Must Own Books?

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I've got big book shelves

And they're a bit lacking in content


Would love to hear peoples recommendations
Great fan of Birdsong amongst others

Ta!
 
Only Forward - Michael Marshall Smith
Neal Stephenson - Snowcrash
Robert Rankin - The Brentford Trilogy
Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray
Fyodor Dostoevsky - A Raw Youth

I also read a lot of Biographies and History, not sure if you were just after fiction though.
 
If you like recent history, there are tons of books detailing almost everything about WWII. Check out -

Stalingrad - Antony Beevor
Berlin - Antony Beevor
It Never Rains In Spetember - Robert Kershaw
Hells Gate - Douglas Nash
Adventures In My Youth - Armin Scheiderbauer
 
LOTR
Crime & Punishment
Anna Karenina
Belgariad
Harry Potter
Count of Monte Cristo
Catch 22
The Catcher in the Rye
Picture of Dorian Gray
Great Expectations
Brave New World
1984
Treasure Island
Robinson Crusoe
Moby Dick
Dracula
Around the World in 80 Days
Dahl (never read a bad one)
Shakespeare
Animal Farm
War of the Worlds
Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy

They're the ones I can see from here.
 
Nick Hornby - Long way down, How to be Good, High Fidelity, etc
Mark Haddon - The curious incident of the dog, A spot of bother
George Orwell - Animal Farm
John Fowles - The Collector
Simon Armitage - Little Green Man
Forget the author - Dead fathers club
 
I love them all and will do again. The greatest book is one you fall into and don't want to leave.

I'm a great advocate of Dan Brown for that. It may appear shallow and too descriptive but the success of his books is from people being unable to put them down. They're a fantastic break from Paradise Lost or whatever (another must-own - buy it with Regained).

I do love Donaldson, specifically the Thomas Covenant Chronicles, but I wouldn't say they're must owns on the level of the others. They're pretty fantastic for the avid sci-fantasy reader though IMO.
 
The Hobbit of course.

Harry Potter is my favourite book of all time though :), the last one is imense.


The Taggerhung - Brian Jaques, is a good read, very compkicated though, can get confusing too.
 
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