Your Fave Books

[SunKing]

Noticed some people discussing books in the movies thread so thought I'd start one for books.

Some of my favorites

Tess Of The D'Ubervilles-Thomas Hardy
Wuthering Heights-Emily Bronte (all time fave)
Anything by Agatha Christie but especially up to late 40's
Killer See Killer Do-Jonathan Wolfe

 

[Warwick]

To Kill a Mockingbird
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Lord of the Flies
Adrian Mole diaries

 

[Grimreepah]

Wuthering Heights-Emily Bronte (all time fave)

Why is it your favourite? It would have to be one of the most depressing books ever written.

 

[SunKing]

Don't find it depressing myself. Yes it is dark but that appeals to me. No love story comes close to that of Heathcliffe and Cathy.

 

[Grimreepah]

Well for me, I'll choose:

1984
Catch 22
The Power of One
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Huckleberry Finn
Clear and Present Danger.

 

[SunKing]

Well for me, I'll choose:


The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Huckleberry Finn

Always wanted to read these two but haven't as yet.

 

[Hollow Knight]

Well for me, I'll choose:

1984
Catch 22
The Power of One
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Huckleberry Finn
Clear and Present Danger.

A man after my own heart.

I was going to list the bolded books before I even saw your post!

Also...

Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S Thompson
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
The Road to Serfdom - Friedrich Hayek
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
Enders Game - Orson Scott Card
The Stand - Stephen King
The Long Walk to Freedom - Nelson Mandela
Bill Hicks: Agent of Evolution - Kevin Booth

And anything by Edgar Allan Poe and HP Lovecraft.

 

[Ashli]

Aurgh the power of one is so sad!

Lol can the latest cosmo and cleo count in thes section???

 

[Chasing the Dream]

Anything by Michael Connelly is worth a read, especially if you like crime novels, however The Poet the best Connelly novel by far.

 

[The Flying Belgian]

Most anything Douglas Adams ever wrote, especially Last Chance To See
Absolute Power - Michael Baldacci
The Great Train Robbery - Michael Crichton
Different Seasons - Stephen King
The Footy Club: Inside the Brisbane Bears - Ross Fitzgerald

and

Fundamentals of Remote Sensing and Airphoto Interpretation - Avery & Berlin

 

[Chasing the Dream]

I also quite enjoyed "Ethol the Aardvark goes Quantity Surveying"

 

[danielcan]

Desert island list

- The Great Gatsby (F Scott Fitzgerald)
- Zadig (Voltaire)
- Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (John Berendt)
- Snow Falling on Cedars (David Guterson)
- The Surgeon of Crowthorne (Simon Winchester)
- The Parrot's Theorem (Denis Guedj)
- The Last Samurai (Helen DeWitt)

 

[John]

Tolkien and Frank Herbert from my youth. I tend to read non fiction nowadays. Mostly history or topical.