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What are your 10 Best Books?
Federico
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Feb 09, 2017 06:06AM
Just curious; what are your all-time 10 Best Books?
Easytarget wants me to shoot first, so, here goes. Being French Canadian, my list has hits from both languages:
A LA RECHERCHE DU TEMPS PERDU, Marcel Proust
THE CATCHER IN THE RYE, J. D. Salinger
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, Harper Lee
LA FORCE DE L’ÂGE, Simone de Beauvoir
JOURNAL, André Gide
THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET, Lawrence Durrell
MEMOIRS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR, Winston Churchill
EAST OF EDEN, John Steinbeck
THE HONOURABLE SCHOOLBOY, John le Carré
ANIMAL FARM, George Orwell
A few of these books are listed more for content than style. But all are beautifully written.
And all had a profound impact on me.
Easytarget wants me to shoot first, so, here goes. Being French Canadian, my list has hits from both languages:
A LA RECHERCHE DU TEMPS PERDU, Marcel Proust
THE CATCHER IN THE RYE, J. D. Salinger
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, Harper Lee
LA FORCE DE L’ÂGE, Simone de Beauvoir
JOURNAL, André Gide
THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET, Lawrence Durrell
MEMOIRS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR, Winston Churchill
EAST OF EDEN, John Steinbeck
THE HONOURABLE SCHOOLBOY, John le Carré
ANIMAL FARM, George Orwell
A few of these books are listed more for content than style. But all are beautifully written.
And all had a profound impact on me.
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Seems like this is the sort of thread one starts by leading the way, you first.
A la Recherche - Proust
Liaisons Dangereuses - Laclos
War and Peace - Tolstoy
1984 - George Orwell
The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Don Quixote - Cervantes
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S.Lewis
Emma - Jane Austen
Love in a Cold Climate - Nancy Mitford
This is my top 10 list today. Could be a different 10 tomorrow... (apart from A la recherche. This would be on every list.)
Liaisons Dangereuses - Laclos
War and Peace - Tolstoy
1984 - George Orwell
The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Don Quixote - Cervantes
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S.Lewis
Emma - Jane Austen
Love in a Cold Climate - Nancy Mitford
This is my top 10 list today. Could be a different 10 tomorrow... (apart from A la recherche. This would be on every list.)
I love your attachment to A la recherche and am thankful for it.
Kerry Postle
I adore it. Studied Proust at university at BA and MA level. I am currently re-reading it with a group 50 glorious pages at a time. We're in the aptly
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the 10 best books i've read:
1. Les Miserables (V. Hugo)
2. The old man and the sea (Hemingway)
3. Of human bondage (Somerset Maugham)
4. Crime and punishment (Dostoievski)
5. The catch (Kenzaburo Oé)
6. Before night falls (Reinaldo Arenas)
7. Leafstorm/La hojarasca (García Márquez)
8. Obra poética (Fernando Pessoa)
9. Poeta en Nueva York (Lorca)
10. The first men on the Moon (H.G. Wells)
1. Les Miserables (V. Hugo)
2. The old man and the sea (Hemingway)
3. Of human bondage (Somerset Maugham)
4. Crime and punishment (Dostoievski)
5. The catch (Kenzaburo Oé)
6. Before night falls (Reinaldo Arenas)
7. Leafstorm/La hojarasca (García Márquez)
8. Obra poética (Fernando Pessoa)
9. Poeta en Nueva York (Lorca)
10. The first men on the Moon (H.G. Wells)
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