The "Must Read" Book List

[kathymc]

Water for Elephants

 

[hrh_disney_queen]

I just finished "The Secret Life of Bees" and then I rented the movie. What a wonderful book about the strength of women of all ages. The movie was well done and very close to the book's story.

I am probably going to start a Nicholas Sparks book next. I started reading his work last year, and loved it so much I ended up buy about 10 of them online. I also have a couple of John Grisham's latest that I haven't opened yet. Tough decision.



Hi DISUNC, howyadoin?

 

[celerystalker]

Here's a third vote for Jasper Fforde!

And a second for Harry Potter!

Umm. I've read many of the others mentioned - and most of them are depressing!

I only like happy books.
Not that Harry Potter is happy, but how can you help but love him?

 

[JoyG]

Here's my list:

1. Redeeming Love by Rivers
2. This Present Darkness by Peretti
3. To Kill a Mockingbird by Lee
4. Roots by Haley
5. Harry Potter by Rowling
6. Twilight by Meyers
7. Night by Eli Weisel

 

[TheBigBadWolf]

Shogun by James Clavell
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCollough
Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean Auel
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
I loved a Prayer for Owen Meany too.

 

[redlight]

I love the first two Wally Lamb books. Haven't read the new one yet.

 

[4 Little Bears]

Ohh, lots of good choices! I love the Mitford series by Jan Karon.

At the moment, I am reading The Lovely Bones, but I have to stop every couple of pages because it is such a sad story.

 

[GabbyMom]

Water for Elephants By Sara Gruen
Devil in the White City By Erik Larson
Pillars of Earth By Ken Follett
World Without End by Ken Follett

 

[sdarwkcabemanmy]

The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch--I could NOT put this one down at all.
The Princess Diaries series by Meg Cabot--I laughed so hard with these books
The Artemis Fowl series but I forget who wrote them. If you like Harry Potter, you'll probably like Artemis Fowl as well.
Memoir of a Geisha--LOVED it.
The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood--another great book
The Redwall Series by Brian Jacques--a MUST READ for tweens and teens, esp if they like LOTR
Child of the Morning by Pauline Gedge
The Outsiders--S.E. Hinton

 

[celerystalker]

The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch--I could NOT put this one down at all.
The Princess Diaries series by Meg Cabot--I laughed so hard with these books
The Artemis Fowl series but I forget who wrote them. If you like Harry Potter, you'll probably like Artemis Fowl as well.
Memoir of a Geisha--LOVED it.
The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood--another great book
The Redwall Series by Brian Jacques--a MUST READ for tweens and teens, esp if they like LOTR
Child of the Morning by Pauline Gedge
The Outsiders--S.E. Hinton

I think you and I have similar tastes.
Meg Cabot's "Size 12 is not fat" is pretty good too.
I really like artemis fowl as well. I haven't read all of them yet though. `1111111111111
Umm. That's my dog's contribution. He decided to put his head on my keyboard.

What about kid books?
Bridge to Teribithia - I can read that one over and over - and cry every time!
The little house on the prairie series.
From the mixed up files of ms basil e ________ - I can't remember the last name, but it's a book about a brother and sister who run away and end up living in the met. museum of art in NYC!
It fascinated me!

I also reread Love Story every few years when I need a good cry.

 

[DVCLiz]

I think you and I have similar tastes.
Meg Cabot's "Size 12 is not fat" is pretty good too.
I really like artemis fowl as well. I haven't read all of them yet though. `1111111111111
Umm. That's my dog's contribution. He decided to put his head on my keyboard.

What about kid books?
Bridge to Teribithia - I can read that one over and over - and cry every time!
The little house on the prairie series.
From the mixed up files of ms basil e ________ - I can't remember the last name, but it's a book about a brother and sister who run away and end up living in the met. museum of art in NYC!
It fascinated me!

I also reread Love Story every few years when I need a good cry.

Frankweiler.

 

[ophelia]

The Handmaid's Tale-Margaret Atwood
Jane Eyre-Charlotte Bronte
The St. Germain series of books by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

I love The Handmaid's Tale so much that I am getting the phrase 'Nolite te *******es carborundorum' tattooed on my arm today.

EDIT: Wow.......that word was actually censored here? HA!!!!

 

[SereneOne]

I was going to post Gone With the Wind, but someone else did. Fantastic book!

I would add The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCuller and The Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens...TToTC is one of my all time favorite books. I have tears in my eyes just thinking about it.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way--in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

The two stand in the fast-thinning throng of victims, but they speak as if they were alone. Eye to eye, voice to voice, hand to hand, heart to heart, these two children of the Universal Mother, else so wide apart and differing, have come together on the dark highway, to repair home together, and to rest in her bosom


It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

I think I will read it again this weekend.

 

[AmandaSparks730]

The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold. It is a phenomenal book, a definate must-read.

Wicked, by Gregory Maguire. If you enjoy the musical, or favor fantasy book, this is a must-read. Sequels are (as of now) Son of a Witch and A Lion Among Other Men.

 

[JoyG]

What about kid books?
Bridge to Teribithia - I can read that one over and over - and cry every time!
The little house on the prairie series.
From the mixed up files of ms basil e ________ - I can't remember the last name, but it's a book about a brother and sister who run away and end up living in the met. museum of art in NYC!
It fascinated me!

Some of my favorite kids books:

Tuck Everlasting
The Giver
Pink and Say by Patricia Polacco
Thank You Mr. Faulkner (or Falker) by Patricia Polacco
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh
anything by Judy Blume or Beverly Cleary

 

[JoyG]

The Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon........The best series ever...can't wait till the fall for the next book.

I went out and bought the first Outlander book based on this thread (and a similar thread I read a few weeks ago).

Holy Moly that's a big book! I hope I like it, b/c that's a large investment of time! LOL.

 

[damo]

Some of my favorite kids books:

Tuck Everlasting
The Giver
Pink and Say by Patricia Polacco
Thank You Mr. Faulkner (or Falker) by Patricia Polacco
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh
anything by Judy Blume or Beverly Cleary

I'll add

Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
The Eye, the Ear and the Arm by Nancy Farmer
The Warm Place also by Nancy Farmer


I could go on and on and on but those stand out.

 

[Hollywoodhaha]

Pride and Prejudice -Jane Austen
Harry Potter -J.K. Rowling [who HASN'T heard of this book?!?]
Twilight series -Stephenie Meyer
Kingdom Keepers- Ridley Pearson [great for disney addicts! ]
any book by Sarah Dessen
The Lovely Bones -Alice Sebold

 

[Laura]

Villette by Charlotte Bronte
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (and everything else written by him)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Roots by Alex Haley
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

 

[CanadianPaco]

Marley and me
Gone with the Wind
Who has seen the wind
The Last Lecture