Any suggestion on must read books? appropriate titles please not adult fantasy books filled with making love and cheating on yur bf/gf or fiance/husband/wife. I mean the classic books. Any preferences???
2007-04-11 08:32:16 · 17 answers · asked by Lacy C 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
the three musketeers
the count of monte christo
the hunchback of notre dame
the phantom of the opera
a tale of two cities
the great gatsby
Tom Clancy's novels are good too
2007-04-11 08:37:25 · answer #1 · answered by She Bee 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran
Steppenwolf- Herman Hesse
Why I Know the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
The Godfather - Mario Puzo
Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
1984 - George Orwell
The World According to Garp - John Irving
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Magus - John Fowles
2007-04-11 09:06:59 · answer #2 · answered by Deana 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A fair few- I can't throw them away. As many as I can read. I love books- I would like to have enough to fill one of those walls made of just books. I don't really buy expensive books- I usually get them second hand from Ebay or charity shops. My favourite book is Howls Moving Castle- it is witty, I adore the characters and because it is so familiar to me now- it is comforting so I read it when I am ill or feeling down. I know its kind of a kid book but I think its lovely. Boudica - Dreaming the Serpent by Manda Scott. I have read the other three and this is the last one. I love this series and I can't wait to get a copy. Fantasy- I just like to get away from this world for a while and forget about the bad and even the good of this life adn consider what it would be like somewhere else. If I wanted to learn about the reality of this world or life then I could just watch the news.
2016-04-01 09:22:36 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, i liked Jane Erye by Charlotte Bronte. I loved it. But I don't read a lot of classics. Maybe try Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton. I started reading Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. But I'm a huge fan of Harry Potter, The Inheritance Trilogy, and The Series of Unfortunate Events.
2007-04-11 09:43:00 · answer #4 · answered by HP Fan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Leather Stocking Tales by James Finnamore Cooper
Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin.
The Iliad and the Odyssey by Homer
2007-04-11 08:44:48 · answer #5 · answered by Sophist 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Picture of Dorian Gray
Black Beauty
Swiss Family Robinson
Hunchback of Notre Dame
Jungle Book
Little house on the prairie
Among the hidden
Gossamer
Number the stars
Prisoner of Zenda
Sherlock Holmes
2007-04-11 10:05:59 · answer #6 · answered by Bethany 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hmmm.
Catcher in the Rye--JD Salinger
Pride and Prejudice--Jane Austen,
The Odyssey --Homer,
The Scarlet Letter --Nathaniel Hawthorne,
The Great Gatsby--F Scott Fitzgerald,
One Hundred Years of Solitude--Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Those are all I can think of now.
2007-04-11 08:41:42 · answer #7 · answered by rinnasaurusrex 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I just read Bringing out the dead, not really a classic but a fantastic book none the less. Blew threw it in two days.
2007-04-11 08:37:34 · answer #8 · answered by soulfly209 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try reading Rebecca. Not sure who the author is. But the title is called "Rebecca". Its about a possible murder from the 1940s. (The reason I say possible here is because I don't want to give away the ending if you chose to read it.) THERE IS NO SEX OR VIOLENCE IN IT. Just a good page-flipping mystery. You won't want to put it down.
2007-04-11 08:38:07 · answer #9 · answered by Oklahoman 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One Child by Torey Hayden
2007-04-11 08:36:36 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋