Lord of the Flies by William Golding Rowling Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell Better Homes and Gardens Cookbook Fahrenheit by Ray Bradbury Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom Tolkien Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill Life of Pi by Yann Martel Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand The Secret by Rhonda Byrne Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Beloved by Toni Morrison The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck Hinton East of Eden by John Steinbeck Catch by Joseph Heller Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett Conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsch The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood Animal Farm by George Orwell Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Pirsig The Giver by Lois Lowry And Others Don't by Jim Collins The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell Lewis The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch Ulysses by James Joyce The Road by Cormac McCarthy Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame Dubner The Stranger by Albert Camus The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Its fast and easy to follow style will provide many hours of enjoyable and thoughtful entertainment for readers all ages.
Its deep philosophical implications make it a worthy mental exercise for analytical individuals interested in philosophy, metaphysics, religion, psychology, and ethics. Overall, this is a very enjoyable, entertaining, and easy to follow book which provides a banquet for thought. May 27, PM. The Time Traveler's Wife Jun 11, PM. Amy wrote: "I removed some books that were not initially published from Alias Grace If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood " if you give a mouse a cookie was my favorite book in kindergarden, 22 years ago!
Jun 17, AM. Jul 22, PM. I love this book! It is very sad, really, but with a good ending. I hate that the mother favored her sister so much and then Priscilla had to deal with that even during the depression when they had no place to live, really.
Jul 23, AM. I love Anansi Boys, and I'm really glad to see it on this list. Jul 27, AM. Aug 17, AM. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was published in Aug 19, AM.
IkraAmesta wrote: "i guess 3 of the top 5 from this list are highly overrated books. Aug 24, AM. TTTW at no 1? Sep 14, PM. Angryy0uth wrote: " Twilight and harry potter aren't overrated, its just that they largely appeal to young people in the same way that the Time travellers wife largely appeals to idiots.
Sep 21, AM. I expected to see more good read titles ie The Safe house, Nicci French. December, Elizabeth Windthrop. The Reader,Bernard Schlink. These are only a selection of my good reads. Addas new. Oct 15, PM. Wow, what a complex and complete list!
Oct 16, AM. Have just finished reading Guernica by Dave Boling. Not on this list yet. An epic read; but I wouldn't compare it with "The English Patient" It prompted me to take a better look at and appreciate Picasso's Guernica. Oct 21, AM. Oct 22, PM. There's alot, but there's not much Oct 28, AM. The Time Traveler's Wife? I have no faith in this list! Oct 28, PM. I'm just astonished Twilight is only fourth. Oct 29, AM.
Susanna wrote: "I'm just astonished Twilight is only fourth. You are evil. Nov 08, PM. Some of my favorites are on here I suspect it was added when it had an incorrect one.
Frankly, I'm too tired right now to delete it. Nov 30, PM. I love books in that genre and would love to see a list! Jan 01, AM. Great list. Jan 03, PM. Thank you, Susanna! Jan 10, PM. Mari Anne wrote: "The Red Tent was also written in the 90's. Jan 19, PM.
Loved The Red Tent! TTTW was wonderful. Mar 02, PM. A wonderfully imaginative picture of how women in Biblical times lived and felt. Mar 24, PM. James Baldwin, "Giovanni's Room" was published in the 's or 's. If you'll tell me which pages the books in question are on, I'll be happy to remove them. Giovanni's Room is , and Michael K won the Booker in Apr 06, AM. Jodi Picoult? These are some of the books that qualify as the best of the decade? Thanks but no thanks. Apr 07, AM. My favourite series is the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series!!!
They are amazing!!! The thing I love most about them is the mix of Ancient Greek mythology in modern times. I learnt more about the Greeks by reading this series than I ever did at school. They're adventurous, funny and also has a bit of romance. If you haven't read them yet, you definitely HAVE to. It won't disappoint. Jun 28, AM.
Add a reference: Book Author. Search for a book to add a reference. We take abuse seriously in our discussion boards. Only flag comments that clearly need our attention. We will not remove any content for bad language alone, or being critical of a particular book. Add books from: My Books or a Search. Read ». In fact, he was the only novelist to be on the cover of the magazine in that decade.
Like DeLillo and Gaddis, he dazzles the reader with trenchant riffs on contemporary life—everything from mood-enhancing pharmaceuticals to bisexuality to cruise-ship culture. But rather than relay his thoughts about the world through chilly rhetorical pyrotechnics or plots of mind-boggling complication, Franzen embeds them in the lives of affecting human characters.
It sounds suspiciously simple. And come to think of it, he has a case. In stuffing their books with formal gimmicks, postmodernists turned the social novel into an act of intellectual machismo and long ago showed characters the door. Can you remember the name of a single person from Underworld , other than J. Edgar Hoover? Sounds like that Literary Hub editor was right. Alice Munro, Runaway Count them all.
David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas Read this. A puzzlebox of a novel, it managed to be high brow and low brow, undeniably intellectual and deeply entertaining. Instead of trying to keep up with the Pynchons and Gaddises, who only live in the penthouse, Mitchell occupies the whole building, even the boiler room and broom closet.
And in a profile of Mitchell, Wyatt Mason wrote :. It is only his gift for making sentences, and his equally strong gift for framing characters, that enable him to play his marvelous game with narrative structure. Rachel Cusk reads the novel as being as much about art itself as it is about clones and humanity. We believe that art is immortal, and so we represent creativity as an absolute good; but in making this representation to children, are we interfering with their right to know about and accept death?
Never Let Me Go , like the clones it portrays, has in the end something of a double nature, for it both attracts and annihilates.
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