Anonymous
Post 06/30/2011 21:44     Subject: Best novel you have ever read
Anonymous wrote:Kite Runner was amazing. One of those rare books that changes your life.


NP - I am excited about A Fine Balance now. Kite Runner was one of my faves, as was Prayer for Owen Meany (although some of the political junk in there was annoying, it was the first book to make me cry) and Love in the Time of Cholera.

Walker Percy's Love in the Ruins and John Kennedy Toole's Confederacy of Dunces were favorites too.

I was an English major so it's hard to choose... and it's been a long time since I sat down to just enjoy a book, so I am not even sure I would love any of these as much today.

That said, Lolita is one I come back to again and again and it's still marvelous.
Anonymous
Post 06/30/2011 21:42     Subject: Re:Best novel you have ever read
Less Than Zero. Aw c'mon, no Rielle Hunter fans?
zumbamama
Post 06/30/2011 21:42     Subject: Best novel you have ever read
Anonymous wrote:Grapes of Wrath

The House of the Spirits

LOTR Trilogy (i have read these books several times at different stages in my life and I always take away something new and meaningful with each read)


I love that book! It's up there with Daughter of Fortune, Ines of My Soul and Island Beneath the Sea.
Anonymous
Post 06/30/2011 21:39     Subject: Best novel you have ever read
Great gatsby
Catcher in the rye

Cliche, maybe. But life changers. Therefore will give them "best novel" status.

Fave book of 2011- "just kids".
Anonymous
Post 06/30/2011 21:39     Subject: Re:Best novel you have ever read
Anonymous wrote:The Sun Also Rises.


Yes!

I also loved The Fountainhead
Anonymous
Post 06/30/2011 21:33     Subject: Best novel you have ever read
Gone With The Wind is a disgrace. It is an apology for racism and slavery. It was written in the 1930's for God's Sake, not the 19th Century!
Anonymous
Post 06/30/2011 21:29     Subject: Best novel you have ever read
Kite Runner was amazing. One of those rare books that changes your life.
Anonymous
Post 06/30/2011 21:24     Subject: Best novel you have ever read
Not a classic
"The Lost Legends of New Jersey"
Anonymous
Post 06/30/2011 21:18     Subject: Re:Best novel you have ever read
The Sun Also Rises.
Anonymous
Post 06/30/2011 21:17     Subject: Best novel you have ever read
I think almost everything mentioned so far would be too much for my sleep deprived mom brain. Maybe I'll bookmark this thread to come back to in a couple of years.
Anonymous
Post 06/30/2011 21:14     Subject: Best novel you have ever read
Grapes of Wrath

The House of the Spirits

LOTR Trilogy (i have read these books several times at different stages in my life and I always take away something new and meaningful with each read)
Anonymous
Post 06/30/2011 21:13     Subject: Re:Best novel you have ever read
Three Junes.
Anonymous
Post 06/30/2011 21:08     Subject: Re:Best novel you have ever read
Best novel overall -Manchild In the Promised Land, Claude Brown (I owned a signed copy) and Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do by Peter McWilliams (formed my political views for a lifetime). GWTW-best all time summer read.
Anonymous
Post 06/30/2011 21:06     Subject: Best novel you have ever read
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Angle of Repose, by Walllace Stegner

Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison

One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez


ugh - To me it was Bleak House gone mystical realism.


That... or author on drugs.
Anonymous
Post 06/30/2011 21:06     Subject: Best novel you have ever read
100 years of solitude
Gone with the wind