Your favourite books?

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   Digsposted 14 years ago

   Short stories by W. Somerset Maugham and the "Best American Series."  Genre covers essays, mysteries, American short stories,etc.--check it out.

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   TLMinutposted 14 years ago

   I recently read a Lee Child's book, very good. Also Pay It Forward, a kid's book I enjoyed a lot, so did my boys.
   
   I Am The Messenger sounds really good, I think I'll look for it.

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   Matt in Jaxposted 14 years ago

   I'm definitely a big fan of most Chuck Palahniuk books and books like his: dark comedies.
   I've also been on a strange book fetish of late reading good ones like "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" and "Brains: A Zombie Memoir."

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   celebritieposted 14 years ago

   Science Fiction have always been my favorite books to read, some of them include:
   
   Enders Game by Orson Scott Card
   Dune by Frank Herbert
   The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
   1984 by George Orwell
   Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
   
   These are on my list to read, have not got through them all yet.

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      Matt in Jaxposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Brave New World is a good one to read.

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   BKAONEposted 14 years ago

   In college I read everything Robert McCammon wrote.  My all-time favorite was Swan Song.  Great stuff.

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   Tanja Wanderlustposted 14 years ago

   Karl-Ove Knausgard... "Min Kamp" 1-5
   its available in norwegian, swedisch and danish.. english coming soon I hope ..and book number 6
   I cannot stop reading, I tried to describe it in a blog i am writing about him:
   extract:
   
   Why is this book so sucessful? Knausgård himself - if we accept the given reality he writes in his book to be correct - IS between delusion and self-destruction.
   
       * Sustained delusion = the girlfriend he never loved, the job that only kept him from writing, the father he condemmned, wanting to write but not being able to.
       * Self- destruction= break out from all that delusion, constraint that his delusion (= daily life) gave him.
   
   
   But is it really that easy? Was it his intention? Which parts are real and which are invented? What is truth and what is a lie.. We can never know, thats why he spellbound us all. His fight became our fight. Was that your intention Karl Ove? Who am i asking, i will never know.

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      Tanja Wanderlustposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      sorry folks, its is already available in english and called "my struggle" and in german too. In german its called "sterben"... weird translation

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   Linda Yangposted 14 years ago

   I like to read all kinds of books but my favorites are by Nora Roberts.

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   Jefacityposted 14 years ago

   Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
   Psycho-cybernetics by Maxwell maltz
   Foundation series - Issac Assimov (anything written by him is pretty good)
   Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
   1984
   World War z
   
   Just some i listed. many many more good books in the world.

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   Sara Migersposted 14 years ago

   I recommend "He liked Tuesdays best" - a story about everyday life of the Blessed John Paul II
   
   
   http://jp2books.com

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    Majesty_Jamesposted 14 years ago

    My taste is pretty wild, or just plain odd, but these are some that I've read many times over:
    The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor
    A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
    Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
    Anvil of the World by Kage Baker
    The Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
    The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
    Touch Magic by Jane Yolen
    The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler, Ed.
    Reckless by Cornelia Funke
    The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King
    Mister B. Gone by Clive Barker
    Along Came a Spider by James Patterson
    The Firm by John Grisham
    Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
    Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

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    Rage For Loveposted 14 years ago

    Secrets of the Art of Persistence by Tapiwa Chitembure.

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    Home Girlposted 14 years ago

    People who love Conan Doyle, should love George Simenon, though he is French and not contemporary and his translated into English novels sometimes sound awful even to my nonenglish ear. But the plot! Recently I've opened for myself Ruth Rendell's mysteries. Cannot have enough of it. The last one I read: "Adam and Eve and pinch me." Forget the good night sleep. I have to read everything she's created that for sure. I love mysteries.

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    ghostbreakerposted 14 years ago

    If you're not alarmed by length, War and Peace and Anna Karenina, both by Leo Tolstoy, are extremely good. They are *huge* books. I like that they're so long because it means I get a lot of book for my trouble. Tolstoy sometimes goes on long rambles about history and marriage and whatnot, but he's so astute and funny the rest of the time it's worth sticking around.
    
    For a less involved but still compelling journey, I really liked the Foundation books by Isaac Asimov for train/plane/bus reading. They're light and quick and they eat up time like it's popcorn.

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       Home Girlposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       Tolstoy is great, he is huge, he is classic in Russian Literature, but you have to read him in Russian to appreciate his masterpiece fully. He is an amazing writer. I read all his novels in highschool. Lots of sleepless nights! You can study Russian character, language and history by his novels.

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    klarawieckposted 14 years ago

    This is a real good (trust me when I say it's real good) recommendation for anyone who likes to read novels. It's called The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende. It was her first novel and it became a best seller instantly, winning a bunch of awards, etc. I highly recommended. It won't disappoint you.

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    Muldanianmanposted 14 years ago

    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes.  In fact anything with Sherlock Holmes in.  I like Sherlock Holmes.

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    Mckenposted 14 years ago

    Stieg Larsson's Millenium trilogy: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played With Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' Nest!

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       klarawieckposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       These are truly great!

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    Thelma Albertsposted 14 years ago

    Teacher Man and other Frank Mc Court´s books
    The Portrait of Durian Gray
    The Perfume
    Sorry I forgot the autor of the 2 books.

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    klarawieckposted 14 years ago

    If you want something refreshing, easy to read, and absolutely beautiful, try The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. It's a small novel, full of surprises and awesome characters, with a dash of "dreamy" and "magical" in it. You'll love it.
    
    Another great book, although a longer novel, it's Carlos Ruiz Zafon's "The Shadow of the Wind". I read it in Spanish, and met the author at the Miami Book Fair... a pretty cool guy, from Barcelona. Anyways, it is translated and the English translation flew off the shelves at Barnes and Noble. It was that much of a success. It is the second best selling book in Spanish, after Don Quixote. That should tell you something!

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    Anthea Carsonposted 14 years ago

    I love anything by Faulkner. He's not an easy read but he's worth it. Great story teller and so profound as well. Plus, as far as his difficult to understand writing goes, there are tons of resources to help you. I even found a really cool website to help me read my favorite of his books, The Sound and The Fury. This website had color coded line by line interpretations so that you could tell when the even was happening and what time in the story it referred to. Helpful when one of the major problems is that the story is told completely out of sequence.

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    KartikeyaCposted 14 years ago

    Reading Atlas Shrugged... Sounds good..

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