Good Books to Read?

[himitsuda]

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I've just finished reading "Good Omens" (Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman) for about the 10th time, so I feel obligated to recommend that. Also "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy".

In the realm of short stories, I've been obsessed with Joyce Carol Oates, and she has so many to choose from. As for her books, I'm currently reading "My Sister, My Love" and enjoying it so far.

 

[MisterFutu]

Dune by Frank Herbert (a legendary science fiction) - Audiobook
Hitch Hikers Guide to the galaxy - Audiobook
Gantz(the finished japanese manga)
Parasyte(the finishedjapanese manga or it's very similar anime)
1984 and Brave New World
Sidhartha by Herman Hesse - Audiobook
English Standard Version, Bible(if not for belief, a great literature that has captured many of the world)
Sandman the entire graphic novel
Superman the Red Son completed graphic novel
21st century boys(finished japanese manga)
Claymore(the finished japanese manga)

 

[Pusheen]

books I'm currently reading for fun
Kite Runner + A Thousand Splendid Suns (historical fiction set in Middle East in recent years)
The Center Cannot Hold (mental health/schizophrenia)
Guns, Germs, and Steel (history/anthropology)

 

[Cotterpin]

I'm reading Gravity's Rainbow right now and I'm not too far into it but there are lots of interesting references to psychology and classical conditioning so far.

 

[NotWayneBrady]

Quantum and the Lotus.

 

[WildZoo]

I don't know if anyone had popped in and posted this yet, but we made a 100 must-read book list thread over in the lounge, this is the list we ended up with

1. The Stand - Stephen King
2. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
3. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
4. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
5. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
6. The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss
7. Pride & Prejudice - Jane Austen
8. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
9. Maus - Art Spiegelman
10. The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. LeGuin
11. The Night in Question - Tobias Wolff
12. Fun Home - Alison Bechdel
13. Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi
14. Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
15. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
16. Battle Royale - Koushun Takami
17. White Noise - Don DeLillo
18. Dracula - Bram Stoker
19. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
20. To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
21. The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
22. 1984 - George Orwell
23. The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury
24. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
25. The Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle
26. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
27. Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
28. The Bible
29. Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
30. Hamlet- Shakespeare
31. Paradise Lost- John Milton
32. A Confederacy of Dunces- John Kennedy Toole
33. Animal Farm- George Orwell
34. Flowers for Algernon- Daniel Keyes
35. The Brothers Karamazov- Fyodor Dostoevsky
36. Main Street- Sinclair Lewis
37. Ulysses- James Joyce
38. Catch 22- James Heller
39. In Search of Lost Time- Marcel Proust
40. Middlemarch- George Eliot
41. The Divine Comedy- Dante
42. Heart of Darkness- Joseph Conrad
    
43. Slaughterhouse five - Kurt Vonnegut
44. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
    
45. Candide - Voltaire
    
46. The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
47. Color Purple - Alice Walker
48. Crucible - Arthur Miller
49. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
    
50. Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom
51. Helmet for my Pillow - Robert Leckie
52. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
53. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
54. Lolita - Nabokov
55. Don Quixote - Miguel Cervantes
    
56. Cosmos - Carl Sagan
    
57. The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
    
58. Technological Slavery - Ted Kaczynski
    
59. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
    
60. We - Yevgeny Zamyatin
    
61. Lord of the Flies - William Goulding
    
62. War of Worlds - H.G. Wells
    
63. The Bean Trees - Barbara Kingsolver
64. The Trial - Kafka
65. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
66. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
67. The Stranger - Albert Camus
68. Metamorphoses - Ovid
69. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
70. Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
71. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
72. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
73. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
74. Art of War - Sun Tzu
75. Jane Erye - Charlotte Bronte
    
76. Freakonomics - Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubiner
77. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
78. As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
    
79. Metamorphosis - Kafka
80. The Prince - Machiavelli
    
81. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
    
82. War and Peace- Leo Tolstoy
    
83. Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
    
84. A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking
85. The Giver - Lois Lowry
86. House of Leaves - Mark Danielewski
    
87. The Complete Tales & Poems - Edgar Allan Poe
88. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
    
89. The Odyssey - Homer
90. The Iliad - Homer
91. Native Son - Richard Wright
92. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat - Oliver Sacks
93. Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
94. Gone With the Wind -Margaret Mitchell
    
95. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
    
96. The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
97. Walden - H. D. Thoreau
98. Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt
99. Dune - Frank Herbert
100. Light in August - William Faulker

 

[Cotterpin]

I don't know if anyone had popped in and posted this yet, but we made a 100 must-read book list thread over in the lounge, this is the list we ended up with

Is that list supposed to be in a particular order?!

Also, I hope House of Leaves was written correctly on the original thread.

 

[WildZoo]

Is that list supposed to be in a particular order?!

Also, I hope House of Leaves was written correctly on the original thread.

Nope, just the order they were added in (based on initial suggestion plus at least 2 additional votes), not ranked or anything.

I hope it was too, I'll be very embarrassed if it wasn't

 

[Throwaway692015]

Intern. The old one is amazing.

Heart of a doctor.

What your brain wants and why you should do the opposite. Cool book on neuroscience

 

[NotaCop]

I've just finished reading "Good Omens" (Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman) for about the 10th time, so I feel obligated to recommend that. Also "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy".

In the realm of short stories, I've been obsessed with Joyce Carol Oates, and she has so many to choose from. As for her books, I'm currently reading "My Sister, My Love" and enjoying it so far.

Neil's daughter is a friend of mine, never read his stuff but he's a really cool guy to talk to so I'd echo the recommendation