Best Books Ever Written (literature)

[bigschweeler]

Farewell to Arms

That IS a great book. Glad you posted it. I haven't read it for 10 years or so, but it is worth another one.

To your list I would add:

The Sun Also Rises, and
Crime and Punishment

 

[Prometheus]

The Fountainhead
Atlas Shrugged
1984

 

[WODIN]

It is : The Karma Sutra

Actually we were both wrong it is KAMA SUTRA

 

[wyst]

I, Claudius and Claudius the King by Robert Graves
HMS Surprise or anything by Patrick O'Brian
The Men at Arms Trilogy by Evelyn Waugh
Pickwick Papers by Dickens
Don Quixote By Cervantes
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Hemingway
Creature of Light and Darkness by Roger Zelazny
Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
The Diary of Samuel Pepys
The Cornelius Chronicles by Michael Moorcock
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
Naked Lunch by WS Burroughs
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis

Kind of a random list, some sci fi in there...

Wyst

 

[musclebrains]

Actually we were both wrong it is KAMA SUTRA

Y'all kiss and make up.

 

[Austin316]

Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind, followed by Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan

 

[Ffactor]

Of Human Bondage
Farewell To Arms
For Whom The Bell Tolls
Bleak House
Great Expectations
Tender Is The Night
Greta Gatsby
Birdsong
Snow Falling On Cedars
The English Patient

 

[wyst]

Of Human Bondage
Farewell To Arms
For Whom The Bell Tolls
Bleak House
Great Expectations
Tender Is The Night
Greta Gatsby
Birdsong
Snow Falling On Cedars
The English Patient

Nice! What's Birdsong?

Wyst

 

[BackDoc]

Of Mice and Men
Grapes of Wrath
Last of the Mohicans
Rime of Ancient Mariner
Most anything by Edgar Allen Poe
Biography of Joseph Merrick

 

[bm2k]

"The Power of One" and its sequel "Tandia", by Bryce Courtney. Really enjoyed them.

Recently I have enjoyed Lance Armstrong's "Its not about the bike" and Australian super-coach Ric Charlseworth's "The Coach".