2006-12-08 02:19:50 · 16 answers · asked by marshmallow 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
THE FOUNTAINHEAD by Ayn Rand
THE LORD OF THE RINGS by J.R.R. Tolkien
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee
MY ANTONIA by Willa Cather
THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY by Thornton Wilder
THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE by C S Lewis (read the whole series)
THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck
FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway
THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers
DELIVERANCE by James Dickey
****These books are not in a particular order. They are all very great works of literature that I thoroughly enjoyed.
2006-12-08 03:30:56 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What an interesting twist to the question "What books should I read?"
1. A Child Called It
2. Gone With the Wind
3. Alice in Wonderland
4. The Joy Luck Club
5. Lord of the Flies
6. Grapes of Wrath
7. Night (Elie Wiesel)
8. Pride and Prejudice
9. It (Stephen King)
10. To Kill a Mockingbird
2006-12-09 11:26:18 · answer #2 · answered by EvilFairies 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In no particular order:
East of Eden: Steinbeck
For Whom the Bell Tolls: Hemingway
Cat's Cradle: Vonnegut
Nauseau: Sartre
Pulp: Bukowski
The Last Picture Show: McMurty
Hamlet: Shakespeare
Naked Lunch: Burroughs
All the Kings Men: Robert Penn Warren
The Picture of Dorian Gray: Wilde
2006-12-08 10:14:04 · answer #3 · answered by Random 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Cider House Rules by John Irving
The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan
A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L'Engle
Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis
I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Memnoch the Devil by Anne Rice
Rachel's Holiday by Marian Keyes
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood'
Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner
2006-12-08 03:07:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm going to focus solely on fiction here. So, in no particular order, here they are:
The House of Spirits by Isabelle Allende
At least one of the major distopias (We by Zamyatin, Brave New World by Huxley, 1984 by Orwell-yes did this to get three books in and only use up one space :-)
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
Slaughterhouse Five by Vonnegut (or anything by Vonnegut really)
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Lolita by Nabokov
Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
Lord of the Rings by Tolkien
2006-12-08 03:04:53 · answer #5 · answered by WrenRae 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Tale of Two Cities - The last half of the book is abosolutely increadible.
Uncle Toms Cabin - A great read. Very fun and quick.
2006-12-08 02:28:44 · answer #6 · answered by Matt Mitch 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know about top ten, but I would say,
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway,
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse,
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez,
and seeing that you are a woman,
My Mother/My Self by Nancy Friday
... very insightful.
2006-12-08 02:31:51 · answer #7 · answered by Wren 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible -1
Confessions of a Video Vixen -2
Grindin-3
The Coldest WInter Ever-4
Let that be the reason-5
Dutch-6
Dutch 2 angels revenge-7
I say a little prayer-8
Dirty Red-9
I know why the caged bird sings-10
These are just a few of my favorites
2006-12-08 02:30:36 · answer #8 · answered by Queen of Da Trill 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
King Fortis the Brave
Harry Potter
Eragon
Chronicles of Narnia
Have to rank up there
2006-12-09 01:00:25 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bible
Dictionary
Lord of the Rings
The Last Unicorn
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
A book about the Titanic (fiction or non-fiction doesn't matter)
...
That's all I can think of. Haven't read all of them myself, better get started.
2006-12-08 02:31:58 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋