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I had to list my fiction and non-fiction separately, but feel free to group in any way you choose!

Non-Fiction
1. The Bible
2. The Ragamuffin Gospel-Brennan Manning
3. Son of a Preacher Man-Jay Bakker
4. What's So Amazing About Grace-Philip Yancey
5. Velvet Elvis:Repainting the Christian Faith-Rob Bell
6. The Signature of Jesus-Brennan Manning
7. Blue Like Jazz-Donald Miller
8. A Scandalous Freedom-Steve Brown
9. Abba's Child-Brennan Manning
10. Messy Spirituality-Mike Yaconelli

Fiction
1. All The King's Men-Robert Penn Warren
2. The Screwtape Letters-C.S. Lewis
3. The Awakening-Kate Chopin
4. Mystic River-Dennis Lehane
5. Revolutionary Road-Richard Yates
6. The End of the Affair-Graham Greene
7. The Keepers of the House-Shirley Grau
8. Little Children-Tom Perotta
9. The Brothers Karamazov-Fyodor Dostoevsky
10. A Walk to Remember-Nicholas Sparks
 
In no particular order and off the top of my head:

Sometimes a Great Notion--Ken Kesey
The Idiot--Dostoyevsky
Shantaram--Gregory David Roberts
A Prayer for Owen Meany--John Irving
God, A Biography--Jack Miles
Shakey--Jimmy McDonough
Anne of Green Gables-- Lucy Maud Montgomery
You Can't Go Home again--Thomas Wolfe
In Cold Blood--Truman Capote
Several volumes of the Diary of Anais Nin
 
I'm currently reading Just Like Jesus by Max Lucado, and it is wonderful.

The Bible
Cure For the Common Life- Max Lucado
Next Door Savior- Max Lucado
Let Freedom Ring- Sean Hannity
Fair Ball- Bob Costas
Bono in Conversation- Michka Assayas
The Picture Of Dorian Gray- Oscar Wilde
 
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"The Alchemist" - Paulo Coelho
"Dark Side Safari" - Paul Theroux
"Siddhartha" - Herman Hesse
"Oliver Twist" - Charles Dickens
"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" - Betty Smith
"Light in August" - William Faulkner
"My Invented Country" - Isabel Allende
"Man's Search for Meaning" - Viktor Frankl
"The World According to Garp" - John Irving
 
4. Mystic River-Dennis Lehane

Dennis and I have partied together. I have not seen him in years. We worked at the Ritz together. I have a signed copy of his first book in my library. He wrote it while we were working together. It opens at the Ritz bar overlooking the public gardens.

I will come back with my list later.
 
The Bible (NIV and The Message)
"Blue Like Jazz," by Donald Miller
"God's Politics," by Jim Wallis
"U2 At the End of the World," by Bill Flanagan
"The Man Comes Around: The Spiritual Journey of Johnny Cash," by Dave Urbanski
"The Barbarian Way: Unleash the Untamed Faith Within," by Erwin Raphael McManus
"Red Moon Rising: How 24-7 Prayer is Awakening a Generation," by Pete Greig and Dave Roberts
"The Screwtape Letters," by C.S. Lewis.
"Rumors of Another World," by Philip Yancey
"Searching for God Knows What," by Donald Miller
"Dubliners" by James Joyce
"The Case for Christ," and "The Case for Faith," by Lee Strobel (I'm going to be buying "The Case for the Real Jesus" soon, too.)
"Bono in Conversation" by Michka Assayas
 
Dreadsox said:
4. Mystic River-Dennis Lehane

Dennis and I have partied together. I have not seen him in years. We worked at the Ritz together. I have a signed copy of his first book in my library. He wrote it while we were working together. It opens at the Ritz bar overlooking the public gardens.

Dennis Lehane. :love:

I love books, but have a hard time pinning down favorites. Here are a few books I've known and loved:

Elizabeth Gilbert - Eat, Pray, Love
John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath
Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita
Maggie O'Farrell - After You'd Gone
Jhumpa Lahiri - The Namesake
Anne Lamott - Traveling Mercies

I also love nonfiction books of essays/articles on pop culture (like Chuck Klosterman), and do have an affinity for more fluffy sorts of books (Jennifer Weiner, Meg Cabot and Marian Keyes are favorites).

Not big on nonfiction, but do love a good memoir. I'm currently reading Kate Braestrup's Here If You Need Me, which is very good. Yesterday I finished Ian McEwan's Atonement, which I loved. (Gotta read a few books before their adaptations hit the big screen this year! :wink: )
 
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I feel so uncultured. :|

I just don't have time to read anymore :(

Here are a few I am enjoying for what it's worth:

What is the What by Dave Eggers
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Under the banner of heaven by Jon Krakauer
The world is flat by Thomas Friedman
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

On my list is Mystic River and others by Lehane. I have heard great things about him.
 
oktobergirl said:
I feel so uncultured. :|

I just don't have time to read anymore :(

Here are a few I am enjoying for what it's worth:

What is the What by Dave Eggers
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Under the banner of heaven by Jon Krakauer
The world is flat by Thomas Friedman
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

On my list is Mystic River and others by Lehane. I have heard great things about him.

I just started "What is the What." I'm pretty excited about it.
 
Dreadsox said:
4. Mystic River-Dennis Lehane

Dennis and I have partied together. I have not seen him in years. We worked at the Ritz together. I have a signed copy of his first book in my library. He wrote it while we were working together. It opens at the Ritz bar overlooking the public gardens.

I will come back with my list later.

I have a book by him! At least, I think it was him. And I can't exactly remember the name of it. But I can tell you what the story was about! It was a good read.
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My list has nothing religious or cafe-latte profound in it, so I be best not posting it.
:wink:
 
Come on, take heart. :wink:

I'm still a fan of The Three Investigators. :D
I also enjoyed reading the books by Bill Bryson so far, In a Sunburned Country, I'm a Stranger Here Myself and Notes from a Small Island. I've already purchased A Short History of Nearly Everthing and his African Diary, but am not finished with Notes from a Small Island, yet.
Another great read was We were soldiers once... and young by Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway.
There are some books I would like to read in future, but I'm not that much reading books for quite a while, yet.

I also loved the Vinland Saga by Josef Nyary a lot, as well as another book about Eric, the Red, but sadly I don't know title or author anymore.

I'm hardly ever reading novels, and by far more non-fiction than fiction.
 
2861U2 said:

Let Freedom Ring- Sean Hannity
The Picture Of Dorian Gray- Oscar Wilde

This could very well be the first and last time the names Sean Hannity and Oscar Wilde appear together on any list.
 
The New Testament
The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
Killer Angels - Michael Shara
Gates of Fire - Steven Pressfield
The Republic - Plato
Beowulf
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
 
Atonement -- Ian McEwan
Hamlet -- Shakespeare
The Corrections -- Jonathan Franzien
Play It As It Lays -- Joan Didion
American Pastoral, I Married a Communist, The Human Stain -- Phillip Roth
The Road -- Cormac McCarthy
Trainspotting -- Irvine Welsh
Invisible Main -- Ralph Ellison
The Remains of the Day -- Kazuo Ishiguro
The Line of Beauty -- Alexander Hollinghurst
All the King's Men -- Robert Penn Warren
 
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A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Memoirs of Geisha by Andrew Golden
U2 At the End of the World
The Egyptian by Mika Waltari

I really like Phil Yancey.
 
CS Lewis- Perelandra
CS Lewis- The Screwtape Letters
Lois Lowry- The Giver
Zola- Germinal
Yancey- The Jesus I Never Knew
Dostoevesky- Crime and Punishment
Rowling- Harry Potter series
Tolkien- Lord of the Rings series
Kundera- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Flannery O Connor- Everything Must Rise and Converge
Brendan Manning- Ruthless Trust- The Ragamuffin's Path to God
Madeleine L'Engle- A Severed Wasp
Weisel- Night
The Gospel of John(Bible)
Psalms(Bible)
Isaiah(Bible)
Romans(Bible)
To Kill A Mockingbird
U2 At The End of the World
 
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Love in Times of Cholera by Gabriel García Marquez (in spanish, of course)
The Jesus I Never Knew by Phillip Yancey
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuck
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende (spanish)
 
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Irvine511 said:

Hamlet -- Shakespeare
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Other :heart: include...

The Kite Runner, Hoseini
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
The Diary of Anne Frank
Stranger in a Strange Land, Heinlein
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Rowling
The Lord of the Rings, Frodo Baggins ;)
Animal Farm, Orwell
Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky

And a pre-favorite, I'm sure: 1000 Splendid Suns :D
 
Sherry Darling said:
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Other :heart: include...

The Kite Runner, Hoseini
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
The Diary of Anne Frank
Stranger in a Strange Land, Heinlein
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Rowling
The Lord of the Rings, Frodo Baggins ;)
Animal Farm, Orwell
Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky

And a pre-favorite, I'm sure: 1000 Splendid Suns :D

You hit most of the books I would list!!!!:eyebrow:
 
In no particular order:

Night, Elie Wiesel
To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Interview With A Vampire, Ann Rice
Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt
Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
On The Road, Jack Kerouac
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, Betty Smith
The Velveteen Rabbit, don't know the name but best children's book ever

I'm sure I'll remember 20 more after I post...
 
I tend to group my favourite books by author, and my favourite authors are -
Virginia Woolf
Flaubert
Susan Sontag
Iris Murdoch
Ian McEwan
Leo Tolstoy
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Vita Sackville-West
Vladimir Nabokov
Philip Pullman
Doris Lessing

And I love reading plays, too, my favourite playwrights being-
Noel Coward
Harold Pinter
Anton Chekhov
Bernard Shaw

Oh and I love the Harry Potter series indiscriminately :)
 
I'm not so good with favourite lists - always evolving and always forget some. I am partial to non-fiction and love spy/thriller novels along the lines of Clancy and Ludlum.

Here are the most recent books I've read and all were excellent -

This is Your Brain on Music, The Science of a Human Obsession - Levitin
The World in Six Songs, How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature - Levitin
The Kite Runner - Hosseini
Outliers, The Story of Success - Gladwell
What Got You Here Won't Get You There - Goldsmith
 
Internet Archive: Text Archive

This is a good site for book lovers who like classic books. These books are older copyrights that are free and legal to download in different formats like .pdf. If you look for classic books that are from the 1800's or latest 1930's you will probably find it.

I just need an ebook reader that's flexible and doesn't force me to buy ebooks online all the time, especially with this site and project Gutenberg. I heard the iRex is really good and sony eReader. There are some newer technologies down the road that are coming including color e-ink. For now I'll just read on my LCD screen which is okay.

Does anybody have experience with an ebook reader?
 
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