can you guys give me at least 5 list of great books that i could read? thanks!
2006-12-20 13:38:02 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
As for me, they include
1. 1984
2. The Tin Drum
3. Love in the Time of Cholera
4. The Trial
5. The Stranger, etc.
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2006-12-20 13:46:38 · answer #1 · answered by Arigato ne 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's lots of great books, but these influenced me the most, and were also very readable:
An American woman's life: Marilynne Robinson: Housekeeping
An American black man's life: Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man
Big Brother is watching you : George Orwell: 1984
Classism and Poverty: Charles Dickens: David Copperfield
Selfishness or Being the Best? Ayn Rand: The Fountainhead
The title says it all: James Fenimore Cooper: The Last of the Mohicans
Thanks for the question..I read Dickens and Cooper as a child, along with Mark Twain and Jane Austen. In high school, I read 1984 and The Invisible Man, which both shocked me. In college, on my own, I read The Fountainhead (and all of Rand's books) and just in the last few years I read Housekeeping and Margaret Atwood's books, like The Handmaid's Tale, Alice Walker's The Color Purple, as well as Randy Shilts book, And the Band Played On.
2006-12-20 15:35:39 · answer #2 · answered by edith clarke 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Cost of Discipleship by D. Bonhoffer
The Chronicles of Narnia series by CS Lewis
When Pride Still Mattered: The Vince Lombardi Story
Financial Peace by Dave Ramsey
The Phantom Tollbooth
2006-12-20 13:45:29 · answer #3 · answered by cottey girl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Sun Also Rises--Ernest Hemingway
Tender is the Night--F. Scott Fitzgerald
Animal Farm--George Orwell
A Farewell to Arms--Ernest Hemingway
Anna Karenina--Leo Tolstoy
2006-12-20 13:42:32 · answer #4 · answered by Brentney H 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In no order of preference (just as they come to mind), and simply the latest books I've read and enjoyed.
1. "The Hummingbird’s Daughter” by Luis Alberto Urrea (set in Mexico)
2. "Nectar" by Lily Prior (set in Italy)
3. "Almost French" (can't remember the name of the author, but it's a true story about a female Australian journalist living in Paris)
4. "The Historian" by Elizabeth Kostova (about Vlad the Impaler..I hate Dracula horrors; this is history mixed with a bit of the unbelieveable..or is it the unthinkable?)
5. "Songs in Ordinary Time" by Mary McGarry Morris (bound to bring a lump to your throat)
6. My blog .. nah, just kidding. It's still a work in progress, but one day it might be worth taking a look at.
I'm quite keen on David Baldacci & Patricia Cornwell (love that forensic science/police investigation stuff)
Thanks for asking your question cos now I'm off to look for some of the recommendations made by your other respondents.
2006-12-20 14:07:36 · answer #5 · answered by Chencha 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
War & Peace - Leo Tolstoy
The Illiad - Homer
The Bible
Be forwarned! None of these are light reading, but they are great books.
2006-12-20 13:45:09 · answer #6 · answered by Elise K 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Plutarch's LIVES, Plato's REPUBLIC, THE WAY THINGS WORK vols. I & II, circa 1950's, King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard and last but not least Alexander Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo.
2006-12-20 15:46:04 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Blue Bottle Club
Pollyanna
A Different Kind of Hero(bio of Chris Burke)
The Holy Bible
2006-12-21 08:04:18 · answer #8 · answered by Puff 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
King Fortis the Brave, Harry Potter, Eragon, Chronicles of Narnia and Artemis Fowl
2006-12-21 06:06:22 · answer #9 · answered by Caveman 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
1. I Don't Want To Be Crazy
2. The Watcher
3. Red Scarf Girl
2006-12-20 13:39:45 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋