books on your to read list.

[TheTerminator]

Reverend Ralph Abernathy - And the Walls Came Tumbling Down

Alfred Bester
The Computer Connection
The Demolished Man [won the very first Hugo Award for best novel.]
The Stars My Destination

Brock, Ann Graham. Mary Magdalene, The First Apostle: The Struggle for Authority. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003.

The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins

 

[Vanilla]

Jeeze, this would be a really long list lol! I would have to say the very next one I want to read is Angels and Demons.....then who knows!

 

[sparkchaser]

Jeeze, this would be a really long list lol! I would have to say the very next one I want to read is Angels and Demons.....then who knows!

My humble suggestion is to pick something else.

 

[St. Stephen]

- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
- Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
- Farenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
- Blue Like Jazz - Donald Miller
- Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
- Tortilla Flat - John Steinbeck
- Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
- Silent Spring - Rachel Carson
- East of Eden - John Steinbeck
- The Beatiful and the Damned - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Amerika - Franz Kafka
- Everything by Vonnegut
- Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
- The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
- Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Death of a Salesman - D.H. Lawrence
- In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
- Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger
- War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
- The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Ulysses - James Joyce
- Run With the Hunted: Charles Bukowski Reader, A. - Charles Bukwoski
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche
- The Stand - Stephen King
- As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
- Tarantula - Bob Dylan
- On the Road - Jack Kerouac
- The Road - Cormac McCarthy

 

[BeerWench13]

My ever-lengthening list in no particular order:

The Library of Greek Mythology - Apollodorus (currently reading)
20th Century Ghosts - Joe Hill (acquired but not read yet)
Heart Shaped Box - Joe Hill
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde (reread)
The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde (reread)
Bite - Laurell K Hamilton
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (acquired but not read yet)
Emma - Jane Austen (acquired but not read yet)
Offspring - Jack Ketchum (acquired but not read yet)
The Girl Next Door - Jack Ketchum
Lost - Gregory Maguire (acquired but not read yet)
Mirror, Mirror - Gregory Maguire (acquired but not read yet)
What-The-Dickens - Gregory Maguire
The Dream Stealer - Gregory Maguire
Tartuffe and Other Plays - Moliere (reread)
Travels in France and Italy - Tobias Smollett
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Edward Gibbon
North and South - John Jakes
Love and War - John Jakes
Heaven and Hell - John Jakes
I am Legend - Richard Matheson
Ghost Story - Peter Straub
Swan Song - Robert McCammon
Crimson Orgy - Austin Williams
The Carpathians series - Christine Feehan
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (reread)
The Complete World of Greek Mythology - Richard Buxton
The Farseer trilogy - Robin Hobb
The Princess Bride - William Goldman
Anna and the King of Siam - Margaret Landon
The Nature of Alexander - Mary Renault
The Last of the Wine - Mary Renault
The King Must Die - Mary Renault
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
1001 Nights of Snowfall - Bill Willingham
Duma Key - Stephen King
Blaze - Stephen King
The Black Jewels trilogy - Anne Bishop
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel - Jerome K. Jerome
John Dies at the End - David Wong
The Art of War - Sun Tzu
The Crimson Petal and the White - Michael Faber
Slammerkin - Emma Donaghue
Kolak of the Werebeasts - Adam Pfeffer
Lady Chatterley's Lover - D.H. Lawrence
Sanctuary - William Faulkner
Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
Tropic of Capricorn - Henry Miller
The Witches - Roald Dahl
Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
A Song of Ice and Fire series - George R.R. Martin
Morality Play - Barry Unsworth
The Outsider - Albert Camus
Kushiel's Legacy series -Jacqueline Carey
The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - Tom Stoppard
Dracula - Bram Stoker (reread)
The Eight - Katherine Neville
The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
Eurpides series - Euripides
Sophocles series - Sophocles
Aeschylus series - Aeschylus
Plutarch's Lives series - Plutarch
1984 - George Orwell
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (reread)
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Grendel - John Gardner
Beowulf - Anonymous (reread)
Gilgamesh - Stephen Mitchell
Lymond Chronicles series - Dorothy Dunnett (have read the first of the series so far)

 

[HPMelmoth]

in order:

Necroscope: Invaders - Brian Lumley
The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo
The Dragon Syndicates - Martin Booth
Weird Tales compilation
The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
The Iliad - Homer (Robert Fagles translation)
Usher's Passing - Robert McCammon
Ilium - Dan Simmons

 

[BeerWench13]

The Iliad (and The Odyssey) are two of my all-time favorite works. I hope you enjoy them.

 

[Anamnesis]

Heart-Sick by Chelsea Cain

The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart

Blood Rites: The Dresden Files #6 by Jim Butcher

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Wuthering Heights by Anne Bronte

I have the feeling I left out a few titles . . .

 

[hockeycop]

There are too many to list, but here are the absolute minimum books to read before I die:

The Divine Comedy
Pride and Prejudice
Wuthering Heights
The Red Badge of Courage
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Great Gatsby
The Bible
The Odyssey
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Prince
Paradise Lost
Animal Farm
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Treasure Island
Frankenstein
A Journey to the Center of the Earth
Ben Hur
The invisible Man
All Dickens novels
All Hemingway novels
All Steinbeck novels
2001 A Space Odyssey
The Origin of Species
The Three Musketeers

 

[joderu95]

Watership Down - Richard Adams
Last and First Men - Olaf Stapledon
The Looming Tower - Lawrence Wright
Homage To Catalonia - George Orwell
Canery Row - John Steinbeck
Gormenghast Trilogy - Mervyn Peake
Naked Came The Manatee - Carl Hiaasen et al.
The Indian Lawyer - James Welch
The Known World - Edward P. Jones

 

[HermioneWeasley]

There are too many to list, but here are the absolute minimum books to read before I die:

The Divine Comedy
Pride and Prejudice
Wuthering Heights
The Red Badge of Courage
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Great Gatsby
The Bible
The Odyssey
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Prince
Paradise Lost
Animal Farm
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Treasure Island
Frankenstein
A Journey to the Center of the Earth
Ben Hur
The invisible Man
All Dickens novels
All Hemingway novels
All Steinbeck novels
2001 A Space Odyssey
The Origin of Species
The Three Musketeers

Start with the three musketeers...it's one of my favorite books, and a great one too. And try other Dumas as well.

The fact that I"ve read a lot of those makes me feel better about how little I've read...

 

[helgi]

Start with the three musketeers...it's one of my favorite books, and a great one too. And try other Dumas as well.

The fact that I"ve read a lot of those makes me feel better about how little I've read...

dude you've got to change your avatar more than anyone else here

 

[hockeycop]

Start with the three musketeers...it's one of my favorite books, and a great one too. And try other Dumas as well.

The fact that I"ve read a lot of those makes me feel better about how little I've read...

Black Tulip and The Man in the Iron Mask are another two by Dumas I want to read.

 

[Gracie61]

Really too long to write it down. An american on-line friend gave me a books-record-notes and I use it every time I hear about a book I want to read, and then I update the list as soon as I read the book.....

 

[HermioneWeasley]

Black Tulip and The Man in the Iron Mask are another two by Dumas I want to read.

The Man in the Iron Mask is the last part of 10 years after, which is the sequel to 20 years after, which is the sequel to the Three Musketeers. I suppose you could read Iron Mask without the sequels, but I wouldn't suggest it.

 

[sparkchaser]

The Man in the Iron Mask is the last part of 10 years after, which is the sequel to 20 years after, which is the sequel to the Three Musketeers. I suppose you could read Iron Mask without the sequels, but I wouldn't suggest it.

I had no idea the books were related.

In your opinion, what is the preferred reading order AND translations?

 

[Robert]

There are too many to list, so here is the top ten:

The Day the Cowboys Quit by Elmer Kelton
This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind by Ivan Doig
To Glory We Steer by Alexander Kent
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
Dreams of My Russian Summers by Andrey Makine
Ramage and the Guillotine by Dudley Pope
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
Man of the Forest by Zane Grey
Dark Rivers of the Heart by Dean Koontz
The Man Without a Country by Edward Everett Hale

Note: This list is subject to change.

 

[HermioneWeasley]

I had no idea the books were related.

In your opinion, what is the preferred reading order AND translations?

I prefer the translations published by Oxford World's Classics, translated by David Coward - they have good notes, and the translation is good(if you must read a translation, that is). I prefer to read things in the order they are in a series, so I would suggests:
1.The Three Musketeers
2.Twenty Years After
3.10 Years After, in 3 parts:
1. Le Vicomte de Bragelonne
2.Louise de la Valliere
3.the Man in the Iron Mask

All his other books can pretty much be read in any order.

 

[butterflyer246]

All the Stephen King! I hopefully get through them all. Ive heard good things! Im looking to get scared! We will see.

 

[sparkchaser]

I prefer the translations published by Oxford World's Classics, translated by David Coward - they have good notes, and the translation is good(if you must read a translation, that is). I prefer to read things in the order they are in a series, so I would suggests:
1.The Three Musketeers
2.Twenty Years After
3.10 Years After, in 3 parts:
1. Le Vicomte de Bragelonne
2.Louise de la Valliere
3.the Man in the Iron Mask

All his other books can pretty much be read in any order.

Thanks a lot!