10 books to read in one's lifetime?

[dyzfunk]

What are the 10 books a person MUST read in his lifetime???

[MarlaSinger]

Toughie... my brain is going like fiction or non-fiction? hehe

Okay i'll try... here's my list... these are ten books I've read and after the experience I can't get the characters or the storyline off my head. Some are amusing, amazing, intense, feel-good, inspiring, fresh, tragic, ambitious work with addictive characters, engaging wit... okay so I sound like a book jacket! but if you get your hands on a copy, take a chance and enjoy the ride

The World According to Garp by John Irving
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie
Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk
The Girl with Botticelli Eyes by Herbert Lieberman
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis

[*keyah*]

This is my list. These are the books that made an impact in my life after I read them.

The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint Exupery
The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Little Women by Louissa Alcott
Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantsakis
Meditations by I forgot
Jude by Thomas Hardy
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

[*keyah*]

Dagdag ko lang...

Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt.

Actually, napanuod ko lang *** movie kahapon sa Cinemax eh. Pero they said it was really loyal to the book.

[reykjavik]

In one's lifetime? that's a big ask but here's my pick, or some of them at least:

A Room of One's own-Virginia Woolf

One HUndred Years of Solitude- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Pride and Prejudice-Jane Austen-(her sense of humor and irony is topknotch and this is perhaps her finest example of it).

Anything by Karl Marx- Communism might not have worked but his ideas still hold in other areas of life-sociology, economics,etc..

Ulysses by James Joyce-the stream of consciousness style might not be easy for some to go with but it is really worth it.

Portrait of a Lady- Henry James

[Whirrled]

1) The Neverending Story by Michael Ende

2) The Hobbit + the Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien
(oki oki, I know it's technically 7 books)

3) The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint Exupery

4) 1984 by George Orwell (plus Animal Farm as its intro)

5) The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

6) The Divine Comedy by Dante
(yes, I know that this is another trilogy so I've exceeded the required number of books by 9 already)

7) Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare

8) The Chocolate War by R. Cormier

9) Aesop's Fables by Aesop

10) Sophie's World by Jostein Gaardner

[bing_gon]

Only 10? Now, that is hard. I have to wrack my brain for the best. Hmmn..... lets see.


1. The Little Prince - by Exupery
2. Sophie's World - Jostein Gaardner
3. To Kill a Mockingbird - Lee Harper
4. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
5. Collection of Poetry by- Pablo Neruda
6. Twisted - Jessica Zafra
7. Paradise Lost, Paradise Gain - Milton
8. God this is Anna - Robert Flynn
9. Man's Search for Meaning - Victor Frankl
10. Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger

there's more but since you only ask 10.....

[darby]

To kill a mocking bird - harper lee
catcher in the rye - j.d salinger
One hundred years of solitude - gabriel garcia marquez
neverwhere - neil gaiman
It - stephen king
tuesdays with morrie- mitch albom
The god of small things -arundhati rhoy(spell?)
the joy luck club- amy tan
the alchemist - paolo coelho
harry potter series - j.k rowling
lord of the rings trilogy- tolkien

[CaRaMBa]

Wow, this is tough. For now, ito muna.

Tuesdays with Morrie
The Little Prince
To Kill A Mockingbird

[vans]

from the author of The English Patient.
two highly recomended novel...

The Collected Works Of Billy The Kid - Super ganda you can feel the heat of the blasted landscape and life of the legend Billy The Kid. a MUST for all Urban Diggers..

Coming Through Slaughter - Your not A musician if you havent heard of The King Buddy Bolden...he started it all...warning it could braek your heart...Punks not dead!!!

[carrotcake]

Wow. I'm an Anglo-American Literature major and I've read (or was forced to read) lots of books. Pero, I'm not canonical, kaya ito ang choices ko:

In no particular order
- Pride and Prejudice- Austen
-Vanity Fair- Thackeray
- The Mayor of Casterbridge- Hardy
- Mrs. Dalloway- Woolf
- Dubliners- Joyce
- Jane Eyre- C. Bronte
- 1984- Orwell
- Lord of the Flies- Golding
- Waiting for Godot- Becket
- The Importance of Being Ernest- Wilde
(in play form yung last two, but oh well)

[mastercat]

In no particular order:

* THE STAND - Stephen King
* BROCA'S BRAIN - Carl Sagan
* LORD OF THE FLIES - William Golding
* TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD - Harper Lee
* DUNE - Frank Herbert
* ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW, I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN
- Robert Fulghum
* GERMINAL - Emile Zola
* THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH - Ken Follett
* ANIMAL FARM - George Orwell
* any good poetry book

[purple_madness]

itongmga na-mention na, di na kasali sa 10 books ko
[list=1][*]the little prince - antoine de saint-exupery[*]the world according to garp - irving wallce[*]tuesdays with morrie - mitch albom[*]animal farm - george orwell[*] pablo neruda's poems[*] romeo and juliet - william shakespeare[/list=1]

ito yung list ko:
[list=1][*]zen buddhism - allan w. watts[*]the prophet - kahlil gibran[*]the godfather - mario puzo[*]guess how much i love you - sam mcbratney[*]thorn birds - colleen mccullough[*]wuthering heights - emily brontë[*]pugad baboy/calvin and hobbes/archie comics (at least one of these three)[*]griffin and sabine[*]hope for the flowers - trina paulus[*]great political theories - michael curtis (?)[/list=1]

[riCannabis]

Pwede ba 3 lang muna? I'm a young person . . . haven't read everything you know Anyway, so far, here's my list which I believe people must read:

1) STONES FROM THE RIVER -Ursula Hegi
2) CATCHER IN THE RYE- JD Salinger
3) THE BEAT BOOK

I like a lot of books but not worthy to be in the top 10, like Lourd de Veyra's Subterranean Thought Parade (poetry) or even The Vampire Chronicles of Anne Rice. I'll post more soon.

bing_gon Pretty cool you appreciate Milton's Paradise Lost. Had a great time reading that one too. But it was really difficult. I even had to make myself sing some of the lines just so I can internalize them. hehehe


MarlaSinger I've been reading Rushdie's The Ground Beneath Her Feet for months and I still can't finish the thing! I believe that when you finish even just one Rushdie, you will find the rest of his works easy.

[veruca]

ten books?

1. LOTR trilogy - Tolkien
2. Anne of Green Gables series - L.M. Montgomery
3. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
4. Like water for chocolate - forgot her name
5. Thomas Covenant Chronicles - Stephen Donaldson
6. Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis
7. Trip to Quiapo - Ricky Lee
8. Solitaire Mystery - Jostein Gaardner
9. An X-men comic book (okay, okay, but it's still reading material, right?!)
10. Kudeta: A practical handbook - Lutwak

[BabyFATS]

1. The Bible - but I admit I'm not big on reading it
2. Being Happy by Andrew Matthews - for the pursuit of personal happiness
3. Making Friends by Andrew Matthews - for building and improving relationships
4. Living, Loving and Learning by Leo Buscaglia - all about LOVE
5. The Greatest Mystery in the World by Og Mandino - for inspiration
6. The Greatest Salesman in the World by Og Mandino - for keys to success
7. The Richest Man in Babylon - for the pursuit of material happiness
8. True Love by Robert Fulghum - for mushy stuff
9. The Little Prince - for life's little secrets
10. Webster's Dictionary - for enrichment of vocabulary

[vendetta]

in no particular order

1. lotr trilogy - tolkien
2. v for vendetta - alan moore
3. idoru - william gibson
4. einstein's dreams - alan lightman
5. 2001 a space odyssey - arthur c. clarke
6. 2010 - arthur c. clarke
7. i robot - isaac asimov
8. 1984 - george orwell
9. a clockwork orange - anthony burgess
10. promethea -alan moore

[Freakworks]

Hmm...Catcher in the Rye, Harry Potter (hehe!), Stephen King On Writing, The Alchemist...wala akong masyadong maisip, tagal na ako di nagbubukas ng libro...

[EROTOMANIA]

The Alchemist - Paulo Cuelho
Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint Exupery
Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
Catcher In The Rye - JD Salinger
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
Twisted Compilation - Jessica Zafra
Punks, Poets, and Poseurs - Eric Caruncho
The Iliad
The Odyssey
The Aeneid

[Bellarine]

in no particular order

the little prince
the giving tree
the missing piece
the missing piece meets the big o
oh the places you'll go
guess how much i love you

--teka, puro children's books yata ah... that just proves that most simple things can be very profound.