Books

Guardian: 100 Books you can't live without (not reviewed)

Submitted by dashforcover on Thu, 10/08/2009 - 15:43
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  • Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
  • The Lord of the Rings(JRR Tolkien)
  • Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
  • Harry Potter series (JK Rowling)
  • To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
  • The Bible
  • Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
  • Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell)
  • His Dark Materials (Philip Pullman)
  • Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
  • Little Women (Louisa M Alcott)
  • Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)
  • Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
  • Complete Works of Shakespeare (William Shakespeare)
  • Rebecca (Daphne Du Maurier)
  • The Hobbit (JRR Tolkien)
  • Birdsong (Sebastian Faulks)
  • Catcher in the Rye (JD Sa

Guardian's 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read: The Definitive List (not reviewed)

Submitted by dashforcover on Thu, 10/08/2009 - 15:41
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  1. Comedy
  2. Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
  3. Money by Martin Amis
  4. The Information by Martin Amis
  5. The Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge
  6. According to Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge
  7. Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes
  8. A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes
  9. Augustus Carp, Esq.

Clone of "1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die"

Submitted by mirnaja on Thu, 10/08/2009 - 11:09
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  • 2000s
  • Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Saturday – Ian McEwan
  • On Beauty – Zadie Smith
  • Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee
  • Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson
  • The Sea – John Banville
  • The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble
  • The Plot Against America – Philip Roth
  • The Master – Colm Tóibín
  • Vanishing Point – David Markson
  • The Lambs of London – Peter Ackroyd
  • Dining on Stones – Iain Sinclair
  • Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
  • Drop City – T.

Books I`ve read.

Submitted by _Iva on Wed, 10/07/2009 - 03:38
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  • Krešimir Pintarić - U tvom zagrljaju zaboravljam svako pretrpljeno zlo
  • Frederic Beigbeder - Ljubav traje tri godine
  • Krešimir Pintarić - Ljubav je sve
  • Zoe Ferraris - Potraga za Nouf

Winners of the Pulitzer Price for Fiction

Submitted by hellabella on Tue, 10/06/2009 - 11:43
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  • 2009 Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
  • 2008 Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, The by Junot Diaz
  • 2007 Road, The by Cormac McCarthy
  • 2006 March by Geraldine Brooks
  • 2005 Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson
  • 2004 The Known World by Edward P.

Clone of "1001 Books I Must Read Before I Die"

Submitted by _Iva on Sun, 10/04/2009 - 09:45
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  • 2000s
  • Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Saturday – Ian McEwan
  • On Beauty – Zadie Smith
  • Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee
  • Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson
  • The Sea – John Banville
  • The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble
  • The Plot Against America – Philip Roth
  • The Master – Colm Tóibín
  • Vanishing Point – David Markson
  • The Lambs of London – Peter Ackroyd
  • Dining on Stones – Iain Sinclair
  • Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
  • Drop City – T.

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (2nd edition, 2008)

Submitted by kasenka on Sat, 10/03/2009 - 23:09
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  1. The Thousand and One Nights . Anonymous
  2. The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter . Anonymous
  3. The Tale of Genji . Murasaki Shikibu
  4. Romance of the Three Kingdoms . Luó Guànzhong
  5. The Water Margin . Shi Nai'an & Luó Guànzhong
  6. The Golden Ass . Lucius Apuleius
  7. Tirant lo Blanc . Joanot Martorell
  8. La Celestina . Fernando de Rojas
  9. Amadis of Gaul . Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo
  10. The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes . Anonymous
  11. Gargantua and Pantagruel . François Rabelais
  12. The Lusiad . Luís Vaz de Camões
  13. Monkey: A Journey to the West . Wú Chéng'en
  14. Unfortunate Traveller .

Most Important Books Americans Must Read

Submitted by lukeprog on Sat, 10/03/2009 - 08:28
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  1. Hegemony or Survival, Noam Chomsky
  2. Lies My Teacher Told Me, James Loewen

  4. Suggestions wanted!

List of Must-Read Books from My Readings

Submitted by tittleiota on Thu, 10/01/2009 - 20:58
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  1. 1. Princess, by Jean P. Sasson
  2. 6. Tuesdays With Morrie, by Mitch Albom
  3. 18. Through The Narrow Gate, by Karen Armstrong
  4. 26. The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini
  5. 30. Buddha, by Karen Armstrong
  6. 32. The Crisis of Islam, by Bernard Lewis
  7. 33. The Patience Strong Gift Book, by Patience Strong
  8. 34. The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho
  9. 36. Muslim Woman in World Religions' Prespective, by Dr. Arifa Farid
  10. 37. The Life of the Last Prophet, by Yusuf Islam (formerly Cat Stevens)
  11. 41. Naughty Amelia Jane!, by Enid Blyton
  12. 46. Animal Farm, by George Orwell
  13. 47.

Read from 1001

Submitted by Redtulip on Wed, 09/30/2009 - 04:44
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  • 25.Gulliver's Travels. Jonathan Swift
  • 69.Sense and Sensibility . Jane Austen
  • 70.Pride and Prejudice . Jane Austen
  • 72.Emma. Jane Austen
  • 85.Eugenie Grandet . Honore de Balzac
  • 97.The Three Musketeers . Alexandre Dumas
  • 101.Jane Eyre . Charlotte Bronte
  • 103.Wuthering Heights . Emily Bronte
  • 122.Great Expectations . Charles Dickens
  • 129.Alice's Adventures in Wonderland . Lewis Carroll
  • 130.Journey to the Center of the Earth . Jules Verne
  • 136.The Idiot . Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • 142.Alice Through the Looking Glass . Lewis Carroll
  • 148.Around the World in Eighty Days . Jules Verne
  • 168.Bel-Ami .