Great Books.. Lets hear your favorites!

by GetBusyLiving 26 Replies latest jw friends

  • Sunspot
    Sunspot

    The Dollmaker by Harriett Arnow

    The Firefox Series by Elliot Wiggington

    Ghostfox by James Houston

    Any "true crime" books

    Annie

  • Little Red Hen
    Little Red Hen

    The Captains and the Kings - Taylor Caldwell

    Confederacy of Dunces - JK Toole

    The Stand - Stephen King

    Trinity - Leon Uris (used to get funny comments from the in-laws, too bad they judge by the cover)

    almost anything by Vonnegut and Michener

    Dune and the new Dune series ~ plans within plans within plans (the original got pretty flakey)

    That short story The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

    Hanta Yo - Ruth Beebe Hill

  • funkyderek
    funkyderek

    Some of my favourites:

    Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
    A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
    The Cybergypsies by Indra Sinha
    River Out of Eden by Richard Dawkins
    A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
    Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
    A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
    The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
    Nonzero by Robert Wright
    The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy "trilogy" by Douglas Adams
    Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
    Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss
    The Curious Incident of The Dog in The Night-time by Mark Haddon
    A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
    The Cat in The Hat by Dr. Seuss
    Ulysses by James Joyce
    The Lord of The Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
    Darwin's Dangerous Idea by Daniel Dennett
    The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan
    Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
    The Virtue of Selfishness by Ayn Rand
    Generation X by Douglas Coupland
    The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie
    Job: A Comedy Of Justice by Robert A. Heinlein
    Sperm Wars by Robin Baker
    The Godfather by Mario Puzo

  • tata
    tata

    I love all five books of Harry Potter, I read about five times all and I?m desperate to read number 6.

    I have a collection of Agatha Christie, so I like it too.

    Recently I enjoy, Crisis of Conscience.

    The Da Vinci Code

    Some of James Patterson, like Suzan?s Diary, etc.

  • Peppermint
    Peppermint

    I think I am on my own here, but to me the Harry Potter books are awfull!!!

    To be fair I only read the first one...did they get better?

  • ozziepost
    ozziepost

    Ohhhhh, those books!!!

    Oh well, I really like these right now:

    • The Compulsive Spike Milligan edited by Norma Farnes
    • The Gagging of God by Don Carson

    Quite a mix, eh?

    Cheers, Ozzie

  • Lostreality
    Lostreality

    Choke - Chuck Palahniuk. Its just so intense, i love his books! He is really good at descriptions of mental anguish, and getting you to root for the anti hero!

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