What are your "MUST READ" books?

[eternitygoddess]

r*pe of Nanking - Iris Chang.

An eye-opener. Very very disturbing. Non-fiction.

 

[indie]

I would like to add; "Please Kill Me; the unsencored oral history of punk" by by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain. The name tells everything.

 

[SpoiledBrat]

Klaus Mann - Mephisto
Goethe - Faust part 1 (didn´t like the second part that much..)
Shakespeare- Macbeth, A midsummernight´s dream, Romeo and Juliet

Dan Brown: The DaVinci Code, Angels and Demons
J.K. Rowling- Harry Potter

 

[baguette]

All the new catalogues from my favourite brands...yay

 

[baguette]

r*pe of Nanking - Iris Chang.

An eye-opener. Very very disturbing. Non-fiction.

Oh I read this book!

Great book to know the truth of history if you are interested in history

 

[ChrissyM]

**bump**

 

[babygirl44]

angels and demons and da vinci code are both very interesting. memoirs of a geisha is good too. i loved the sophie kinsella's shopaholic series! nicholas sparks' the notebook is my all time favorite.

 

[Callidora]

Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. It sounds so cliche, but this book changed my life.

Also, All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren, White Oleander by Janet Fitch, Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf.

If you like fantasy, Mary Stewart's Merlin Trilogy is really fun.

 

[faust]

I don't understand some people's posts in this thread. I thought a "MUST READ" means a book that is IMPORTANT, ENLIGHTENING, SIGNIFICANT, in some cases LIFE-CHANGING. Did I misunderstand the point of this thread? What's with all the Dan Brown bullsh*t and such?

 

[Legyviel]

The picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

 

[dulcedeleche]

Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. It sounds so cliche, but this book changed my life.

Also, All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren, White Oleander by Janet Fitch, Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf.

If you like fantasy, Mary Stewart's Merlin Trilogy is really fun.

About Anna Kerenina, I tried reading that online, and it's a great story, but I just found it impossible to get through all the political stuff. It took away so much from the story, I thought. It's like, ok, either you are telling a love story, or laying down a political philosophy, please don't do both!

 

[pointup]

I don't understand some people's posts in this thread. I thought a "MUST READ" means a book that is IMPORTANT, ENLIGHTENING, SIGNIFICANT, in some cases LIFE-CHANGING. Did I misunderstand the point of this thread? What's with all the Dan Brown

amen.

life changing? not a book, but an essay.. "civil disobedience" by henry david thoreau.

I need to read more

 

[FashionJunkie]

Sorry, but i love Russian literature, especially Tolstoy and Dostoevsky...

Fyodor Dostoevsky: Crime And Punishment, The Idiot, The Brothers Karamazov, The Gambler, Poor folk, Notes from The Underground.

Leo Tolstoy: War And Peace, Anna Karenina

Also Victor Hugo: Les Miserables

 

[skinny_boho]

Bret Easton Ellis - Less than zero ; it's basilar.

 

[Bellissima]

*bump*


The Little Prince as well

 

[Kawari]

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison- I read this book when I was in middle school and it changed my life. The whole idea of a person at their most vulnerable, a child, struggling with their self-image (with something as complex as race during the 1940's) made me read more books. Just the way it's written, with no single pov, made me realize that books didn't have to follow a certain pattern. I read this book every year, and if I study sociology or ethnic studies in college I'm basing my thesis around this book.

 

[mcflyandgemmafan]

Ok so it's not really a book, but I would have to say "Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare .

Also:
The Notebook-Nicholas Sparks
To Kill A Mockingbird
The Lovely Bones
Harry Potter
The Chronicles of Narnia
The Angels Trilogy by Lurlene McDaniel-1) Angels Watching Over Me, 2)Lifted Up By Angels, and 3) Until Angels Close My Eyes
Macbeth-Shakespeare
The Prophet-Kahlil Grabin
The Alchemist-Paulo Coehlo

 

[Jetsetgirl]

1984 by Orwell
The Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare
Obasan by Joy Kogawa

 

[Pulp Fiction]

Alicia Valdes-rodriguez Dirty Girl social club !! "really fun"
Chuck Palahniuk: Survivor

 

[mustard]

Peter Pan and the Only Children by Gilbert Adair
His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman