MY Top Ten Reads: Gimme Yours

[Reigh Kaufman]

1) The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides

2) The World According To Garp - John Irving

3) To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee

4) Catch-22 - Joseph Heller

5) The Outsider/The Plague - Albert Camus

6) The Catcher In The Rye - J.D Salinger

7) Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut

8) Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis

9) In Cold Blood - Truman Capote

10) The Shipping News - E. Annie Proulx

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[areyoubeingserved]

Hmmm... interesting hope you don't mind the inclusion of a play and a childhood favourite

1. Catch-22 HELLER
2. The Outsider CAMUS
3. Waiting For Godot BECKETT
4. Catcher in the Rye SALINGER
5. Brave New World HUXLEY
6. Heart of Darkness CONRAD
7. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man JOYCE
8. Green Eggs and Ham SUESS
9. A Clockwork Orange BURGESS
10. Choke PALAHNIUK

Worst - Hannibal, HARRIS - what a reaking pile of steaming horse shit.

[SubMethod]

In no particular order

Catcher in The Rye by Salinger
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis
The Old Man and The Sea by Hemingway
The LOTR trilogy by Tolkien
On The Road by Kerouac
Cannery Row by Steinbeck
1984 by Orwell
Moby Dick by Melville
Uncle Vanya by Chekhov

I also included a play.

[Romero&Juliet]

Originally posted by areyoubeingserved

10. Choke PALAHNIUK



I couldn't get through it.. Apparently it paid off, but after chapter six or so.. (the old man/monkey thing..) I just HAD to stop... Mabye I'll pick it up again later

Books that I've read wayyyy too many times..

~Madame Bovary- Gustave Flaubert
~Sentimental Education-gustave Flaubert (I love the guy!)
~Anna Christie- Eugene O'Neil
~Any and All of Arthur Rimbaud's poetry..
~Cat and Mouse-Gunter Grass
~The Human Comedy-William Saroyan

[Morgana]

For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
Death in Venice - T. Mann
The Grandmother - B. Nemcova
All Quiet on the Western Front - E.M. Remarque
The Sufferings of Young Werther - J. W. von Goethe

Crap, a fantastic parody of Goethe's "Werther" was written by someone, but his name escapes me at the moment.


That's all I can think of right now.

[notchreturns]

Choke is quite the interesting read, no doubt. But I loved every page of it.

The Chocolate War
The Catcher in the Rye
Choke
Carrie
The Rules of Attraction
Lord of the Flies
The Hunt For Red October

[BadCoverVersion]

I'll just go with 5 of my favourites...autobiographical, plays, novels, whatever...

~Barcelona Plates - Alexei Sayle
~The Catcher in the Rye - J D Salinger
~A Kestrel for a Knave - Barry Hines
~Writing Home - Alan Bennett
~4:48 Psychosis - Sarah Kane

I haven't got the patience at the minute...Wish I could get back into the swing of reading!

[bowieee]

Ask the Dust: John Fante
Beautiful Losers Leanord Cohen
Betting on the Muse: Charles Bukowski
Tao te Ching: Lao Tzu
The Happy Hocky Family: Lane Smith
Burning your Boats The Collected short stories: Angela Carter
Immortal Unicorn: Assorted authors
The Collected works: Edgar Allen Poe
Images: David Lynch
Moby Dick: Herman Melville

[spacemonkey]

10- Starship Troopers - Heinlein

9- Dune - Frank Herbert

8- Children of Dune - Frank Herbert

7- Red Dragon - Thomas Harris

6- Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris

5- Invisible Monsters - Chuck Pahlaniuk

4- Fight Club - Chuck Pahlaniuk

3- High Fidelity - Nick Hornby

2- Requiem for a Dream

1- Survivor - Chuck Pahlaniuk

[Grebdron]

To Kill a Mockingbird-Harper Lee
The Stand-Stephen King
Watchers-Dean Koontz
All of the Spenser novels-Robert B. Parker
Brotherhood of the Rose-David Morrell
The World According to Garp-John Irving
The Great Santini-Pat Conroy
Fraternity of the Stone-David Morrell
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest-Ken Kesey
All of the Matthew Scudder detective novels-Lawrence Block

[scottish-movie-freak]

(1) K-Pax- Gene Brewer
(2) K-Pax 2: On A Beam Of Light- Gene Brewer
(3) K-Pax 3: The Worlds Of Prot
(4) The Rules Of Attraction- Brett Easton Ellis
(5) Bully- Jim Schutze
(6) The Mothman Prophecies- John Keel
(7) Prozac Nation- Elizabeth Wurtzel
(8) How To Be Good- Nich Hornby
(9) The Hole- Guy Burt
(10) Possession- A.S Byatt

[Annie Hall]

-Catcher in the Rye-Salinger
-A Widow for One Year-Irving
-The World According to Garp-Irving
-A Prayer for Owen Meany-Irving
-Of Mice and Men-Steinbeck
-The Complete Works of Neil Simon
-Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban-Rowling
-The Phantom Tollbooth-Juster
-Matilda-Dahl
-The Remains of the Day
...eep....-To Kill a Mockingbird

[EdibleCannibalX]

weaveworld-clive barker
IT-stephen king
Damnation game-clive barker
clockwork orange-anthony burgess
Alice in wonderland-lewis carroll
Fear and loathing in las vegas-hunter thompson
The great and secret show-clive barker
pet semetary-stephen king
Animal farm-george orwell
The complete tales and poems- EA Poe