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13 Mar 2021, 7:10 pm

My choice would have to be J.R.R Tolkien's Lord of the Rings and the Silmarillion, which should be up there. I like them more than the Hobbit personally.

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13 Mar 2021, 7:12 pm

War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
Warren Peace - Tolstoy's pet rabbit

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13 Mar 2021, 9:40 pm

My favorite books are:
A Storm of Swords - George R.R. Martin
Deadhouse Gates - Steven Erikson
and The Silmarillion

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13 Mar 2021, 10:27 pm

The Road and Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

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13 Mar 2021, 10:32 pm

The Castle - Franz Kafka

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14 Mar 2021, 1:15 am

Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry
The General in His Labyrinth, Gabriel García Márquez
The Enigma of Arrival, V. S. Naipaul
Enemies: A Love Story, Isaac Bashevis Singer
Notes from Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Fall, Albert Camus.

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14 Mar 2021, 9:57 am

chris1989 wrote:

My choice would have to be J.R.R Tolkien's Lord of the Rings and the Silmarillion, which should be up there. I like them more than the Hobbit personally.

Ooo I much prefered "The Hobbit" (I need something to be a bit easier to read!)

I'll go with "The Haunting Of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson as one of my all time favourites.

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14 Mar 2021, 1:51 pm

Not sure if this would count, but Upton Sinclair's The Jungle will always be a classic!

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14 Mar 2021, 2:54 pm

Villette - Charlotte Brontë
Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
Middlemarch - George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
Agnes Grey - Anne Brontë
Possession - AS Byatt
The Monk - Matthew Lewis (1796)
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser
The Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
Fanny Hill - John Cleland
L'étranger - Albert Camus
Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

Young Adult:
Blubber - Judy Blume
The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
Charlotte's Web - EB White

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14 Mar 2021, 4:15 pm

OutsideView wrote:

chris1989 wrote:

My choice would have to be J.R.R Tolkien's Lord of the Rings and the Silmarillion, which should be up there. I like them more than the Hobbit personally.

Ooo I much prefered "The Hobbit" (I need something to be a bit easier to read!)

I'll go with "The Haunting Of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson as one of my all time favourites.

The Hobbit had a much more focused narrative. I definitely preferred it to any other Tolkien work I've read since.

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14 Mar 2021, 5:47 pm

I should also mention Bram Stoker's Dracula, I remember finding it interesting when we read a less in-depth version of the novel at school.

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15 Mar 2021, 2:44 pm

So glad lots of people are naming The Silmarillion. Awesome expanded universe. Really puts the events of Lord of the Rings into perspective.
I like Alison Weir's Six Tudor Queens series a lot!

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15 Mar 2021, 2:48 pm

'The Way We Live Now' by Anthony Trollope.

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15 Mar 2021, 2:56 pm

NaturalEntity wrote:

So glad lots of people are naming The Silmarillion. Awesome expanded universe. Really puts the events of Lord of the Rings into perspective.

I loved "Lord Of The Rings" but just couldn't get into "The Silmarillion" at all. Perhaps I need to give it another go!

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15 Mar 2021, 3:13 pm

OutsideView wrote:

NaturalEntity wrote:

So glad lots of people are naming The Silmarillion. Awesome expanded universe. Really puts the events of Lord of the Rings into perspective.

I loved "Lord Of The Rings" but just couldn't get into "The Silmarillion" at all. Perhaps I need to give it another go!

I would recommend listening to the Silmarillion audiobook narrated by Martin Shaw and consulting Tolkien gateway if you get confused remembering names and relationships.

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15 Mar 2021, 3:18 pm

Don Quixote:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Quixote

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