Favorite books of all time?

[Anonymous]

Giovanni's Room--Baldwin
Disgrace--Coetzee
Saturday--McEwen
In the Skin of a Lion--Ondaatje
The Beautiful and Damned--Fitzgerald
Appointment in Samara--O'Hara
Sister Carrie--Dreiser
The God of Small Things--Roy
The Enchantress of Florence--Rushdie
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz--Richler
Herzog--Bellow

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Need some ideas of good books! Here is my list:

1) House of Spirits - Isabella Allende
2) And the Mountains Echoed - Khaled Housseini
3) A Thousand Splendid Suns - also by Housseini
4) In the Time of the Butterflies - Julia Alvarez
5) Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver

The Poisonwood Bible was amazing. I had no interest in the book or the subect matter initiallt but haven't forgetten this book after have read it a decade ago.

[Anonymous]

To Kill a Mockingbird

[Anonymous]

My Traitor's Heart by Rian Milan

[Anonymous]

Here are some greats just off the top of my head that I love:

Jane Eyre / Charlotte Bronte
Mrs Bridge and Mr Bridge (they are pendant novels) / Owen Connell
Ordinary People / Judith Viorst
In Cold Blood / Truman Capote
Persuasion / Jane Austen

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Giovanni's Room--Baldwin
Disgrace--Coetzee
Saturday--McEwen
In the Skin of a Lion--Ondaatje
The Beautiful and Damned--Fitzgerald
Appointment in Samara--O'Hara
Sister Carrie--Dreiser
The God of Small Things--Roy
The Enchantress of Florence--Rushdie
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz--Richler
Herzog--Bellow

Great list!
I'd add An American Tragedy by Dreiser.

[Anonymous]

Anna Karenina by Tolstoy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Power of One - Bryce Courtney
The Brothers K - David James Duncan
Angle of Repose - Wallace Stegner

I love Angle of Repose. Have you ever read any Wendell Berry? He’s a wonderful writer with a similar spare prose.

Some of my favorites are My Antonia by Willa Cather, Atonement by Ian McEwan, 1000 Acres by Jane Smiley and Fidelity by Wendell Berry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell

I liked that book a lot, even read all the fake footnotes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Giovanni's Room--Baldwin
Disgrace--Coetzee
Saturday--McEwen
In the Skin of a Lion--Ondaatje
The Beautiful and Damned--Fitzgerald
Appointment in Samara--O'Hara
Sister Carrie--Dreiser
The God of Small Things--Roy
The Enchantress of Florence--Rushdie
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz--Richler
Herzog--Bellow

Great list!
I'd add An American Tragedy by Dreiser.

+1 oh, yes to An American Tragedy

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Moby Dick
Wuthering Heights
The Hobbit
The Stand

I love The hobbit. It was so much fun reading it to my kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell

+1! This book is so brilliant.

It is a big book and my husband read the whole thing to our son LOL

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Diary of Anne Frank
To kill a Mockingbird
Sophie’s choice
The Stand
The world According to Garp

To kill a Mockingbird is a great book.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A Prayer for Owen Meany— John Irving
The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint— Brady Udall
Possession—A.S. Byatt
The Crossing— Cormac McCarthy

I liked all the books by John Irving.

[Anonymous]

Hyperion Cantos - Dan Simmons

The Doomsday Book - Connie Willis

Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

Going Postal - Terry Pratchett

The Stupidest Angel - Christopher Moore

Captive Prince trilogy- CS Pacat