What are your "MUST READ" books?

[NOE]

Tuesdays with Morrie... only book thats ever made me cry

 

[eternitygoddess]

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Ohhh! I love that book! Such a classic! It deserves much more recognition.

 

[eternitygoddess]

And one of the best series of all time: Anne of Green Gables.

 

[lostgirl]

Well there are so many books that I love but if I had to choose several that should be "required reading" for anyone tbis would be my list:
-Anne Frank: The Diary of A Young Girl by Anne Frank
-The Little Prince-Antoine St. Euxpery
-Les Miserables- Victor Hugo
-A Tree Grows In Brooklyn- Betty Smith
-Joy in the Morning- Betty Smith
-A Room of One's Own- Virginia Woolf
-Mrs. Dalloway-Virginia Woolf
-Wuthering Heights- Emily Bronte
-Love in the Time of the Cholera-Gabriel Garcia Marquez
-Crime and Punishment -Fyodor Dostoyoevsky
-Song of Soloman- Toni Morrison
-Beloved- Toni Morrison
These aren't necessarily my "favorite" books but for one reason or another they affected me greatly

 

[Vans]

1984
The Great Gatsby
Of Mice and Men
The Grapes of Wrath
To Kill a Mockingbird

 

[pipski]

A couple that I read recently and really enjoyed are -
North and South; and the
Yes Man

 

[oolie coco]

A book I love so, so much is "A Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing" by Melissa Bank.

It's fiction, and has nothing to do with hunting and fishing. I just think it's really good.

 

[northernsky]

• charles baudelaire // les fleurs du mal
• virginia woolf // the waves
• fjodor m dostojewski // crime and punishment
• franz kafka // narratives
• ilse aichinger // the greater hope
• john steinbeck // the grapes of wrath
• emily bronte // wuthering heights
• gabriel garcia marquez // love in the time of cholera
• djuna barnes // nightwood
• jack kerouac // on the road
• vladimir nabokov // lolita
• thomas mann // buddenbrooks
• marcel proust // a la recherche du temps perdu

my favourites. [and yes, in proust's case i dare to say that before finishing. ]

 

[makehate]

A Fine Balance
And Then There Were None
Another Roadside Attraction
Democracy in America
Edie: American Girl
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Magic
Memoirs of a Geisha
Mystic River
Naked Pictures of Famous People
One Hundred Years of Solitude

A Fine Balance in particular. It's just an incredible read.. really.
I like/read too many books, so this list is rather short.

 

[Bella Plum]

My favorite book ever Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte.

 

[june gloom]

White Oleander and Violet & Claire.

 

[LoveMyBoots]

I forgot to include Pride and Prejudice.
I just finished Mrs. Dalloway-brilliant.

 

[polka_dot]

anything by Tennessee Williams

..and according to tvsnow, I must also read (among others
Jane Austen: Pride & Prejudice
Arthur Golden: Memoirs of a Geisha
Betty Smith: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina

 

[dulcedeleche]

The Fountainhead Ayn Rand
Valley of the Dolls Jaqueline Suzanne
Great Expectations Dickens
Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Henry and June Anais Nin
Savage Beauty An Edna St. Vincent Millay Bio

 

[alicia753]

Wuthering heights Emily Bronte
The waves V.Woolf
Mrs Dalloway V.Woolf
The sun also rises E.Hemingway
Tender is the night F.Scott Fitzgerald
Belle du Seigneur A.Cohen
Lolita V.Nabokov
The black Prince Iris Murdoch
The master and Margerita M.Boulgakov
All the poems by Edith Sodergran
L'enfant brulé Stig Dagerman

 

[cheiby11]

everything by William Shakespeare

 

[tvsnow]

what a great taste in books!

Thanks!

 

[SuperWoman]

Memories of John Lennon By: Yoko Ono
&
Memoirs of a Geisha By: Arthur Golden

 

[twilight fairy]

Am I the only one who thinks Pride and Prejudice is boring and overrated?

 

[Nader]

Perfumer by Patric Zuskind

Ahh yes this book is one of my favourites But it's called Perfume (no R) and is by Patrick Suskind (i think there might also be two dots above the u)

apparently the german untranslated version (known as Das Parfum) is supposed to be so much better