Anything Austen
Anything Wilde
The Rutshire Chronicles and Pandora by Jilly Cooper
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine (it's been my favourite for nearly 10 years).
The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice (frightfully insightful and manipulative. I surprised myself and read it in a week).
HP
LOTR
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
Bridget Jones (obviously not classic but good for a romp).
The Sharpe Series by Bernard Cornwell

Poets/Poems:
Yeats (especially "No Second Troy")
Robert Browning
Tennyson
Keats
Pauline Johnson
Frost's "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening"

I'm sure there's more. Such a worm am I. I'm thankful each day I work in a book store.

[quote:74d56a9cea="johnathan"]Just a recommendation for ya Kzrystof - seeing as how your favorite book is "1984" I'd like to point ya in the direction of "Brave New World" by Adolus Huxley and "We" by Yevgeny Zamiatin. Both books are similiar in nature (dystopian literature) to "1984" and if you already hadn't read them then they certainly could be enjoyable for ya.

Oh yah, just a little extra note. Both of those books mentioned above were written before "1984" and suposedly very inspirational for Orwell.[/quote:74d56a9cea]

Thanks for your recommendation! :wink:

Oh, I've been a read-a-holic lately, so this should be a rather long list.

Memoirs of a Geisha- Arthur Golden
The Hotel Riveira- Elizabeth Adler
Anything by Jack Chalker
Anything by Mercedes Lackey
The Coldfire Trilogy by C.S. Friedman
Anything by Francesca Lia Block
Scribbler of Dreams- Mary E. Pearson
Phantom of the Opera- Gaston Leroux
Healer- F. Paul Wilson
Pictures from the Water Trade- John David Morely


Among others that I've probably forgotten.

I love:
Paul Auster
Jeanette Winterson
Vladimir Nabokov
Gore Vidal
Robertson Davies


About interesting books we're reading at the moment. I'm taking a German lit class and we're reading a novel called 'Effi Briest' by Theodor Fontane. He is so good! As the little bio in my book says:"Fontane's sensitive portrayals of women's lives in late nineteenth-century society are unsurpassed in European literature." Yay for male feminists!

Fave authors;

Vonnegut
Umberto Eco
Timothy Findley
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Isabel Allende
Mordecai Richler
Roddy Doyle

Recent reads that I thoroughly enjoyed;

The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Ice Road - Gillian Slovo
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
The Dante Club - Matthew Pearl

i'm a big vonnegut fan

and lately i've been reading stuart mclean...the vinyl cafe series..brilliant canadian writer and funny as hell, not many authors can make me laugh out loud when reading.

-The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy, and Other Stories - Tim Burton
-The Perks Of Being A Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
-The Darren Shan Saga (don't ask...) - Darren Shan
-The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
-Hard Core Logo - Michael Turner

[quote:68c28345f2="Rachel"]-The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy, and Other Stories - Tim Burton[/quote:68c28345f2]
Swoon.

I have an Oyster Boy shirt!
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That is awesome! Where did you get that? I love it!

A local comic book shop. I've seen it online before though, along with a pin-cushion queen girls tank top.

Thanks. That's really cool. I'll have to look for that.

Many, many years after first reading it, my favourite book is still, unequivocally, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee.

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[color=darkblue:f0041fb6a5]The Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind
The Mists of Avalon and the Lady of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley [/color:f0041fb6a5]

Don't know why i missed out on this post. Here are some of my favourites:

Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
1984- George Orwell
Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse
Nine Stories - JD Salinger
Le Petit Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Les Dieux Ont Soif - Anatole France
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Shake Hands with The Devil - Romeo Dallaire

That's all I can think of off the top of my head. I'm currently reading Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood.

Currently reaing "The Favorite Game" by Leonard Cohen. It's quite a novel. Definetly my style. I'd definetly recommend it to anyone who likes a "Cather in the Rye" type book.

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The guy that sang Lovers in a Dangerous Time! [/color:13463d687e] :wink:

There are many, but a few of my favourites would have to be:

Lord of the Flies - William Golding
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
Fall on your Knees - Anne Marie Macdonald

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The guy that sang Lovers in a Dangerous Time! [/color:69375993b9] :wink:[/quote:69375993b9]


I thought that was Bruce Cockburn?

It was... she's just trying to be cool and urk me ;P

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And it always works too. :wink: [/color:97a8761e73]