The new lifetime reading plan – Fadiman & Major
Great Books – D. Denby
The Literary 100 – D S Burt
Oedipus rex – sophocles; The bluest eye – morrison
Me, Tituba, Black witch of Salem – Maryse Condé
The portrait of the artist as a young man – james joyce
No exit – Sartre; The want bone – R. Pinsky
The stranger; The exile and the kingdom – Camus
The unbearable lightness of being – Milan Kundera
Remembrance of things past – Proust
Cold Mountain – Charles Frazier
Humboldt’s Gift – Saul Bellow; Hamlet - Shakespeare
Truman; John Adams - David McCullough
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland; Through the looking glass – L. Carroll
The chronicles of narnia – CS Lewis
The Color Purple – Alice Walker; The flowers of evil - Baudelaire
The turn of the screw – Henry James
Madame Bovary – Flaubert; Animal Farm; 1984 – Orwell
A confederacy of dunces – J K Toole
There are so many, I could go on and on. The first 3 books listed are guides to great literature. You can look at the Table of Contents on Amazon so that you don't have to buy the books to see what you should read. OR, look at www.whichbook.com to choose books based on happy/sad, funny/serious, short/long etc. OR, look at www.overbooked.org Overbooked specializes in providing timely information about fiction (all genres) and readable nonfiction.
I hope this encourages you to keep reading! Have Fun!
2007-05-29 05:27:20
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Rascal-Sterling North, The Cross and the Switchblade-David Wilkerson, The Hiding Place-Corrie Ten Boom, The Hobbit, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Chronicles of Narnia-C.S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever-Steven R. Donaldson, The Sociological Tradition-Robert A. Nisbet, To the Far Blue Mountains-Louis L'Amour, The Screwtape Letters-C. S. Lewis, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden-Hannah Green, Shardik, Watership Down-Richard Adams, The Once and Future King-T.H.White, How to Win Friends and Influence People-Dale Carnegie, I am a Barbarian-Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Greatest Miracle in the World-Og Mandino, The Eagle and the Sword-Harvey K. Schreiber, Lord Valentine's Castle-Robert Silverberg, The Joy of Running-Thadeus B. Kostrubala, How to Read Slowly, The Universe Next Door-James W. Sire, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy-Douglas Adams, Once Upon a Summer-Janette Oke, Life Sentence-Charles W. Colson, The Fisherman's Lady-George MacDonald, Vienna Prelude-Bodie Thoene, The City of Joy-Dominique Lapierre Making Sense Out Of Suffering-Peter Kreeft, The Cat Who Could Read Backwards-Lilian Jackson Braun, The Blessing Way-Tony Hillerman, Blink-Ted Dekker, The Stand-Stephen King, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon-Stephen King, The Visitation- Frank E. Peretti, Blood of Heaven-Bill Myer, Dominion-Randy Alcorn, On Writing, A Memoir of the Craft-Stephen King, Far from the Dream-Lance Wubbels, Joshua-Joseph Grizone, Death of a Gossip-M.C. Beaton, If I'd Killed Him When I Met Him-Sharyn McCrumb, Tick Tock-Dean Koontz, Ender's Game-Orson Scott Card, When the Wind Blows-James Patterson, Eaters of the Dead-Michael Crichton, The Hunt for Red October-Tom Clancy, The Street Lawyer-John Grisham, The Burglar in the Closet-Lawrence Block, The Circle of Time Series-Robert Jordan, Simple Simon-Ryne Douglas Pearson, Jitter Joint-Howard Swindle, Double Helix-Sigmund Brouwer, The Fountainhead-Ayn Rand, The Pardise War-Steven R. Lawhead, In His Image-James BeauSeigneur, Tired of Trying to Measure Up-Jeffrey VanVonderen, Return of the Prodigal Son-Henri Nouwen, Soul Survivor-Phillip Yancy, From Glory to Glory - The Salvation of the Soul-David W. Dyer, Waking the Dead - The Glory of a Heart Truly Alive-John Eldredge, My Old Man and the Sea-David & Daniel Hays, Soon - The Beginning of the End-Jerry B. Jenkins, A New Kind of Christian-Brian McLaren
2007-05-29 03:58:38
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