2007-01-04 18:00:03 · 25 answers · asked by me 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (all of them) by Douglas Adams
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
The Missing Piece Meets the Big O by Shel Silverstein
2007-01-04 18:47:10 · answer #1 · answered by ms dont panic 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
J.R.R Tolkien.... The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Silmarillion.
Marjory Kinnan Rawlings... The Yearling
Robert Louis Stevenson... Treasure Island, Kidnapped, The Master of Ballantrae
Paul Creswick... The Adventures of Robin Hood.
Anna Sewell.. Black Beauty
Jack London... White Fang, Call of the Wild, The Sea Wolf, To Build a Fire and Other Short Stories.
Robert W. Service... The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses(The Songs of a Sourdough)
Edgar Allen Poe... The Collected Works of Edgar Allen Poe
Rudyard Kipling... The Jungle Book, The Second Jungle Book, Just So Stories, Kim, Captains Courageous
C.S Lewis... The Chronicles of Narnia
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle... The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Hound of the Baskervilles (and all other Sherlock books) The Lost World.
Farley Mowat..... Lost in the Barrens, The Curse of the Viking Grave, Never Cry Wolf, Owls in the Family, The Dog who wouldn't Be.
H. Rider Haggard... King Solomons Mines
Pearl S. Buck... The Good Earth, A House Divided
Lucy Maud Montgomery... Anne of Green Gables, Pat of Silver Bush, Emily of New Moon
Gary Paulson...Hatchet
Jean Craighead George... Julie of the Wolves
Walter Farley... The Black Stallion (series)
David and Leah Eddings... The Belgariad series and The Mallorean series, Polgara the Sorceress, Belgarath the Sorcerer.(12 books total, all one story)
Maurice Walsh... The Blackcock's Feather
Walter Macken..Rain on the Wind
Laverne Gay... Wine of Satan
Milo Hastings... The City of Endless Night
Robert Holdstock.. Mythago Wood, Lavondyss
Anne McCaffery...Dragonriders of Pern series, The Crystal Singer series
Frank Herbert... Dune Series
Joanne Bertin.... The Last Dragonlord, Dragon and Pheonix
Hope Ryden... God's Dog, The Lily Pond
L.David Mech.. The Arctic Wolf: Living with the Pack
James De Mille... A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder
I know its a long list, but I have read thousands of books in my lifetime and this is just a few of those that stand out because they shaped my imagination throughout my life and left a truly lasting impression. I love to read and I think that if anyone else loves books as much as I do they should make it a point to read most of the books I have mentioned because there are examples of every genre... Science Fiction, Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Poetry, Short Stories, Non-Fiction, Classic... and I might add most are the best representitives of thier genre. By the way great question! Hope you enjoy some of the books I recommend.
2007-01-04 19:51:00 · answer #2 · answered by Kelly + Eternal Universal Energy 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Wow, people have already sent along some of the classics - I'd agree with so many of them - Iliad or Oddessey topping that list. For more modern books, I've had 3 favorites that I've read more than once (very much a rarity for me!):
Snow Falling in August - Peter Hamill
Shipping News - Annie Proulx (forget the movie - check out this book! I didnt want the story to end.)
The Stand - (yes, Stephen King - what can I say? I'm a sucker for an epic)
All 3 are very different books. But I was actually rather sad to see them end, the stories were that good.
2007-01-04 23:54:59 · answer #3 · answered by lma0814 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you want something that would make you deeply think about life and what you've done in your lifetime: "Five People You Meet in Heaven" by Mitch Albom. It stresses that people are all connected---that even the simplest action you do in your everyday life could've totally changed another person's life without you knowing it.
If you're the business-minded type, you can try the book by Robert T. Kiyosaki entitled "Rich Dad Poor Dad" It's a good starter to boost anyone's business genes! It's simple and not boring. If you don't want to physically work all your life---this is the book for you. The book emphasizes that "you should not work for money, let money work for you".
If you want something as interesting as its title and back-summary, go for "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time" by---(i forgot the author's name sorry...) Anyway,it's funny 'coz I went to the bookstore and asked for "The Case of the Upsidedown Dog". (check its cover to figure out why)
[wow! i can't believe im like edorsing books for i' m not the book-worm type.i seldom read but when i do, i really select and screen the books and choose the ones that are worth reading]
2007-01-04 18:37:41 · answer #4 · answered by Antigone 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The book is, "Tao Te Ching: The Book of Meaning" by Lao Tzu
Here are some lines to whet your sizzling philosophical appetite:
Whoever cherishes Life
does not know Life
Therefore he has Life.
Whosoever does not cherish Life
seeks not to lose Life:
Therefore he has no Life.
Isn't that a must read at least sometime in life!!
2007-01-04 18:27:09 · answer #5 · answered by ari-pup 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Go Down Moses by William Faulkner, The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, and A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle.
Oh, and The Egyptian by Mika Waltari. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. The Awakening by Kate Chopin. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card.
Donna Tartt's The Secret History. Daniel Quinn's Ishmael. Eco's Foucault's Pendulum. Damn near anything by Cormac McCarthy, but especially All the Pretty Horses.
And then there's ...Sorry, but there's just so much good stuff out there that it's very difficult to narrow it down to just a few works. Just read. You'll figure out the good stuff from the bad stuff soon enough.
2007-01-04 18:26:55 · answer #6 · answered by Bael 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Dumbing Us Down The Hidden Curriculum Behind Compulsory Education by John Taylor Gatto
2007-01-04 18:22:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
1. The Quran
2. The Bible
3. Alice in Wonderland
4. Shakespeare's works
5. David Coppefield
6. Iliad
7. Hans Andersons Fairy Tales
8. Grimm's Fairy Tales
9. Arabian Nights
10. Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
2007-01-04 20:32:29 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Good question! My picks are: The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien, The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler,The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson, The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare, The Searchers by Alan LeMay, The Time Machine by H.G.Wells, The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, Strange Wine by Harlan Ellison, Beowulf,The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo,The Flashman Series by George MacDonald Fraser, Dracula by Bram Stoker, The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Lewis Stevenson,The Lost Weekend by Charles Jackson,The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren, 3 or more short stories by Edgar Allen Poe, so many more.. and this is just fiction. I have read all the books above and have been changed for the better by each one. Non-fiction..well: Asimov's Guide to the Bible,The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang, A World Lit Only by Fire by William Manchester,Case Closed by Gerald Posner, this list is endless. With my answer and the other answers here, you could be kept busy for a long time. You don't have to like all the books listed, but each one that I've seen listed will make you strong and smart. Hope this helps.
2007-01-04 19:55:33 · answer #9 · answered by Sartoris 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Animal Farm,Invisible Man,Pride and Prejudice,Crime and Punishment,The Great Gatsby,Brave New World,1984,Moby Dick,Andromeda Strain,Sphere,The Ants ,Ideas and Opinions (Einstein),A Study of History(Arnold J. Toynbee) Florence Nightingale(Cecil Woodham-Smith,)The Second World War, (Winston S. Churchill), The Gulag Archipelago( Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn), Sociobiology, (Edward O. Wilson), The Great Terror,( Robert Conquest),The Foundation Trilogy (Asimov),Vimy(Pierre Berton) and Dune (Frank Herbert),
Voyage of the Beagle (1845) and The Origin of Species (1859) by Charles Darwin ,Gaia (James Lovelock).
2007-01-04 18:56:36 · answer #10 · answered by Albertan 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋