Favourite works of fiction

[Yerda]

Post your favourite novels or short stories or epic poems...as many as you like. Can be highbrow or total trash. I'm fishing for good books to read.

Some novels that tickled my pickles:

All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy (or the other two books in the Border Trilogy)

Lanark by Alistair Gray

How Late It Was, How Late by Jim Kelman

A Voyage To Arcturus by David Lyndsay

Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies by Hilary Mantel

The Sicilian by Mario Puzo

The Constant Gardener by John Le Carre

 

[Twilight Hue]

Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.

Robinson Crusoe

The Man from Uncle

20000 leagues under the sea

Journey to the Center of the Earth.

Dracula

War of the World's.

Sinbad

 

[sayak83]

Post your favourite novels or short stories or epic poems...as many as you like. Can be highbrow or total trash. I'm fishing for good books to read.

Some novels that tickled my pickles:

All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy (or the other two books in the Border Trilogy)

Lanark by Alistair Gray

How Late It Was, How Late by Jim Kelman

A Voyage To Arcturus by David Lyndsay

Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies by Hilary Mantel

The Sicilian by Mario Puzo

The Constant Gardener by John Le Carre

War and Peace
Lord of The Rings
Shei Somoy and Prothom Aalo (Bengali)
Agatha Christie Books

 

[Mock Turtle]

Haven't read much fiction for quite a while but the Gormenghast Trilogy was quite enjoyable.

 

[SomeRandom]

Lord of the Rings
The Odyssey, Iliad and The Aeneid.
Picture of Dorian Gray/Importance of Being Earnest

For Nostalgia, I’ll always have a special place in my heart for the Vampire Academy Series. Lol that was my Twilight

 

[PureX]

The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoyevsky
Notes From the Underground - Dostoyevsky
Waiting For the Barbarians - Coetzee
Disgrace - Coetzee
Gimpel the Fool - Singer
Collected Short Stories - Singer
Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander - Merton

 

[ChristineM]

Anything by Terry Pratchett.

Anything by Iain * Banks (* or M, with the M is Sci-Fi).

Unfortunately both dead now.

Probably the best book i have read is Excession by Iain M Banks. I'm on my 5th reading now and i understand another quirk each time.

I like the Falco novels by Lindsey Davis.

The works of Alexandre Dumas

 

[pearl]

'The Source', James Mitcher
'The Brothers Karamazov' - Dostoyevsky

 

[Revoltingest]

A partial list....
Catch 22
Slaughterhouse 5
Shibumi
A Clockwork Orange
Dune
Lord Of The Rings
Mother Night
Foundation
Flatland

 

[The Hammer]

1984
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Stranger in a Strange Land
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
The Power of Myth

 

[PureX]

A Confederacy of Dunces - Toole
Under the Volcano - Lowry
Marcovaldo - Calvino
Lila (An Inquiry Into Morals) - Pirsig
The Glass Bead Game - Hesse
The Source - Mitchener
On The Beach - Shute