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[movybuf]

My favorite is probably "On the Road" by Jack Kreouac. The whole series including "The Dharma Bums", "Desolation Angels" and "Big Sur" is amazing.

I also like:

"The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" by Tom Wolfe
"Breakfast of Champions" by Kurt Vonnegut
"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" by Hunter Thompson
"Catch 22" by Joseph Heller
"Still Life With Woodpecker" by Tom Robbins
"Sometimes a Great Notion" by Ken Kesey
"The Jesus Mysteries" by Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy
"A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
"1984" by George Orwell

[red_devil]

My current "short" list of recommended MUST READ books. I spent many many summers sitting in my room in my beanbag with a huge stack of these books.

Non-Fiction
The GOD Delusion -by Richard Dawkins
A Brief History of Time -by Stephan Hawkings
Origin of Species -by Charles Darwin
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark -by Carl Sagan
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor -by David S. Landes

Fiction: Sci-Fi/Fantasy
The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings -by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Chronicles of Narnia series -by C.S. Lewis
The Shannara series -by Terry Brooks
The Wheel of Time series -by Robert Jordan
Dragonsong, Dragonsinger, Dragondrums (Harper Hall Trilogy) -by Ann McCaffrey
Otherlandseries -by Tad Williams
The Dark Tower series -by Stephen King
Harry Potter series -by J. K. Rowling
The Belgariad series -by David Eddings
A Wrinkle in Time -by Madeleine L'Engle
Dragonlance series -by Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman
Redwall series -by Brian Jacques
Watership Down -by Richard Adams
The Dark Is Rising series -by Susan Cooper
The Foundation series -by Issac Asimov

Fiction
The Giver -by Lois Lowry
The Mists Of Avalon -by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Jurassic Park -Michael Crichton
The Da Vinci Code -by Dan Brown
The Call of the Wild -by Jack London
Hatchet -by Gary Paulsen
The Hunt for Red October -Tom Clancy
Way of the Peaceful Warrior -by Dan Millman
Starship Troopers -by Robert Heinlein
Ender's Game -by Orson Scott Card
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -by Douglas Adams
Charlotte's Web -by E.B. White
Schindler's List -by Thomas Keneally
Where the Red Fern Grows -by Wilson Rawls

Classic Fiction
The Odyssey -by Homer
To Kill A Mocking Bird -by Harper Lee
Brave New World -by Aldous Huxley
The Catcher in the Rye -by J.D. Salinger
Hamlet -by William Shakespeare
Fahrenheit 451 -by Ray Bradbury
Inferno -by Dante Alighieri
A Midsummer Night's Dream -by William Shakespeare
Animal Farm -by George Orwell
1984 -by George Orwell
Lord of the Flies -by William Golding
The Grapes of Wrath -by John Steinbeck
Gulliver's Travels -by Jonathan Swift
Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales -by Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm
A Christmas Carol -by Charles Dickens
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland -by Lewis Carroll
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer -by Mark Twain
Moby Dick -Herman Melville

[rhinosaur]

Three Day Road: Joseph Boyden

This is an amazing story by a Canadian author for anyone interested in WWI... The story is told from a Cree perspective....it is a great read!

[blurgalurgalurga]

Iain M. Banks' science fiction books are great, especially 'Consider Phlebas,' which has recently been translated into Korean. I love the sociopathic pirate character with the nuke strapped to his heart..."when I go, you go."
I think Banks was the first place I ever saw that trick, though I've seen it ripped off since.

[GreenlightmeansGO]

I'm not sure of the dates...but I think Snow Crash (Stephenson) was written before Consider Phlebas. The big baddie in that book has a nuke set for when he dies...if I recall correctly.

I do second the Iain M. Banks vote.

[Mandinga]

Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to The Art of Long Term World Travel by Rolf Potts

[semi-fly]

[LostinKSpace]

I have read all of these books countless times, they are all easy reads but I still manage to find something new in everytime I read them. What is more important is that they all make me smile .


1) The Alchemist : Paulo Coelho
2) The Little Prince : Antoine de Saint Exup�ry's
3) Night Watch : Terry Pratchett
4) Captain Correllis Mandolin :Louis de Bernieres
5) The Solitaire Mystery :Jostein Gaarder
6) The Beach : Alex Garland
7) Adolf Hitler my part in his downfall : Spike Milligan
Candide : Voltaire
9) The Great Gatsby : F. Scott Fitzgerald

[blurgalurgalurga]

[GreenlightmeansGO]

Thanks for the correction. Wow, Banks was way ahead of the game.

[Katchafire]

Life of Pi has been mentioned several times. I also loved that book.

I'd like to add 'The Book Thief' by Markus Zusak.

It is written as if it is told by the character 'Death', and bases mostly around his 3 visits to one girl during and post WW2 Germany.
It was the first book in a long time that I enjoyed SO much I couldnt put down and read through the night to finish, and also the first book since I read 'Skallagrig' by William Horwood several years ago, that made me cry! (aww bless).

Oh, and I also really enjoyed a book called 'Nineteen Minutes' by Jodi Picoult which is about a school shooting. It switches between 4 main characters. The shooter and his mother, his 'bestfriend' Josie and her mother (who turns out to be the judge on the case).

(Great thread topic btw .. I've noted down a HEAP of books i'm going to be looking out for.)