Title and Author
2006-11-23 12:58:00 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. It is such a well written book and the characters and storyline are captivating. I have read it three times!
2006-11-23 15:42:56 · answer #1 · answered by daff73 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights by Charlotte Bronte
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Overcoat, The Nose and Other Short Stories by Nikolai Gogol
1984 and Animal Farm by George Orwell
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Atonement by Ian McEwan
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahaeme
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Lemony Snicket’s books
The Catcher in The Rye
A Clockwork Orange
The Lord of The Flies
Brave New World
The Handmaid's Tale
The Old Man and The Sea
little women, Good Wives , Little Men and Joe's Boys by L. M. Alcott
And a lot more............
2006-11-24 11:18:37 · answer #2 · answered by ~ ANGEL ~ 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I enjoy epic fantasy series' so i'd have to say either
The Belgariad & Mallorean by David (& Leigh) Eddings, 10 books, with a couple of ancillary titles chronicling an epic journey of a young man who grows up to find life has a lot more in store for him than just being a farmer...
The Belgariad -
Pawn of Prophecy, Queen of Sorcery, Magician's Gambit, Castle of Wizardry and Enchanter's Endgame.
The Mallorean - (Read this after the belgariad as it follows on from the first series)
Guardians of the West, King of the Murgos, Demon Lord of Karanda, Sorceress of Darshiva and Seeress of Kell.
Or Piers Anthony's Incarnations series, 7 books set in an alternate world where magic and science live side by side and the Incarnations run the world each handling a differing aspect of life. Death, War, Time, Fate, Nature, Evil and Good. Lots of plot twists and turns.
On a Pale Horse, Bearing an Hourglass, With a Tangled Skein, Wielding a Red Sword, Being a Green Mother, For Love of Evil, and And Eternity... (These are out of print, and you might find them hard to aquire (i'd love to get another set as mine is falling to pieces from being read too much)) Also an eighth title (Cloak of Night i believe) has been written but never published.
I wouldn't want to spoil them for anybody, but if you enjoy fantasy you should try these two series' at least..
2006-11-23 21:16:03 · answer #3 · answered by mal_function.geo 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure I can choose just one, so I'll give you a list:
"Childhood's End" and "2001" by Arthur C Clarke - both made me think about concepts I hadn't considered (I was about 12 at the time)
"Hawaii" and "Centennial" by James Michener - both exceptionally good historical novels (he wrote MANY)
"The Stand" by Stephen King - his best novel in my opinion
"Stranger in a Strange Land" by Robert Heinlein - likewise a book that made me question my preconceptions in several areas.
All of the Jack Ryan novels by Tom Clancy up through "Executive Orders" - I don't really care for the ones that come after that.
All of Pat Conroy's books, but especially "Prince of Tides" - forget the smarmy movie - his prose is positively capable of making you SMELL the Carolina salt marshes
I had better stop before I get caught up - I love to read, and have at least a couple thousand books of my own.
2006-11-23 21:15:39 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's way to had to pick just one, so here is my list:
Coming Home by Rosamunde Pilcher
The Eight by Katherine Neville
The Glass Lake by Maeve Binchy
Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
Wicked by Gregory McGuire (and immensely looking forward to reading Son of a Witch, the sequel)
Anita Blake vampire hunter series by Laurell K. Hamilton
All for various reasons. Comfort books for me. Like to read them when nothing else catches my fancy.
2006-11-23 22:29:51 · answer #5 · answered by Ophylia72 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My favorite books
What Dreams May Come by Richard Matheson
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
2006-11-23 21:03:04 · answer #6 · answered by neona807 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
best all around--To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
but it is awfully hard to limit it to one when books can be so different, so;
best sci-fi--Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Best non-fiction--Autobiography of the Author as a Young Man by James Joyce
best historical fiction-The Source or Hawaii, both by James Michener
best Mystery-The first Deadly Sin
best horror-The Stand by Stephen King
2006-11-23 21:06:17 · answer #7 · answered by MUD 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I could go with something academic and make myself sound really smart but in all honesty it's Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: J.K. Rowling
Her books are loaded with things to dissect
2006-11-23 21:01:34 · answer #8 · answered by ledzep 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Tough to answer, if I really need to choose, Echoes of Honor by David Weber & The Search by Iris Johansen. Sorry, still can't finalise.
2006-11-24 03:12:02 · answer #9 · answered by Doris T 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Persig. While it isn't the greatest book ever written, it single handily changed the direction of my life and thinking.
2006-11-23 21:03:47 · answer #10 · answered by taotemu 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋