Flies
2006-06-13 09:51:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm sorry but I don't think that one can become educated after reading any five novels. It just won't do. Tou can read Joyce's Ulysses or Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment but that doesn't mean you fully understood them and therefore can call yourself educate. It's a matter of reading much more than five novels and there are no definite novels to be read that acquire one the status of educated man. (sorry for the mistake made in the original post)
2006-06-13 09:46:47 · answer #6 · answered by Calin Grigorescu 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gulliver's Travels
The Awakening
Catch-22
The Art Of War
Siddhartha
2006-06-13 11:46:47 · answer #7 · answered by lcraesharbor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only 5??? OK I will try but that's hard!
1. The Bible
2. Pride and Prejudice (By Jane Austen. Teaches lessons about not only love but first impressions.)
3. The Diary of Anne Frank (By Anne Frank. The struggles of an optimistic Jewish girl during the Holocaust, who's positive outlook and amazing talent dazzle me.)
4. War and Peace (I haven't even started it but hear it is good!)
5.Night (By Elie Wiesel. Truly touching.)
2006-06-13 10:47:42 · answer #8 · answered by ~S~ is for Stephanie! 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Metamorphoses by Ovid
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
(Technically, they are not all novels, but they are books!)
2006-06-13 10:36:58 · answer #9 · answered by Bronwen 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are too many books out there to simply limit "being educated" to only five. Being educated is having a thirst for knowledge that can never be satisfied, and therefore, one attempts to learn as much as possible each and every day. To claim there are only "five novels that brand one as educated" is to devalue the idea of intelligence in society.
2006-06-13 09:40:44 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋