2007-03-27 04:04:09 · 19 answers · asked by bbb 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
1). the pursuit of happYness (chris gardner)
2). american gods (neil gaiman)
3). KING DORK (Frank Portman)
4). Into Thin Air (Jon Krakauer)
5). The Prague Orgy (Philip Roth)
6). Lullaby (Chuck Palahniuk)
7). The Hiram Key
8). The Dew Breaker (Edwidge Danticat)
9). Out (Natsuo Kirino)
10). Crime & Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
11). The Beach (Alex Garland)
12). Invicible Man (H.G. Wells)
13). Einsteins Dream
14). The Kitchen (Banana Yoshimoto)
2007-03-27 04:21:50 · answer #1 · answered by shanekeavy 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
1. Harry Potter
2. Eragon
3. Devilish
4. Five Children and It
5. Just Listen
6. The Silver Crown
7. Lord Of The Rings
8. Therioes On Everything
9. The Big Book Of Hell
10. The Complete Cartoons of The New Yorker
Listed in order of importence
2007-03-27 12:45:35 · answer #2 · answered by serenityfan76 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Night of the Moonbow - Thomas Tryon
Watership Down - Richard Adams
Beauty - Sherri S. Tepper
Flowers in the Attic - V.C. Andrews.
The Red Tent - Anita Diamant
The Other - Thomas Tryon
The Road to Mars - Eric Idle
A Spell for Chameleon - Piers Anthony
Red Dwarf : Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers - Grant Naylor
Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury
A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke
2007-03-27 12:39:29 · answer #3 · answered by thezaylady 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A good selection of all-time greats from world literature (I was going to make it a top ten, but I've had to push it to 11):
1. Homer, The Iliad/The Odyssey
2. Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
3. Mahabharata
4. Shakespeare's Sonnets (or Othello, Macbeth, Hamlet)
5. The Arabian Nights
6. Luo Guanzhong, Romance of the Three Kingdoms
7. Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
8. Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
9. Tolstoy, War and Peace (or Dostoevsky, Brothers Karamazov, or Pushkin, Eugene Onegin)
10. Marcel Proust, Remembrance of things past
11. James Joyce, Ulysses
2007-03-27 11:52:32 · answer #4 · answered by Saint Bee 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read the ones that are most widely known because you'll start to understand so many more references in pop culture.
1) the bible (I'm not religious but it is true that soooo much other literature comes from biblical lore.)
2) The Illiad- Homer (and the Odyssey)
3) The Count of Monte Cristo- Dumas
4) Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, ect.- Shakespeare
5) The Raven- Poe (okay this is just a poem. It will make up for the three Shakespeare plays)
6) The Inferno- Dante
7) Dracula-Stroker
8) Frankenstein- Shelley (soooo different than anything you've heard or seen about Frankenstein)
9)The Harry Potter Series- Rowling (Okay, these books are becoming as much a part of our culture as any of the others)
10) Any of the Russian masters- (Pushkin, Dostoevsky ect... because Russian novels are unlike any other type of literature and you should try at least one of them.)
2007-03-27 11:32:38 · answer #5 · answered by Shannon 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
The Age of Chivalry: King Arthur and his Knights - Bullfinch
A Voyage to the South Sea - William Bligh
Roughin' It - Mark Twain
Grimm's Fairy Tales - Brothers Grimm
Voyage of the Beagle - Charles Darwin
Travels in West Africa - Mary Kingsley
History of the Peloponnesian War - Thucydides
Commentary on the Gallic Wars - Julius Caesar
Army Life in a Black Regiment - Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Ten Days That Shook The World - John Reed
2007-03-27 12:40:55 · answer #6 · answered by WMD 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Just as a supplement to some of the wonderful suggestions you've already received (especially from Shannon) I'd add: Madame Bovary ( Gustave Flaubert ), Ethan Frome ( Edith Wharton), , something by Ernest Hemingway like For Whom the Bell Tolls...agree with those that have mentioned Shakespeare's plays, especially Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet, the Scarlet Letter, the Bible and Catcher in the Rye. for poetry read The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock! Enjoy!
2007-03-27 12:22:18 · answer #7 · answered by edsquire2001 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
1. One Flew over the Coocoos Nest by Ken Keasy
2. The Adventures of Huckelberry Finn by Mark Twain
3. The Handmaidens Tale by Margaret Atwood
4. The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
5. The Stand by Stephen King
6. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
7. Watership Down by Richard Adams
8. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
9. 1984 by George Orwell
10.The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
2007-03-27 12:14:25 · answer #8 · answered by ajtheactress 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
1) The Chronicles of Narnia
2) The Sound and the Fury
3) Love in the Time of Cholera
4) The World According to Garp
5) The Fountainhead
6) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
7) Little Women
8) The Odyssey
9) Dante's Inferno
10) The Grapes of Wrath
11) Hamlet
2007-03-27 15:19:51 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The Truth About Diamonds - Nicole Richie
She seems superficial but this really is a good book
The Forest Wife - Theresa Thomlinson
There's 3 parts, it's really good: adventure, romance. It's basically Maid Marien's perspective on the story of Robin Hood.
Sarah Dessen's books
She is a really good writer
Romeo & Juliet - Shakespeare
It's a beautiful classic tradgedy
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
All of those are really good books.
2007-03-27 12:57:57 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋