I've gotten some great suggestions so far but haven't had a chance to add all the suggestions yest. Hopefully sharing what I have will help you come up with more suggestions.
- The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien (own, have read about 5 pages)
- The Two Towers, J.R.R. Tolkien (own)
- The Return of the King, J.R.R. Tolkien (own)
- Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy (own)
- Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis
- Les Miserables, Victor Hugo (have Project Gutenberg e-text, app. 200 pages read)
- Mansfield Park, Jane Austen (own, app. 30 pages read)
- Vanity Fair, Thackeray
- Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
- Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich
- Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie (own)
- The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
- Ulysses, James Joyce
- 1984, George Orwell
- A People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn
- The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
- Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
- The Bible, (of course I have the Catholic Study Bible)
- An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith (3824)
- Origin of Species, Darwin
- The Color Purple
- What's the Matter with Kansas?, Thomas Frank
- How to Win Friends and Influence People, Carnegie
- The Entire Lemony Snicket series (I know it's more than one book)
- Man's Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl
- The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank (unabridged edition)
- I Know This Much Is True, Wally Lamb
- Madame Bovary
- In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
3 comments:
Tolkien rocks! Hugo is awesome! Rushdie? Defintely - in fact, anything by Rushdie is great. I actually made it through the Darwin, and enjoyed it.
Don't bother with Confederacy of Dunces. Everyone says it's the funniest book ever; I didn't get it. Does that make me abnormal?
Some add'l recommendations: "Replay" (Ken Grimwood); anything by T.C. Boyle; Chuck Palahniuk is also incredible - Fight Club was great, but so are "Survivor" and "Diary" and "Choke".
Wow! I'm really impressed with your list of books. Way to go!
I agree on The Kite Runner--terrific novel.
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