Help Me Add The Greatest Books Ever To My List!!!!

So ive compiled a little list here of books I want to read and im continually adding to it. So I need your help. I know I am missing some great titles and I know that some people here have read a book that I NEED to read. So here is my list, what do I lack?? P.S. So far The Count of Monte Cristo is my favourite book of all time. And im not british, i just like spelling favourite with the u.


The Books I Have
1984 by George Orwell
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
The Count Of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Choice Theory by Dr. William Glasser
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman


The Books I Want

• A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
• And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
• Arcadia: A Play by Tom Stoppard
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction by Luke Davies
• Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
• Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
• Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
• Critical Path by R. Buckminster Fuller
• Cynic's Dictionary by Richard Bayan
• Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
• Diary: A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk
• Dogrun by Arthur Nersesian
• Dune by Frank Herbert
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• Fake Liar Cheat by Tod Goldberg
• Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
• His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
• House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
• I, Claudius by Robert Graves
• Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
• Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
• Jesus Saves by Darcey Steinke
• Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
• Libra by Don DeLillo
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding
• Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk
• Naked Lunch by William Burroughs
• Neuromancer by William Gibson
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
• Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
• Poker Without Cards: A Consciousness Thriller by Ben Mack
• Rabbit, Run by John Updike
• Rant by Chuck Palahniuk
• Siddartha by Hermann Hesse
• Survivor: A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
• The Art of War by Sun Tzu
• The BFG by Roald Dahl
• The Complete Illustrated Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley
• The Egyptian by Mika Waltari
• The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
• The Etruscan by Mika Waltari
• The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
• The Fuck-Up by Arthur Nersesian
• The Giver by Lois Lowry
• The God delusion by Richard Dawkins
• The Godfather by Mario Puzo
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• The Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
• The Human Effect by Akmal Shebl
• The Invisibles Vol. 1: Say You Want a Revolution by Grant Morrison
• The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis
• The Lord of the Rings Series by J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
• The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chobsky
• The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• The Rum Diary: A Novel
• The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Shadow of the Wind: A Novel by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
• The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kuzweil
• The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
• The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John LeCarre'
• The Stranger by Albert Camus
• The Teaching of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowlede by Carlos Cataneda
• The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide by Douglas Adams
• Thundersqueak by Liz Angerford
• Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
• Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, & Art by Lewis Hyde
• Watchmen by Alan Moore
• Watership Down by Richard Adams
• White Noise by Don DeLillo
• Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire

 

steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse


I think this is a much better read than Siddhartha, a more intriguing plot, darker, more visual, more surreal and improves after each read. It really investigates the multiple personalities of man and I believe it is a much better example of Hesse's style. If you are only to have one book by him on your list, I think it should be this one.

Peace,
Aidan

 

Barbara W Tuchman:


A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

The Guns of August


Hotwater

 

huh!

what a big list

I d go for the human effect by Akmal Shebl

The best i ve read this year,,,,,

keep up man!

 

ishmael & the story of b, both by daniel quinn.

 

Outstanding list. I'm 55 and going back and reading books I should have read long ago. Starting on such a list at 19 will give you joy throughout your life, a joy you can share with others. I hope you can sort through this thread and make a complete list, I'd like to download it as my own reading list.

I'd add:

Tao Te Ching (I like the Red Pine translation, and the one by Stephen Mitchell)
Zhuangzi (also Chuang Tse), the Burton Watson translation
Tao - The Watercourse Way, Alan Watts
The Dhammapada (some say the whole of Buddhism is contained in this small book)
The Platform Sutra
The Bible
The Q'uran
Saki (H.H.Munro), the complete works
O Henry, complete works
Oscar Wilde, complete works
The Fall, Camus
The Plague, Camus
Demian, Hesse
King, Queen, Knave by Nabokov
Our Southern Highlanders, Horace Kephart
Deus Lo Volt, Connell
Aztec, Gary Jennings
The Complete Sir Walter Scott
The Dharma Bums, Kerouac

 

Thank you all for the suggestions and positive remarks! I appreciate it. As the list grows longer, I will put it all together and post it for others to use. Thanks again! And if you remember or come across others, please go ahead and add to it! Thanks!

 

I don't see "To Kill A Mockingbird" listed. Here's a wiki overview: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_kill_a_mockingbird

It's a true classic and I remember reading it for english class. I got an A+++++ on that book report. The film is a supurb rendition of the book as well, in stunning black and white. Gregory Peck is Atticus Finch.

 

Where's Waldo

 

Buy everything by Vonnegut, Brautigan, Palahniuk and HST.

 

Jack kerouac - on the road.

Great read, with some nice descriptions of strange nights (weirdly enough quite similar to the ones I get into most nights I'm out on the town)

Ernest Hemingway, actually all his books, but you need to at least read 'The sun also rises' and 'A farewell to arms"

 

Trainspotting and The Acid House - Irvine welsh
Infinite Jest-David Foster Wallace
Watch Out- Joseph Suglia
Tales of Ordinary Madness-Charles Bukowski

great list btw, you have to read house of leaves.

 

a million little pieces - james frey (1st book)
my friend leonard - james frey (2nd book)
white oliander - janet fitch
death of a salesman, dont remeber who its by though.... best books ever =)
the book of tao

 

Mmm, cool.

I'd recommend
Bell Jar,
Doors of Perception.

 

The best books are those that relate to your life, they change over time, and they are individual choices.

 

An alphabetized list? WOW! Blue Highways - William Least Heat Moon

 

just for fun...anything by tom robbins.

 

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

 

^^Agree

Also, based on your "have read",

Stranger in a Strange Land
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
both by Heinlein
Another Roadside Attraction
Even Cowgirls get the Blues
both by Tom Robbins

I'd also recommend:
Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkein
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Gibbon
The Federalist Papers
History of the English Speaking Peoples, Churchill

Second the recommendations for I Ching and Tao De Ching.

And just for breadth, Lucy by Johansenn.

 

These are my all time favorites:

Walden -- Henry David Thoreau
Treasure Island -- Robert Louis Stevenson
The Old Man And The Sea -- Ernest Hemingway