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I'd like to know what are your favorite books.
Ten novels I enjoyed in my life:
1) The Bear by William Faulkner;
2) Crime and Punishment by Fedor Dostoewski
3) Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
4) La Sombra del Viento (english title: The Shadow of the Wind) by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
5) L'Education Sentimentale (english title: Sentimental Education) by Gustave Flaubert
6) To Kill a Mockinbird by Harper Lee
7) The Trial by Franz Kafka
8) The Assistent by Bernard Malamud
9) La storia (english title: History) by Elsa Morante
10) The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera.
Suggestions are welcome!
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Catch 22
Bhagavad gita
Upanishads
One flew over the cuckoo's nest
Dhammapadda
The Sun also Rises
The Great Gatsby
The Secret Doctrine
Die Leiden des jungen Werthers
Die Harzreise
in no particular order
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Amed66, so "The Bear" is good, eh? It was assigned to my class in 8th grade, but I didn't do homework back then. Maybe I'll check it out. 8th grade...hmmm...JFK was killed that year. Not a good one.
In terms of novels, I'd have to pick "The Bourne Identity" as #1. That's the book, of course, not the movie.
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I'm reading now:
Viva o povo brasileiro (something like: Long life to Brazilian people), by João Ubaldo Ribeiro.
It is, on the contrary what the title suggests, an anti-history of Brazil, since 1600 year to 1977. There you see the foreign people like Portuguese, Dutch, Italian that came to Brazil and they kind of regret it, but still stay, and African slaves, who came by force, but now like the place.
João Ubaldo is one of the finest and funniest writers of Brazil. He is immortal, member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.
This book was first publicized in 1982. Critics say this is a mark of our literature already. (And I must agree).
The book was translated to English by the very author, with the name "An Invincible Memory"
I have other suggestions also, but this one is fresh in my memory now.
Cheers,
Beco.
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Eh eh tewald, if my calculations are right, You had read The Bear when you were 12 years old. Well I've read it when I was 30. Certainly, If I'd read it when I was a teenage, I would have hated Faulkner for the rest of my life.
To Everything There is a Season.
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Long live Science Fiction!
Dune, by Frank Herbert
Ringworld, by Larry Niven
The Foundation Trilogy, by Isaac Asimov
The Chronicles of Amber, by Roger Zelazny -- who was from New Mexico, USA
... and then everything written by Harlan Ellison
For chess players I also recommend:
The Flanders Panel and Le Club Dumas, by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
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