Achebe: Things Fall Apart
Allende: The House of Spirits
Alvarez: How the Garcia Girl Lost Their Accents
Atwood: Handmainden's Tale
Austen: Sense and Sensibility
Camus: The Plague
Conrad: Heart of Darkness
Dickens: Great Expectations
Dostoevsk: Crime and Punishment
Ellison: Invisible Man
Flaubert; Madame Bovary
Hesse: Siddhartha
Hardy: Tess of the D'urbevilles
Hurston; Their Eyes Were Watching God
Huxley: Brave New World
Joyce; A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Kingsolver: The Poisenwood Bible
Mccourt: Angela's Ashes
O'Brien: The Things they Carreid
Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front
Solzhneitsyu: One Day in the life of Ivan Denisovich
Tolstoy: Anna Karenina
Woolf: To the Lighhouse; Mrs. Dallway
2007-08-06 04:44:30 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
I've read 3 of those. Brave New World by Auldous Huxley was a great book about a dystopian society. Its also referenced a lot in other books, so its worth reading at the very least so you can get the references when you hear them.
This book would be my highest recommendation.
I also read Heart of Darkness. It was pretty good. People say it was the Inspiration for the movie 'Apocolypse Now', though I didn't see the connection, just a few minor similarities - a dude on a boat in the jungle and some other crazy dude.
Great Expectations by Dickens was the other one, it was good.
2007-08-06 04:52:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Achebe - Things Fall Apart
Dickens - Great Expedations
Ellison - The Invisible Man
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2007-08-06 05:16:16 · answer #2 · answered by danc3r4god23 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've read 8 of these, and there are a few that stand out as books that I really enjoyed:
Tess of the D'urbevilles is still one of my favorites. Angela's Ashes I couldn't put down. Heart of Darkness and Great Expectations are both great books.
Personally, I'd just go down the list and read all of them. Most are considered to be part of the "classics" after all :)
2007-08-06 05:48:25 · answer #3 · answered by Ari 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dickens: Great Expectations
great book
2007-08-06 04:49:23 · answer #4 · answered by Batak 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
With one or two exceptions, I have read all the books in your list and they are all excellent.
To choose one as more interesting than the others is a matter of taste, preference, personal interests. If I had to pick three, I would say, Hesse, Flaubert and Tolstoi.
2007-08-06 05:24:23 · answer #5 · answered by Letizia 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dickens
2007-08-06 04:52:05 · answer #6 · answered by tilda 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've read Siddhartha and did not like the story. It's about how you attain enlightenment (Buddhist style) by being the most irresponsible wastrel ever known - and continue that irresponsibility right up until the day you die.
It *is* interesting, but unpalatable.
I hope this helps.
Jim, http://www.life-after-harry-potter.com
2007-08-06 05:15:38 · answer #7 · answered by JimPettis 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Flaubert; Madame Bovary
This is a great book and widely respected as on of the best of its era.
2007-08-06 05:11:45 · answer #8 · answered by Ralph 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dickens: Great Expetatons, I love Dickens. lol.
2007-08-06 04:52:09 · answer #9 · answered by The Nikki 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Things fall apart was soo freakin good....
2007-08-06 04:53:34 · answer #10 · answered by sexi_luv128 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋