Books
Guardian's 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read: The Definitive List
Submitted by marslike on Mon, 08/24/2009 - 00:25- 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.
Books To Read For NaNo '09
Submitted by ArizhelKaltak on Sun, 08/23/2009 - 12:14Tags:
- Psychiatric Hosptials:
- One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
MY 2009 READING JOURNAL
Submitted by lbhick on Sun, 08/23/2009 - 09:18Tags:
These are the books I've read in 2009!
- 1. Cross Country by James Patterson
- 2. Gundel's Hungarian Cookbook by CORVINA/BUDAPEST
- 3. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: A Novel by David Wroblewski
- 4. The Brass Verdict (Mickey Haller, #2) by Michael Connelly
- 5. The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters, Volume 1 by Gordon Dahlquis
- 6. Interred with Their Bones by Jennifer Lee Carrell
- 7. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
- 8. The Shack by William P. Young
- 9. A Mercy by Toni Morrison
- 10.
Clone of The Observer's "100 Greatest Novels of All Time" List
Submitted by thevex on Sun, 08/23/2009 - 01:00Tags:
- Don Quixote - Miguel De Cervantes
- The Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan
- Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
- Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
- Tom Jones - Henry Fielding
- Clarissa - Samuel Richardson
- Tristram Shandy - Laurence Sterne
- Dangerous Liaisons - Pierre Choderlos De Laclos
- Emma - Jane Austen
- Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
- Nightmare Abbey - Thomas Love
- The Black Sheep - Honore De Balzac
- The Charterhouse of Parma - Stendhal
- The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
- Sybil - Benjamin Disraeli
- David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
- Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
- Jane Eyre - Charlo
Clone of Modern Library's 100 Greatest English-Language Novels of the 20th Century
Submitted by thevex on Sun, 08/23/2009 - 00:40Tags:
- ULYSSES by James Joyce
- THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce
- LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov
- BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley
- THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner
- CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller
- DARKNESS AT NOON by Arthur Koestler
- SONS AND LOVERS by D.H.
Clone of "1001 books you have to read before ..."
Submitted by Chrzano on Sat, 08/22/2009 - 01:41Tags:
- * 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 You Should Read If You Want To Consider Yourself Well-Read
Submitted by PottersClayNH on Fri, 08/21/2009 - 20:39Tags:
- The $30,000 Bequest And Other Stories by Mark Twain (1906)
- Abramham Lincoln by Benjamin Thomas (1952)
- Absalom, Absalom!
Clone of The Blue Pyramid Book List (or: The 1,041 Best Books of All-Time)
Submitted by PottersClayNH on Fri, 08/21/2009 - 20:33Tags:
- To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
- Hamlet – William Shakespeare
- 1984 – George Orwell
- The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
- Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
- One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- The Fellowship of the Ring – J.R.R. Tolkien
- Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
- The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
- Ender's Game – Orson Scott Card
- The Return of the King – J.R.R.
Books Read in 2009
Submitted by efoja87 on Wed, 08/19/2009 - 14:47Tags:
- Alexandre Dumas, fils - The Lady of the Camellias (1848) [7,5]
- Maxim Gorky - The Mother (1907) [7]
- Jules Verne - The Begum's Millions (1879) [7,5]
- Jules Verne - The Purchase of the North Pole (1890) [6,5]
Dick Meyer's 100 Years, 100 Novels, One List
Submitted by jccarter25 on Wed, 08/19/2009 - 14:42- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
- The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
- Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
- Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
- The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
- Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner
- Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
- Humboldt's Gift, Saul Bellow
- A Passage to India, E.M. Forster
- To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
- U.S.A.
