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What are your favorite books? (1 Viewer)

I will throw a couple Sci-Fi out there.

Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

They may show my age, but they are both very well written books.

ETA: Wow, mine are different than El Floppo!!!

 
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One of my personal favorites is 1984.  Currently reading the book that (supposedly) inspired Orwell, We, by Russian author Yevgeny Zamyatin,

 
GOAT: Divine Comedy (poem)

Classics: Great Gatsby, Anna Karenina, David Copperfield, Madame Bovary

Classics you shouldn't read unless you're a reader, then they're grrrreat: Moby ****, Les Miserables

Personal favorites: Catch-22, anything by Raymond Chandler (The Long Goodbye best), Vonnegut (favorite author by far) up to SH5

Book i most want to read but haven't: Pale Fire (because FFAppers love it so)

My best-seller guy: Thomas Harris

Most necessary books (and all great reads): Mother Night, Invisible Man, Sophie's Choice

Underrated: Lost Horizon

 
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getting into subjective favorites: 100 Years of Solitude, Sometimes a Great Notion, Absalom Absalom, Siddhartha.

I had a couple friends in gradschool who were ape#### over Pale Fire... I bought it, and never read it. I'm sure I could figure out the FFA fans if I had any reasoning ability. or memory.

 
The Count of Monte Cristo and The Lord of the Rings Trilogy are my favorites.

 
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Slaughterhouse-Five

Catch 22

Catcher in the Rye

The Kite Runner

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

To Kill a Mocking Bird

Flowers for Algernon

From the Corner of His Eye

An American Tragedy

Misery

Repairman Jack series

 
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I was just thinking that I really need to read some of the classics. Looking forward to some of those listed.

I'll add A Confederacy of Dunces, Ghost Wars, World War Z

 
I don't read too many classics but East of Eden is probably my favorite. Long but just terrific writing.

Dostoevsky is someone I've been wanting to read more but his stuff is kind of hard to get through. Fascinating but just not easy reading. Notes from Underground is his only work I've managed to get through and it was great 

 
Basic list of essentials, in the order they appeared:

The Iliad & Odyssey

One Thousand and One Nights (or The Decameron, your choice)

Divine Comedy

Paradise Lost

Madam Bovary

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

The Metamorphosis

Ulysses

The Great Gatsby

Lolita

Lost in the Funhouse 

Song of Solomon

 
yeah... still haven't made it through Ulysses.

my mom's a literature prof, and has taught it a few times- puts a ton of work into prepping whenever she does... I better get cracking while she's still around or it will never happen.

 
Restricting to novels (in no particular order).

"Literature"

Emma

Heart of Darkness

Dead Souls

Madame Bovary

Light in August

The Sun Also Rises

The Great Gatsby

The Good Soldier

The End of the Affair

Pale Fire (we can quibble if it's a novel)

American Pastoral

Midnight's Children

"Entertainments"

The Ministry of Fear

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

The Baroque Cycle

Murder on the Orient Express

 
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Other favorites: War and Peace, Madame Bovary, Tale of Two Cities, Animal Farm, The Great Gatsby, To Kill a Mockingbird, All the King's Men, For Whom the Bell Tolls.

 

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