Post by Dominique on Jan 23, 2007 9:09:31 GMT -5
Edit: For the sake of clarity I'm going to repost the current list here but keep the original posts below in tact.
Classic
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Peter Pan: James M Barrie
Galileo by Bertolt Brecht
The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Anne Brontë. 1848,
Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
Aurora Leigh and other poems by Elizabeth Barret Browning
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
The Awakening, Kate Chopin
The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Crime And Punishment by Fedor Dostoevskij
The Idiot Fyodor Dostoevsky.
The Count of Monte Cristo: Alexandre Dumas
Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
The Scarlet Letter- Nathanial Hawthorne
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
Hedda Gabbler by Henrik Ibsen
Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving.
Daisy Miller by Henry James.
Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
Dangerous Liaisons {Les Liaisons Dangereuses) by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Complete works of Edgar Allen Poe
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
Dr Jekel and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island: Robert Louis Stevenson
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift.
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Othello by Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare
Ivanhoe Sir Walter Scott
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 1884
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain 1876
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
Modern Classics
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir
A Portrait of An Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Ulysses by James Joyce
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Diary Of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
Of Mules and Men by Zora Neal Hurston
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Light in August by William Faulkner
A Private Matter by Beppe Fenoglio
Time and Again by Jack Finney
The Trial by Franz Kafka
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
If This Is a Man by Primo Levi
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov
The Emperor Jones by Eugene O'Neill
1984 by George Orwell
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Grapes of Wrath by Jonathan Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men by Jonathan Steinbeck
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
Night by Elie Wiesel
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, 1948
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Contemporary
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes by Maya Angelou
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife by Linda Berdoll
Dry by Augusten Burroughs
Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
March by Geraldine Brooks
Distant Land of My Father by Bo Caldwell
Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
Postcards from No Man's Land by Aidan Chambers
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffery Eugenides
Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
White Oleander by Janet Fitch
Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
The Other Boleyn Girl by Phillipa Gregory
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon
The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway
Venetia by Georgette Heyer
Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
A Girl Named Zippy by Haven Kimmel
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Kafka by the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
So Many Books, So Little Time by Sara Nelson
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Fear and Trembling by Amélie Nothomb
The Portable Dorothy Parker
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult
Fight Club by Chad Palahniuk
The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets by Eva Rice
The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elizabeth Robinson
Harry Potter series by J.K Rowling
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Idlewild by Nick Sagan
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches by Gaetan Soucy
The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif
The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
The Snow Flower and The Secret Fan by Lisa See
Peony in Love by Lisa See
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama
Reunion by Fred Uhlman
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
I am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe
The Electric Cool-Aid Test by Tom Wolfe
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Children/Young Adult
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Clay by David Almond
Forgotten Fire by Adam Bagdasarian
The Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum
The Scarecrow of Oz L Frank Baum
The A Great & Terrible Beauty series by Libba Bray
The Little Princess Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The American Girl series by Ann L. Bruns
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
What Katy Did by Susan Coolidge
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Matilda by Roald Dahl
The Witches by Roald Dahl
Bridge to Terabithia bby Katherine Paterson and Donna Diamond
Agnes Cecilia by Maria Gripe
Wait Till Helen Comes: A Ghost Story by Mary Downing Hahn
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norman Juster
The Nancy Drew series by Carolyn Keene
From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Franweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
Pippi Longstocking- Astrid Lindgren
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Sarah Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan.
Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne
Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery
The Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer
Clementine by Sara Pennypacker
Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins
The Harry Potter series by JK Rowling
Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan
Holes by Louis Sachar
Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar
Giving Tree - Shel Silverstein
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde
The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde
The Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Ok Jefie and I are looking at putting together a book club list that's the current rory's book club's very own. Feel free to nominate classic and contemporary picks for it on this thread for consideration. Probably don't nominate chick lit lol.
I think we should probably have no more than two books from the same author, so pick like their best work as if you're telling someone who's never read them before where they should start.
I'll start off, I think one of the most obvious contemporary picks is The Portable Dorothy Parker, Rory's read it, a lot of people on here either love it or own it so even though I have yet to read it myself it sounds good to me.
Classic
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Peter Pan: James M Barrie
Galileo by Bertolt Brecht
The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Anne Brontë. 1848,
Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
Aurora Leigh and other poems by Elizabeth Barret Browning
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
The Awakening, Kate Chopin
The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Crime And Punishment by Fedor Dostoevskij
The Idiot Fyodor Dostoevsky.
The Count of Monte Cristo: Alexandre Dumas
Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
The Scarlet Letter- Nathanial Hawthorne
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
Hedda Gabbler by Henrik Ibsen
Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving.
Daisy Miller by Henry James.
Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
Dangerous Liaisons {Les Liaisons Dangereuses) by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Complete works of Edgar Allen Poe
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
Dr Jekel and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island: Robert Louis Stevenson
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift.
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Othello by Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare
Ivanhoe Sir Walter Scott
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 1884
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain 1876
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
Modern Classics
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir
A Portrait of An Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Ulysses by James Joyce
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Diary Of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
Of Mules and Men by Zora Neal Hurston
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Light in August by William Faulkner
A Private Matter by Beppe Fenoglio
Time and Again by Jack Finney
The Trial by Franz Kafka
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
If This Is a Man by Primo Levi
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov
The Emperor Jones by Eugene O'Neill
1984 by George Orwell
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Grapes of Wrath by Jonathan Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men by Jonathan Steinbeck
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
Night by Elie Wiesel
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, 1948
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Contemporary
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes by Maya Angelou
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife by Linda Berdoll
Dry by Augusten Burroughs
Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
March by Geraldine Brooks
Distant Land of My Father by Bo Caldwell
Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
Postcards from No Man's Land by Aidan Chambers
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffery Eugenides
Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
White Oleander by Janet Fitch
Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
The Other Boleyn Girl by Phillipa Gregory
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon
The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway
Venetia by Georgette Heyer
Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
A Girl Named Zippy by Haven Kimmel
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Kafka by the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
So Many Books, So Little Time by Sara Nelson
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Fear and Trembling by Amélie Nothomb
The Portable Dorothy Parker
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult
Fight Club by Chad Palahniuk
The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets by Eva Rice
The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elizabeth Robinson
Harry Potter series by J.K Rowling
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Idlewild by Nick Sagan
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches by Gaetan Soucy
The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif
The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
The Snow Flower and The Secret Fan by Lisa See
Peony in Love by Lisa See
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama
Reunion by Fred Uhlman
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
I am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe
The Electric Cool-Aid Test by Tom Wolfe
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Children/Young Adult
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Clay by David Almond
Forgotten Fire by Adam Bagdasarian
The Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum
The Scarecrow of Oz L Frank Baum
The A Great & Terrible Beauty series by Libba Bray
The Little Princess Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The American Girl series by Ann L. Bruns
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
What Katy Did by Susan Coolidge
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Matilda by Roald Dahl
The Witches by Roald Dahl
Bridge to Terabithia bby Katherine Paterson and Donna Diamond
Agnes Cecilia by Maria Gripe
Wait Till Helen Comes: A Ghost Story by Mary Downing Hahn
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norman Juster
The Nancy Drew series by Carolyn Keene
From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Franweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
Pippi Longstocking- Astrid Lindgren
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Sarah Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan.
Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne
Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery
The Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer
Clementine by Sara Pennypacker
Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins
The Harry Potter series by JK Rowling
Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan
Holes by Louis Sachar
Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar
Giving Tree - Shel Silverstein
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde
The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde
The Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ok Jefie and I are looking at putting together a book club list that's the current rory's book club's very own. Feel free to nominate classic and contemporary picks for it on this thread for consideration. Probably don't nominate chick lit lol.
I think we should probably have no more than two books from the same author, so pick like their best work as if you're telling someone who's never read them before where they should start.
I'll start off, I think one of the most obvious contemporary picks is The Portable Dorothy Parker, Rory's read it, a lot of people on here either love it or own it so even though I have yet to read it myself it sounds good to me.