Books, Novels, Authors, Poems, Short Stories

[saturnine]

I cannot believe this, but my search found no results for a favourite books topic!

Well, here are mine:

Books/Novels:
Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
The Beach, Alex Garland
The House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
The Witches, Roald Dahl
Wasted, Marya Hornbacher
Girl Interrupted, Susanna Kaysen
The Virgin Suicides, Jeffrey Eugenides
The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
Prozac Nation, Elizabeth Wurtzel
Running With Scissors, Augusten Burroughs
On The Road, Jack Kerouac

Authors:
Of the moment, definitely Chuck Palahniuk, working my way through all of his works.

Short Stories:
Araby, James Joyce

Poems:
Too many to name!

 

[faust]

We actually do have a topic like this in the spot, favorites section. I have to say that tFS search engine is not the best.

 

[lostgirl]

Novels:
Wuthering Heights- Emily Bronte
Jane Eyre- Charlotte Bronte
The Tennent of Wildfell Hall- Anne Bronte
Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest- Ken Keasy
Howard's End-E.M Forester
Outlander- Diana Gabaldon (the whole series)
Gone with the Wind- Margaret Mitchell
A Tale of Two Cities- Charles Dickens
Blonde- Joyce Carol Oates
FOXFIRE: Confessions of a Girl Gang- Joyce Carol Oates
Memoirs of a Geisha- Arthur Golden
The Bronze Horseman- Paulinna Simons
Tatiana and Alexander- Paulinna Simons
The Beach-Alex Garland
The Tesseract- Alex Garland
Frankenstein- Mary Shelly
The Quincunx- Charles Palliser
Mrs. Dalloway- Virginia Woolf
The Hours- Michael Cunningham

Short Stories:
Araby- James Joyce
The Story of an Hour- Kate Chopin
Deseree- Kate Chopin
The Yellow Wallpaper- Charlotte Perkins Gillman
The Lottery-Shirley Jackson
Bliss- Katherine Mansfield
The Doll's House- Katherine Mansfield
Blue Rose-Peter Straub
Jerusalem's Lot- Stephen King

That's all I can think of right now but there are many, many more!

 

[Bluestar07]

I love "The Virgin Suicides" too!

House of Spirits - Isabel Allende .. will post more later. Pretty zzzzz now.

 

[snowqueen]

Books/Novel:
Charlie and the choclate factory - Roald Dahl
To kill a mockingbird - Harper Lee
Harry Potter - Jk Rowling
Anything by Enid Blyton (well when i was like 8)
Jane Eyre
1984 - George Orwell
The nanny diaries
Adrian mole diaries
bridget jones diaries
Series of unfortinant events - lemony snicket
The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown

im not really a great reader, not enough time patience etc. im a very slow reader

Authors:

Jk Rowling
Susan Townsend
Roald Dahl
Jaquline Wilson
Enid Blyton
(just realised these are all childrens authors, oopsey havent read in years and years)

Short Stories:

Dont know any

Poems:

Dont realy like poems, not getting the whole poetry vibe. its probally because we have to spend an 4 periods of english each week studying them. anything you study at school looses its apeal

 

[fouroclock]

Novels:
Howards End - E.M. Forster
Fifth Business - Robertson Davies
Cumberland - Michael V. Smith
Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights
The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Go Ask Alice
Dead Girls - Nancy Lee
Dance on My Grave - Aidan Chambers
How To Stop Time - Ann Marlowe
The Pretenders - F. Sionil Jose
The Perks of Being A Wallflower - Stephan Chbosky

Short Stories:
The Prison - Bernard Malamud
The Leg of a Lamb - Roald Dahl

Poem:
The Death of the Hired Man - Robert Frost
1929 - W.H. Auden

 

[MulletProof]

i couldnt pick books or stories..i'm too lazy and my memory fails a lot, but, i love Benedetti's poems.

 

[lostgirl]

I thought of some more. Since I'm a major bibliophile (and a literature major) I might update these lists from time to time.

Novels:
To the Lighthouse- Virginia Woolf
Bridget Jones' Diary &Bridget Jones: the Edge of Reason- Helen Fielding
House of the Spirits- Isabella Allende
Eva Luna- Isabella Allende
A Garden of Earthly Delights- Joyce Carol Oates
A Prayer for Owen Meany- John Irving
The Hotel New Hampshire- John Irving
Daugher of the Forest- Juliet Mariller
Son of the Shadows-Juliet Mariller
Child of the Prophesy- Juliet Marriler
Lord John and the Private Matter- Diana Gabaldon
Shopgirl- Steve Martin

Poetry:
Shakespeares sonnets
Christina Rosetti
Emily Bronte
Emily Dickenson

Short Stories:
Katherine Mansfield
Angela Carter
Joyce Carol Oates

 

[tiffany]

Off the top of my head some of my favourites are:

Novels:
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
The Famished Road - Ben Okri
100 Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
If On A Winter's Night A Traveler.. - Italo Calvino
Haroon and the Sea of Stories - Salman Rushdie
I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith
To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
1984 - George Orwell
Coming Through Slaughter - Michael Ondaatje

Short Stories:
Stones - Timothy Findley
Araby - James Joyce

Poems:
Wasteland - TS Eliot
The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock - TS Eliot
Broken Love - William Blake

 

[Misako]

Off the top of my head (and with the help of my facebook profile, lol), & considering I have bookshelves and bookshelves upon bookshelves at home, this is by no means a final list:

Books/Novels:

Nausea - Sartre
The Age of Reason - Sartre
Heart of Darkness - Conrad
The Name of the Rose - Eco
Foucault's Pendulum - Eco
The Time Traveler's Wife - Niffenegger
Angels & Demons - Brown
Crime & Punishment - Dostoevsky
Anna Karenina - Tolstoy
War & Peace - Tolstoy (tedious, although intriguing)
Gone with the Wind - Mitchell
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Wilde
The Catcher in the Rye - Salinger
The Stranger - Camus
The Metamorphosis - Kafka
Bridget Jones - Fielding
The Fountainhead - Rand
Good Omens - Pratchett, Gaiman
Harry Potter Series - Rowling
Dragon Nimbus/Dragon Nimbus History/Merlin's Descendants Series - Radford
Memoirs of Cleopatra/Mary, Queen of Scots/The Auto. of Henry VIII - George
The Dante Club - Pearl
The Future of Freedom - Zakaria
Anita Blake Series - Hamilton
The Jungle - Sinclair
A Separate Peace - Knowles
Lord of the Flies - Golding
Lord of the Rings - Tolkien
The Prince - Machiavelli
Elenium/Tamuli Series - Eddings
Horatio Hornblower Series - Forester
Before the Deluge - Friedrich
Tuscan Sun series - Mayes
I Capture the Castle - Smith
...so so many more

Poetry:
Paradise Lost - Milton
The Divine Comedy - Aligheri
Iliad - Homer
The Odyssey - Homer
Dante Gabriel Rosetti
Shakespeare
Robert Frost
Oh, a bunch of others...

I'm not much of a short story person, and those favourite books are essentially my favourite authors, to an extent...

 

[Misako]

also, the two books by Dan Eldon (well, they feature his journals...)

 

[lostgirl]

Les Miserbales-Victor Hugo
Notre Dame de Paris-Victor Hugo
Little Women-Louisa May Alcott
Anne of Green Cables sereis-L.M. Montgomery
Middlesex-Jeffery Eugenides
Short Stories-Katherine Mansfield

 

[Misako]

Ah! How could I forget?

The Count of Monte Cristo - Dumas
Les Miserables - Hugo
Phantom of the Opera - Leroux

 

[TokyoVogue]

AUTHORS:
Invisble Monsters - Palahniuk
Choke - Palahniuk
Fight Club - Palahniuk
Marie Antoinette - Antonia Fraser
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things - JT Leroy
The Crime Of Father Amaro - Eca De Quieros
On The Road - Kerouac
Big Sur - Kerouac
Motherless Brooklyn - Jonathon Lethem
V - Thomas Pynchon
Vineland - Thomas Pynchon
Gravitys Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
Finnigans Wake - James Joyce
Slaughterhouse Five - Vonnegut
Breakfast Of Champions - Vonnegut
The Contortionists Handbook - Craig Clevenger

POEMS:
Anything Bob Dylan ever wrote

Short Stories:
Amy Hempel
Chuck Palahniuk

 

[tiffany]

more

I can't believe I forgot these:

Books/ Novels:
Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Astonishing the Gods - Ben Okri
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
The Twits - Roald Dahl

 

[Unidentified]

Hi Saturnine,

Your list is quite impressive! I have read most of the books you have mentioned. I'm currently reading Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides, a very interesting read I might add.

A book you also might like is "The Amazing Adventures of Kavelier and Clay". It's personally one of my favorites.

Kind regards,

J.W.

 

[VainJane]

I want to say that I read the classics, but god help me I LOVE TRASHY ROMANCE NOVELS!!

Anything with a dangerous,dark, sexy man who tears off his clothes in a fit of passion will do for me

(gawd, I've probably spent hundreds of dollars on those books....hehe,and they're worth every penny )

P.S. Though I did enjoy Pride and Prejudice very, very much.....if only Darcy would walk around w/ his shirt off.... ::sigh:::

 

[lostgirl]

I want to say that I read the classics, but god help me I LOVE TRASHY ROMANCE NOVELS!!

Anything with a dangerous,dark, sexy man who tears off his clothes in a fit of passion will do for me

(gawd, I've probably spent hundreds of dollars on those books....hehe,and they're worth every penny )

P.S. Though I did enjoy Pride and Prejudice very, very much.....if only Darcy would walk around w/ his shirt off.... ::sigh:::

Did you see the BBC version of Pride and Prejudice w/ Colin Firth? He goes swimming in a lake and we see him walking around with a very wet shirt!

 

[Cosette]

Books:
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Notre-Dame of Paris by Victor Hugo
Camille by Alexandre Dumas fils
Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahamme
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Little Women by Francis Hodgson Burnett
Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
The Complete Tales & Poems of Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Shakespeare's Hamlet and Much Ado About Nothing
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

And by the way... I love the BBC version of Pride & Prejudice. Colin Firth is wonderful... *sigh*

 

[lostgirl]

Books:
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Notre-Dame of Paris by Victor Hugo
Camille by Alexandre Dumas fils
Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahamme
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Little Women by Francis Hodgson Burnett
Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
The Complete Tales & Poems of Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Shakespeare's Hamlet and Much Ado About Nothing
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

And by the way... I love the BBC version of Pride & Prejudice. Colin Firth is wonderful... *sigh*

Oooh I love Camille, thanks for reminding me to put it on my list! By the way Louisa May Alcott wrote Little Women, Frances Hogsden Burnett write the Secret Garden and A little Princess (all 3 are favorites of mine!)