Recommend me some good books

Jude Andrew · Post by **Jude Andrew** » 14 years ago

kthomp wrote:indeed i do no whats on the bookmark... my dad has it, but i found a link to a website so i shall cheat and not type it all lol

These are the named books:
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien
1984 by George Orwell
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
THe Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
To kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul
The great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
The Bell Jar by Sylvie Plath
Brave new World by Aldous Huxley
The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
Don Quixote by Miduel de Cervantes
The Bible by Various
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Ulysses by James Joyce
The quiet American by Graham Greene
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulke
Money by Martin Amis
Harry Potter Series by J. K. Rowling
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Alice´s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The way we live now by Antony Trollope
The Outsider by Albert Camus
The colour Purple by Alice Walker
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Frankenstein by Mary Selley
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
Man without Woman by Ernest Hemingway
Gulliver´s Travels by Jonathan Swift
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Dafoe
One flew over the Cockoo´s Nest by Ken Kesey
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
The Divine Comedy by Alighieri Dante
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

I can only admit to 8 out of 50.... I'll have to work on the rest. Thanks for the list though Kara.

Mathmaniac · Post by **Mathmaniac** » 14 years ago

I only have 8 of the 50 as well. I feel very deprived right now. Must...start...reading...more...books!

libera36 · Post by **libera36** » 14 years ago

I'm up to 9

I think Watership Down should be on there, but I might be biased! I'm a bit surprised that His Dark Materials Trilogy is on there, due to the controversies surrounding the series.

libera36 · Post by **libera36** » 14 years ago

I've decided to write the list of 20 kids books to read!

Or at least, 20 books I really love and that I read over and over again

The Giver by Lois Lowry
Goodnight, Mr. Tom by Michelle Magorian
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupéry
A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L'Engle
The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss
Maniac McGee by Jerry Spinelli
Watership Down by Richard Adams
The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
The Mistmantle Chronicles by M.I. McAllister
Number The Stars by Lois Lowry
The Harry Potter Books by J.K. Rowling
Snow Treasure by Marie McSwigan
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
Mr. Poppers Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater
The Magic Treehouse Series by Mary Pope Osbourne
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew by Margaret Sidney
The Redwall Series by Brian Jacques
Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams

tcenrt · Post by **tcenrt** » 14 years ago

What about the Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams? That's a must read classic for children.

tcliffy · Post by **tcliffy** » 14 years ago

I've read 15 of them.

Might I also recommend the "Redwall" series

libera36 · Post by **libera36** » 14 years ago

I forgot about the Velveteen Rabbit! How could I have done that! I'm going to add both of those to the list!

xsakurax · Post by **xsakurax** » 14 years ago

Looks like I have been missing out all the reading fun, sad to say I have only read about 4 or 5 (in full) from the 50 list, and there's like a few that I never finished reading it. But for the kids list, I have probably read more than 5. I guess it's time I start reading again.

Yorkie · Post by **Yorkie** » 14 years ago

Jude Andrew wrote:
kthomp wrote:indeed i do no whats on the bookmark... my dad has it, but i found a link to a website so i shall cheat and not type it all lol

These are the named books:
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien
1984 by George Orwell
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
THe Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
To kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul
The great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
The Bell Jar by Sylvie Plath
Brave new World by Aldous Huxley
The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
Don Quixote by Miduel de Cervantes
The Bible by Various
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Ulysses by James Joyce
The quiet American by Graham Greene
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulke
Money by Martin Amis
Harry Potter Series by J. K. Rowling
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Alice´s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The way we live now by Antony Trollope
The Outsider by Albert Camus
The colour Purple by Alice Walker
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Frankenstein by Mary Selley
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
Man without Woman by Ernest Hemingway
Gulliver´s Travels by Jonathan Swift
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Dafoe
One flew over the Cockoo´s Nest by Ken Kesey
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
The Divine Comedy by Alighieri Dante
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
I can only admit to 8 out of 50.... I'll have to work on the rest. Thanks for the list though Kara.

I get to 15 with a further 5 on my bookshelf that I didn't finish because I just couldn't get in to them!

Narnian · Post by **Narnian** » 14 years ago

libera36 wrote: The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

umm...

the best one

Yorkie · Post by **Yorkie** » 14 years ago

Narnian wrote:
libera36 wrote: The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
umm... the best one

Yeah, got to love it. Started me down the path to The Hobbit and LOTR. Funny, though, the books are so English middle class and of the 30's/40's -
I didn't think they would translate overseas. Then again, I've heard it said that the whole Narnia story is just a reworking of The Bible with Aslan taking the role of J.C.

tcenrt · Post by **tcenrt** » 14 years ago

Yorkie wrote:
Narnian wrote:
libera36 wrote: The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
umm... the best one
Yeah, got to love it. Started me down the path to The Hobbit and LOTR. Funny, though, the books are so English middle class and of the 30's/40's -
I didn't think they would translate overseas. Then again, I've heard it said that the whole Narnia story is just a reworking of The Bible with Aslan taking the role of J.C.

Actually, my first encounter with the Narnia chronicles were in the Chinese translation - 'the silver chair'. Loved it and read the rest of it.....then the English original. Gradually moved into "The Screwtape letters' and "Mere Christianity". Wow, that was a long time ago, I was in my teens.

Ann

Yorkie · Post by **Yorkie** » 14 years ago

You've got to love the internet for how it brings people together

Ann, what did you make of the story as a teenager in Hong Kong, how did you connect with it? Hope it's not a rude question, it's just that I'm fascinated about how Englishness/Britishness is perceived abroad.

I wasn't a big fan of the recent film, but I thought it did a good job recreating the 'Englishness' of the book that I had in my mind.

tcliffy · Post by **tcliffy** » 14 years ago

the recent movie, I thought, was absolutely brilliant with the exception that I thought the Pevensie children should have gotten along better with Caspian.

*Wow, so spell check doesn't like the word gotten. That's weird.

tcenrt · Post by **tcenrt** » 14 years ago

Yorkie wrote:You've got to love the internet for how it brings people together

Ann, what did you make of the story as a teenager in Hong Kong, how did you connect with it? Hope it's not a rude question, it's just that I'm fascinated about how Englishness/Britishness is perceived abroad.

I wasn't a big fan of the recent film, but I thought it did a good job recreating the 'Englishness' of the book that I had in my mind.

Oh, Yorkie, I don't think that the question is rude. Although I really have to think hard, 'course that was a long time ago. I guess I used to love King Arthur, Knights, the fair maidens, etc....most importantly, all those characters were so colourful, everyone has hair and eye colours other than black.

I was only around 9 or 10 when I first read the chronicles, I didn't even think that I know it was written by an Englishman. It was until I was older before I realized that the story was very Britishlike.....just look at the names....especially Edmund.

The fascinating thing about the chronicles is that every time I read them I am still gaining insight from them. I guess that's what makes a classic.