Mine:
1. "Inivisible Monsters" by Chuck Palahniuk - an amazingly, haunting ending (I won't ruin it for those who haven't read it)
2. "Dogs of Babel" by Carolyn Parkhurst - true love between husband and wife and owner and dog, makes me cry
3. "Welcome to the Monkey House" by Kurt Vonnegut - his audacious sense of humor and extraordinary creative vision
4. "Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs" by Chuck Klosterman - I love pop culture and his writing is very assesible
5. "Memiors of a Geisha" by Arthur Golden - beautifully written, I find the geisha culture fascinating and the book left me very satisfied.
2007-01-21 14:01:12 · 9 answers · asked by Laci R 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
1. 'A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius' by Dave Eggers - i find this book to be amazingly real and relatable. Eggers creates beauty out of his tragedy.
2. 'Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close' by Jonathan Safran Foer - this book shows how different people deal with loss in different ways and how even in death, the ones we love continue to affect our lives.
3. 'Killing Yourself to Live' by Chuck Klosterman - Chuck Klosterman has such an amazing outlook on life and this book contains some of the most intelligent thoughts on everything from pop culture to love that i have ever read.
4. 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald - this novel is a classic for a reason
5. 'Everything Is Illuminated' by Jonathan Safran Foer - this novel made me laugh, cry, and gasp in shock. it is a piece of pure genius.
2007-01-21 14:16:15 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen because I love the romance plot and how it's not always happy for everyone. I like how both Marianne and Elinor portray my own personality at some points.
Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas because I like the whole revenge thing. I would have been just as angry as Dantes had been when Mercedes actually married Ferdinand and I like how he ends up happy in the end.
Peter Pan by James M Barrie because everyone needs a little imagination and childish feelings sometimes. I get into a "Peter Pan mode" sometimes when I'm scared to grow up and I love to think there is a place like Neverland.
Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini because it's such an interesting place and time period to set a story. I didn't really know anything about Afghanistan or its history before this book, and even if it is fiction, I learned a lot.
The Search for Delicious by Natalie Babbit because when my third grade teacher read this book to our class I fell in love with reading. It was this story that created a bookaholic and I'm thankful for it. I still reread it sometimes...
These are all in no particular order, but are my top five books.
2007-01-21 15:08:42 · answer #2 · answered by Kristie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ok.. IN no particular order.
1. THe GIver by Lois Lowery. I first read it in middle school and I just love how the story unfolds and develops. It is an amazing book that made me think about how good we have it.
2. Gone with the Wind by Margret Mitchell. The book is soo detailed. I love the opening of it were Mitchell discribes Scarlett. It is an amazing novel.
3. Forever by Judy Blume. Blume does an fabulous job at showing the life changing things that happen to young girls and how a serious relationship can be. She shows how emotionally envloved girls can be and how you can find love at such a young age and even if it doesn't last forever... it vcan seem like forever while you are in love.
4. The sister of the Travleing pants series by Ann Brashares. I couldn't just pick one.. I love all four af the books and I hope that she continues to tell the story of the sisterhood. I love how it follows the four girls on their different paths adn yet they are all connected through the pants.
5. Sabriel By Garth Nix. Nix writes extremely entertaining fantasy and you just get pulled in to the world that he creats... I wish he would continue with a 5th book.... Hopefully soon!!!!
All five books/series are amazing and I would recomend any and all of them for people to read....
2007-01-21 15:54:42 · answer #3 · answered by Audie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you really want to read about a really great love story,check out the short story 'Gift of the Magi' by O.Henry.It's about a husband and wife searching for a perfect Christmas gift for each other.I've given a link where you can read the story for free.
Summer Knight, a book in the Dresden files book series.It narrates the story of Harry Dresden,chicago's only professional wizard who works as a detective.In this book he deals with the Summer and Winter Courts of the fey.Apparently they are about to go to war.An event which was triggered by the death of the Summer Knight.Queen Mab of the Winter Court hires Harry to find out the true killer.
Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini.When his best friend, a young clergyman, is killed in a mockery of a duel by an arrogant noble, just to quiet his eloquent expressions of democratic ideals, Andre-Louis Moreau vows revenge. From that point, through meteoric careers as a consummate actor and scenario writer, then as a fencing master, and finally a politician, the brilliant Moreau keeps thwarting the aims of the aristocratic Marquis de la Tour d'Azyr. However, the nobleman causes pain to Moreau as well, and the time must come when the two will meet to settle their enmity once and for all. You are not likely to guess how their confrontation finally turns out. Set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, this swashbuckling novel is exciting throughout, and it presents one of the most dashing heroes in fiction, a man who can fight equally well with his mind, his mouth, his pen, and his sword, a man who stirs up events wherever he goes.
Brother Odd by Dean Koontz is the third book in his Odd Thomas series. Poor Odd has been through so much in the last couple of years. He lost Stormy, the love of his life, he's given up his job and his home to move into seclusion at a California mountainside monastery in hopes that his "gift" for seeing the dead won't be an issue up there. Instead he finds a poltergeist monk and evil spirits gathering around the young disabled children the monks (and nuns) care for. Odd knows that trouble is coming, and as usual he's the only one to recognize it.Can Odd mitigate the coming cataclysm? Of course he can, despite the arrival of murderous bone creatures and grim Death itself, for the monks include quite a contingent of reformed martial sinners, most memorably Brother Knuckles, formerly of the New Jersey Mob, and another guest, a mysterious Russian librarian from Indianapolis, who is more and different than Odd thinks he is.
Landslide by Desmond Bagley.Bob Boyd wakes up in a hospital with no memory,the only surviver of an accident.He was burned badly all over and needed extensive plastic surgery which was payed by a mysterious sponser.He is told that he's a geology student with a bad past.However Bob recovers and gets on with his life.Hired by the powerful Matterson Corporation to survey land before they build a great new dam, he begins to uncover the shaky foundations of the Matterson family and becomes a fly in their ointment.His accident and the Matterson family have more in common than he thought.
2007-01-22 05:11:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
1. the five people you meet in heaven, the story left me wondering if that's really the way heaven was who I would meet.
2. The Prize Winner of Defiance Ohio, it goes to show you how moms can do anything, and makes you wish just once some company would run an old time contest.
3. Anne of Green Gables series, the imagination is a wondrous thing. Brings back forgotten childhood imaginings.
4. The Greatest Generation, you begin to understand more and more about that generation, and the numerous advancements that came out of it.
5.Cane River, it brought tears to my eyes....and renewed hope to get through anything that comes my way.
2007-01-21 14:16:31 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
1) "The Giver" by Lois Lowry- it's a great story, and really gets you thinking. The other two companion books are excellent as well.
2) "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld- it's a fast paced book that visualizes what society may become. The second and third books in the trilogy are equally as intriguing.
3) "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin- it's a well written murder mystery of sorts. There's always something new.
4) "The City of Ember" by Jeanne Duprau- it's a book set in a completely different setting---an underground city of humans. The sequel is great, but the prequel isn't up to par.
5) "Star Girl" by Jerry Spinelli- it's about a truly unique girl, told from the eyes of a boy who admires her.
2007-01-21 14:11:09 · answer #6 · answered by musicgirl31♫ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lord of the Rings, Chronicles of Narnia, To Kill a Mockingbird, Wind in the Willows, and One (last is by Richard Bach, who wrote Jonathon Livingston Seagull)
That is only a few. I love reading.
2007-01-21 17:47:07 · answer #7 · answered by musicimprovedme 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1/2.Running w/ Scissors & Dry~Augusten Burroughs He had such a bizarre life and he put it into words beautifully.
3.Slapstick~Kurt Vonnegut Very creative mind!
4.Angelas Ashes~Frank McCourt
5.Youth In Revolt~C.D.Payne A book of total fun!
2007-01-21 14:14:15 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have never read those books, but they do sound interesting, especially Dogs of Babel.
Well here are some of my favorite fiction books
In His Steps ( I think the author is Charles Shelton, but I haven't read it in quite a few years.)
Christy by Catherine Marshall (based on a true story)
The Hobbit by Tolkien
The Blue Bottle Club by Stokes
A Dog's Life by Peter Mayle (well, it's based on a true story)
2007-01-21 14:05:53 · answer #9 · answered by Puff 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋