what are some of the best books you've read?

Question

American lit and British lit only

Answer 1

The obvious... Harry Potter, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, anything by Jodi Picoult

The classics... anything by William Shakespeare, Jane Eyre, To Kill A Mockingbird, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

The not so known... Twilight by Stephenie Meyer, anything by Sarah Dessen, Postcards from Berlin

Answer 2

Bionicle adventures 1-10, Bionicle Chronicles 1-5, Bionicle Legends 1-7, Charlie Bone 1-5, Conrad's Fate, Witch Week, The Pinhoe Egg, Emily Windsnap, SOUE(series of unfortunate events) 1-13, Animorphs, Harry Potter, Most Shoujo Manga

Answer 3

Classics

Of Mice and Men
The Grapes of Wrath
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Prince and the Pauper
Oliver Twist
A Christmas Carol
David Copperfield


Children Stories

The Phantom Tollbooth
Johnny Tremain
Alice in Wonderland
A Wrinkle in Time
Bridge to Terabithia
The Wonder Wizard of Oz


Series

The Chronicles of Narnia
The Harry Potter Series

These are my favorites, and pretty much the only books that I enjoy. Most books aren't so great these days.

Answer 4

The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving stone. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. But the Best book I ever read and will read many times is: "Don Quijote De La Mancha" by Miguel de Cervantes. Don't be afraid of trying (foreign) literature. If there is such a thing as foreign. Besides you can find a million translations of this jewel of a book to almost all the lenguages and dialects that are there. We all live in the same world, and we should enjoy all of it.

Answer 5

Here's a short list i love to read :-)

My Name Is Asher Lev- Chaim Potok

The Earth Children series by Jean M Auel (the first book is Clan of the Cave Bear)

Imajica- Clive Barker

The Horse Goddess- Morgan Llewelyn

Brave New World- Aldous Huxley

and I do love the Harry Potter series

Answer 6

Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky, 1984 by George Orwell, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Catch 22 by Joseph Heller, The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald...

Answer 7

She's Come Undone and I Know this Much is True by Wally Lamb

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut

Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Answer 8

Thanks for asking. I remember with pleasure many books I have read, of many different types. Let me just throw out a few: Beach Music, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, A Passage to India, Meet Me in the Green Glenn, The old Man and the Sea, The Ides of March, Perelandria, The Lord of the Rings, A Place to Come To, The Water is Wide, ... too many great writers to honor!

Answer 9

This is a tough question! From just general literature (American and English) there are so many excellent books and I don't know if you mean classics only, genre fiction, or something else entirely. For me, though, my favorite American classic is "The Sound and the Fury" by Faulkner, my favorite genre novel is "Watchers" by Dean Koontz, and my favorite mainstream fiction novel would probably be one of Anne Tyler's books but I cannot decide which one. Perhaps "A Slipping Down Life."

CB
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Answer 10

I read about 3 books per week so I will try and narrow down my favorites. My all time favorite book is To Kill a Mockingbird. Next would be the Grapes of Wrath by John Stienbeck. Then I read Cannery Row by the same author. I read everything by John Stienbeck. I just love his writing. I tried a bit of Hemingway but didn't get into it.