Books I must read

[a pretty girl is like]

I'd also suggest Kazantzakis' Zorba the Greek

Oh and I so need to get a copy of his  The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel and ac tually finish it this time.

Ha! Zorba the Greek was the one I couldn't finish. 

Hell if I can remember any details about The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel though.

[Tripe]

Actually it wasn't so much that it was difficult to read, more that it's impossible to find and the library copy was requested by another user before I could finish it and so I couldn't renew it.

I hate when that happens.

[itsjuststeffnow]

book i must read

1984

not because i want to, because my grade in my Civil Rights class depends on it.

any good....i cant get into it

[Tripe]

Ooh I kno0w one you should read 

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

Neil Gaiman's "Coraline". Yeah, it's a kid's book. So what? >.o

[Thrashalla]

Throw A Game of Thrones onto that pile as well.

[anais.jude]

note to self. read lovecraft (please give me suggestions people)

[Tripe]

Why the sudden Lovecraft interest?

But be that as it may, here is a fairly good source for his works

I'd read the following

• At the Mountains of Madness
• The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
• The Colour Out of Space
• The Dreams in the Witch-House
• The Dunwich Horror
• The Shadow Over Innsmouth
• Dagon
• The Doom That Came to Sarnath
• The Haunter of the Dark
• The Lurking Fear
• Nyarlathotep
• The Call of Cthulhu
• The Rats in the Walls
• The Statement of Randolph Carter
• The Thing on the Doorstep
• The Tomb

I think that should be good, though I might have missed a couple of important ones

[anais.jude]

I just remembered that I have always wanted to read him, but know nothing about him.

thanks for the list; are those short stories or novels?

[Tripe]

The first seven are novellas; Lovecraft wasn't really much of a novelist, he was very much a short story writer.

[Tripe]

Ok so,

Agatha Christie

• The Murder at the Vicarage
• A Murder is Announced
• They Do It with Mirrors, or Murder With Mirrors
• A Pocket Full of Rye
• The Mirror Crack'd
• A Caribbean Mystery
• At Bertram's Hotel
• Nemesis
• Thirteen at Dinner
• The A.B.C. Murders
• Death on the Nile
• And Then There Were None
• The Mysterious Mr. Quin -if you can find it (it's spread between a bunch of short story collections if you can't)

I quite like Dame Agatha's work

[Doc Steve]

My favorite mystery writers were Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

THEN, I discovered Rex Stout.

Try Stout's Some Buried Caesar.  It is well worth it: compelling, funny, and a good puzzle.

Another "fun" book would be Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons. 

[saltwrench]

About a two nights read is: Touching the Void by Joe Simpson.
Captures the interest quickly, reads fast and easy...great paperback for a cold night with a cup of hot tea.

And I really like the Fountainhead (much more than Atlas Shrugged), I'm sure you've endeavored to check it out but I intend to read it again soon, so I figured I'd bring it up.

[anais.jude]

Tortilla Flat, East of Eden, and Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck

[DarthChimay]

I'll toss in my favorite, Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco. In fact, I need to read that one again. I've made it through seven times and I finally understand almost all of it.