Saturday 26 May 2007

Books worth reading

I have compiled a list of books (novels & non-fiction) I believe are worth reading... books that make you wish you could continue after they have ended. Some of the books on this list are in agreement with the BBC Top books list, Amazon Bestsellers list and all that, while some havent made it into any of those lists- all however are worth picking up.
So get ready, don’t cringe in those shoes! And do get out your library card

  1. The Bible (really if you have never read this, never taken a peek at this, get moving now!)
  2. To kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  3. Things fall apart – Chinue Achebe
  4. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzegerald
  5. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  6. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonngut
  7. The Railway Children
  8. Animal Farm by George Orwell
  9. 1984 by George Orwell
  10. Catch – 22 by Joseph Heller
  11. The Ulysses by James Joyce
  12. Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
  13. Come Home Baby Girl – Fannie Flagg
  14. Green Eggs & Ham by Dr. Seuss
  15. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
  16. The Heart is a lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
  17. A portrait of the Artist as a young man – James Joyce
  18. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Sahnger
  19. A farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
  20. Lolita by Vladimir Nobokov
  21. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
  22. Alice in Wonderland
  23. The Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
  24. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
  25. The Curious Incidence of the Dog in the Night time by Mark Haddon
  26. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
  27. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
  28. A town like Alice by Nevil Shute
  29. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
  30. In His Steps: "What Would Jesus Do?" by Rev. Charles Monroe Sheldon
  31. The Love Machine
  32. The Concubine by Elechi Amadi
  33. The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
  34. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  35. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
  36. The Lion, The witch and The wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
  37. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
  38. Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
  39. Love In The Time Of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  40. On The Road by Jack Kerouac
  41. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
  42. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  43. The Faraway Tree Collection by Enid Blyton
  44. Beloved by Toni Morrison
  45. Native Son by Richard Wright

I'll add to this list as I read more books... let me know the books you think are worth reading.... so i can read them and maybe add them to my list

6 comments:

Boorish Male said...

Hey Tyger,
Thanks for dropping by my blog and for your kind words. I am a keen reader of books as well and i would recomend:

The Reader by Bernhardt Shlink

The House Of Spirits by Isabel Allende

Chronicle Of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Native Tongue by Carl Hiassen

Black No More by George S. Schuyler

Tyger said...

Thanks Boorish,
I'll look for these books...
Right now i'm doing the David Gemmell books... and I think he's whow!...maybe i'll add one or two to my list of books to read... i need to make up my mind which ones i think should get into the list :-)

Boorish Male said...

I am more into the Magical Realism genre of novels, with a particular interest in in Gabrial Garcia Marquez and Isabel Allende. the South American story tellers are a great deal more poetic than their western counterparts. For me it is not just the plot, but the words used are infinitely more important.

baby girl names said...

Great list of books. Thanks for sharing with us. I've read a few of these.

Tyger said...

Thanks for coming by - I havent read them all either but I'm going at it.

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