What are your "MUST READ" books?

[vogueness]

George Orwell's 1984 - such a bleak and terrifying read

 

[liberty33r1b]

The World is Flat - Th. Friedman

 

[60swildchild]

I love She's Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True - both by Wally Lamb. He's just a fantastic author and I've been sucking up those books lately.

She's Come Undone was fantastic! I read this back in 1999. His follow-up, I Know This Much Is True, wasn't as good, imo.

Off The Road, My Years With Cassady, Kerouac and Ginsberg by Carolyn Cassady was quite good.

 

[republicofstyle]

Paullina Simmons' The Bronze Horseman, The Bridge to Holy Cross (called Tatiana & Alexander in the US of A) and The Summer Garden. The most beautiful fiction books [a trilogy in a sense] I've ever read. As well as Simmons' Tully. These four books are the only ones to have made to actually cry, so I salute these!!

Classics like To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee), Tuesdays with Morrie and Five People You Meet in Heaven (Mitch Albom), 1984 (I LOVE LOVE LOVE this book by George Orwell!! It's one of the best I've ever read. I call 1984 a prophecy, and I think some would agree), Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad), Bible~

 

[fashionfan12]

Pride and Prejudice..always

 

[seanutbutter]

Uncle Tom's Cabin by the amazing Harriet Beecher Stowe.

 

[Tightasyoulike]

please read :
The time travellers wife - audrey neffenegger
Its just so good.
xxx

 

[mcflyandgemmafan]

The Lovely Bones-Alice Sebold. Heartbreaking and moving.

 

[notmanons]

Catcher in the rye!
It is a very good book, will make you laugh and cry.
(don't know about the crying bit lol)

 

[vogueness]

Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited

 

[kissmesweet]

Anybody Out There // Marian Keyes
Breaks my heart everytime, yet keeps me laughing and guessing 'til that last beautiful page.

 

[Echy Donna]

Hard to remember everything but let's try:

Pavilion of Women by Pearl Buck
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
Oliver Twist and David Copperfield by Dickens
L'Assommoir and Au Bonheur des Dames by Zola
Ensemble c'est tout by Anna Gavalda
Fringues by Christine Orban
Biographie de la Faim by Amelie Nothomb
Mathilda and Kiss Kiss by Roald Dahl
La balade du Sabador by Sokhna Benga
Maimouna by Abdoulaye Sadji
Ethiopiques and La belle histoire de Leuk le Lievre by Leopold Sedar Senghor

And as much tales as possible (recently, loved Angela Carter's Book of fairy tales)...

 

[vogueness]

Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude

 

[60swildchild]

Wonderland Avenue - Danny Sugerman

 

[Belowen]

For me they are -

White Oleander, by Janet Fitch
One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Harry Potter Series, by JK Rowling
1984, by George Orwell
A Very Long Engagement, by Sebastien Japrisot

 

[marylauda]

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand and The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

 

[kissmesweet]

Perfect Match-- Jodi Picoult
Heartbreaking & tearful, but beautiful and triumphant.

 

[chocococo]

East of Eden
The Glass Castle
The Kite Runner
Harry Potter
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

 

[miu_miu]

For a start:

Anna Karenina & War and Peace Tolstoy
Great Expectations Charles Dickens
Love in the time of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night F. Scot Fitzgerald
The Unbearable Lightness of Being Milan Kundera
Portrait of a Lady Henry James
Le Petit Prince Antoine de Saint Exupery

...my list will grow

 

[zembla]

Sleeping With Schubert: Bonnie Marson
Love Is Nothing: Lee Server
Secrets of the Flesh: Judith Thurman
The Pure and The Impure: Colette
Snakes and Earrings: Hitomi Kanehara