My favorite so far (I've read most of them more than twice) - In No particular order

1) "My Sweet Orange-Tree" (José de Vasconcelos): From my high school days. Josés sweet and sour autobiography (mainly his childhood growing up in poor and rural Brazil)

2) "The Adventurous History Of Hsi Men and His Six Wives (Anonymous; english vesrion by Arthur Waley): (A wealthy man married to six women who use many tricks and lies to be Hsi Men's favorite; The youngest one, Gold Lotus is one of the greatest female caracters ever, IMHO

3)" The New York Trilogy" (Paul Auster): Everybody knows about this one

4)"Zadig" (Voltaire): A "philosophical tale" from the infamous french writer. Kinda reminds me of "Baron Of Munchhausen"... (also check 'Candid' from the same author)

5)"Robots" (Isaac Asimov) : The novels serie from which the movie "I Robot" was based upon. Basically an era when humans and Robots coexist (the Robots manily as humans servants/slaves)

6)"Black Boy" (Richard Wright): Another one from my high school program.. Yet a beautiful autobiography depicting the authors childhood in the US south somewhere in the 1920s.

7)"20.000 Thousands Leagues Under The Sea" (Jules Verne) : Captain Nemo, travelling around the world and the numerous adventures narrated by Pr Arronax, Captain Nemos guest..

8)"Philosophy In The Bedroom (Marquis de Sade): Probably the raunchiest erotic book I've ever read... A pro-libertinism manifesto with political undertones...

9)"Things Fall Apart" (Ch. Achebe)" :The story of a nigerian village during the british domination of the country. Lovely.

10)"White Teeth"- Zadie Smith

... Actually, I'm more of a science-fiction fan...
What are your favorite books?

I can't remember ten that I've read.

Ok... in no particular order:

The Hungry Caterpillar
The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Tao Te Ching
Mulamadhyamakakarika
Bear V Shark
Catch 22

That's all I can think of right now.

In no particular order:




Lord of the Flies - William Golding

Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card

Speaker for the Dead - Orson Scott Card

Childhood's End - Arhtur C. Clarke

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga

Sidhartha - Herman Hesse

The Magician's Nephew - C. S. Lewis

Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami

The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexander Dumas

FrenchGuy said:

I almost bought this book TODAY!!!!


I've never read Auster.

Going all the way back to childhood - and in no particular order...

Middlemarch - George Eliot
Persuasion - Jane Austen
Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier
Republican Party Reptile - PJ O'Rourke
Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
Peyton Place - Grace Metalious
Making History - Stephen Fry
Chocolat - Joanne Harris
Winston and Clementine: The Personal Letters of the Churchills

TheVoid said:

boo-ooh-ooh-oooh! Shame on you!!
Joking... Actually, Paul auster is a hit or miss.. He has a particular atmosphere... Existentialism, loneliness... U like it or don't. U should give him a try, though...

I LOVE to read and I've always got a book on the go. Choosing just 10 is very hard.

In no particular order.....

Ernest Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises
Alice Walker - The Color Purple
William Styron - Sophie's Choice
Lawrence Hill - The Book of Negros
Alex Haley - Roots
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Love in the Time of Cholera
Rohinton Misty - A Fine Balance
Jean M. Auel - All 5 of the "Earth's Children" series
Khalid Hosseini - A Thousand Splendid Suns
Tied are: Stephen King - IT and David Adams Richards - Mercy Among the Children
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Empress said:

I'm reading that at the moment.

Fauxie said:

I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. It hit me hard and deeply touched me. The story of the 2 main female characters is unforgettable and tragic too. The way some women have to live in this world shocks and saddens me.

Penthouse Forum
US Weekly
fortune cookies
Where's Waldo?
KRON 4 ticker
gmail
texts
Wacky Packs
Harry Potter and the Scorcerer's Stone

the bible

monster of florence

malcolm x

gone with the wind

letters from baghdad

pablo neruda (poetry books)

alexander pope-the rape of the lot

made in america-by:sam walton

the little book of freemasonry

gang war (my own book)

Genesia said:

Sexual Personae - Camille Paglia
Justine - D.A.F. de Sade
Perfume - Patrick Süskind
Decameron - Boccaccio
Odysseus - Homerus
Lord of the Rings - Tolkien
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
A rose of flesh - Jan Wolkers

Les Jeux sont faits - J.P. Sartre
(Although this is actually a play it's one of my favorite books ever)
edit: added 11th book
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Hmmmmm....my replies probably aren't as deep as some's but here you go:

1. The Bible - obviously, especially the New Testament
2. The Shack - William P. Young. Wow, this book makes me cry with joy every time I read it
3. Generation of Swine - Hunter S. Thompson. Really, almost any of Thompson's books could be listed here
4. A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle. Phenomenal book for a young reader
5. The Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum. Actually, there are many Oz books written by Baum - this was just the first. I recommend them all
6. Tom Sawyer Abroad - Mark Twain. Did you know Twain wrote FOUR Tom Sawyer books, not just the two everyone knows about? This one is great, especially the scene in the balloon where Huck refuses to believe they've left Illinois because on the one map Huck's seen, Illinois is green and the other states are pink, blue, red and yellow and Huck doesn't seen any pink, blue, red or yellow ground beneath him - only green, LOL.
7. Ball Four - Jim Bouton. The first book to tell what really goes on inside a baseball team. Awesome book
8. Welcome to the Monkey House - Kurt Vonnegut. Great collection of his best writing, IMHO.
9. Life Expectancy/Odd Thomas - Dean Koontz - I like most all of Koontz' books, but these two are my favorites. The ending of "Life Expectancy" is one of the best endings EVER
10. Christine - Stephen King. My favorite King book

MacDaddy said:

:yeathat: ... Those books are also some of my favorites... But since I had to list only 10 of them
Never gave "Perfume" a try.. I watched the movie, I found it quite boring... Everybody keeps telling its way better...

all re-read over and over

from childhood:
charlottes web-e.b white
Charlie and the chocolate factory-roald dahl
Flowers in the attic -virginia andrews
Jackie collins books dont tell my mum


Harry Potter series...jk rowling
Artemis Fowl Series..eoin colfer
His dark materials ...Philip Pullman
Bartemius trilogy-jonathan stroud


elvis cole series -robert crais

and last but not least

anything by Matthew Reilly



honourable mentions

Boy in the striped pyjamas-john boyne
Lovely bones- alice sebold
dexter books- jeff lindsey
Tell no one- harlan coben
My sisters keeper- jodi picoult

The Clay machinegun - Victor Pelevin
Life after God - Douglas Coupland
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
On The Road - Jack Keroac
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
The House of the Dead - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Cathedral - Raymond Carver
The Stranger - Camus
Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut

I love books, its my favourite hobby, when I arent here of course

TheVoid said:

Oh, these should be on my list too. Can we make it a top 20?

kimrachell said:

"I want to do with you what spring does with cherry trees"

is one of the greatest lines ever written, IMHO

TheVoid said:

thats my fav of the series

FrenchGuy said:

Forget that movie. Trust me, the book is a fantastic read.

A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
Mary, called Magdalene - Margaret George
People of the Book - Geraldine Brooks
The Red Tent - Anita Diamant
A Dirty Job - Christopher Moore
The Witching Hour - Anne Rice
Vanishing Acts - Jodi Picoult
The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
Paradise - Toni Morrison
Cry to Heaven - Anne Rice

Of Human Bondage - Somerset Maugham
A Scanner Darkly - Philip K Dick
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
Beloved - Toni Morrison
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
Up At the Villa - Somerset Maugham
The Watchmen - Alan Moore
Lord of the Rings - Tolkien
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings & Gather Together in My Name - Maya Angelou (Actually prefer the second in Angelou's books, probably because I was the same age as she was during that book).

mostbeautifulboy said:

oops... Forgot that one too! I think we'll go for a Top 20 then

the Bible
Of Mice and Men
The Great Gatsby
1984
any of the RL Stines series
The Road To Hell:The Ravging Effects of Foreign Aid to Third World Nations
Kaffir Boy:Apartaid South Africa
any book about Africa and the Dispora
Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoniex
Monster-Walter Dean Myers

and many more books to come lol i love reading

The Bible
Remembrance of Things Past - Marcel Proust
Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens
Jazz - Toni Morrison
Go Tell It on the Mountain - James Baldwin
Middle Passage - Charles R. Johnson
The Assassins: A Book of Hours - Joyce Carol Oates
The War Against Women - Marilyn French
In The Spirit Of Crazy Heart - Peter Matthiessen
Black Men (Obsolute, Single, Dangerous?) Haki R. Madhubuti

PurpleDiamond2009 said:

Oh my God, I love that book. I read it many years ago and thought it was a very moving story. I had forgotten all about it. Thanks for the reminder. I may have to dig it out and re-read it.

Genesia said:

I still think about this book all the time

Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson

any orgers read this one? Epic, exciting, and funny.

prb said:

I was sooooo pissed they didn't include Luna as the announcer during the quiddich match in the movie version.

I mean, seriously...I hadn't laughed that hard in a book in ages.


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