walking the bible, a journey by land through the five books of moses bruce feiler
alices adventures in woderland & alices adventures through the looking glass - lewis carroll
the land of laughs - johnathon carroll
the hichhikers guide to the galaxy series - douglas adams
good omens - neil gaiman and terry pratchett
An Essay on Morals
Opus 21
both by Phillip Wylie
Tropic of Capricorn
Tropic of Cancer
The Rosy Crucifixion
all three by Henry Miller
Faust by Goethe
Ulysses by James Joyce
A Christmas Carol
Oliver Twist
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
I fudged the rules a bit. Hope nobody minds.
1. Middlemarch...George Eliot
2.Most all of Charles Dickens ( read the complete works going through a divorce...that and every book on art history I could get my hands on!)
3.Reynolds Price...his trilogy is my favorite...can't remember the titles right now.
4.Cold Mountain...Charles Frazier
5.Pride and Prejudice
And that's just fiction...non-fiction is a long list!
How in the world does one reduce a lifetime of reading to just five books? That, I'm afraid, is beyond me. I can give it a try, but I won't follow the established rules here.
The Bible -- various authors
All of Shakespeare's works
Anything by Mark Twain
Cat's Cradle (and a few others) by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Catch 22 (and nothing else) by Joseph Heller
That omits all of Dickens, Poe, Hemingway, Oscar Wilde, Dostoevsky and a couple of dozen other writers who should be, at least, cannonized if not deified.
I'm sorry I got lossoed into this.
5 books
Merry Andrew, I forgot about Kurt Vonnegut and Heller's "Catch 22"! I agree...this could go on and on and on.....!!!!
Hunger - Knut Hamsun
The Mismeasure of Man - Stephen J. Gould
Solaris- Stanislaw Lem
Quarantine - Greg Egan
The Adventures of Feluda - Satyajit Ray
Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Fear Nothing - Koontz
The Howling - Forgot the author
Infinity's Shore
Harry Potter series (esp. the latest Half Blood Prince)
There are to many, So I will try to whittle this down a bit.
Songs of the Humpback Whale - Jodi Picoult
The Wedding - Nicholas Sparks
Nights in Rodanthe - Nicholas Sparks
The Diamond Throne - David Eddings
The Ruby Knight - David Eddings
I'm just gonna list the authors...
Twain...of course
Bruce Catton
Shelby Foote
O'Henry
Pearl S. Buck
Stephen Ambrose
Nice to see this thread revived! For me (off the top of my head and being reminded by what others chose):
"Great Expectations" (Dickens)
"Libra" (Don DeLillo)
"Dog of the South" (Charles Portis)
"Children of Dynmouth (Wm. Trevor)
"The Crying of Lot 49" (Thos. Pynchon)
Okay it's really late and read a lot of books but here's my favourites that I can think of right now:
(in no particular oder)
1. The Poisonwood bible- Babara Kingslover
2. Fierce Invalids home from hot climates- Tom Robbins (like him)
3. The God of small things- Arundhati Roy
4. Easy Riders Raging Bulls- Peter Biskind
5. Widow Basquiat- Author i forget but beautiful haunting book about Jean Michel Basquiat (the artist) and his long time girlfriend and muse, Suzzane Malouk.
