Jujubean Posted April 26, 2010 Share Posted April 26, 2010 Any kind of fiction for any kind of reader. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ultramarine Posted May 1, 2010 Share Posted May 1, 2010 So here's my list from the thread: Kurt Vonnegut: The Sirens of Titan; Slaughterhouse-5; Cat's Cradle; Jailbird Vladimir Nabokov: Glory; The Luzhin Defence; Laughter in the Dark (Camera Obscura); Lolita John Irving: The Cider House Rules; The World According to Garp Robertson Davies: Deptford Trilogy (Fifth Business, The Manticore, World of Wonders) Iris Murdoch: The Sea, the Sea; The Unicorn; The Black Prince Julian Barnes: England, England; Staring at the Sun; Talking It Over Gabriel Garcia Marquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude and short stories Also: J.D.Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye, Franny and Zooey Umberto Eco: The Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum, Baudolino Jorge Amado: Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands; Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon; The War of the Saints Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace, Anna Karenina James Joyce: Ulysses Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwezza Posted May 5, 2010 Share Posted May 5, 2010 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller (hilarious and poignant) The Hobbit - JRR Tolkein (just an amazing story from the best imagination in fiction) The Wind In The Willows - Kenneth Grahame (English nature/Human nature The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett (gorgeous, lessons about disabilities and GARDENS!) Agnes Grey - Anne Bronte (a great, underrated book about education and just growing up) To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee (the best book on racism ever written) To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf (the central passage on time passing and her descriptions of nature make me cry) Moby Dick - Herman Melville (no lessons because it could be an allegory for literally anything, but beatiful and surprisingly funny) The Lord Of The Flies - William Golding (a lesson in childhood, morality and, animal cruelty) Macbeth - William Shakespeare (a lesson in how power corrupts) Dakota: A Novel - Martha Grimes (one of the best fiction books about man's relationship with animals) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CelenaGaia Posted June 11, 2010 Share Posted June 11, 2010 Iain Banks - "The Wasp Factory" / "The Bridge" / "The Crow Road" Anne McCaffrey - "The Rowan" and "Damia" - the rest of the "Tower and Hive" series is a bit flat, after the inital two. Jeffrey Eugenides - "The Virgin Suicides" Stephen King - "The Shining", "The Stand" and the entire "Dark Tower" series JG Ballard - just about anything this man has ever written, but in particular "High Rise" and the short-story anthology "The Fourth Dimensional Nightmare" Banana Yoshimoto - "Goodbye Tsugumi" Kazuo Ishiguro - "The Remains of the Day" Gabriel King - "The Wild Road" (if you really want to see the world through the eyes of a cat) and its sequel, "The Golden Cat" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwezza Posted June 17, 2010 Share Posted June 17, 2010 Into The Wild - Jon Krakauer Einstein's Monsters - Martin Amis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KoscheiThePianist Posted July 5, 2010 Share Posted July 5, 2010 I don't know if it has already been mentioned but I recently finished Les Miserables by Victor Hugo after going to see the musical nd I was blown away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tralajjj Posted July 24, 2010 Author Share Posted July 24, 2010 Anything by P.J.Tracy. I recommend to start with Want To Play? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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