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as a rule, i dont reccommend books, i reccommend authors.Here is the list from my profile, which is not at all complete, but is a pretty good start. I have, where possible, listed something more obscure than the writers best known piece:As to my favorites:1 William Faulkner2 Graham Greene 3 Gloria Naylor 4 Barbara Kingsolver 5 Toni Morrison6 Alice Hoffman7 Harper Lee8 Clyde Edgerton 9 Daphne Du Maurier 10 Mark Twain11 Dick Francis 12 Erich Maria RemarqueThat leaves a lot of good friends left bloody on the cutting room floor!******here is a little grander list, no particular order:Henry James (Washington Square)Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged)Elmore Leonard (Pagan Babies)John MacDonald (Pale Gray for Guilt)Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes)Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)Donn Pearce (Cool Hand Luke)Kafka (The Trial)Robert Louis Stevenson (Kidnapped)Jules Vernes (Around the World in Eighty Days)William Faulkner (Go Down Moses)Graham Greene (The Power and the Glory)Somerset Maugham (The Razors Edge)VS Naipaul (A Bend in the River)Philip K. Dick (The Man in the High Castle)Herman Wouk (City Boy)Irwin Shaw (Nightwork)Walter Mosley (Devil in a Blue Dress)Eudora Welty (Losing Battles)Toni Morrison (Paradise)Gloria Naylor (Baileys Café)Alice Hoffman (Turtle Moon)Barbara Kingsolver (Bean Trees)Clyde Edgerton (Float Plane Notes)Dick Francis (Bolt)Martha Grimes (The End of the Pier)Ruth Rendall (Live Flesh)Zora Neale Hurston (Their Eyes Were Watching God)Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Thousand Years of Solitude)Robert Parker (Paper Doll)Amy Tan (Bonesetters Daughter)Erich Maria Remarque (All Quiet on the Western Front)Thornton Wilder (The Bridge of San Luis Rey)Donna Tartt (The Secret History) Patrick D Smith (A Land Remembered)Bailey White (Quite a Year for Plums)Tim Dorsey (Cadillac Beach)Ace Atkiins (Crossroads)Joseph Conrad (Heart of Darkness)Marjorie Rawlings (The Yearling)Edgar Allan Poe (great short stories, no novel, but has to be on list)John Hersey (A Bell for Adono)Nevil Shute (Trustee in the Tool Room)Loius Erdrich (Last Report from Little No Horse)Willa Cather (Song of the Lark)Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland)Daphne Du Maurier (Rebecca)Gunter Grass (Tin Drum)James Joyce (Dubliners)Mark Twain (Huck Finn)
have you read both or either? if you havent read either, i would strongly suggest you start with AS, but there are so many better books, i would reccommend first, by better authors!
well, i fiind the libertarianism philosophy behind all her writings to be offensive, and in the fountainhead, it comes through in the childish attitude of roarke, but in atlas shrugged, she tells a pretty good love story in spite of her politics, making it a good read, even if you dont agree with her underpinnings. she helped me as a young man firm up my socialistic leanings.
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no , i just read the children of hurin
yes i do. i m papri.i have only read da vini code
have u read hobbiton ?how is it?
