What would be the top 10 books a person should read before they die?

Question

Not in the context that they are dying but just in general.

Answer 1

pride and prejudice, empty, i know what you did last summer, paris hilton's book, (im kidding. who would waste their money on her?), sisterhood of traveling pants, click here, kira kira

Answer 2

For Christmas I received the book 1001 Books You Should Read Before You Die. The Editor is Peter Boxall.

The titles are separated into Pre-1700, 1700s, 1800s, 1900s, and 2000s. I will list the first two in each section of this book for you. Enjoy!

Pre-1700s: Aesop's Fables, Ovid's Metamorphoses.
1700's: Jonathan Swift's A Tale of a Tub, Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe.
1800's: Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Elective Affinities.
1900's: Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim, Rudyard Kipling's Kim.
2000's: George Saunders' Pastoralia, Joyce Carol Oates' Blonde.

Books that I would recommend are:
1). The Bible (that's 66 books already in 1)
2). The Iliad and the Odyssey (if you like war and adventure stories).
3). The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran (poetry and very moving)
4). All Creatures Great and Small Series of 4 books (about a vet in Scotland and his adventures, was made into a TV series by BBC).
5). Any Ian Fleming James Bond Titles (for the spy in all of us and the fact that he always gets the girl).
6 and 7). Grimm's Fairy Tales and Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales (to learn morals and fabulous stories of imagination).
8). Morte D' Arthur (to learn about knights and castles and damsels of the medieval ages).
9). Bulfinch's Mythology (to learn about the gods of the Greeks)
10). The Arabian Knights (to learn how a very smart woman can tell stories in order to save her life).

Answer 3

1) 1984
2) The Grand Inquisitor (excerpt from The Brothers Karamazov)
3) To Kill A Mockingbird
4) The Five People You Meet In Heaven
5) The Giving Tree
6) Lovely Bones
7) Snow Falling On Cedars
8) Hamlet
9) Catcher In the Rye
10) A Walk to Remember

Answer 4

In no particular order:

Elmer Gantry, Sinclair Lewis
A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens
Animal Farm, Orwell
The Communist Manifesto-Karl Marx
Democracy in America-
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Old Man and the Sea
East of Eden
Wuthering Heights
Dracula

Answer 5

David Copperfield
East of Eden
Of Human Bondage
The Count of Monte Cristo
1984
The Stories of John Cheever
A Confederacy of Dunces
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
National Lampoon's Truly Sick, Tasteless, and Twisted Cartoons
The Onion Presents Our Dumb Century

Answer 6

To keep the list to ten, I'll avoid anything but fiction novels.

"Nineteen Eighty-Four" by Orwell
"One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" by Solzhenitsyn
"Brave New World" by Huxley
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Adams
"Snow Crash" by Stephenson
"The Godfather" by Puzo
"The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time" by Haddon
"Motherless Brooklyn" by Lethem
"Walking on Glass" by Banks

(Okay, maybe one non fiction):
"The Demon-Haunted World" by Sagan

HBJ

Answer 7

"The Consolation of Philosphy," by Boethius.
The Old Testament, the New Testament, the Koran, and probably the Zed Avestas. "Liber al vel Legis" by Crowley.

"Thus Spoke Zarathustra" by Friedrich Nietzsche is mandatory, as is "Atlas Shrugged," by Rand.

After that, to round out your education, I would suggest "Moby Dick" by Melville, "Tropic of Cancer" by Henry Miller, "Sirens of Titan" by Vonnegut, "Venus on a Half-Shell" by Kilgore (Phillip Jose Farmer) Trout and any biography you can get on the Marx Brothers.

Any Dr. Suess book can be substituted as you wish.

Answer 8

The Count of Monte Cristo (Dumas)

Pride & Prejudice (Austen)

To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee)

The Prophet (Gibran)

The Bible

Answer 9

well the only thing i can do is recommend a couple of my favorite books which are:

neverwhere by neil gaiman
and
house of leaves by mark danielewski

Answer 10

the godfather
the celestine prophecy
wicked - macguire
super fudge
the tao of pooh
the rape of the a*p*e*
da vinci code
it
siddhartha
clan of the cave bear