Greatest Book(s) Of All Time...

There may already be a topic similar to this floating around, but I think it an apt question to our literary amigos. So, what's the answer?

~String

 

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Bible

 

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THE GINGER MAN by J.P. Donleavy
CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller
BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley
1984 by George Orwell
THE SIRENS OF TITAN by Kurt Vonnegut
LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess
THE LORD OF THE RINGS by J.R.R. Tolkien
THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY by Douglas Adams
NAKED LUNCH by William S. Burroughs
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
DISPATCHES, Michael Herr

 

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I guess...Fahrenheit

 

451?

 

yeah

 

The Little Prince

written and illustrated by
Antoine de Saint Exupéry


translated from the French by Katherine Woods




I ask the indulgence of the children who may read this book for dedicating it to a grown-up. I have a serious reason: he is the best friend I have in the world. I have another reason: this grown-up understands everything, even books about children. I have a third reason: he lives in France where he is hungry and cold. He needs cheering up. If all these reasons are not enough, I will dedicate the book to the child from whom this grown-up grew. All grown-ups were once children--although few of them remember it. And so I correct my dedication:



Read it here for free......

http://www.angelfire.com/hi/littleprince/frames.html

 

The Prince by Machiavelli

http://www.constitution.org/mac/prince00.htm

 

Dune - Frank Herbert
God Emperor of Dune - Frank Herbert
Brave New World - Aldus Huxley (good choice Spider)
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
Return to Sodom & Gomorrah - Charles Pellegrino
The Arms of Krupp - William Manchester
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - William L. Shirer
Sarum - Edward Rutherfurd
Nicholas & Alexandra - Robert K. Massie
Conduct Unbecoming - Randy Shilts

A recent notable book: The Looming Tower - Lawrence Wright

~String

 

the hungry catepillar

 

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - William L. Shirer

Isn't that history? I was thinking only of novels.

 

1984
Grapes of Wrath
Dracula
and that stupid dream book by Freud
Uncle Tom's Cabin

 

Twilight of Idols

 

Flowers for Algernon

 

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Jonathan Livingston Seagull, written by Richard Bach, is a fable in novella form about a seagull learning about life and flight, and a homily about self-perfection and self-sacrifice. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_livingstone_seagull



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mves3140dK0

 

AMERICAN PSYCHO- Bret Easton Ellis

 

LOL, that was a good book. The movie as a snoozer and didn't do the book justice.

 

A Passage to India by E. M. Forster. Winner of the 1924 James Tait Black Memorial Prize, listed 25th on the Modern Library's list of the 100 best English-language novels of the twentieth century. Despite that I never encounter people who have read it. Fun to read, but I wouldn't call it light reading either.
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (not just saying that because it is established as a great book, but because I really think that it is great).

 

Probably impossible without an x rating.

 

TAO TE CHING, Lao Tzu
THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES, Charles Darwin
THE ANCESTOR'S TALE, Richard Dawkins