Great Books.. Lets hear your favorites! (page 2)

Gill

All the Harry Potter books

All Collettes books

Jane Eyre

Rebecca

Odessa File

1984

All Conan Doyles Books

H G Wells books especially the 'Time Machine'

All Arthur C. Clarkes books

All Issac Assimov's works

Midget-Sasquatch

I've been on a Medieval Times kick as of late so I liked:

the whole House of Nicolo series by Dorothy Dunnett
The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis (mostly set during the Black Death)

Others I really enjoyed:

The Count of MonteCristo
Nineteen Eighty Four
Crisis of Conscience

Fe2O3Girl

All of Kate Atkinson's novels and short stories, and most of Margaret Atwood's novels.

The Book of Ultimate Truths and, less so Raiders of the Lost Car Park by Robert Rankin.

All of the Hitchhiker books by Douglas Adams.

fairchild

The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery is definitely the greatest. I have read it many times and will read it again and again.

Anything and everything by Roald Dahl.

Mulan

My favorite book has to be "Hawaii" by James Michener. I've read it three times.

Two other books I really liked are "The Far Pavillions" and "Shadow on the Moon" by M.M. Kaye.

Carmel

"The Source"

"Muhammed and the Course of Islam"

carmel

Preston

The Glory of their Times

Survivior by Chuck Palhaniuk

Brave New World

The Nightmare Factory by Thomas Ligotti

The Sandman Series by Neil Gaiman

Alice and Wonderland and Alice's Adventures Through the Looking Glass

A People's History of the United States

Haliwell's Film Guide

Sculpting in Time by Andrei Tarkovsky

Blood Meridian

The Gospel According to Biff

New Worldly Translation

Mine would have to be in no particular order:

The Great Gatsby & Tender is the Night: F Scott Fitzgerald

Neuromancer: William Gibson

Jude The Obscure, Tess of the Durbeyvilles, The Mayor of Casterbridge: Thomas Hardy

American Psycho & Glamorama: Brett Eaton Ellis

Catcher in the Rye: JD Salinger

Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass: Lews Carroll

1984: George Orwell

Woody Allen: Complete Prose

Anything by PJ O'Rourke (I don't always agree with his politics but he is funny)

Tripods Trilogy : John Christopher (I read this as a kid and I thought it was brilliant. I can't remember much about it now)

Love In The Time Of Cholera: Gabriel Garcia Marquez

LittleToe

I wouldn't know where to start.
I'll throw a few out that I've enjoyed:

Shogun - James Clavell
Dune - Frank Herbert
What's So Amazing About Grace - Max Luccado
Ninja - Eric Van Lustbader
Who Wrote the Bible - Richard Elliot Friedman
The Celestine Prophesy - James Redfield

clementine

my favourites: rebecca daphné du maurier wuthering heights emily brontë the parfum (? I'm not sure about my translation ;-)) süskind 93 victor hugo.... the cursed kings (there again, I'm not sure about the translation...) maurice druon great ones, but there are many others....

Great Books.. Lets hear your favorites!

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