i"m really enjoying this, and yes i cut out a lot for NF too (i am usually reading a fiction and non-fiction concurrently) Non-Fiction Books -
An Unquiet Mind & Touched By Fire - Kay Redfield Jamison Game Change - John Heilemann & Mark Halperin As A Man Thinketh - Janes Allen The Big Book - Anonymous Into Thin Air & Into The Wild & Under the Banner of Heaven - Jon Krakeuer Restrepo & War & The Perfect Storm - Sebastian Junger Girl, Interrupted - Sussana Hayden We Were Soldiers Once...And Young - Lt. Gnrl Harold Moore & Joseph Galloway A Beautiful Mind - Sylvia Nasar An American Sniper - Chris Kyle The Elements of Style - E.B White Emotional Intelligence - Daniel Coleman Team of Rivals - Doris Kearns Goodwin Drift -Rachel Maddow No one Here Gets Out Alive -Jerry Hopkins w/ Danny Sugarman The First Amendment & The Fourth Estate - Carter Franklin Sanders Wright Helter Skelter- Vincent Bugliosi A Woman's Worth/A Return to Love - Marianne Williamson (latter prompted me to read A Course in Miracles myself; it's a slow process) Walden - Henry David Thoreau The Story of English - McCrum, Cran & MacNeil Midlife Confidential:The Rock Bottom Remainders Tour America with Three Chords & an Attitude - Dave Barry, Tad Bartimus,Roy Blount, Jr., Michael Dorris, Robert Fulghum, Kathi Goldmark Matt Groening , Stephen King, Barbara Kingsolver, Al Kooper, Greil Marcus, Dave Marsh, Ridley Pearson, Joel Selvin, Amy Tan An Innocent Man - John Grisham All Calvin & Hobbes compilations - yes, they are NF - don't tell me they're not real.
Hearts in atlantis - S. King - my favorite one The magus, daniel martin - John Fowles Omon ra - Viktor Pelevin Fathers and sons - Ivan Turgenev Chemodan - Sergei Dovlatov Three friends - Remark Foundation - Azimov Hobbit - Tolkien -childhood memories:-) and his other books Moby dick - blood and thunder! And Castaneda books
Also short stories by o'henry, poe, lovecraft, hemingway. And harry potter:-)
A Modest Proposal - Jonathan Swift Watership Down - Richard Adams Make Room! Make Room! - Harry Harrison The Hours - Michael Cunningham 1984 - George Orwell Brave New World - Aldous Huxley Animal Farm - George Orwell A Drink Before The War - Dennis Lehane Shutter Island - Lehane Little Women- Louisa May Alcott The Diary of Anne Frank Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte Sense & Sensibility - Jane Austen Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift Columbine - Dave Cullen The Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck Metamorphasis - Kafka Go Ask Alice - Beatrice Sparks Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes Pillars of Earth - Ken Follett The Book of Fate - Brad Meltzer Sons and Lovers - D H Lawrence Bonfire of the Vanities - Wolfe anything King touches - i'd read his grocery list. (if you've seen The Twilight Zone episode where the world ends and the anti-social bookish man finds himself in the ruins of the library - surrounded by thousands of books - and then he drops his glasses - yeah, me.)
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Burgess Meredith! If I had a proper reading nook, I too would be like him. I've really got to get a lounge/adequately-lit setup going at home again.
And gah! I forgot about my beloved Little Women.
PS - I STILL have my old worn-out and many-times-read paperback of Go Ask Alice
People's lists seem to be getting longer and longer lol. Nice to see lots of bookworms on here! I don't think I can stick to ten for my all-time faves so not promising anything!
1) The end of eternity - Isaac Asimov 2) 1984 - George Orwell 3) Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury 4) Brave new world - Aldous Huxley 5) The Handmaid's tale - Margaret Atwood 6) The Sandman series (graphic novels) - Neil Gaiman 7) Harry Potter series - JK Rowling 8) Adrian Mole series - Sue Townsend 9) The Magician's Nephew (& the whole Narnia series) - CS Lewis 10) Torn between Innocent Traitor (Alison Weir); the Silver Metal Lover (Tanith Lee); The Hundred Secret Senses (Amy Tan); The White Queen and Boleyn Series (Philippa Gregory); Kitchen (Banana Yoshimoto); Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson); Northern Lights (Philip Pullman); A Thousand Splendid Suns (Khaled Hosseini); The Outsiders (and SE Hinton series); Bridget Jones Diary; The Secret Diary of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella); The Hunger Games series; The Graveyard Book (Neil Gaiman); Catcher in the Rye; Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; Different Seasons, Firestarter, The Eyes of the Dragon (Stephen King). I'll think I'll stop there...
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^^^ I get it! 10 is tough. Maybe I should add a zero to the thread title- make it "Your Top 10 All-Time Favorite Books". :-)
If so, I would definitely be adding something by these people:
Richard Brautigan Jim Carroll Willa Cather F.Scott Fitzgerald Peter Guralnick Derrick Jensen Ryszard Kapuscinski William Kotzwinkle Adrian C. Louis Richard Manning Willie Nelson Sylvia Plath Ernest Thompson Seton Hampton Sides Gertrude Stein Terry Tempest Williams
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man [or woman] who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
All Calvin & Hobbes compilations - yes, they are NF - don't tell me they're not real.
:-h
We've got them all. I'm sometimes known to quote the little guy.
If I had known then what I know now...
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All Calvin & Hobbes compilations - yes, they are NF - don't tell me they're not real.
:-h
I noticed your avatar and name right away when i joined.. How is that rascal Calvin doing? And don't worry, i know you just pretend to be a stuffed animal when others are watching; only special people know the truth.
All Calvin & Hobbes compilations - yes, they are NF - don't tell me they're not real.
:-h
We've got them all. I'm sometimes known to quote the little guy.
I personally love them. I read to my son since he was in the womb so when he showed more interest for encyclopedias (of any living creature) than novels or short stories when he began to read on his own; I bought a paperback compilation - hoping he'd get C&H's smart humor like I did. He did. He also reminded me of Calvin and he had a stuffed animal (orange bear), that was his buddy (no worries, orange bear lives). So, being the bibliophile that I am, I proceeded to purchase them all - got the hardcover 3 book encased set at half price one Christmas. He has ADHD, so I think novels just get away from him, unless they really, really interest him. Ran the Scholastic Book Fair for 8 years, so after trial and error (and a myriad of Guinness World Records, Gross Facts, etc type books) I hit with the Wimpy Kid Series; then The Last Dragon Chronicles. This is a favorite of C&H of mine (top) and is SO my son -
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee Great Expectations - Charles Dickens Short stories - F. Scott Fitzgerald The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton The Cider House Rules - John Irving A Night to Remember - Walter Lord The Guns of August - Barbara Tuchman Killer Angels - Michael Shaara Juliet, Naked - Nick Hornby Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel
Calvin: I think night time is dark so you can imagine your fears with less distraction.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien Walden - Henry David Thoreau On The Road - Jack Kerouac A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse Still Life with Woodpecker - Tom Robbins Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman
Subject to change, of course, but these were the first that popped into my head.
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Here, here- Calvin and Hobbs saved comic strips! So now that I've mentioned all the literary stuff, here's a guilty pleasure (and not afraid to admit it): -All seven Harry Potter books.
Yes, Henry R., CHILDRENS BOOKS!
Henry: "Get out of the car!"
)
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man [or woman] who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
Douglas Adams - Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy Fyodor Dostoevsky - Brothers Karamazov Jack Kerouac - On The Road David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest Michael Ende - The Neverending Story Peter Ustinov - The Old Man and Mr. Smith Ephraim Kishon - Hairy, hell Jack London - White Fang Jack Kerouac - The Town and The City Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Idiot
from my buddy, who is an english professor at the university of utah:
cormac mccarthy - the crossing michael oudaatje - english patient marquez - love in the time of cholera nabakov - lolita melville - moby dick faulkner - go down moses whitman - leaves of grass louise erdrick - love medicine roberto bolano - 2666 rilke - the duino elegies
high brow stuff, huh? on a couple of authors, I can 't read his spelling.
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One of my all time favorites too, for sure!
Non-Fiction Books -
An Unquiet Mind & Touched By Fire - Kay Redfield Jamison
Game Change - John Heilemann & Mark Halperin
As A Man Thinketh - Janes Allen
The Big Book - Anonymous
Into Thin Air & Into The Wild & Under the Banner of Heaven - Jon Krakeuer
Restrepo & War & The Perfect Storm - Sebastian Junger
Girl, Interrupted - Sussana Hayden
We Were Soldiers Once...And Young - Lt. Gnrl Harold Moore & Joseph Galloway
A Beautiful Mind - Sylvia Nasar
An American Sniper - Chris Kyle
The Elements of Style - E.B White
Emotional Intelligence - Daniel Coleman
Team of Rivals - Doris Kearns Goodwin
Drift -Rachel Maddow
No one Here Gets Out Alive -Jerry Hopkins w/ Danny Sugarman
The First Amendment & The Fourth Estate - Carter Franklin Sanders Wright
Helter Skelter- Vincent Bugliosi
A Woman's Worth/A Return to Love - Marianne Williamson (latter prompted me to read A Course in Miracles myself; it's a slow process)
Walden - Henry David Thoreau
The Story of English - McCrum, Cran & MacNeil
Midlife Confidential:The Rock Bottom Remainders Tour America with Three Chords & an Attitude - Dave Barry, Tad Bartimus,Roy Blount, Jr., Michael Dorris, Robert Fulghum, Kathi Goldmark Matt Groening , Stephen King, Barbara Kingsolver, Al Kooper, Greil Marcus, Dave Marsh, Ridley Pearson, Joel Selvin, Amy Tan
An Innocent Man - John Grisham
All Calvin & Hobbes compilations - yes, they are NF - don't tell me they're not real.
Hearts in atlantis - S. King - my favorite one
The magus, daniel martin - John Fowles
Omon ra - Viktor Pelevin
Fathers and sons - Ivan Turgenev
Chemodan - Sergei Dovlatov
Three friends - Remark
Foundation - Azimov
Hobbit - Tolkien -childhood memories:-) and his other books
Moby dick - blood and thunder!
And Castaneda books
Also short stories by o'henry, poe, lovecraft, hemingway. And harry potter:-)
Watership Down - Richard Adams
Make Room! Make Room! - Harry Harrison
The Hours - Michael Cunningham
1984 - George Orwell
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Animal Farm - George Orwell
A Drink Before The War - Dennis Lehane
Shutter Island - Lehane
Little Women- Louisa May Alcott
The Diary of Anne Frank
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Sense & Sensibility - Jane Austen
Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
Columbine - Dave Cullen
The Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck
Metamorphasis - Kafka
Go Ask Alice - Beatrice Sparks
Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
Pillars of Earth - Ken Follett
The Book of Fate - Brad Meltzer
Sons and Lovers - D H Lawrence
Bonfire of the Vanities - Wolfe
anything King touches - i'd read his grocery list.
(if you've seen The Twilight Zone episode where the world ends and the anti-social bookish man finds himself in the ruins of the library - surrounded by thousands of books - and then he drops his glasses - yeah, me.)
And gah! I forgot about my beloved Little Women.
PS - I STILL have my old worn-out and many-times-read paperback of Go Ask Alice
I don't think I can stick to ten for my all-time faves so not promising anything!
1) The end of eternity - Isaac Asimov
2) 1984 - George Orwell
3) Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
4) Brave new world - Aldous Huxley
5) The Handmaid's tale - Margaret Atwood
6) The Sandman series (graphic novels) - Neil Gaiman
7) Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
8) Adrian Mole series - Sue Townsend
9) The Magician's Nephew (& the whole Narnia series) - CS Lewis
10) Torn between Innocent Traitor (Alison Weir); the Silver Metal Lover (Tanith Lee); The Hundred Secret Senses (Amy Tan); The White Queen and Boleyn Series (Philippa Gregory); Kitchen (Banana Yoshimoto); Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson); Northern Lights (Philip Pullman); A Thousand Splendid Suns (Khaled Hosseini); The Outsiders (and SE Hinton series); Bridget Jones Diary; The Secret Diary of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella); The Hunger Games series; The Graveyard Book (Neil Gaiman); Catcher in the Rye; Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; Different Seasons, Firestarter, The Eyes of the Dragon (Stephen King).
I'll think I'll stop there...
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Milton Keynes Bowl, 11 July 2014
If so, I would definitely be adding something by these people:
Richard Brautigan
Jim Carroll
Willa Cather
F.Scott Fitzgerald
Peter Guralnick
Derrick Jensen
Ryszard Kapuscinski
William Kotzwinkle
Adrian C. Louis
Richard Manning
Willie Nelson
Sylvia Plath
Ernest Thompson Seton
Hampton Sides
Gertrude Stein
Terry Tempest Williams
:-h
Vegas 93, Vegas 98, Vegas 00 (10 year show), Vegas 03, Vegas 06
VIC 07
EV LA1 08
Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
Columbus 10
EV LA 11
Vancouver 11
Missoula 12
Portland 13, Spokane 13
St. Paul 14, Denver 14
How is that rascal Calvin doing? And don't worry, i know you just pretend to be a stuffed animal when others are watching; only special people know the truth.
Ran the Scholastic Book Fair for 8 years, so after trial and error (and a myriad of Guinness World Records, Gross Facts, etc type books) I hit with the Wimpy Kid Series; then The Last Dragon Chronicles. This is a favorite of C&H of mine (top) and is SO my son -
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Short stories - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
The Cider House Rules - John Irving
A Night to Remember - Walter Lord
The Guns of August - Barbara Tuchman
Killer Angels - Michael Shaara
Juliet, Naked - Nick Hornby
Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel
(I could keep going and going...)
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig
Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
Walden - Henry David Thoreau
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway
Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
Still Life with Woodpecker - Tom Robbins
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman
Subject to change, of course, but these were the first that popped into my head.
So now that I've mentioned all the literary stuff, here's a guilty pleasure (and not afraid to admit it):
-All seven Harry Potter books.
Yes, Henry R., CHILDRENS BOOKS!
Henry: "Get out of the car!"
Douglas Adams - Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy
Fyodor Dostoevsky - Brothers Karamazov
Jack Kerouac - On The Road
David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest
Michael Ende - The Neverending Story
Peter Ustinov - The Old Man and Mr. Smith
Ephraim Kishon - Hairy, hell
Jack London - White Fang
Jack Kerouac - The Town and The City
Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Idiot
cormac mccarthy - the crossing
michael oudaatje - english patient
marquez - love in the time of cholera
nabakov - lolita
melville - moby dick
faulkner - go down moses
whitman - leaves of grass
louise erdrick - love medicine
roberto bolano - 2666
rilke - the duino elegies
high brow stuff, huh? on a couple of authors, I can 't read his spelling.
Vegas 93, Vegas 98, Vegas 00 (10 year show), Vegas 03, Vegas 06
VIC 07
EV LA1 08
Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
Columbus 10
EV LA 11
Vancouver 11
Missoula 12
Portland 13, Spokane 13
St. Paul 14, Denver 14