does anyone know any inspiring, breath-taking, entertaining books?

Question

for my class i assgned with a project, i have to read 100 breath-taking, inspiring, etc books. but no books like mystery, or no FBI those now a days kind of books please

no children books please, and if possible can you also summerize the book?

Answer 1

In no particular order here are a few;

The Alchemist - Paulo Coehlo
Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Utopia - Thomas More
Beloved - Toni Morrison
Turn of the Screw - Henry James
Aspern Papers - Henry James
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Love in the Age of Cholera - Gabriel Marcia Marquez
The House of Spirits - Isabelle Allende
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Rob Roy - Sir Walter Scott
The Commitments - Roddy Doyle
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha - Roddy Doyle
The Joke - Milan Kundera
Lolita - Nabokov
Slaughterhouse V - Kurt Vonnegut
Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
History of the World in 10 and a half chapters - Julian Barnes
The Cement Garden - Ian McEwan
Inconceivable - Ben Elton
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
Around the World in 80 Days - Jules Vernes
The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
The Colour Purple - Alice Walker
The Lambs of London - Peter Ackroyd
Possession - A.S. Byatt
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
An Imaginary Life - David Malouf
Don Quixote - Cervantes
War of the Worlds - H. G. Wells
Animal Farm - George Orwell
1984 - George Orwell
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
Middlemarch - George Elliott
The Origin of the Species - Darwin
Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky
The Idiot - Dostoyevsky
Lady Chatterley's Lover - D.H. Lawrence
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
The Master and the Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson
Perfume - Patrick Suskind
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
Canterbury Tales - Chaucer
Macbeth - Shakespeare
King Lear - Shakespeare
Hamlet - Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliette - Shakespeare
The Sonnets - Shakespeare
Anything by Shakespeare
Shakespeare
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Portrait of the Artist as an old Man - Joseph Heller
Pygmalion - George Bernard Shaw
Gulliver's Travels - Johnathon Swift
The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
To Kill a Mocking Bird - Harper Lee
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
Point Counter Point - Aldous Huxley
The Collector - John Fowles
A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
Zen and The Art of Motorcyle Maintenance - robert M. Pirsig
The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
My Antonia - Willa Cather
Jazz - Toni Morrison
Bonfire of the Vanities - Thomas Wolfe
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
The Plague (La Peste) - Albert Camus
Anton Chekhov's Short Stories
Madame Bovary - Flaubert
The Trial - Kafka
Zorba the Greek - Niko Kazanzakis
The Arabian Nights Tales From a 1001 Nights
The Prince - Macchiavelli
Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Nietzche
The Metamorphosis - Kafka
The Diary of Anne Frank
Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience - William Blake
The Ginger Man - J P Donleavy
Sophie's Choice - William Styron
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Oranges are not the only fruit - Jeanette Winterson

hmm yes all good reads! :)

Summarise them? hahahahahahahahhhhhaaaaaaaaaaa

Answer 2

First, I don't believe most contemporary books have much value [with a few exceptions of course]. Pick classic books.

Read H.G. Wells:

1. The War of the Worlds
2. The Island of Dr. Moreau
3. The Time Machine

John Steinbeck

4. Of Mice and Men [only 100 pages]
5. The Grapes of Wrath

Also by various authors:

6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Animal Farm, George Orwell
8. 1984, George Orwell
9. The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger,
10. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
11. Dracula, Bram Stoker
12. Slaughterhouse 5, Kurt Vonnegut


With the exception of The Grapes of Wrath, these books are all relatively short.

Answer 3

Wow, 100 books?!? That's alot of reading! Some of my faves are:

1. The Red Tent- fictional account of the wives of Jacob (Leah, Rachel, and the others) and life during those times. It is historical, interesting, and somewhat of a love story

2. The Life of Pi- about a boy that is travelling on a boat with zoo animals, the boat goes under, and the boy is the only survivor and forced to share the lifeboat with a baboon, a zebra, a hyena, and a tiger. Its a quick read, but very deep and the last chapter will knock your socks off!

3. Beloved- about a runaway slave that is haunted (literally) by her baby's spirit. Won a Nobel prize and very moving.

4. The Kite Runner- about the bonds between father & son and 2 male best friends and their rivalries with one another, set in Afghanistan.

5. The Namesake - about the cultural differences between a boy from India that was raised in the US and his parents who were raised in India.

These are all inspiring and moving, and are modern classics. Hope this helps!

Answer 4

you are corrrect. it could be anything. as long as you see or as along as you percieve things in a limited way then that causes a problem because you get hooked on it as if it is the most imprtant thing. its because of how the mind works. everything is a fraction of the whiole. so one must not forget that. thyus everyuthing is part of God and God makes everything that exists possible. understanding this is a big *** thing. life is made possibel by God. the sense is made possible by God. can you inmagine trying to use and ipad without having any senses? imaginatino and thinking is made by God. so yes, its good to look into technilogy, but have it in its correct perespective, which is a part of God. technology itself is really way less facinating than the body. grant you it is fascinating, and intersting to work with and that is part fo the beauty of waht God allows us to work with and build and be creative. So taking th time to wonder abot the nuiverse , and your own nmind and body , and life itself the life that is in you the life that is you, is important too, very importantm, because those are the truly magical meaning truly unexplainable wonderous thing. we don't know what we are we don't know what anything reallyis. wow, and here we are able to think and nmmov eand feel.

Answer 5

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck!

Answer 6

That's alot. Some good and fairly short books are "A Child Called 'It'", "Where the Red Fern Grows", "Diary of Anne Frank," and "The Incredible Journey". "The Green Mile," is another one, but it's a bit longer.

Answer 7

to kill a mockingbird- a rape case in the early 1900s

the twilight series- a love story with a vampire and 17 year old bella

the mists of avalon- king arthur story told from the perspective of the women of the time

Answer 8

She's Come Undone - Wally Lamb (my favorite)

The Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing - Melissa Bank

Anything by Richard Paul Evans

Anything by Gregory Maguire (who gives his own twist to popular 'fairy tales')

Answer 9

Try QBVII by Leon Uris, it is an oldie, probably need to check it in library, but good read, good character development, and some interesting history.

Answer 10

Jane Eyre for a great love story