whats a good book to read it can be any type!!!
2007-05-31 17:28:38 · 24 answers · asked by Nesa 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Irrational Man.
2007-05-31 17:35:14 · answer #1 · answered by johnfarber2000 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No fire in any of these other answers. I can help.
The best book ever written by an American woman is The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers. The second best is To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.
The best book ever written by an American man is three different books, which are Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs and Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski.
The best ever book by a Frenchman is four different books, which are Man's Fate (or Man's Estate) by Andre Malreaux, The Outsider (or The Stranger) by Albert Camus, Nausea by JP Sartre or - actually better than all the rest - Journey to the End of the Night by Louis Ferdinand Celine.
The best book ever written by a German is at least two different books, which are Tin Drum by Gunther Grass or Group Portrait with Lady by Heinrich Boll.
You should probably also read anything that George Orwell ever wrote. You should probably also read about a hundred other books that I can't think of right now. There are a million good books. You'll never run out.
2007-06-01 01:12:35 · answer #2 · answered by Grazhny 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
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 Wheel 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
2007-06-01 11:34:45 · answer #3 · answered by lastdazeman 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Brave New World
The Handmaid's Tale
A Clockwork Orange
The Lord of The Flies
Holes by Louis Sachar
The Catcher in The Rye
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
The Old Man and The Sea
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
William Shakespeare's tragedies
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
Shadow Spinner by Susan Fletcher
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Five point someone by Chetan Bhagat
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Wuthering Heights by Charlotte Bronte
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
1984 and Animal Farm by George Orwell
Harry Potter book series by J. K Rowling
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Lemony Snicket’s series of Unfortunate Events
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahaeme
Wind, Sand & Stars by Antoine De Saint - Exupery
Seven Daughters and Seven Sons by Barbara Cohen
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Overcoat, The Nose and Other Short Stories by Nikolai Gogol
Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men & Joe’s Boys by Louisa. Alcott
p.s: honestly!! trust me :)
2007-06-01 06:11:28 · answer #4 · answered by ~ ANGEL ~ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Golden Compass. They're making it into a movie this winter, so if you haven't read the series yet, now's a good time to start.
The Keeper Series, by Tanya Huff. Summon the Keeper is the first one, I think. Very funny, original books. Modern day sci-fi-fantasy-ish, but filled with random, excellent humor.
2007-06-01 00:38:30 · answer #5 · answered by phantasyelementz 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pride and prejudice by Jane Austen....great!!! The more I read it the more I love it.
Shogun by James Clavell....a long story but so completely engrossing and interesting....love it
Little Woman...well its not a classic for nothing
Seven Years in Tibet...so much more interesting that the movie made, its so interesting.
Angels and Demons and the Da vinci code....they were very gripping really and I enjoyed them as they kept my interest peaked throughout.
Dune by Frank Herbert a bit of mission in understanding what the hell was going on, but the appendices helped and it was a very interesting read!
2007-06-01 05:43:32 · answer #6 · answered by mareeclara 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, The Simarillon, The Children of Hurin, and any other Tolkien books.
2007-06-01 11:56:19 · answer #7 · answered by ◊ ·~Firebird~· ◊ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You could try:
-the Maximum Ride books by James Patterson
-the Uglies trilogy by Scott Westerfeld
-the Midnighters trilogy by Scott Westerfeld
-Twilight and sequel New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
Hope this helps!
2007-06-01 02:29:01 · answer #8 · answered by Christy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My all time fave: Fool on the Hill by Matt Ruff
a more recent book that was simply outstanding:
World War Z by Max Brooks
2007-06-01 00:37:10 · answer #9 · answered by daughters_a_wookie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
- Pride And Prejudice by Jane Austen
- The Harry Potter books by J. K. Rowling
- The Love Potion by Sandra Hill
2007-06-01 00:36:27 · answer #10 · answered by savvybookreader 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋