Books
Banned Books
Submitted by bravereader on Thu, 10/08/2009 - 16:11Tags:
- The Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century has been targeted. 42 of the books on its list are noted as 'banned.' (the following is only the banned books.) I have marked with an x the ones on the list that I have read.
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald x
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D.
Guardian: 100 Books you can't live without (not reviewed)
Submitted by dashforcover on Thu, 10/08/2009 - 15:43Tags:
- Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
- The Lord of the Rings(JRR Tolkien)
- Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
- Harry Potter series (JK Rowling)
- To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
- The Bible
- Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
- Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell)
- His Dark Materials (Philip Pullman)
- Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
- Little Women (Louisa M Alcott)
- Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)
- Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
- Complete Works of Shakespeare (William Shakespeare)
- Rebecca (Daphne Du Maurier)
- The Hobbit (JRR Tolkien)
- Birdsong (Sebastian Faulks)
- Catcher in the Rye (JD Sa
Guardian's 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read: The Definitive List (not reviewed)
Submitted by dashforcover on Thu, 10/08/2009 - 15:41Tags:
- Comedy
- Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
- Money by Martin Amis
- The Information by Martin Amis
- The Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge
- According to Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge
- Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes
- A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes
- Augustus Carp, Esq.
Clone of "1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die"
Submitted by mirnaja on Thu, 10/08/2009 - 11:09Tags:
- 2000s
- Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
- Saturday – Ian McEwan
- On Beauty – Zadie Smith
- Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee
- Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson
- The Sea – John Banville
- The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble
- The Plot Against America – Philip Roth
- The Master – Colm Tóibín
- Vanishing Point – David Markson
- The Lambs of London – Peter Ackroyd
- Dining on Stones – Iain Sinclair
- Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
- Drop City – T.
Books I`ve read.
Submitted by _Iva on Wed, 10/07/2009 - 03:38Tags:
- Krešimir Pintarić - U tvom zagrljaju zaboravljam svako pretrpljeno zlo
- Frederic Beigbeder - Ljubav traje tri godine
- Krešimir Pintarić - Ljubav je sve
- Zoe Ferraris - Potraga za Nouf
Winners of the Pulitzer Price for Fiction
Submitted by hellabella on Tue, 10/06/2009 - 11:43Tags:
- 2009 Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
- 2008 Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, The by Junot Diaz
- 2007 Road, The by Cormac McCarthy
- 2006 March by Geraldine Brooks
- 2005 Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson
- 2004 The Known World by Edward P.
Clone of "1001 Books I Must Read Before I Die"
Submitted by _Iva on Sun, 10/04/2009 - 09:45Tags:
- 2000s
- Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
- Saturday – Ian McEwan
- On Beauty – Zadie Smith
- Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee
- Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson
- The Sea – John Banville
- The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble
- The Plot Against America – Philip Roth
- The Master – Colm Tóibín
- Vanishing Point – David Markson
- The Lambs of London – Peter Ackroyd
- Dining on Stones – Iain Sinclair
- Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
- Drop City – T.
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (2nd edition, 2008)
Submitted by kasenka on Sat, 10/03/2009 - 23:09Tags:
- The Thousand and One Nights . Anonymous
- The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter . Anonymous
- The Tale of Genji . Murasaki Shikibu
- Romance of the Three Kingdoms . Luó Guànzhong
- The Water Margin . Shi Nai'an & Luó Guànzhong
- The Golden Ass . Lucius Apuleius
- Tirant lo Blanc . Joanot Martorell
- La Celestina . Fernando de Rojas
- Amadis of Gaul . Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo
- The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes . Anonymous
- Gargantua and Pantagruel . François Rabelais
- The Lusiad . Luís Vaz de Camões
- Monkey: A Journey to the West . Wú Chéng'en
- Unfortunate Traveller .
Most Important Books Americans Must Read
Submitted by lukeprog on Sat, 10/03/2009 - 08:28Tags:
- Hegemony or Survival, Noam Chomsky
- Lies My Teacher Told Me, James Loewen
- Suggestions wanted!
List of Must-Read Books from My Readings
Submitted by tittleiota on Thu, 10/01/2009 - 20:58Tags:
- 1. Princess, by Jean P. Sasson
- 6. Tuesdays With Morrie, by Mitch Albom
- 18. Through The Narrow Gate, by Karen Armstrong
- 26. The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini
- 30. Buddha, by Karen Armstrong
- 32. The Crisis of Islam, by Bernard Lewis
- 33. The Patience Strong Gift Book, by Patience Strong
- 34. The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho
- 36. Muslim Woman in World Religions' Prespective, by Dr. Arifa Farid
- 37. The Life of the Last Prophet, by Yusuf Islam (formerly Cat Stevens)
- 41. Naughty Amelia Jane!, by Enid Blyton
- 46. Animal Farm, by George Orwell
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