Im Looking for fav. books (any and all)

[butterflyer246]

I really like fantasy like Harry potter, but I'm looking for all books.

Please let me know of all and any book that you would read a hundred times!
Yes, I would love to have a list of books that I just HAVE to read before I die! Or that I have to run out and get right now! Please tell me about some books and why you like them so much!

Thanks for all your help!

 

[joderu95]

Tarzan of the Apes - Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Chosen - Chaim Potok
The Odyssey - Homer
Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
Dune - Frank Herbert
The Book of the Dun Cow - Walter Wangerin, Jr.
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
Fools Crow - James Welch
The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
The Island - Peter Benchley

 

[BeerWench13]

Firstly, let me say that I reread very few books. There are just too many books that I have yet to read and not enough time to get to them all. However, I will happily list a few of my favorites.


Anything by Edgar Allan Poe, but especially The Masque of the Red Death
Anything by Shakespeare (tough reading for most though)
The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
The Drakon Series by Shana Abe (The Smoke Theif, The Dream Thief and Queen of the Dragons)
Faust by Goethe
Dracula by Bram Stoker
IT by Stephen King
The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King
The Shining by Stephen King
Tao Te Ching by Lao-Tse
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Intensity by Dean Koontz
The Queen's Fool by Phillippa Gregory

There are many, many, many others that don't immediately come to mind, but these are a few of my favorites.

 

[Canker]

King "The Stand"
Koontz "Watchers" and "Twilight Eyes"
McCammon "Swan Song" and "The Wolf's Hour"

Lumley's Necroscope series is my favorite series so far although Martin's Song of Ice and Fire could pass it if he ever gets off his fat ass and finishes it.

 

[angelina]

Hey!! I love Harry Potter, too!! I read the books over and over again when I get the chance to.

The best reads which I remember are Da Vinci Code, Lord of the Flies, Gossip Girls and Princess Diaries.

 

[Isabell]

The Historian

 

[Wells83]

Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell

Helter Skelter, Vincent Bugliosi

In Cold Blood, Truman Capote

Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy

Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

Emma, Jane Austen

Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen

Rebecca, Daphne Du Maurier

The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood

The Awakening, Kate Chopin

The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton

Lolita, Vladimir Nabakov

The Secret History, Donna Tartt

 

[butterflyer246]

Thanks everyone!

 

[silverseason]

Three very long ones:

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Bleak House by Charles Dickens

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Each will create a place and a time and a set of characters you won't want to leave.

 

[arnuld]

Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance -- Robert M. Pirsig
The man who sold the moon -- Robert A. Heinlein
Free Software, Free Society -- Richard M. Stallman


Don't ask me Why I read them. Read them and you will know. You can search the forums and know what kind of thinking I have and see if you feel the same way. BTW, before sparkchaser dwells in, I will say he will always read this book:

DUNE -- Frank Herbert