my ultimate reading list

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   HOLLYWOODHYPEposted 14 years ago

   EAST OF EDEN John Steinbeck
   WUTHERING HEIGHTS  Emily Bronte
   TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD  Harper Lee
   THE POWER OF ONE Bryce Courtney
   SHINDLER'S ARK  Thomas Kenealey
   THE CHANT OF JIMMY BLACK SMITH  Thomas Kenealey
   THE OUTSIDERS  S.E.Hinton
   RUMBLE FISH  S.E.Hinton
   THE KITE RUNNER  Kahled Hosseini
   EXODUS; MILA 18 and QBV11  Leon Uris
   THE DIARY OF ANN FRANK  Anne Frank
   TOMORROW, WHEN THE WAR BEGAN  John Marsden
   LETTERS FROM THE INSIDE  John Marsden
   THE GREAT GATSBY  F.Scott Fitzgerald
   THE PRINCE OF TIDES  Pat Conroy
   THE AGE OF INNOCENCE  Edith Wharton
   THE ROAD  Cormac Macarthy
   A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANEY  John Irving
   THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP  John Irving
   NINETEEN MINUTES  Jodi Piccoult
   THE PACT  Jodi Piccoult
   REBECCA  Daphne Du Maurier
   CARRIE  Stephen King
   SALEM'S LOT  Stephen King
   THE DARK TOWER NOVELS 1 -7 Stephen King
   THE WOMENS ROOM  Marilyn French
   THE BLEEDING HEART  Marilyn French
   THE PANIC IN NEEDLE PARK  James Mills
   THE HORSE WHISPERER  Nicholas Sparks
   THE TRAVELLER  John Twelve Hawks
   ONE FOR THE MONEY  Janet Evanovich
   THE YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY  C.J.Koch
   THE HARRY POTTER SERIES  J. K. Rowling
   
   
   These are my earth shakers.  What are yours ?
   - Barbra-Lee -

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      lorlie6posted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Nice collection, Barbara!  I'd have to add The Grapes of Wrath and Hotel New Hampshire to your list, also Moby Dick!

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         Motown2Chitownposted 14 years agoin reply to this

         Bear with a bit of repetition.  For that, I apologize.  But, they're classics for a reason, right?
         
         To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
         East of Eden - John Steinbeck
         Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
         Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
         Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
         An Old-Fashioned Girl - Louisa May Alcott
         Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
         The Green Mile - Stephen King
         Cannery Row - John Steinbeck
         The Long Loneliness - Dorothy Day
         Life of Christ - Fulton Sheen
         The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
         Hearts in Atlantis - Stephen King
         Inheritance - Judith Michael
         The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
         An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser
         A Grief Observed - C.S. Lewis
         The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis
         The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran
         Prisoner of Birth - Jeffrey Archer
         The Stand - Stephen King
         The Thorn Birds - Colleen McCollough
         Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
         The Complete Works of Emily Dickinson
         Hamlet - William Shakespeare
         Gift from the Sea - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
         
         
         That's mine.

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   gulnazahmadposted 14 years ago

   I will add
   Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
   A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
   Tess by Thomas Hardy
   Emma by Jane Austen

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   marguaxposted 14 years ago

   Just a few off the top of my head:
   Everything is Illuminated By Jonathon Safran Foer
   Slaughterhouse Five By Kurt Vonnegut
   The World According to Garp By John Irving
   Fool by Christopher Moore
   Falls of Giants by Ken Follett
   Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer
   The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
   Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
   Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett
   Jennifer Government by Max Barry
   The Guersney Literary and Potato Peel Society By Shaefer and Burrows

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