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Books I should have read.
CmonMiracle:
Talking with some gabblers, it occurred to me that the only good books/literature I ever read where the ones that were required to me in grade (1-12) school. I never really ventured outside of that to read books that would be considered good, because I never had anyone to recommend me anything.
So this is where you guys come in. What were some books you read as a youth that is considered essential reading for me? Remember, I've only read books like Animal Farm, The Great Gatsby...seriously, just books on the required reading list. HELP!
Johnny C:
Lolita, The Sun Also Rises, Catch-22, Of Mice And Men (and, if you think that was good, The Winter Of Our Discontent), and I know there are more I'm forgetting.
KharBevNor:
Al lot of these are going to be sci-fi/fantasy, because thats how I roll. By no means all though.
Iain Banks - The Bridge
Iain Banks - The Wasp Factory
Iain M Banks - Against a Dark Background
Iain M Banks - Feersum Endjinn
Iain M Banks - The Use of Weapons
Alfred Bester - The Demolished Man
John Crowley - The Deep
John Crowley - Engine Summer
Philip Jose Farmer - The Riverworld Saga
William Golding - Lord of the Flies
Frank Herbert - Dune
D H Lawrence - Lady Chatterleys Lover
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - Carmilla
Ursula K LeGuin - The Earthsea Trilogy (A Wizard of Earthsea/The Tombs of Atuan/The Farthest Shore)
Ursula K Leguin - The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K LeGuin - The Word For World is Forest
Mervyn Peake - The Gormenghast trilogy (Titus Groan/Gormenghast/Titus Alone)
Kim Stanley Robinson - The Years of Rice and Salt
Dorothy L Sayers - Clouds of Witness
Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson - The Illuminatus! Trilogy (The Eye in the Pyramid/The Golden Apple/Leviathan. Normally sold together).
Gene Wolf - The Book of the New Sun (The Shadow of the Torturer/The Claw of the Conciliator/The Sword of the Lictor/The Citadel of the Autarch)
Jimmy the Squid:
Stephan Donaldson - The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant (All 6 books) - only good if you don't mind protagonists who are completely unlikeable.
Cartilage Head:
Johnathan Safron Foer - Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and Everything's Illuminated.
Toni Morrison - Beloved.
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