2007-06-20 06:15:17 · 19 answers · asked by mury902 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Fiction or Non
Recent or not.
2007-06-20 06:15:49 · update #1
Hamlet, Pride and Prejudice (any Austen, but especially that one), anything by Thomas Hardy, The Scarlet Letter, Death of a Salesman, Oliver Twist, The Great Gatsby, Huckleberry Finn, The Importance of Being Earnest, and Candide.
It's a longish list, but they're all good and entertaining. :)
2007-06-20 06:29:11 · answer #1 · answered by theprof 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Iliad
The Odyssey
Jane Eyre
The Chronicles of Narnia
Gone With The Wind
1984
Animal Farm
The Scarlet Letter
The Grapes of Wrath
Oliver Twist
Great Expectations
Huckleberry Finn
Tom Sawyer
The Lost World
Jane Eyre
Little Women
The Lord of The Flies (deeply disturbing)
Les Miserables
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Cannery Row
The Good Earth
Last, but certainly not least, The Bible (whether you believe or not, should be read at least once)
2007-06-20 15:40:18 · answer #2 · answered by Starr 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A list of all must read books would be long enough to stretch around the world, and all the books listed by previous answers would be on that list. Add:
Shakespeare - everything, not just the plays
Canterbury Tales
The Iliad and The Odyssey - Alex the Greats favorite
Poetry by Shelly, Keats, Yeats, Byron, Frost, Sand, etc....
Anne Morrow Lindbergh's Diary's
Spirit of St Louis - Charles Lindbergh (and Anne, uncredited)
Khalil Gabran (Sp)
Isaac Asimov
Antoine St. Expiry - not sure about this spelling either.
Goodness, I'm getting carried away. There are so many more.
2007-06-20 14:27:57 · answer #3 · answered by txkathidy 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Watership Down-Richard Adams
All of Jane Austen
Jane Eyre-Charlotte Bronte
Alas Babylon-Pat Frank
And don't forget about all the short fiction available out there. Pretty much every novel writer of note in history also produced fantastic short fiction. Get an anthology of the best short fiction, it's perfect for reading when you don't have a lot of time!
2007-06-20 13:31:02 · answer #4 · answered by missyshell05 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Much Ado about Nothing (ok, it's a play, but still)
A Moon for the Misbegotten (dito)
Brave New World
Jane Eyre
Pride and Prejudice
Persuasion
Room with a View
Daddy Long Legs
Cather in the Rye
Harun and the Sea of Stories (is that a classic yet?)
2007-06-20 14:47:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy
Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan
The Fountainhead by Anne Rand
The Once and Future King by T.H. White
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
The Hobbit-J.R.R. Tolkien
The Fellowship of the Ring-J.R.R. Tolkien
The Two Towers-J.R.R. Tolkien
The Return of the King-J.R.R. Tolkien
The Chronicles of Narnia-C.S. Lewis
The Screwtape Letters-C. S. Lewis
Watership Down-Richard Adams
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy-Douglas Adams
In His Steps by Charles M. Sheldon
2007-06-20 13:55:27 · answer #6 · answered by lastdazeman 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Anything Austen (Pride and Prejudice especially), The Great Gatsby, The Souls of Black Folk, Grapes of Wrath, Dante's Inferno, Hamlet, The Oedipus Trilogy (greek plays), The Tale of Genji, Jane Eyre.
2007-06-20 15:02:22 · answer #7 · answered by tweenklegirl 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
To Kill A Mockingbird
It is fiction, and not recent.
It is from the 60's. It is a very easy read, not action packed, but the story moves along quite nice. It has interesting charactors and actually a moral in the story type book.
2007-06-20 13:24:38 · answer #8 · answered by TiaRanita 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To Kill A Mockingbird
Wuthering Heights
Jane Eyre
Death in Venice
Catcher in the Rye
anything by Mark Twain
2007-06-20 13:41:39 · answer #9 · answered by sparky 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, 1984, and anything by William Faulkner
2007-06-20 13:18:44 · answer #10 · answered by Regalstrickland [KATSURA DA!] 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋