2007-01-28 04:01:01 · 15 answers · asked by red 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
The Ingenuity Gap
In Praise Of Slow
Blink
Mind Hacks
Free World
Six Questions of Socrates
CyberNara
2007-01-28 04:33:02 · answer #1 · answered by Joe K 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pride and Prejudice,
Sarah Plain and Tall
Bridge to Terebithia
Where the Red Fern Grows
Number the Stars
Eastern Steepe
Johnney Tremain
The Diary of Anne Frank
Across Five Aprils
Harry Potter
Inheritance Series
Laura Ingalls books
Narnia
Great Expectations
Romeo and Juliet
Catcher in the Rye
Julius Caesar
All Quiet on the Western Front
2007-01-28 12:10:42 · answer #2 · answered by j5kat13 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Do you mean intellectual as in classics, or merely very intelligently written books. In classics, I highly recommend "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction" by J.D Salinger. In more modern books, I like anything by Douglas Coupland or Stephen Fry. Also, a book called "The Quantity Theory of Insanity" by Will Self. Daivd Lodge, "Therapy" is good, too.
2007-01-28 12:06:29 · answer #3 · answered by Beth B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you think of intelligent, demanding, maybe sophisticated fiction written by authors with an intellectual air, try:
Kazuo Ishiguro - The Unconsoled (is it a dream?)
anything by Samuel Beckett (very demanding but worth racking your brain!)
Marcel Proust - In Search of Lost Time
Henry James - everything!
Imre Kertesz - Fateless
Thomas Pynchon - Mason & Dixon, etc.
Don DeLillo - Underworld
Malcolm Lowry - Under the Volcano
Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness (my favourite novel)
Michel Tournier - The Ogre
Thomas Mann - Dr Faustus
...and that's just the start of it.......
2007-01-28 19:09:24 · answer #4 · answered by msmiligan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
- an intellectual story about waking up one morning as an insect. really. Sounds weird I know, but it is intellectual and it actually works.
2007-01-28 12:12:28 · answer #5 · answered by CMM 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Histories of Herodotus
the works of:
Plato
Livy
Agricola
Plutarch
Thomas Paine
Goethe
H G Wells
Socialism by Von Mises
the works of Hegel
the works of Karl Marx
2007-01-28 21:56:18 · answer #6 · answered by daryavaush 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For a great list get the book "How to Become Ridiculously Well-read in One Evening"
2007-01-28 12:06:25 · answer #7 · answered by tecke 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why not look up which authors from you country has received the Nobel prize in literature and read their works. That would be a good way to know some classical literature and to get to know the authors of your own country.
2007-01-28 12:05:28 · answer #8 · answered by Great Dane 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Harry Potter, Eragon and King Fortis the Brave are all great!
2007-01-28 14:30:56 · answer #9 · answered by Caveman 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Karamazov Brothers" - Dostoevsky
"Tom Jones" - Henry Fielding
"The Alchemist" - Paolo Coelho
"Waterland" - Graham Greene
"The Bell" - Iris Murdoch
2007-01-28 13:11:42 · answer #10 · answered by Mirela 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋