What is a great book to read?

Question

I want to know

Answer 1

"Winter's Tale," by Mark Helprin.  Great, great book.

Answer 2

"The Last of the Mohicans" by James Fenimore Cooper

"The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

"Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

"As I Lay Dying" by William Faulkner

"In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

All are amazing novels!

(See amazon.com for a summary on any of them.)

Answer 3

there are thousands of great books.

my favorites are:

harry potter - jk rowling

twilight - stephenie meyer

the host - stephenie meyer

the neverending story - michael ende

sweep - cate tiernan

lord of the rings - tolkien

jane eyre - charlotte bronte

wuthering heights - emily bronte

fahrenhiet 451 - ray bradbury

to kill a mockingbird - harper lee

of mice and men - steinbeck

staying fat for sarah byrnes - chris crutcher

stotan! - chris crutcher

uglies, pretties, specials - scott westerfeld

peeps - scott westerfeld

ender's game, speaker for the dead, xenocide - orson scott card

the davinci code - dan brown

the giver - lois lowry

anna karenina - tolstoy

sophie's world - jostein gaarder

the vampire chronicles - anne rice

obsidian butterfly - laurel k hamilton

angry moon - terrill - lanford

speak - laurie halse anderson

sisterhood of the traveling pants - ann brashers

you don't know me - david klass

a great and terrible beauty, rebel angels, the sweet far thing - libba bray

eragon - christopher paolini

oliver twist - dickens

the picture of dorian gray - oscar wilde

wicked, son of a witch - gregory maguire

the golden compass, the subtle knife, the amber spyglass - phillip pullman

izzy willy-nilly - cynthia voigt

matilda - roald dahl

thinner - stephen king

tangerine - edward bloor

stargirl - jerry spinelli

the dollanganger series  - vc andrews

a million little peices - james fray

burned - ellen hopkins

crank - ellen hopkins

go ask alice

anything by shakespeare

but especially

a midsummer night's dream

hamlet

julius caesar

much ado about nothing

and romeo and juliet

Answer 4

Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close  by Jonathan Safran Foer

The Sneeches by Dr Seuss

Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver

A Summer To Die by Lois Lowry

Ordinary People by Judith Guest

The Things They Carried by  Tim O'Brien

Answer 5

"the first man" - albert camus

the u.s.a. trilogy - dos passos

"to the lighthouse" - virigina woolf

Answer 6

Jingo Django by Sid Fleischman

The Bartimaeus Trilogy by Johnathan Stroud

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R.Tolkein

The Space Trilogy by C.S.Lewis

The Time Travelers by Linda Buckley-Archer

Answer 7

http://themustread.com/

Answer 8

The Hobbit

Answer 9

The Night Land written by William Hope Hodgson .

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Answer 10

The McCafferty's (Thorne, Matt, Slade, Randi) By: Lisa Jackson

The Marriage Game--by:Fern Michaels

Fair Game by: Elisabeth White

The Wednesday Letters: by Jason Wright

Twilight Series By: Stephenie Meyer

Answer 11

Dostoevsky--Crime and Punishment

Tolstoy--Anna Karenina

Cervantes--Don Quixote

Charles Dickens--Great Expectations

Thomas Mann--The Magic Mountain

Answer 12

Right on Fizzle, but to add to that list...

The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1963

City of Ember

The Alchemist

Holes

Hmmm, that's all I can think of, very comprehensive.  

Answer 13

Darn, you're a guy! I was going to say Pride and Prejudice.

Answer 14

Uglies - Scott Westerfeld

its a three book series

Answer 15

Sowrd Bird- Nacy Fan

Harry Potter- J.K. Rowling

Eragon- Christopher Paolini

Lord of the Rings- JRR Tolkien

Chronicles of Narnia- C.S. Lewis

Pearl Maden- H.Rider Haggard

Peter and the starcatchers-Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson

need I list more? These are my favorite books and i have read all of them a lot of times.