It has to be a classic but I don't care about the genre
2007-05-18 17:32:28 · 20 answers · asked by jcb 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Pride and Predjuice
Cantebury Tales
The three Muskeeteers
To Kill a Mockingbird
1984
Animal Farm
Jane Eyre
Tom Sawyer
THe Invisble man (not to be confused with Invisible Man)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
les Misrables
le Morte De Arthur
Romeo and Juliet
Hamlet
Macbeth
2007-05-18 18:02:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I love the carte blanche!
Here are some of literature's musts:
The Catcher in the Rye
1984
Pride and Prejudice
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
A Tale of Two Cities
Villette
Siddhartha
My Antonia
Hamlet
Slaughterhouse Five
Sister Carrie
Dubliners
Wuthering Heights
2007-05-19 01:11:18 · answer #2 · answered by caryn t 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My favorite book of all time is Wuthering Heights. I just finished reading a book on financial planning and another book called Living Beautiful by Alexandra Stoddard. The financial book is called The Courage to Be Rich by Suze Orman. It is very insightful about finances and takes one through a myriad of financial choices and types of people, married, widowed, divorced, single, young, and old. The Living Beautiful book gives over 500 ideas of how to see beauty in everything each and every day. Very uplifting.
2007-05-19 00:37:18 · answer #3 · answered by sunshine 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1984 by George Orwell, Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, Cat's Cradle and Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut, The Trial by Franz Kafka, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, Fahrenheit 451by Ray Bradbury...all great books I recommend.
Here are some American classic literary figures (and some of their works):
In Our Time, A Farewell To Arms and For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway.
Compilations of works by Herman Melville [If you're feeling inspired by his short stories, then read also tackle Moby Dick], William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, Thomas Pynchon, Stephen Crane, Eugene O'Neill (playwrite), Patricia Ann Highsmith, and/or poets Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allen Poe, Robert Frost, Sylvia Plath...
On Walden Pond by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman.
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)....
If you want to read from literature's origins, go Greek, with:
Homer, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes (playwrites).
It's very hard to pick just one book. It would help a lot to know what kinds of books specifically pique your interest.
Maybe the link below will help you decide, too.
2007-05-19 02:07:31 · answer #4 · answered by Flaca 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Cirque Du Freak Series
Harry Potter
2007-05-19 00:36:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I have to agree with the person who said "As I Lay Dying" by William Faulkner. I just finished reading it and it is one of the best books I have ever read. It takes awhile to get used to Faulkner's style but it is worth it. There is definitely a bit of dark humor in this book. Worth reading whether you do it for a grade or not.
2007-05-19 01:07:30 · answer #6 · answered by a_bad_fish_2 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner.
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood.
both are as close to perfect novels as they get.
Pax - C
2007-05-19 00:38:02 · answer #7 · answered by Persiphone_Hellecat 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Siddhartha
2007-05-19 00:40:44 · answer #8 · answered by Disarray 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its not exactly a classic, but if u get the chance read something from nora roberts, u will laugh with her and u will cry with her, she is one of the most heart touching authors that i have ever read.
2007-05-19 08:58:57 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck
2007-05-19 00:35:23 · answer #10 · answered by Queenie knows it all. 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋