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These are works of literature lists, not just books. So don't embarrass yourself and make a list with Twilight, Charlie Bone, Goosebumps, etc.


1. 1984
2. Catch 22
3. Slaughterhouse Five
4. And Then There Were None
5. Animal Farm
6. Grapes of Wrath
7. To Kill A Mockingbird
8. A Clockwork Orange
9. In Another Country
10. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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1. Harry Potter <--This WILL be a classic 100 years from now, wot wot
2. Brave New World
3. To Kill a Mockingbird
4. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
5. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
6. A Tale of Two Cities
7. The Hobbit
8. The Three Musketeers
9. A Gathering of Old Men
10. Speedsolving the Cube

I wish to applaud your taste, wot wot

You absobloodylutely have a solid selection of literary works my good chap, wot wot
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Lord of the Rings - Tolkein
Les Miserables - Hugo
A Clockwork Orange
Lolita
The Illiad/Odyssey - Homer
Ramayana - Valmiki
Siddhartha - Hesse
Journey to the West - Wu
Autobiography of a Yogi - Yogananda
Don Quijote - Cervantes
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I want to read "An Autobiography of Malcom X"

sounds really good. And nice picks both of you
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"The future is unwritten."
~Joe Strummer

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Here's the best books I read in 2008 (so far):

1. 1984 - George Orwell
2. Lolita - Vladimir Nabakov
3. (The Adventures of) Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
4. The Trial - Franz Kafka
5. Hegemony or Survival - Noam Chomsky

Next book I'm starting is:

The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco

and I am really excited to start that, as I've heard great things.


Last edited by Elston on 12/17/2008 21:40; edited 1 time in total
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Right now i'm reading Lord Of The Flies. So far it's fantastic
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Arch of Triump - Remarque
Les Miserable - Victor Hugo
Slaughterhouse-Five - Vonnegut
Breakfast of Champions - Vonnegut
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Marquez
The Metamorphosis - Kafka
Lord of the Rings - Tolkien

...but atm im reading IT by Stephen King
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Johnny, you are quite the literary connoisseur!
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nice avatar, nibbles!

world according to garp-irving
brave new world-huxley
the sun also rises-hemmingway
the hobbit-tolkien
tale of two cities-dickens
moby dick-melville (god that was hard)
hitchhikers' guide to the galaxy-adams

these are some books that I would highly reccomend to most people, though they are not yet "classics"
the da vinci code/angels and demons-dan brown
the perfect storm-steven king
Jurassic park-michael chriton
high fidelity-nick hornby
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I remember reading Lord of the Flies in high school, it's fantastic! I may just have to revisit it.

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