book lists

[alcazar_PREV (deleted)]

"Favored Book Lists" aren't my speciality either (Law School basically killed reading fiction for me) but I guess the most influensive works have been (on top of my head):

- The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit and The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien (no real suprise here)
- the Narnia Chronicles by C.S. Lewis (esp. Boy and Horse)
- the Captain Cobbwebb-series
- The World According to Garp by John Irving
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- Death by Government by R.J. Rummel (reccommended to all)
- Rechters: Opkomst van de zwarte macht ("Judges: rise of the black power") (Dutch; a collection of interviews from the early nineties about activist-judges in the Dutch legal system)

Those above are books I have read years ago that have really 'molded' me, in retrospect.

More recent works I thought were pretty good are:
- De Ambtenarenplaag ("The pox of civil servants") (Dutch)
- Eco Nostra by Peter Siebelt (Dutch; about the leftist radical scene over here)
- Sacred Causes by Michael Burleigh

The above lists are bound to be incomplete but these are the works I can think of right off the bat.

[geekgirl (deleted)]

Some of the very best guilty pleasure books:

Almost anything by Charles Bukowski (but definitely "The Most Beautiful Woman in Town") - if you can stand sick and mildly twisted thinking

Kalil Ghibran - The Prophet

Any Anne Rice

A.N. Roquelaire (same person, totally different type of book)

Clive Barker

Steven King (not as much my fave but still good)

Ernest Hemingway (especially The Old Man and the Sea or For Whom the BEll Tolls)

And I Don't Want to Live this Life - Deborah Spungen (about her daughter)

No One Here Gets Out Alive - Hopkins and Sugerman

Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail in 72' Or just Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson

Will You Die for me? - Tex Watson

Ordeal - Linda Lovelace

[qchris]

Books
If Chihns Could Kill by Bruce Campbell,
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride's,
NLP for lazy learners

[lcarter83]

Right now I'm in the middle of a personal classic...Wizard of the Crow by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o. I've read everything by Richard Wright. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. Sort stories by Charles Chesnut and D.H Lawrence. There's a great book of ghost stories called Black Water collected by Alberto Manguel. Times Arrow by Martin Amis. Things Fall Apart. Every thing by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Franz Kafka.

[ladychatterly (deleted)]

It's hard to recommend books without knowing to whom your recommending them, but, here's an incomplete list:

Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis for anyone who's ever been made to feel like some sort of museum piece on account of their faith.

Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger for anyone toying with the idea of locking themselves in their closet with just enough granola bars and good books to last them 'til the (hopefully soon) Reckoning.

The poetry of E.E. Cummings for anyone who wants to know whether or not they are really in love. (Edit: Sorry for the goofy auto-censor. That's C-u-m-m-i-n-g-s, and I don't think it was a dirty word when he published during the first half of the twentieth century. At least I hope, for his sake, not. Though he mightn't have cared.)

D.H. Lawrence for all the anachronists and neo-luddites.

Bukowski for the iron-stomached and golden-hearted.

[doesitmatter]

Scott Westerfeld
Rachel Cohn
David Levithan
Ellen Hopkins
I like Blood and Chocolate, the movie sucks btw.
The Complete Persepolis
Spin--I haven't read the second book but I have to, I heard about a possible movie for it though, sweet.

[swtjujube (deleted)]

`These are the first book in each series and I really enjoyed reading them.

"Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" by J. K. Rowling ( Harry Potter )

"Guilty Pleasures" by Laurell K. Hamilton (Anita Blake Vampire Hunter/Necromancer, kick --- female)

"Destiny" by Alex Archer (Rogue Angel series, mystical sword, Archeologist, kick --- female)

"Dead witch walking" by Kim Harrison ( The Hollows/Rachel Morgan series, witches, vampires, elves, demons, kick --- female )

"Sandry's Book" by Tamora Pierce ( Circle of Magic series, magic, natural disasters, pirates, murderers, plague, adventure)

"Moon Called" by Patricia Briggs ( Mercy Thompson series, walker, werewolves, vampire, mystery, action-adventure, kick --- female )

"Bitten" by Kelley Armstrong ( Women of the Otherworld series, werewolves, witches, demons, necromancer)

"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams (sci fi, comedy, space travel)

"The Fellowship of the Ring" by J. R. R. Tolkien ( Lord of the Rings trilogy)

"The Three Musketeers" by Alexandre Dumas ( action, adventure, sword fighting, historical fiction)

[ataivaskathryn]

`Young Wizards series by Diane Duane is my favorite. I also like The Keys to the Kingdom series by Garth Nix and His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman.

[daistock (deleted)]

`the death gate cycle by weis and hickman
diablo sin war trilogy by knaak
the dragonlance chronicles and legends trilogies by weis and hickman
the dark elf trilogy by r.a. salvatore
the belgariad by eddings

[finder19]

Anything Terry Pratchett
Robert Jordan's "Wheel of Time"
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle for Sherlock Holmes
George R. R. Martin's "Song of Ice and Fire"
Yeah, mainly fantasy here.
L.E. Modesitt Jr. for "the Saga of Recluce"

[basmi]

`Here is my humble list:
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman [take that CS Lewis]
Anything by Kurt Vonegut [my favorite is Cat's Cradle]
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski [scary and pretentious at the same time]
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck [some things are really as good as people say]
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace [you feel like you should get a prize when you finish it]
The New Testament [I'm not a christian,but I wish more people would read this]

[clorde33]

`I recommend anything by Orson Scott Card. I grew up reading some of his books which contain child philosophy in such a good Science Fiction setting you don't realize how well it molds your way of thinking until your a completely different person. Harry Potter always and anything by Socrates.

[gothamgirl (deleted)]

`Wow, I got so many. Don't think I can list them all but here are some.



the Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, the Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, The Children of Hurin, Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-earth .


Face on the Milk Carton, Whatever Happened to Janie?, the Voice on the Radio, What Janie Found.

The Angels Trilogy: Angels Watching Over Me / Lifted Up By Angels / Until Angels Close My Eyes.

Chronicles of Narnia.

Flowers in the Attic, Peteals on the Wind, If There Be Thorns.

X-Files Book of the Unexplained: Volumes 1 and 2.

Ancient Egypt ( David P. Silverman ) .

Crystal Bible 2.





OK yes, there is a whole bunch more but that's a decent start….. maybe.

[xgothamgurlx (deleted)]

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[zombiemoon]

`Max Brooks - The Zombie Survival Guide and World War Z
How can you not love them?!