I really like books like.....The Grapes of Wrath, To Kill a Mockingbird, any John Steinbeck novels, Victor Hugo and alot of the older ones. I also like the fantasy novels: Harry Potter, LOTR, Edgeworld Chronicles. I really don't much care for the cookie cutter book club books or love & mystery books. Thank you so much.
2007-08-29 11:45:06 · 17 answers · asked by chickem 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Try these:
The Giver
The Cay
Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry
The Bluest Eye
The Sun Also Rises
The House of the Spirits
The Visitation
Interview with a Vampire
2007-08-29 11:54:13 · answer #1 · answered by Creole38 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
These are some of the greatest books I've ever read:
1) Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
2) Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
3) A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
4) Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
5) All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
6) Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
7) Lord of the Flies by William Golding
8) Animal Farm by George Orwell
9) 1984 by George Orwell
10) Slaughterhouse-5 by Kurt Vonnegut
2007-08-29 11:55:57 · answer #2 · answered by zztopspin 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Fantasy:
-Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series--starts with The Eyre Affair.
-Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, it's acutally a trilogy i think.
Classic American literature:
-Mark Twain--try Tom Sawyer as an adult, it's so different.
- William Faulkner's Sound and Fury--intense and has crazy timeshifts b/c of one the characters (if you like the stream of consciousness thing try Joyce's Ulysses [Irish,not american].)
French:
-Alexandre Dumas, you've probably heard about all of these (or they've been pilfered to death by Hollywood): Three Musketeers, Man inthe Iron Mask, Count of Monte Cristo
-Emile Zola: Nana (decadence of the Second Empire), The Fat and the Thin (about life in Paris around the Les Halles area)
sorry it's such a short list, i'll try to edit & add more if i get more time later
2007-08-29 12:08:50 · answer #3 · answered by X 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
The Tomorrow File by Lawrence Sanders
The Shipping News by Anne Proulx
The Little Sister by Raymond Chandler
The Charm School by Nelson Demille
2007-08-29 11:58:36 · answer #4 · answered by andyg77 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Go to the web site below for two lists of books. One is the 100 best novels as picked by the Random House editors. And the other list is the 100 best novels as picked by readers like yourself.
2007-08-29 12:01:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Get a book with all Steinbeck's short stories. They're pretty short but they're still amazing. Also if you like Fantasy maybe try The Gunslinger or The Talisman by Stephen King. They're not his normal horror stories they're more like fantasy.
2007-08-29 11:49:53 · answer #6 · answered by Tim 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Where the Red Fern Grows
It is kinda short and written on like an 8th grade level, but the best book I've ever read. Defiantly a tear-jerker.
2007-08-29 11:49:17 · answer #7 · answered by bvhjbhj 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, by Carson McCullers.
2007-08-29 11:51:19 · answer #8 · answered by Lee 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Try Anne Tyler or Jane Smiley.
2007-08-29 11:53:59 · answer #9 · answered by zen 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Life of Pi
2007-08-29 11:51:58 · answer #10 · answered by UBen564 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋