Eat Pray Love is a GREAT book. The Memory Keepers Daughter is great too! Let me know what books you like.
2006-12-08 03:39:34 · 16 answers · asked by R_H_P 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Right now I'm reading "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac, cos I've heard a lot about it with the uncensored version coming out next year and all in conjunction with its first release in 1957.
2006-12-08 04:00:16 · answer #1 · answered by xander 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've recently read The Color Purple by Alice Walker, which is a VERY good book. I'm reading "The Hobbit" by J.R.R. Tolkein right now...at first I was reluctant, because I just hate all the hype I've seen about The Lord of the Rings (this is the prequel to it), but I thought I'd give it a shot. So far it's not that bad. I'm not really that interested in the story, but Tolkein seems like a very witty and talented writer.
2006-12-08 05:56:46 · answer #2 · answered by Persephone 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Warrior series by Erin Hunter
Saving Fish From Drowning by Amy Tan
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
The Man from Stone Creek by Linda Lael Miller
2006-12-08 04:51:01 · answer #3 · answered by stealthpaw 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I just read the hitch hikers guide to the galaxy series. Most excellent. I'm currently reading "the sun also rises" by ernest hemmingway. I'm trying to read all the books on this list of cult classics. You can try them too:
oAgainst Nature, Joris-Karl Huysmans
oAnimal Farm, George Orwell
oAnother Roadside Attraction, Tom Robbins
oAxel, Philippe Auguste Villiers De L'isle-Adam
oBeen Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me, Richard Fariña
oThe Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
oBrave New World, Aldous Huxley
oA Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. JR. Miller
oThe Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger
oCatch-22, Joseph Heller
oA Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
oThe Day of the Locust, Nathanael West
oDemian, Hermann Hesse
oDune, Frank Herbert
oFear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
oThe Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
oFrankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, Mary Shelley
oThe Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
oThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
oThe Killer Inside Me, Jim Thompson
oLady Chatterley's Lover, D. H. Lawrence
oLolita, Vladimir Nabokov
oLook Homeward, Angel, Thomas Wolfe
oLord of the Flies, William Golding
oThe Lord of the Rings, J. R.R. Tolkien
oLost Horizon, James Hilton
oLucky Jim, Kingsley Amis
oOne Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
oOn the Road, Jack Kerouac
oThe Outsider, Colin Wilson
oThe Outsiders, S. E. Hinton
oA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
oRené, François-René De Chateaubriand
oA Separate Peace, John Knowles
oSiddhartha, Hermann Hesse
oSlaughterhouse-Five or the Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
oThe Sorrows of Young Werther, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
oThe Stand, Stephen King
oSteppenwolf, Hermann Hesse
oThe Stranger, Albert Camus
oStranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
oThe Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
oThe Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge, Carlos Castaneda
oThis Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald
oTime and Again, Jack Finney
oTrout Fishing in America, Richard Brautigan
o2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur Clarke
oWalden Two, B. F. Skinner
oWarlock, Oakley Hall
oZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert M. Pirsig
2006-12-08 03:49:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm reading The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People for a college workshop and I really like it. It's relevant to almost everything one goes through in life.
2006-12-08 03:41:49 · answer #5 · answered by kid_at_heart 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am reading The Book Of Shadows by James Reese. This is a new author that I started and I have to say that it is VERY descriptive and shocking.
2006-12-08 04:03:40 · answer #6 · answered by mudd_grip 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Right now I'm reading the Palace of Laughter. It's a good book.
2006-12-08 03:57:25 · answer #7 · answered by BAJ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the lady detective books by Alexander McCall Smith. Set in Botswana (a small country in Africa), they follow Mma Ramostwa (the lady detective) on her cases in and around Gaborone, the capital city. McCall Smith lived in Botswana for a while, and , as I come form Botswana myself, i can say he's done quite a good job. oh, and by the way, 'Mma' means 'Mrs.', in Tswana.
2006-12-08 04:05:20 · answer #8 · answered by wax.lyrical 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
King Fortis the Brave!
2006-12-09 00:58:37 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have just read Wild Swans by Jung Chang, it was really good. I'm amazaed at what some poeple have lived through, i'm so lucky to have had such a sheltered life
2006-12-08 04:21:02 · answer #10 · answered by nat 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋