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Suggestions for 50-book log

  • 03-04-2009 12:04am
    #1
    BlackMamba
    Closed Accounts Posts: 332 ✭✭


    Hello all!
    I hoping to start a reading log soon but I'm not sure where to start. I'm looking for suggestions of books you read and liked/loved. I'm open to any genre of literature. Any help would be appreciated!:)

    -BM


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  • #2
    godspal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 468 ✭✭godspal


    Don DeLillo - Underworld
    Thomas Pychon - Gravity's Rainbow
    Cormac McCarthy - The Road
    Cormac McCarthy - All the Pretty Horses
    Hunter S. Thompson - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
    Hunter S. Thompson - The Rum Diaries
    Hunter S. Thompson - The Hells Angels
    Paul Auster - New York Trilogy
    Ernest Hemingway - To Have and Have Not
    F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
    F. Scott Fitzgerald - Tender is the Night
    William S. Boroughs - Junkie
    William S. Boroughs - Naked Lunch
    Mark Twain - The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn
    Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho
    Jack Kerouac - On the Road
    John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men
    John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath
    Virginia Woolf - Mrs. Dalloway
    Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse
    George Orwell - Animal Farm
    George Orwell - 1984
    Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange
    Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting
    H.G. Wells - War of the Worlds
    William Golding - Lord of the Flies
    Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Grey
    James Joyce - Dubliners
    James Joyce - The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man
    James Joyce - Ulysses
    Flan O'Brien - The Third Policeman
    J.M. Coetzee - Foe
    Vladimir Nabrokov - Lolita
    Fyodor Dostoevsky - Notes from the Underground
    Fyodor Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment
    Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary

    36 Novels should keep you going for awhile. No doubt you have read a few of these... However there should be a handful that you haven't read and they should keep you going too.


  • #3
    UpCork
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 688 ✭✭✭UpCork


    These are the ones that I have read and loved that I think you should definitely include in your log.

    'The Kite Runner' by Khaled Hosseini
    'A Thousand Splendid Suns' by Khaled Hosseini
    'The Book Thief' by Marcus Zusak
    'We Need to Talk about Kevin' by Lionel Shriver
    'Perfume' by Peter Suskind
    'The 19th Wife' by David Ebershoff
    'The Girl with a Pearl Earring' Tracey Chevalier


    All of these books I've read and adored


  • #4
    omahaid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,497 ✭✭✭omahaid


    http://artofmanliness.com/2008/05/14/100-must-read-books-the-essential-mans-library/

    I'm working my way through this list, it's pretty good.


  • #5
    BlackMamba
    Closed Accounts Posts: 332 ✭✭BlackMamba


    Thanks all!! I'll definitely be putting these suggestions on my log!:D


  • #6
    líreacán
    Closed Accounts Posts: 251 ✭✭líreacán


    'The Kite Runner' by Khaled Hosseini
    'A Thousand Splendid Suns' by Khaled Hosseini
    'The Book Thief' by Marcus Zusak

    I have read all three of these and would definitely recommend them. A few others to recommend would be

    The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger.
    Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
    Life of Pi by Yann Martel


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