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Position:Home>Books & Authors> What are some "essential" books to read?Question: What are some "essential" books to read!? When I was a small child I was an avid reader, and then I got to be a young teenager, and shamefully for me, it wasn't considered "cool" so I just sort of stopped!.!.!.
Anyway now I'm 17 and getting back into reading! What are some essential books, that everyone should read!? (I've already read Lolita, Birdsong, Perfume, An Awfully Big Adventure and a few more things!.!.!.)Www@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: These are the most recent books I've read:- Swan by Frances Mayes Flight of the Archangel and Cecily by Isabelle Holland The Chase by Louisa May Alcott The Virgin Blue by Tracy Chevalier Almonds and Raisins by Maisie Mosco Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood Sister of My Heart, Arranged Marriage, The Lives of Others and Mistress of Spices by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Lisa of Lambeth by Somerset Maugham I found them quite interesting, especially since they all differed from the book I'm used to reading!. However, here's a standard list which I would advise anybody:- Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Mansfield Park, Persuasion, Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen The Mill on the Floss, Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner by George Eliot Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, The Old Curiosity Shop, Little Dorrit, Martin Chuzzlewit, Nicholas Nickleby, A Christmas Carol, A tale of Two Cities and Bleak House by Charles Dickens!. The Grapes of wrath, Of Mice and Men, The Pearl,Tortilla flat by John Steinbeck Tess of the Duberville, Jude the Obscure, The return of the Native, Under the Greenwood tree, A Pair of Blue eyes,The Mayor of Casterbridge, Far from the Madding Crowd and The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy Villette, Shirley, The Professor,and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Agnes Grey, The tenant of Windfell Hall by Anne Bronte Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Moll Flanders and Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe The Alchemist, The Devil and Miss Prym, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept and Fifth Mountain by Paulo Coelho A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute The Great Gatsby by F!. Scott Fitzgerald Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury The Diary of Anne Frank Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Macbeth and any other play by Shakespeare The Fall of the House of Usher, The Raven, The Tell-Tale Heart and other stories and poems of Edgar Allan Poe The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer The Awakening by Kate Chopin The Sun also Rises by Earnest Hemingway The Sound and the Fury and Light in August by William Faulkner All Quite on the Western Front by Eric Maria Remarque Night by Elie Wiesel Black Boy by Richard Wright The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Canterville Ghost, Salome, Vera Or The Nihilists,The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde Oedipus Rex and Antigone by Sophocles Le Morte D'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malroy Heart of Darkness and The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Les Miserables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo Moby Dick by Herman Melville The Lost world by Arthur Conan Doyle The Time Machine by H!.G!.Wells Roll of Thunder, Hear my cry and Let the Circle be Unbroken by Mildred Taylor A Grain Of Wheat, Matigari and Devil on the Cross by Ngugi Things Fall Apart and Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe The Grass is Singing and The Golden Notebook by Dorris Lessing Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe!. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers The Call of the Wild and White Fang by Jack London A Room with A View and A Passage to India by E!.M!.Forster Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Marquez A House For Mr Biswas and Mr Stone and the Knights companion by V!.S!.Naipaul The Guide, The English Teacher, Waiting for the Mahatma and Malgudi Days by R!.K!.Narayan Jurassic Park and The Lost World by Michael Crichton( It's nothing like the film, it's a million times times more interesting) A Streetcar named Desire, The Glass Menagerie and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennesse Williams All My Sons, Death of A Salesman, The Crucible and A View From The Bridge by Arthur Miller Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys The Reef, The Custom of the Country, The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome and The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton Mary Barton and North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell To the Lighthouse and Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James Hope this helps!Www@QuestionHome@Com really depends what kind of stories you like!. I am a huge reader so will just give you a few things as they come to me To kill a mockingbird The corrections, Jonathan Frantzen We need to talk about Kevin The Secret History - Donna Tartt The Book of illusions - Paul Auster There are lots of great websites that will help you find books you like based on what you've already read and enjoyed - amazon is the obvious one! Or else why not talk to yr favourite teacher at school and see if they have any suggestions!? Happy reading! Www@QuestionHome@Com Well, I am personally a fantasy girl, so I would suggest: 'Ingo' (tetraliogy; The Tide Knot, The Deep & The crossing of Ingo) Helen Dunmore "Bartimaeus Trilogy: The Amulet Of Samarkand" (Trilogy; The Golem's Eye & Ptomely's Gate) by Jonathon Stroud "Septimus Heap: Magyk" (sept!.!.!.!? I dont know, seven books, Flyte, Physik & Queste [more to come]) Angie Sage "Pellinor: The gift" (Tetraliogy:The Riddle, The Crow & the Song [I think]) By Alison Croggon "Uglies" (Trilogy: Pretties & Special [Plus a related book by the same author, Extras]) By Scott Westerfeld "Fearless" By Tim Lott "Artemis Fowl" (Six Books; ~ Artic Incident; ~ eternity code; ~ Opal Deception; ~ Lost colony & ~Time paradox) By Eoin Colfer "My Story" (Too many to list, [not fantasy btw]) {Several Authors} "Missing Persons; The Rose Queen" (Tetraliogy: Chocolate Lover; Ventian Policeman & unsuspecting gourmet) by M!.E!.Rabb "The Chain of Charms; The gypsy crown" (Six books; The silver horse, oh, I'm too tired to list them all!.) By Kate Forsyth Anything By Diana Wynne Jones "Stormbreaker" (Alex rider series, ugg, sleepy) Anthony Horowitz "Parvana" (Trilogy!? Sequel A: Parvana's Journey [From Parvana's view] Sequel B: Shauzia [from Paravana's friends view]) "Dragonkeeper" (Trilogy; Dragon of the Purple Dragon & Dragonmoon) by Carole Wilkonson "Juggling With Manadrins" (a sequel, Shooting the moon) By V!.M!.Jones {Not Fantasy} "Angel's in Pink: Kathleen's Story" (Trilogy: Raina's Story & Holly's Story) by Lurlene McDaniel {Not Fantasy} Ugg! I'm sleepy, thats all I got! Www@QuestionHome@Com The Bible - it is our life's manual Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Robinson Cruseo by Daniel Defoe, the first English novel Gulliver's Travel by Jonathan Swift The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas, a masterpiece of adventure writingWww@QuestionHome@Com Anything by Faulkner "Sound and the Fury", "Sanctuary", and "As I lay dying" are all great!. I would also recommend "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath and "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin!. Www@QuestionHome@Com power and force its on kenectics as a lie detector {factul}, any steven king dean koonts conversations with god and a couple on alcimemy that you will have to findWww@QuestionHome@Com The Alchemist!. You will love it!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |