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Post by DanQuixote on Feb 4, 2017 22:39:48 GMT
1. Un Nos Ola Leuad by Caradog Prichard (It's in Welsh and it's fucking phenomenal. It's been translated into English as One Moonlit Night if y'all are interested.)
2. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
3. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
4. Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
5. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
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Post by tobias on Feb 4, 2017 23:27:31 GMT
1. Fairy Tales (by Hermann Hesse) [german]
2. The Sorrows of Young Werther (by Johann W. Goethe) [german]
3. Beneath the Wheel (by Hermann Hesse) [german]
4. Faust I&II (by Johann W. Goethe) [german]
5. The Fall of the King (by Johannes V. Jensen) [danish]
6. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (by James Joyce) [english]
I added the 6th because otherwise people would be like: "Huh, never heard of this shit" (but also because it's a phenomenal book which is genuinly my 6th pick). They do read Beneath the Wheel in schools in Japan though and you people should know Goethe.
I'm not that well versed in english litterature and I generally prefer german litterature, thus I haven't read any of yours but one book from one of your authors in turn (Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men).
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Post by PromNightCarrie on Feb 5, 2017 0:18:45 GMT
1. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
2. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
3. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
4. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
5. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
HM: Blood Meridian, The Woman in White, Light in August, Great Expectations, The Crying of Lot 49, Les Miserables, The Stranger, Jane Eyre, and Brideshead Revisited. I love classic literature.
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Post by IceTruckDexter on Feb 5, 2017 1:07:15 GMT
1. Lord of the Flies
2. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
3. The Art of War
4. A Storm of Swords/ A Game of Thrones
5. Blood Meridian
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Post by mhynson27 on Feb 5, 2017 3:33:28 GMT
1. Gone Girl
2. The Martian
3. The Chronicles of Narnia
4. The Prestige
5. The Book Thief
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2017 4:27:20 GMT
Don't read that much, but:
1. Catcher in the Rye
2. A Storm of Swords
3. To Kill a Mockingbird
4. All Quiet on the Western Front
5. A Game of Thrones
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Post by mikediastavrone96 on Feb 5, 2017 19:17:23 GMT
1. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
2. 1984 by George Orwell
3. Fun Home by Allison Bechdel
4. Grendel by John Gardner
5. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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Post by TheAlwaysClassy on Feb 5, 2017 20:12:39 GMT
Infinite Jest
Gravity's Rainbow
Blood Meridian
The Sound and the Fury
Mason and Dixon
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Post by stephen on Feb 5, 2017 22:44:54 GMT
I don't have a definitive top five, and I don't want to just use the same authors over and over, so here are some five essential books with one work per author:
1. Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy)
2. American Tabloid (James Ellroy)
3. The Stand (Stephen King)
4. Whistle (James Jones)
5. Mason & Dixon (Thomas Pynchon)
HM: Dusklands (J.M. Coetzee), Provinces of Night (William Gay), As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner), Watership Down (Richard Adams), Lonesome Dove (Larry McMurtry), Ubik (Philip K. Dick)
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Post by taranofprydain on Feb 6, 2017 1:33:22 GMT
The Great Gatsby
Great Expectations
A Tale of Two Cities
Pride and Prejudice
Oliver twist
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2017 4:44:33 GMT
1. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
3. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
4. The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith
5. A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
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Post by ScarletDubois on Feb 7, 2017 15:14:43 GMT
In no order:
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
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Post by emmastewart on Feb 11, 2017 10:19:48 GMT
In no order: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Les Misérables by Victor Hugo The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter is incredible. I wish it had the reputation it deserves. Wuthering Heights Anna Karenina By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept - Elizabeth Smart On Beauty - Zadie Smith Love In the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
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Post by ScarletDubois on Feb 11, 2017 12:46:09 GMT
In no order: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Les Misérables by Victor Hugo The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter is incredible. I wish it had the reputation it deserves. Wuthering Heights Anna Karenina By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept - Elizabeth Smart On Beauty - Zadie Smith Love In the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez Completely agree! Nice to see so many ladies on your list, by the way. I have to check out On Beauty and Smart's book. |
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Post by themoviesinner on Feb 11, 2017 16:11:06 GMT
1. Seeing by Jose Saramago
2. Apology by Plato
3. The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
4. Homeland by R.A. Salvatore
5. The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov
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Post by Spaceman02 on Feb 11, 2017 18:42:44 GMT
Slaughterhouse-Five
Something Wicked This Way Comes
The Wasp Factory
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
The Mists of Avalon
HM: A Clockwork Orange, Never Let Me Go, The Sun Also Rises, 1Q84, The Road, It.
I wasn't sure whether to count The Iliad since it's an epic poem, and I assume you just mean novels.
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Post by no on Feb 12, 2017 1:07:53 GMT
1. Seeing by Jose Saramago 2. Apology by Plato 3. The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien 4. Homeland by R.A. Salvatore 5. The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov GOAT 🐐 |
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Post by moonman157 on Feb 12, 2017 5:27:19 GMT
1. Underworld by Don DeLillo
2. Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell
3. Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner
4. Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth
5. The Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro
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Post by speeders on Feb 14, 2017 13:15:41 GMT
The Great Gatsby
The Catcher in the Rye
East of Eden
To Kill a Mockingbird
Gone Girl
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Post by Mattsby on Feb 15, 2017 3:50:10 GMT
3. Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner One of my Top 5 favorites as well!! Read it a couple years ago for a college class and haven't stopped thinking about it since. Very dense and intricately layered... but tremendously interestingly well-written. So many unforgettable quotes. Do you think an adaptation (miniseries or feature) would work? There's a wealth of material, characters, avenues. I think in the right hands (the wrong hands being...James Franco) it could be something special. |
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Post by moonman157 on Feb 15, 2017 5:03:51 GMT
3. Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner One of my Top 5 favorites as well!! Read it a couple years ago for a college class and haven't stopped thinking about it since. Very dense and intricately layered... but tremendously interestingly well-written. So many unforgettable quotes. Do you think an adaptation (miniseries or feature) would work? There's a wealth of material, characters, avenues. I think in the right hands (the wrong hands being...James Franco) it could be something special. Despite being one of the most complicated novels of his that I've read I would say it would likely be one of the easier to adapt by someone capable. It's not as splintered by such a diffusion of perspectives in a way that would be impossible to adapt like some of his stuff (sup Sound and the Fury). I think it's also filled with some of his most intricate, gorgeous imagery that would translate beautifully to the screen. Would love to see how Sutpen's decaying mansion would be realized. |
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Post by ChairfaceC on Feb 18, 2017 7:36:30 GMT
Lord Jim, Ubik, Blood Meridian, Cities in Flight, Gormenghast, or something like that. Lord Jim is the tops though.
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Post by Schiggy on Feb 18, 2017 18:26:12 GMT
Ideally, I'd just put 5 Harry Potter books, but:
1. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (the only one I can rank, the rest in this list are in no order).
-Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
-The Catcher in the Rye
-The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
-Mr. Funnypants: A Memoir of False Starts (It's like 20 different random snippets of various books all taking place at the same time. It's hilarious enough to need to read it in private to avoid up disturbing the public).
And an honorable mention that isn't a book:
-Why I Live at the P.O. (a truly hilarious, clever, short story. It's the writing style I wish I had).
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Post by erickeitel on Feb 18, 2017 22:43:56 GMT
Inherent Vice
The Mysterious Stranger
Portnoy's Complaint
Tropic of Cancer
The World According to Garp
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2017 4:09:52 GMT
01. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
02. To Kill a Mockingbird
03. And Then There Were None
04. The Outsiders
05. Villette
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