favorite novels

my favorite novels are:
siddhartha
1984
animal farm
foundation series
to kill a mockingbird

what are y'alls favorites? and, given my list, what are some novels that you think i would also like?

Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood.

Tales of the Otori trilogy

Dune & Foundation series

The Da Vinci Code

I would think you would also like that.

>>5

Children's section is that way ------>

To Kill a Mockingbird is such a classic book, I love it.

also

The Perks of Being a Wallflower is very good as well.

>>The Perks of Being a Wallflower is very good as well.
i hate that book

The Wasp factory
The Glass Bead Game
The Master and Margarita
Perfume
The horizontal Instrument

I enjoy The Perks of Being a Wallflower as well
Diary
Elliot's Bannana
Lives of the Circus Animals
And, of course, Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

>>10

We'll all look forward to hearing your picks once you reach your teens.

Hopscotch
madame bovary

>>11

Alice in Wonderland was the kind of book that seems harmless, but if you get past the metaphors and read it with a critical mind familiar with psychoanalysis and symbolism...well, you'll just wonder how such a book found its way into a child's hands.

>>13

is dat sum loli?

>>13

The same could be said of many children's works: the real question being, of course, how much of it was intentional.  Which is one of many reasons why I prefer books deliberately written for adults.

The catcher in the rye.

da vince code!!!1

>>13
     I think that it is impossible for us to understand all of luis carolls work.  Not only was the guy a little fucked up even for his time, but then there were direct references to his relationships with alice in the books and those requrie intimate knowlege of them to understand.  Some of his closer friends have given account as to some of these after his death, but most are lost.  Yes the book may be the shadow of a darker mind.  however I think it both makes a harmless childrens book seeing as they could hardly understand the complexities of the situation.  and it makes a great book for a criticle reader and hobby psychoanalilt. 

     Animal Farm
     Of Mice and Men
     The Edgar Allan Poe Collection(don't call me emo, i just like the darkness 0f him.  His better work has a very nice creepyness that I can't get from horror movies anymore)
     I read many new things, but I think these are my favorites because they were the first of their kind that I read in my youth. 

>>16

I agree... a lot of people hate Catcher in the Rye, but I just liked the way Holden phrased things, and just getting such a smartass, cynical point of view. :D

>>18
Liking Poe is fine.

Using the word 「ＤＡＲＫＮＥＳＳ」 is not.  I'm afraid you are emo, kiddo.

1984
Atlas Shrugged
The Fountainhead

I have yet to read Animal Farm, unfortunately...

Daniil Harms anyone?

He lived in soviet russia (no kiddin´) and probably was murderded by goverment in 40´s. Most stuff he wrote was short novels, poetry and children books. His style is like avantgarde-grotesque-schizophrenic-Lewiss-Caroll-on-crack-or-something-I-dunno-lol. It´s awesome and atleast fifty years ahead of its time.

Probably murdered by the government? Why? He write anti-government literature or something?

Don Quixote
The Count of Monte Cristo
Perdido Street Station


I've been making a list of books from threads like these and from recommendations.  Reading is such a pleasureable activity.

Nueromancer - Gibson
Pattern Recognition - Gibson
Still Life with Woodpecker - Robbins
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Murakami
Dance, Dance, Dance - Murakami

/j.

>>23
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniil_Harms

Anything written by Frank Herbert is always a level of awesome in itself.
Especilly Dune, which is what he's best for.