2007-03-22 06:50:07 · 25 answers · asked by lissome 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Catcher in the Rye, Madame Bovary, Huckleberry Finn, Ethan Frome, Scarlet Letter, Moby Dick, Don Quixote, Lord of ther Flies , the body of work by a guy named Bill Shakespeare, the King James version of the Bible and about a 1000 others............favorite plays to read.: Romeo and Juliet and Othello by Wm. Shakespeare and Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmund Rostand. Have fun!
2007-03-27 05:48:41 · answer #1 · answered by edsquire2001 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
The Divine Comedy by Dante Aligheiri
Collected Shorter Poems by Hayden Carruth
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupery
Line Break by James Scully
The Essential Rumi translated by Coleman Barks
Standing By Words by Wendell Berry
The Book of Forms by Lewis Turco
Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories by Dr. Seuss
2007-03-28 12:36:18 · answer #2 · answered by Nathan D 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some of my all-time favorites:
The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A Good Day to Die - Jim Harrison
Laughter in the Dark - Vladimir Nabokov
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
The Moviegoer - Walker Percy
Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
The Fall - Albert Camus
2007-03-22 12:32:12 · answer #3 · answered by adam 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Witch Of Blackbird Pond, the Nora Roberts Gallagher Irish trilogy, Harry Potter, Vampireville series.
2007-03-28 08:47:02 · answer #4 · answered by Morgan le Fey 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fiela's Child, A Dry White Season (I read both in the original Afrikaans. I'm not sure what the English translations are like.) All the Adrian Mole books. All Things Wild and Wonderful - a family's true experiences in the Kruger Park. Romeo and Juliet - the only play by Shakespeare I like thus far.
2007-03-22 07:07:50 · answer #5 · answered by ellipse4 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Brothers Karamazov and The Pearl. Two novels that plough into the human spirit and reveal the heights of generosity and love along side the depths of depravity.
On the other hand, for a great laugh, Catch 22 remains my all time favorite! I still smile thinking of the chapter dedicated to Major Major Major!
2007-03-22 06:57:07 · answer #6 · answered by el_dormilon 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Soldier Boys
Hitler's Youth
Return to Auschwitz
Eldest
The Bartimaeus Trilogy
2007-03-22 07:42:01 · answer #7 · answered by sahire 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think a book can be brilliant but not so great. For example, Lolita is amazing in its mastery of style and structure. There is even an annotated version of it. But I thought it was boring. For brilliant and wowing me, I found Blood Meridian pretty amazing. It's written as though Hieronymous Bosch took LSD and wrote his own version of the Bible.
2007-03-22 07:27:51 · answer #8 · answered by holacarinados 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Without a doubt - Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes is the most brilliant book of all time. Pax - C.
2007-03-22 08:03:02 · answer #9 · answered by Persiphone_Hellecat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Kiterunner, By Khaled Hosseini
2007-03-22 07:20:10 · answer #10 · answered by Sayehan A 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋