Books to read b4 you die.........

All Harry Potter Books. (J.K.Rowling)

The Hobbit (Tolkien)

The Lord of the Rings. (Tolkien)

The Green Mile. (Steven King)

The Beach. (Alex Garland)

The Book of 5 Rings. (Miyamoto Musashi- rewritten by Kaufman for those not so hot with Japanese :p)


Not necessarily books to read before you die - but you won't be wasting your time reading these: certainly some of my favourites :)
 
The Forgotten Soldier-Guy Sajer
The Long Walk- Slavomir Rawicz

Probably two of the best books I have ever read, very thought provoking.
 
Airframe & The Andromeda Strain - Michael Crichton
Magician - Raymond Feist

I'd also suggest both The Night's Dawn trilogy and Commonwealth Saga by Peter F Hamilton but they can be bloody hard work at times.
 
Babylon 5 The Technomage Trilogy by jeanne cavelos.
Considered 'canon' by JMS, who wrote the books outlines, I enjoyed them as much as the actual show, although non B5 fans would probably enjoy them too. :D

Also, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex is a very striking read.
 
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Thirding Anna Karenina....

Adding:

Thomas Hardy - Jude The Obscure - a beautifully depressing book.
Nabokov - Lolita - stunningly well written and joyously expounded novel on forbidden love.
 
I liike psychological or 'thinking' books - not murder / crime stuff - hence I'll pick this bunch of beauties:

The Trial - Franz Kafka
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
The Ministry of Fear - Graham Greene
The Magus - John Fowles
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller

I would say semi-pro waster's list is all great too.
 
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wow some good ones there. Gives me a good start.

I haven't read since middle/high school. Flower babies or The railway Children was the last. :(

I still have remember the whole class in a circle reading this book with my fav teacher ever, think im gonna cry.

Anna Karenina got three mentions so I'll start there.

Is the Divine Comedy any good?
 
Michael Marshall Smith - Only Forward
Alice Walker - The Color Purple
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude
Geoffrey Chaucer - Canterbury Tales
Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash
Mark Twain - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Samuel Richardson - Clarissa
Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure
Richard Matheson - I am Legend
Robert Rankin - The Brentford Trilogy
Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray
Fyodor Dostoevsky - A Raw Youth
 
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Anna Karenina got three mentions so I'll start there.
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If you haven't read for a long time then as with most Russian literature it will seem quite heavy, but worth persisting.

I am also a fan of the 19th century British stuff having just rediscovered it - re-reading Jane Eyre at the moment.
 
I'd hold off on Anna Karenina for a while if you're just returning to reading. Hit up some Harry Potter or Dan Brown.
 
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